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Monday Morning Meanders Great Wildlife Exploration Day Walks start at 10am and last up to 2 hours. The Great Wildlife Exploration at Hengistbury Head will Guided Walks No need to book, and the walks are free. take place again this year on the 9th of June. This family- friendly and completely free event is an exciting opportunity to explore Hengistbury’s nature through guided walks with and Events some of the county’s leading wildlife experts, whilst helping our Rangers to conserve our local species! May to August 2018

Bournemouth Parks

7 May Millhams Mead St. Andrew’s Church car park, Millhams Road (BH10 7LN) 14 May The Chines Southern entrance to , Alumhurst Rd (BH4 8HS) 21 May Hengistbury Head Please follow our Hengistbury Head Great Wildlife Solent Meads golf course car park, Rolls Drive (BH6 4NA) Exploration facebook page for the latest updates on the 28 May Stour Valley (Wilderness Way) day, and for all the information about the individual guided Granby Road car park, off Muscliffe Lane (BH9 1PZ) walks! Walks will start at the Visitor Centre, and there will 4 June Southbourne Overcliff be guided walks throughout the day. Fisherman’s Walk cliff lift (BH6 3TD) 11 June Redhill Park and Common Redhill Park car park, off Redhill Drive (BH9 2SW) Contact us 18 June Sheepwash Entrance opposite Iford Bridge pub (BH6 5RG) S T V Join us on social media for 25 June Common the latest news and events. By play area on Common, off Poole Lane (BH11 9DP) Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre / Ranger Team 2 July Riverlands and Wick Phone: 01202 451618 Wick Lane car park (BH6 4LF) E-mail: [email protected] 9 July Bournemouth Gardens Address: Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre Coy Pond, Coy Pond Road (BH12 1JU) Broadway, Bournemouth BH6 4EN 16 July Strouden Woods Website: www.visithengistburyhead.co.uk Side of Homebase, Castle Lane Retail Park (BH8 9PE) 23 July Throop Kingfisher Barn/Stour Valley Ranger Team Throop Mill car park, Throop Road (BH8 0DH) Phone: 01202 451548 30 July Boscombe Chine Gardens E-mail: [email protected] Gravel car park off East Overcliff Drive (BH1 3HP) Address: Kingfisher Barn, Stour Acres, Granby Road, Muscliff, Bournemouth BH9 3NZ 6 Aug Turbary Common Website: www.visitstourvalley.co.uk Layby opposite 120 Turbary Park Avenue (BH11 8HJ)

13 Aug Stour Valley (Meadows Walk) Granby Road car park, off Muscliffe Lane (BH9 3NZ) Working in partnership 20 Aug Longham Lakes Car park off A348, just past Kings Arms (BH22 9AA) 27 Aug and Kings Park Steps in Littledown Centre car park (BH7 7DX) © Bournemouth Borough Council 2018. All rights reserved. All information correct at time of going to print. Events Timetable: May to August 2018 Sat 9 June All day Thu 2 Aug 10am – 4pm New Leaf Health Walks Tue 26 June 2 – 3.30pm The Great Wildlife Exploration Ceramic Workshop Mondays from 7 May Poetry Along the Stour Join us on social media for the latest Explore Hengistbury Head’s Come and create a unique 10 – 11.30am (for adults) S T V news, and details of events not listed here. nature through guided walks , piece of glazed pottery. Get into nature in 2018 and live A walk, stand and connect and help the Rangers to record 30-minute slots available a healthier life! These weekly with the river session lead as much wildlife as possible throughout the day. Suitable for walks will help you get active by a local poet. during the day. children and adults (children in nature. No need to book. Free, but booking essential. Hengistbury Head See back panel of this leaflet must be supervised). The work For more information on health for more information. will be kiln-fired and will then benefits call LiveWell Mon 2 Jul 10am – 1.30pm Visitor Centre Events need collecting from the on 0800 840 1628 and ask 7 Mile Loop of the River Stour Sun 10 June 6.00 – 8.30am Visitor Centre at a later date. about Natural Choices. Join the Rangers on this Please phone 01202 451618 for more Early Morning Bird Walk Cost £10 per person. fascinating guided walk along details, or if booking required. As part of The Great Wildlife Booking essential. Junior Rangers Club the Stour. Rounded off with Exploration, we will be trying Sundays from 13 May a cream tea! £5 per person. Regular Events Fossil Art to see and hear as many Tue 7 Aug 1 – 2.30pm 10am – 12pm Booking essential. All sessions 1.30pm – 3.30pm birds as possible. Butterfly Bunting Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Tuesdays 10.30am – 12pm Join John House to make some Free - no need to book. Join