CANAL FESTIVAL 2010 SATURDAY 24th JULY

Free boat rides hosted by the Calder Navigation Society and Society, angling taster sessions, music, Rochdale Canal Basin, Rochdale Canal 11am-3pm family fun activities, face painting, crafts and much more! Failsworth, Oldham (by No booking required Festival launch Festival launch joined by The Worshipful The Mayor and Tescos) Mayoress of Oldham arriving on canal boat at 12.30pm

Grassroots Community Family wildlife activities: 'Nature in Focus' Come and see Allotment, Marlborough canal creatures up close, see how they breath and what Drive, Failsworth - 11am-3pm Wildlife Wonders they eat through a video-linked microscope! South Lancs. No booking required (Grassroots can be accessed Bat Group will also be present with some Children's batty via the towpath, south of arts & craft activities! the district centre) Fun climbing sessions for individuals and families using a Rochdale Canal Basin, U Tower - Climbing portable climbing tower, attended by a qualified 1pm-3pm Failsworth, Oldham (by No booking required wall instructor. Participants should wear loose fitting clothing Tescos) and trainers. Grassroots Community Come and get involved in the various activities at Allotment, Marlborough Grassroots - Have a go at bird box making and planting, Grassroots Community Drive, Failsworth - 10am-3pm learn about the allotments, see the beehives and the No booking required Allotment activities (Grassroots can be accessed chickens and walk through the orchard. Recharge your via the towpath, south of batteries at the Hog Roast. the district centre) Rochdale Canal Basin, Children's towpath Hosted by Failsworth library, story telling along the 2pm Failsworth, Oldham (by No booking required story telling towpath Tescos) Royal Basin adjacent to Hosted by Adactus Housing, arts and crafts, angling taster 12 noon - 4pm Miles Platting Festival Victoria Mill, Miles Platting, No booking required sessions, sports and refreshments Kayak taster sessions delivered by experienced coaches Royal Basin adjacent to Kayaking taster 12 noon - 3pm from the Water Adventure Centre. Available to age group Victoria Mill, Miles Platting, No booking required sessions 8 years and over. Manchester Hollingworth Lake Visitor Booking required: Discover what wildlife lurks beneath our pond. Children 2pm - 4pm Family pond dip Centre, Littleborough, telephone 01706 must be accompanied by adult Rochdale 373421 7.30pm - Shaggy dog storytellers Mare and Foal, Failsworth, Performance storytellers from Hebden Bridge Entrance fee applies 9.30pm - canal tales Oldham

Hosted by Get Walking Keep Walking, a 3 mile guided Booking required: Dale Street Basin, 1pm Canal walk walk from Dale Street Basin, Manchester to Newton Heath telephone Manchester taking in the Miles Platting Festival on the way 07772603608 SUNDAY 25th JULY Outside Dukes 92, Heritage Hosted by Rochdale Canal Society join a guided heritage 1.30pm Castlefield Basin, No booking required Walk tour of the canal of Castlefield Manchester Learn how to fish with experienced coaches, all equipment Angling taster day and By the Rose of Lancaster, 12 noon - 3pm provided and enjoy free boat rides with the Rochdale No booking required canal boat rides North Chadderton, Oldham Canal Society and Calder navigation Society Join Sustrans, British Waterways and other volunteers to Meet at the Sandbrook Environmental task 10am help improve the canal environment. All welcome. Park pub before walking to No booking required day and canal clean up Equipment and refreshments provided the Canal Grassroots Community Come and get involved at the various activities at Allotment, Marlborough Grassroots Community Grassroots - Have a go at bird box making and planting Drive, Failsworth - 10am-3pm No booking required Allotment activities and learn about the allotments - see the beehives and the (Grassroots can be accessed chickens and walk through the orchard via the towpath, south of the district centre) MONDAY 26th JULY Approx 1.5 hr easy canalside walk. No special equipment For activity details: Walking for Heath required. Footwear must be flat and comfortable and Chadderton. Details to be TBC telephone Gaynor, Canal walk clothing appropriate to the weather conditions. Children confirmed 07870857972 and dogs welcome. Dogs must wear a lead Come and see canal creatures up close, see how they Slattocks Top Lock, 11am - 3pm Nature in Focus breath and what they eat through a video-linked Rochdale Road, Slattocks, No booking required microscope! near the Ship Inn Hosted by Community Angling Regeneration Project, learn Slattocks Top Lock, Booking required: 11am - 3pm Angling Taster Day how to fish with experienced coaches, all equipment Rochdale Road, Slattocks, telephone provided near the Ship Inn 07745130337 TUESDAY 27th JULY Delivered by experience instructors from Hollingworth Booking required: Canal taster Lake Activity Centre, canoe taster sessions between rail station 2pm-4pm telephone sessions Smithy Bridge and Littleborough, Sessions available to 7 to car park, Rochdale 07772603608 18 year olds. Booking required: 9.40am- telephone Jenna or Rochdale Canal Basin, 11.30am and Learn to canoe with experienced instructors from the Andrew 0161 770 2198 Canoe taster sessions Failsworth, Oldham 11.10am to Castleshaw Centre. Sessions suitable for 10-16 year olds / 4370 or email (opposite Tescos) 1pm jenna.simpson@oldha m.gov.uk Underground tour of the Manchester and Salford Junction Great North Western Goods Booking required: Underground Tour of Canal with the Inland Waterways Association Manchester Warehouse, between 7.30pm telephone Manchester and Great Northern. Walking boots / wellies and touches Deansgate and Peter Street, 07772603608 required by all participants Manchester

