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Monday Morning Meanders Hengistbury Writers Walks start at 10am and last up to 2 hours. Are you a budding writer? Are you looking for inspiration, Guided Walks No need to book, and the walks are free. advice and support, or just somewhere to discuss and get feedback about your ideas? Then why not come along to the Hengistbury Writers? and Events This friendly group meets once a month to talk about writing, set themselves little exercises and challenges, and share their work, ideas and experiences. This summer, September to December 2018 some of the group got involved in the judging for the Hengistbury Head writing competition, which consisted of Bournemouth Parks poems and short stories. Meetings are on the first Tuesday of the month, 2pm to 4pm.
3 Sep Iford Meadows Playing fields car park, off Iford Lane (BH6 5NF) 10 Sep Stanpit Marsh In car park in Stanpit (road) (BH23 3ND) 17 Sep Millhams Mead St. Andrew’s Church car park, Millhams Road (BH10 7LN) 24 Sep The Chines Southern entrance to Alum Chine, Alumhurst Rd (BH4 8HS) 1 Oct Hengistbury Head Solent Meads golf course car park, Rolls Drive (BH6 4NA) 8 Oct Stour Valley (Wilderness Way) Contact us Granby Road car park, off Muscliff Lane (BH9 3NZ) 15 Oct Southbourne Overcliff Join us on social media for Fisherman’s Walk cliff lift (BH6 3TD) S T V the latest news and events. 22 Oct Redhill Park and Common Redhill Park car park, off Redhill Drive (BH9 2SW) Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre/Ranger Team Phone: 01202 451618 29 Oct Sheepwash Entrance opposite Iford Bridge pub (BH6 5RG) E-mail: [email protected] Address: Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre 5 Nov Kinson Common Broadway, Bournemouth BH6 4EN By play area on Common, off Poole Lane (BH11 9DP) Website: www.visithengistburyhead.co.uk 12 Nov Riverlands and Wick Wick Lane car park (BH6 4LF) Kingfisher Barn/Stour Valley Ranger Team 19 Nov Bournemouth Gardens Phone: 01202 451548 Coy Pond, Coy Pond Road (BH12 1JU) E-mail: [email protected] 26 Nov Strouden Woods Address: Kingfisher Barn, Stour Acres, Granby Road, Side of Homebase, Castle Lane Retail Park (BH8 9PE) Muscliff, Bournemouth BH9 3NZ 3 Dec Throop Website: www.visitstourvalley.co.uk Throop Mill car park, Throop Road (BH8 0DH) 10 Dec Boscombe Chine Gardens Working in partnership Gravel car park off East Overcliff Drive (BH1 3HP) 24 Dec Turbary Common Layby opposite 120 Turbary Park Avenue (BH11 8HJ) 31 Dec Stour Valley (Meadows Walk) Granby Road car park, off Muscliff Lane (BH9 3NZ) © Bournemouth Borough Council 2018. All rights reserved. All information correct at time of going to print. Events Timetable: September to December 2018 Sat/Sun 24/25 Nov Sat 1 Dec 4.30 – 5.30pm Mon 8 Oct 11am – 12.30pm 12 – 3.30pm Switching On The Lights Autumn Colours Join us on social media for the latest Reindeer Making Join us for festive fun as we Join the rangers for a tranquil S T V news, and details of events not listed here. It’s back for its fifth year! switch on the lights in the walk along the river and Our ever-popular reindeer Visitor Centre courtyard. through our arboretum to making activity! Make your There’ll be mince pies and take in the changing colours own reindeer in time for something mulled, as well as a of Autumn on the Stour. Free Hengistbury Head Christmas. There are five Christmas song or two by the event - no need to book. half-hour sessions available. tree. Free event but booking Visitor Centre Events Please book early to avoid essential. Wed 10 Oct 10am – 3pm disappointment. NB - the Hedgelaying Please phone 01202 451618 for more event will take place at the Learn the art of creating living details, or if booking required. Hengistbury Head Outdoor hedges, and how they are a natural alternative to wire Sun 11 Nov 1 – 3pm Education Centre this year, not Pine Cone Feeders Regular Events Tue 9 Oct the Visitor Centre. Cost £7 per fences. Free event - no need 10.30am – 12.30pm to book. Help our garden birds this person. winter by making a tasty treat Hengistbury Writers Needle Felting for adults Wed 17 Oct 1 – 3pm using our large pine cones! £2 First Tuesday of the month Join Debra Marsh to learn Build a Bug Hotel donation. Suitable for ages 4+. 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 6 Nov & 4 Dec the basic skills of needle Create a home for all your No need to book. 2pm – 4pm felting. She will show you how to create something at the creepy crawlies, making them Writers of all abilities and Wed 14 Nov 10am – 3pm session which you will then snug as a bug! Suitable for interests are welcome, Hedgelaying be able to take home with you. ages 5+. £5 donation. Booking from complete beginners to Learn the art of creating living Booking essential. £10 per essential. experienced writers. Share hedges, and how they are a your knowledge, experience person, including a hot drink. Sun 2 Dec Sat 20 Oct to Sun 28 Oct natural alternative to wire and ideas, and receive helpful 10.30am – 12.30pm 11am – 3pm fences. Free event - no need feedback. No need to book. Make