Debra for this lovely A fun club for 11-15 year olds from 8 May to 17 Jul very realistic-looking fossils craft activity for children. interested in conservation Sun 8 July 10am – 1pm Pottery Club for adults using natural materials. This is Make some colourful butterfly and the outdoors. Carry out Sketching the Head Explore hand building a great event for anyone, young bunting to take home with you. practical conservation tasks, Taking an experimental techniques such as thumb, and old, interested in fossils. Booking essential. and learn about countryside approach to creating a slab and coil pot making. Learn John has been published in the £6 per child. practices and the wildlife of sketchbook, recording the how to underglaze and glaze Who’s Who in Visual Art, and the reserve. varied landscape of the head Tue 14 Aug 1 – 3pm your pottery. Create your own has exhibited in London. with multimedia materials Flower Arranging Wild Craft Sundays pots and sculptures that will No need to book. £5 per person such as charcoal, graphite, Tutor Debra Marsh will help 2pm – 4pm be taken home once they have Dates are: ink and wax to develop you to put together your own 27 May, 24 June, been kiln-fired. All material Sat 12 May composition and a selective arrangement. All flowers 29 July, 26 Aug and tuition will be provided, as Mon 9 July 11.30am – 1pm Sat 23 June eye. Bring a sketchbook, packed and tuition provided. Try your hand at stone painting well as a cup of tea or coffee. Butterfly Walk lunch and a portable stool. Booking essential. - wildlife, scenery, flowers - £10 per session. No need to Sat 28 July Join the Rangers for a Stour Sat 11 Aug All other materials provided. £25 per person including a whatever you can imagine. Use walk to discover some of the book. Suitable for all levels of ability. cup of tea or coffee. acrylic paint to create a lasting Sat 25 Aug species of butterflies to be Booking essential. Cost £20 work of art. No need to book. found on the reserve. Thur 16 Aug Suggested donation £2. Free, but booking essential. Sun 15 July 10am – 4pm 10.30am – 12.30pm Colours of the Head Make a Clay Starfish Other Events Mon 16 July 9 – 10am Using paints of your choice Debra is back with this very Moth Morning - oil, acrylic, gouache, popular event for children. Mon 21 May 9 – 10am Join the Rangers to learn the watercolour, and/or oil/chalk Make a starfish using clay. names of the colourful and pastels to develop a response Booking essential - spaces Moth Morning Join the Rangers to learn the varied moths caught overnight. to the colours of the landscape. limited. £6 per child. Free – no need to book. Some materials provided. names of the colourful and Hengistbury Writers Please bring a sketchbook, Tue 21 Aug 10am – 4pm varied moths caught overnight. Mon 16 July First Tuesday of the month paints and brushes of your Ceramic Workshop Free – no need to book. 10.30am – 12.30pm 1 May, 5 June, 3 July & 7 Aug Come and create a unique Cave Painting choice, a portable stool and Mon 21 May 10am – 12.30pm Tree Walk 2pm – 4pm piece of glazed pottery. All sessions 1.30pm – 3.30pm a packed lunch. Suitable for Wild Flower Walk Take a stroll with the Rangers Come along and join this all levels of ability. Booking 30-minute slots available to find out about the trees to be Join John House for a cave throughout the day. Join the Rangers to see what’s friendly and informal group of painting session. Create some essential. £45 per person. in flower along the Stour. found in the Stour Valley Local writers. Writers of all abilities Suitable for children and adults unique artwork to take home, Free – no need to book. Nature Reserve. and interests are welcome, Tue 17 July 1 – 3pm (children must be supervised). Free – no need to book. using various materials. £5 from complete beginners to Needle Felting for adults The work will be kiln-fired and per person. These events Mon 28 May 8.30 – 10.30pm novelists and poets, and article Join craft expert Debra Marsh will then need collecting from Mon 23 July 11am – 1pm are suitable for children and Moth Evening writers to script writers. Come to learn some of the basics of the Visitor Centre at a later Dragonflies and Damselflies adults. No need to book. Join the rangers for an exciting and share your knowledge, needle felting, and then take date. Cost £10 per person. evening to find out all about Learn to identify these experience and ideas, and Dates are: your work home with you. Booking essential. the colourful and varied colourful insects, which are receive helpful feedback. Sat 26 May Booking