Come and learn more about the nocturnal canal wildlife Castlefield Basin 8.30pm Night bat walk No booking required with the South Lancashire Bat group Amphitheatre, Manchester WEDNESDAY 28th JULY 11.30am- 2.30pm. Unveiling of the Building Bridges heritage art work Building Bridges Big Art Bridge 51, Littleborough / Official supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage No booking required reveal Ealees, Rochdale unveiling at 12 Lottery Fund. Nature focussed activities and boat rides noon 12 noon - Supervised canoeing sessions for Fairbridge participants Littleborough / Ealees, Canoe taster sessions 2.30pm only Rochdale Booking required: 9.40am- telephone Jenna or Rochdale Canal Basin, 11.30am and Learn to canoe with experienced instructors from the Andrew, 0161 770 2198 Canoe taster sessions Failsworth, Oldham 11.10am to Castleshaw Centre. Sessions suitable for 10-16 year olds /4370 or email (opposite Tescos) 1pm jenna.simpson@oldha m.gov.uk Booking required: Hosted by Oldham Ramblers, a 4 mile (easy) linear walk Meet outside Mills Hill Train telephone Jenna or 11am Flat Earth Walks from Mills Hill to Failsworth via Oldham Way and the Station, Haigh Lane, Andrew, 0161 770 2198 Rochdale Canal, followed by lunch in Failsworth Chadderton /4371 Learn some basic bike repairs and get your own bike Rochdale Canal Basin, Booking required: 10am - 12 Bike repair workshop checked during a cycle workshop. Open to all ages. Under Failsworth, Oldham (by telephone Beth, noon 16s must be accompanied by an adult Tescos) 07921174382 Come and take part in a taster cycle ride. For families and beginners this hour long ride will explore the Rochdale 10am-11am Rochdale Canal Basin, Booking required: U Cycle guided bike canal towpath and surrounding cycle networks. Bikes and 11am-12 Failsworth, Oldham (by telephone Beth, ride available if booked in advance. Helmets and suitable noon Tescos) 07921174382 clothing must be worn. Available to 12 years and over. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Delivered by experience instructors from Hollingworth Booking required: Canal Canoe taster Lake Activity Centre, canoe taster sessions between Smithy Bridge rail station 2pm-4pm telephone sessions Smithy Bridge and Littleborough, sessions available for 7 car park, Rochdale 07772603608 to 18 year olds. An evening canal and road cycle ride between Smithybridge and Summit. Open to age 9 years and above. Booking required: Connect 2 celebration Meet at Smithy Bridge rail 6pm All participants must be used to cycling and children telephone Seamus ride station car park, Rochdale accompanied by an adult. Bike loan available for adults, Kelly, 01706 922 055 booking essential. Hosted by Get walking, Keep walking, a 4 mile walking Meet at the main entrance Booking required: Manchester Music taking in the Rochdale Canal and many famous 6pm to Manchester Town Hall, telephone Venues Manchester music venues from the Bridgewater Hall to Albert Square 07772603608 the Roadhouse! THURSDAY 29th JULY 12 noon - Supervised canoeing sessions for Fairbridge participants Littleborough / Ealees, Canoe taster sessions 2.30pm only Rochdale Delivered by experience instructors from Hollingworth Hollingworth Lake Water Booking required: Hollingworth Lake 10am-12pm Lake Activity Centre, kayak taster sessions on Activity Centre, telephone kayak taster sessions Hollingworth Lake. Sessions available for 7 to 18 year olds Littleborough, Rochdale 07772603608

Meet at Failsworth Library Canal side stories and Stories and rhymes on the canal, for young children, with for the walk to the towpath 1.50pm No booking required rhymes Failsworth Library at Wrigley Head, Failsworth, Oldham Booking required: 9.30am- Come and try something new and learn a skill by taking Nordic Walk Sport City Cafe telephone Beth on 11.30am part in a Nordic walk of the Ashton and Rochdale Canals 07837097689 Come and learn more about the nocturnal canal wildlife Meet at the Grimshaw Lane 8.30pm Night bat walk No booking required with the South Lancashire Bat group Canal Bridge, Miles Platting Meet on the towpath Enjoy an illuminated evening towpath walk with the Illuminated boat and opposite the Baltimore 9.00pm Rochdale Canal Society and Storytalers through No booking required lantern parade marina, 3/4 mile from to Fielden Wharf Todmorden FRIDAY 30th JULY