a Snowman Halloween Trail to book. Suggested donation £2. Hot Another new event with Solve the clues and win a fang- drink provided (and maybe a tastic sur-prize! No need to Sun 25 Nov 1 – 3pm Sat/Sun 1/2 Dec John House - come along biscuit or two!) book - £2.50 per child. Pine Cone Feeders 12 – 3.30pm and make a little snowman Help our garden birds this Tuesdays from 11 Sep Reindeer Making to decorate your home. Sat 20 Oct 1 – 3pm winter by making a tasty treat Pottery Club for adults See 24/25 Nov Suitable for ages 4+. £6 per Paper plate monsters using our large pine cones! £2 Explore hand building snowman. Booking essential. Use your imagination and donation. Suitable for ages 4+. techniques such as thumb, create your own Halloween No need to book. slab and coil pot making. Learn Sat 13 Oct 1.30 – 3.30pm monsters! £2 donation. how to underglaze and glaze Wed 28 Nov 10am – 3pm Neolithic Hut Building Suitable for ages 4+. your pottery. Create your own No need to book. Hedgelaying Join our archaeology expert Learn the art of creating living pots and sculptures which and artist, John House, for this Kingfisher Barn will be kiln-fired, and then Sun 21 Oct 1 – 3pm hedges, and how they are a new event - build your very Witches and Wizards natural alternative to wire returned. All material and own miniature Neolithic Hut. Visitor Centre Events tuition are provided, as well as Style and decorate paper hats fences. Free event - no need All instruction and materials Please phone 01202 451548 for more and stick wands! £2 donation. to book. a cup of tea or coffee. £10 per provided. £6 per hut. Suitable session. Booking essential a details, or if booking required. Suitable for ages 4+. for ages 5+. Booking essential. Sun 2 Dec 1 – 3pm week ahead as places limited. No need to book. Christmas Wreaths Mon 22 Oct 10am – 2pm Get your creative juices flowing Regular events Sun 23 Sep 1 – 3pm Junior Rangers by making seasonal wreaths Leaf Art A day of cutting back scrub out of native willows and holly New Leaf Health Walks Autumn brings us a multitude and burning on one of our collected from the Stour. £3.50 Mondays from 3 Sep of colours as the leaves begin north Bournemouth Nature per person. Booking essential. 10 – 11.30am to fall. Stir your creative Reserves, followed by cooked Get into nature in 2018 and side by coming and making lunch on the bonfire. £5 per Mon 3 Dec 10am – 1.30pm live a healthier life! These wonderful images using leaves person. For ages 11 – 16. Winter Tree Identification weekly walks will help you from the site. Suitable for ages Booking essential. A five-mile guided circular get active in nature. 4+. No need to book. walk along the trails on the Free event - no need to book. £2 donation. Mon 22 Oct 1 – 3pm Stour Valley Nature Reserve. Sand Art Pompon Spiders and Take a look at the native trees Morning sessions For more information on health Mon 24 Sep 10am – 1.30pm benefits call LiveWell Dorset Wispy Webs without their leaves and 10.30am – 12.30pm Mon 22 Oct 1.30 – 3.30pm Guided Gulliver’s Walk Make some fluffy spiders from learn how to identify them. Afternoon sessions Pendant Making on 0800 840 1628 and ask Take a step back in time and about Natural Choices. ordinary pompons. Then cut Followed by roast chestnuts 1.30pm – 3.30pm Join archaeologist and artist follow the footsteps of the out and decorate their webs and hot chocolate back at the Join Sally for a fun and popular John House to make your Nature Tots famous local smuggler, Isaac to take home. £2 donation. Kingfisher Barn. £5 per person. activity for all the family. Make own pendant using natural Tuesdays from 4 Sep Gulliver, led by one of the Suitable for ages 4+. Booking essential. a lovely picture by peeling materials. This is another 10.30 – 11.30am countryside rangers. No need to book. sections of paper away and new event from John. Give your little ones a love The trail leads you through then pouring colourful sand on £6 per pendant. Suitable for of nature. Come along for a seven of Bournemouth’s the sticky surface revealed. No ages 5+. Booking essential. different activity each week. nature reserves and green need to book – please allow spaces. Cost £3.50. Booking Thu 25 Oct 11am – 1pm For ages 2 – 4. Suggested about ½ hour to complete a donation £2.50 – free hot essential. Walk begins in picture. Pictures cost between Pumpkin Carving Millhams Road - BH10 7LU. Join artist John House for a drinks for accompanying £2.50 and £5.50. adults. No need to book. Dates are: session of pumpkin carving Sun 16 Sep – am with a difference. Take home Nature Club your unique pumpkin once you Sun 23 Sep – pm Thursdays from 6 Sep Sat/Sun 8/9 Dec have finished. £6 per pumpkin. Wed 24 Oct – am 10.30 – 11.30am 10am – 4pm Spaces limited so booking Fri 26 Oct – pm Give your little ones a love Wed 24 Oct 1 – 3pm Reindeer Making essential. Sun 11 Nov – pm of nature with these fun Paper plate monsters Join the rangers for another Sun 18 Nov – am Use your imagination and Fri/Sat 26/27 Oct activities. Suggested donation year of fun making reindeer! – am