essential. moths of the area. common along the river and £10 per person, including Fri 31 Aug by the ponds on the reserve. No need to book. Suggested Sat 14 July 10.30am – 12.30pm Free, but booking essential. donation £2. Hot drink provided a cup of tea or coffee. Free – no need to book. Thu 9 Aug ‘Come Fly With Me’ (and maybe a biscuit or two!) Mon 4 June 11.30am – 1pm Thu 16 Aug Children’s craft and art Butterfly Walk Tue 7 Aug 2 – 3.30pm Tue 28 Aug workshop. Design and make Join the Rangers for a Stour Poetry Along the Stour a unique air show souvenir on walk to discover some of the (for children) Other Events canvas, capturing the vibrant species of butterflies to be A walk, stand and connect colours that the Red Arrows found on the reserve. with the river session lead create. £10 per child. Free, but booking essential. by a local poet. Tue 22 May 1 – 3pm Booking essential. Free, but booking essential. Needle Felting for adults Join Debra Marsh to learn the basic skills of needle felting. She will show you how Fri 27 July 10am – 12pm Sand Art to create something at the ‘By The Sea’ Morning sessions session which you will then Children’s craft and art workshop - use various 10.30am – 12.30pm be able to take home with you. materials to create a canvas Afternoon sessions Booking essential. £10 per picture portraying the natural 1.30pm – 3.30pm person, including a hot drink. Join Sally for a fun and very beauties of Hengistbury popular activity for children Tue 29 May 10am – 4pm Head. Cost £10 per child. and adults alike. Make a lovely Ceramic Plaque Workshop Booking essential. Mon 11 June 11am – 1pm picture by peeling sections of Come and create a unique Dragonflies and Damselflies Mon 13 Aug 10am – 12.30pm paper away and then pouring piece of glazed pottery. Learn to identify these Wild Flower Walk colourful sand on the sticky 30-minute slots available colourful insects, which are Join the Rangers to see what’s surface revealed. Very easy throughout the day. Suitable Kingfisher Barn common along the river and in flower along the Stour. to do, and very relaxing. for children and adults by the ponds on the reserve. Free – no need to book. There is no need to book on (children must be supervised). Visitor Centre Events Free – no need to book. Sun 19 Aug 6am – 10pm the sessions, but allow about The work will be kiln-fired and Please phone 01202 451548 for more half an hour to complete your Moth Morning Stour Valley Bioblitz will then need collecting from details, or if booking required. Join the Rangers and a host of picture. Pictures cost between the Visitor Centre at a later Mon 18 June 9 – 10am £2.50 and £5. Join the Rangers to learn the local experts to see how many date. Cost £10 per person. plant and animal species we Dates are: Regular events names of the colourful and Booking essential. can record. Starts at 6am with Sat 5 May – pm varied moths caught overnight. Fri 1 June 10am – 12pm Nature Tots Free – no need to book. a bird walk. For details of all Sun 27 May – pm the events during the day, visit ‘It’s a Bug’s Life’ Tuesdays from 1 May Wed 30 May – am Mon 25 June 10am – 1.30pm our Facebook page or phone Children’s craft workshop - 10.30 – 11.30 am Sun 17 June – pm Give your little ones a love Gulliver’s Trail Guided Walk 01202 451548. create your very own selection A guided walk with the Sun 24 June – am of nature. Come along for a of bugs and bug hotel for all Rangers along the fascinating Sun 22 July – am different activity each week. those creepy crawlies coming Gulliver’s Trail. Starts at For ages 2 – 4. Suggested Tue 31 July – pm our way this summer. St. Andrews Church, donation £2.50 – free hot Wed 8 Aug – am £10 per child. Millhams Mead. drinks for accompanying Wed 15 Aug – am Booking essential. Cost £2.50 - . adults. No need to book. booking essential Sat 18 Aug – pm Wed 22 Aug – am Pond Dipping Sun 26 Aug – pm Wednesdays from 2 May Wed 29 Aug – am 11am – 3pm Nature Club Come to Kingfisher Barn and Thursdays from 3 May pick up a pond ID sheet and 10.30 – 11.30am Mon 27 Aug 10am – 1.30pm tray, then go for a dip. Take a Give your little ones a love 7 Mile Loop of the River Stour look at the amazing creatures of nature with these fun Join the Rangers on this to be found in the wildlife activities. Suggested donation fascinating guided walk along pond, or why not check out the £2.50 – free hot drinks for the Stour. Rounded off with river! Lots of fun for all ages. accompanying adults. a cream tea! £5 per person. Children must be supervised. No need to book. Booking essential. Free - no need to book.