Approx 1.5 hr easy canalside walk. No special equipment For activity details: Walking for Heath required. Footwear must be flat and comfortable and Failsworth. Details to be TBC telephone Gaynor, Canal walk clothing appropriate to the weather conditions. Children confirmed 07870857972 and dogs welcome. Dogs must wear a lead Delivered by experience instructors from Hollingworth Hollingworth Lake Water Booking required: Hollingworth Lake Lake Activity Centre, kayak taster sessions on 10am-12pm Activity Centre, telephone kayak taster sessions Hollingworth Lake. Sessions available for 7 to 18 year Littleborough, Rochdale 07772603608 olds. Join forces with local volunteers to help clean up the Booking required: Rochdale Canal from Moston Brook to Hollinwood Meet at the NEPHRA telephone Ann Towpath tidy and canal Avenue, New Moston. Lunchtime refreshments provided Residents Assoication 9.30am-3pm 07801204804 or email bike ride followed by a guided cycle ride along the canal. All office, 27 Parkfield Road [email protected] equipment provided and a goodie bag for participants. North, New Moston v.uk Volunteers must wear suitable footwear and clothing

A tour of the site regenerated over the last 8 years to Outside the Health Centre, Booking required: 12.30pm New Islington tour include a nature reserve and new canal link between the Old Mill Street, Ancoats, telephone Rochdale and Ashton Canals Manchester 07772603608 SATURDAY 31st JULY

Hosted by the Friends of the Rochdale Canal, Environment The Rochdale Canal Fishtastic angling 11am -3pm Agency and Manchester City Council. Learn how to fish adjacent, Old Church Street, No booking required taster day with experienced coaches, all equipment provided. Manchester

Numbers required. Call Led by the Rochdale Canal Society, drop in and join other Summit, between Environmental task Keith to register 10.30am volunteers to help improve the canal environment. Wear Littleborough and Walsden, day and clean up interest on suitable footwear and clothing. All equipment provided. Calderdale. 07516472600

Led by the Calderdale Heritage Guides Association join a The Rochdale Canal in Meet Ed Westbrook at the Booking required: two hour guided walk to look at the Rochdale Canal and 2.15pm Hebden Bridge - Old Bridge on Bridge Gate, telephone its impact on the development of Hebden Bridge and heritage walk Hebden Bridge 07772603608 other historic features of the town

Join Portia Fincham, Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network Meet at the Canal at Wildlife and 1.30pm for a up to 1hr / 1 mile exploration of the wildlife and Warland Gate End, No booking required Wildflower Walk plant life along the Rochdale Canal Calderdale SUNDAY 1st AUGUST

Summit, between Littleborough and Walsden Free boat rides hosted by the Calder Navigation Society (1/2 mile towards and Rochdale Canal Society, 'Nature in Focus' - canal mini Rochdale Canal Todmorden from the 11am-4pm beasts through a video-linked microscope, crafts, stalls, No booking required Festival Finale Summit Inn), Calderdale. music, a Horseboating harness demonstration and much Parking available at more! Bellholme Sports Ground, off the A6033.

Hosted by Incredible Edible Todmorden come and sample Canalside local food Fielden Wharf, Todmorden, 10am - 4pm local foods at a canalside market event. Todmorden rail No booking required market Calderdale and bus stations less than 5 mins walk from the Wharf.

No booking required. Join U Run and a 21 mile run from Castlefield Basin Outside Dukes 92, Rochdale Canal For further 10am through Oldham and Rochdale to Summit and the Festival Castlefield Basin, marathon (or nearly!) information: telephone Finale. Experienced runners only. Manchester Alan on 07808770341 Hosted by Community Angling Regeneration Project, learn Rochdale Canal Basin, Booking required: 11am-3pm Angling taster day how to fish with experienced coaches, all equipment Failsworth, Oldham (by telephone provided Tescos) 07745130337 Country Craft Display Traditional craft displays and demonstrations throughout Hollingworth Lake Visitor 11am-4pm No booking required Day the day Centre THROUGHOUT THE WEEK Calderdale Canal Follow the clues, answer the questions and get your chance to win a family ticket for the Stubbing Wharf Treasure Hunt Cruise's crocodile cruise. Treasure Hunt sheets available from tourist information or to download from Horseboat journey Gain an insight into how the towpaths were used in the past as Vixen is towed between Manchester and HORESBOATING SCHEDULE Wednesday 21st July Castlefield Basin to Dale Street / Piccadilly Basin, Manchester Friday 23rd July Piccadilly Basin to Failsworth Basin Saturday 24th July Failsworth Basin to Rose of Lancaster, North Chadderton Monday 26th July Rose of Lancaster, North Chadderton to Slattocks Wednesday 28th July Slattocks to Littleborough Friday 30th July Littleborough to Summit Sunday 1st August Rochdale Canal Festival Finale at Summit 9th -11th August Summit to Hebden Bridge