create your own Halloween Sun 9 Dec 10am – 3.30pm £2.50 – free hot drinks for With mince pies, stollen and Sat 22 Dec – am monsters! £2 donation. Halloween Trail accompanying adults. a choice of (non-alcoholic) No need to book. Suitable for ages 4+. mulled wine or hot chocolate, Follow our very popular No need to book. Other Events Halloween trail, solving clues it’s a fun time for all the family. along the way, and then collect Wed 3 Oct 10am – 3pm Fri 26 Oct 1 – 3pm £8 per reindeer. Booking Sat 8 Sep 2.30 – 4.30pm a small prize. Starts and Hedgelaying Witches and Wizards essential - early booking Walking the Head with finishes at the Visitor Centre. Learn the art of creating living Style and decorate paper hats recommended as spaces fill Gerald Manley Hopkins No need to book. £3 per child. hedges, and how they are a and stick wands! £2 donation. up very quickly. Join the Hengistbury Writers natural alternative to wire Suitable for ages 4+. Group for a fascinating walk fences. Free event - no need No need to book. to celebrate the works of poet, to book. Gerald Manley Hopkins. Cost - Sat 27 Oct 1 – 3pm donation. Booking essential. Sun 7 Oct 1 – 3pm Pompon Spiders and Leaf Art Wispy Webs Sun 9 Sep 1.30 – 3.30pm Other Events Autumn brings us a multitude Make some fluffy spiders from Neolithic Hut Building of colours as the leaves begin ordinary pompons. Then cut Sun 9 Sep 1 – 3pm Join our archaeology expert to fall. Stir your creative out and decorate their webs and artist, John House, for this Leaf Art side by coming and making Autumn brings us a multitude to take home. £2 donation. new event - build your very wonderful images using leaves Suitable for ages 4+. own miniature Neolithic Hut. of colours as the leaves begin from the site. Suitable for ages to fall. Stir your creative No need to book. Sat/Sun 15/16 Dec All instruction and materials Sat 3 Nov 1.30 – 3.30pm 4+. No need to book. side by coming and making 10am – 4pm provided. £6 per hut. Suitable Fossil Art £2 donation. Mon 5 Nov 10am – 1.30pm wonderful images using leaves Autumn Watch on the Reindeer Making for ages 5+. Booking essential. Artist and archaeologist John Join the rangers for another House will be showing us from the site. Suitable for ages River Stour Sat 22 Sep 1.30 – 3.30pm 4+. No need to book. A guided circular walk along year of fun making reindeer! how to create realistic looking With mince pies, stollen and Pendant Making fossils using natural materials. £2 donation. both sides of the River Stour Join archaeologist and artist and back through the Stour a choice of (non-alcoholic) They are very effective, and Wed 19 Sep 1 – 3pm mulled wine or hot chocolate, John House to make your you can take them home once Valley Nature Reserve, where own pendant using natural Build a Bug Hotel it’s a fun time for all the family. complete. Suitable for all the Create a home for all your we will finish at the Kingfisher materials. This is another Barn and enjoy a lunch of £8 per reindeer. Booking family. £5 per person - no creepy crawlies, making them essential - early booking new event from John. £6 per need to book. homemade soup and rolls. £5 pendant. Suitable for ages 5+. snug as a bug! Suitable for recommended as spaces fill ages 5+. £5 donation. per person. Booking essential. 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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 Support our Visitor Centre How can I help? There are many ways that you can help as a volunteer at Kingfisher Barn. Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre is the gateway to the superb Stour Valley Local Nature Reserve, situated in north Bournemouth, just two miles from Castlepoint shopping complex. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us in a variety of roles based at the Centre, to assist people in getting the most out of their visit to the Stour Valley. Visitor Centre Wildlife Garden Would you enjoy meeting people and providing For green-fingered volunteers, All profits from Kingfisher there is the chance to help with the Barn Visitor Centre support helpful information about the Stour Valley Local Nature Reserve? We need help in our shop and maintenance, care and development our local Parks Foundation. with events, which range from pond dipping and of our wildlife garden and nearby health walks to craft activities and local history. flower meadow and orchard.
Specialist skills If technology is your Please help us to support thing, we need help with updating website our Local Nature Reserve content, using social Whatever your skills, we need friendly media, filming and and enthusiastic people to support us, editing, and taking and so pop into the centre and talk to one uploading photography. of the team to see how you can help. Apply today by emailing [email protected] Fundraising & marketing If you have marketing, promotion or administration skills, you could play Benefits of volunteering: an important part in fundraising for Bournemouth Parks Foundation. ✔Learn new skills ✔Make new friends ✔Enjoy the outdoors ✔Help the community