To book a Hengistbury Head event: To book a Stour Valley event: www.visithengistburyhead.co.uk Tel: 01202 451618 Tel: 01202 451548 www.visitstourvalley.co.uk Introducing Park Cafés Charles Rolls and the Help Your Local Nature Reserve Heritage Patio at Fantastic food in picturesque places is The Stour Valley Supporters are looking for more surely a winning combination. But what’s Hengistbury Head enthusiastic individuals to join their vibrant community even better is knowing the pennies you group to help support the management of the Stour Valley Local Nature Reserve in north Bournemouth. spend in our new Park Cafés will help In what was a tragedy for both the family and the support Bournemouth’s beautiful parks country, the co-founder of Rolls-Royce was killed at and open spaces. This beautiful reserve is home to iconic wildlife such Britain’s first International Aviation Meeting in 1910 as otters and kingfishers with the majestic River Stour Now you can enjoy a coffee, have a meal, party or at Southbourne Aerodrome. The meeting was part of meandering through the reserve. meeting to support your local park. Woodpecker Café the town’s huge celebrations for the centenary of the at Queen’s Park, Hedgehog Kiosk in the Lower Gardens, founding of Bournemouth in 1810. Squirrel Café & Mini Golf at Boscombe Chine Gardens and now Fox Café at Redhill Park are all owned and When he was battling strong winds in his Wright Flyer operated by the Parks team from Bournemouth during the Alighting Competition, a recently-added Borough Council. tail-plane broke up, so making the machine impossible to control. Death was almost immediate. He was just Chef Darren Roser 32 years old. heads up the team, working from the HQ at Queen’s Park. Darren is passionate about great food being coupled with exceptional customer service. Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, he The group works alongside the Stour Valley Rangers is a highly-experienced every Tuesday (9am-1pm at the Kingfisher Barn) to chef who is cooking help manage the reserve’s special habitats for up a wealth of ideas to develop menus for breakfasts, the benefit of wildlife and people. The Stour Valley lunch, hot drinks and snacks - using locally-sourced, high quality ingredients. Supporters also raise money to fund special projects on the reserve such as new benches, interpretation We’ve recently signs or wildflower meadows. removed plastic packaging The group from our sites, holds regular and our new Although a ground level plaque commemorates the meetings and menus highlight crash within the grounds of St.Peter’s School playing social gatherings healthier options fields, this is out of public view and little known. throughout the for everyone – year so there from kids’ drinks The educational object of the Charles Rolls Memorial is plenty to get to snacks and Trust (Registered Charity No.1174592) is to celebrate involved with! hot meals. both the life of this pioneering aviator and the nationally important Aviation Meeting. The heritage patio, planned If you would like Our venues are also available to hire for your next to be built in 2019, will have four interpretive panels to find out more event, and there are special offers on kids’ mini golf please visit their Facebook page: throughout the season! and a steel sculpture of the aircraft. facebook.com/stourvalleysupporters Visit www.parkcafes.co.uk for more details. www.charlesrollsmemorialtrust.org.uk or email [email protected]