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For more information or to get involved visit: www.leeds.gov.uk/parksvolunteering, email [email protected] or call 0113 336 7548. open weekend 7 & 8 October 10am–3.30pm Fun activities for all the family!

Leeds’ much loved horticultural nursery based at Red Hall, relocates to new state of the art premises: • 19,000 m2 glasshouse • Eco friendly • Quality plants, trees, shrubs • Café and play area • Winner of 5 Chelsea Flower Show medals

Thorner Lane, Leeds LS14 3FB Events All events are free unless otherwise stated, however there are charges to get into the house and farm at Temple Newsam, Lotherton Hall Estate and Tropical World (see site information).

Regular events Middleton Park Tuesday 24th October 2017, Bramley Park, Cross Flatts Wednesday 25th October 2017, Park, Roundhay Park, Temple 8YIWHE]XL*IFVYEV] Newsam, Woodhouse Moor ;IHRIWHE]XL*IFVYEV] Every Saturday from 9am 1pm - 3pm Parkrun Children’s Play Sessions Join thousands of others across 'LMPHVIR´WTPE]WIWWMSRW XLIKPSFIJSVEOQVYREVSYRH JSVSYV]SYRKIV*VMIRHWMR ]SYVPSGEPTEVO EWWSGMEXMSR[MXLPSGEPGLMPHVIR´W W www.parkrun.org.uk/leeds organisations. Meet at visitor centre. Middleton Park T 07747092459 Every Tuesday E [email protected] 10.30am - 12pm Oakwood Clock Knit and Natter Every 3rd Saturday of the &VMRKEPSRK]SYVORMXXMRK Month GVSGLIXMRKSVWXMXGLMRKTVSNIGXW Oakwood Farmers’ Market SVPIEVRXSORMXWXMXGLSV %TSTYPEVPSGEPGSQQYRMX] crochet – materials can be JSSHERHTVSHYGIQEVOIX[MXL TVSZMHIH3VNYWXGSQIJSVE around 20 stalls. REXXIV¯EPPEVI[IPGSQI 1IIXMRK4PEGI3EO[SSH 1IIXMRK4PEGI:MWMXSV'IRXVI Clock, Roundhay Park T W www.oakwood Middleton Park farmersmarket.com Every third Saturday of the Temple Newsam month. 10am – 12pm Every Tuesday from 2pm Leeds Young Friends of Temple Archaeologists Club Newsam Park Walks *SVFYHHMRKEVGLEISPSKMWXW )RNS]WSQIJVIWLEMVERH FIX[IIRXLIEKIWSJERH I\IVGMWIMRXLI[SRHIVJYP T IRZMVSRQIRXSJ8IQTPI E [email protected] 2I[WEQ W leedsyac.wordpress.com 1IIXMRK4PEGI7XEFPI'SYVX]EVH E [email protected] Winter Golf Offer Play Temple Newsam or Roundhay park golf course this winter for just £10.20 weekdays and £13.50 weekends* or 9 holes for £8.10. Offer valid from 1st October 2017 until 31st March 2018

*Booking required for weekends. Concessionary rates for juniors, seniors, Leeds Card holders etc. still apply, visit the website for full details. Contact Try out our 0113 2647362 (Temple Newsam) new 9 hole golf or 0113 2661686 (Roundhay) course at Temple Newsam? www.leeds.gov.uk/golf Other events Cragg Wood October Saturday, 21st October 2017 10am – 12pm The Arium – Leeds Parks Fungi Walk Nursery Discover the fabulous world Saturday, 7th October 2017, of fungi! Join the countryside Sunday 8th October 2017 rangers to discover mushrooms 10am – 3.30pm of all shapes and sizes. Funded by the Outer North West Opening Weekend Community Committee. Celebrate with us as we open the new Parks and Countryside Meeting Place: Cragg Hill plant nursery. Be among the Recreation car park, Wood first to see the striking 19,000 lane, , LS18 4NX square metre glasshouse, T 0775 3957401 including café, shop, children’s E helen.jeavons play area and space to produce @btopenworld.com an amazing 3.5 million bedding plants every year! Activities Lotherton Hall available this weekend for all Saturday, 21st October 2017 – the family themed around Sunday, 5th November 2017 gardening, wildlife and the great 10am - 4pm outdoors. Spooky Scarecrow Trail Meeting place: The Arium, Beware, we aim to scare! Thorner Lane, , Lotherton’s Spooky Scarecrow LS14 3FB Trail is back, bigger and better T 0113 3786002 than before. Follow the clues W leeds.gov.uk/thearium around the house and estate E [email protected] to find all of the super spooky scarecrows. Lots to do - come Temple Newsam visit if you dare! Saturday, 7th October 2017, Meeting place: Lotherton Hall 2pm - 5pm and grounds Fungi Walk Entry charges apply A beginner’s guide to natural T 0113 3782959 history and identification of the W leeds.gov.uk/Lotherton-hall fungi at Temple Newsam. The E [email protected] walk is approximately 1.5 miles long. T 0113 3367560 E [email protected] £5 adults, £2.50 children Lotherton Hall Saturday 21st October 2017 – Temple Newsam Sunday 5th November 2017 Wednesday, 25th October 2017 11am – 3pm 1pm - 3pm Welcome to Wildlife Pumpkin Carving in the World Walled Garden Come and meet our new Meet in the Walled Garden to residents at the spectacular carve the pumpkin you planted new Wildlife World! Include in spring (or bring a hollowed- penguins, tapirs and capybaras! out pumpkin to carve). Family-friendly activities, trails T 0113 3367560 and keeper talks. E temple.newsam@ Meeting Place: what used to be leeds.gov.uk the bird garden! Entry charges apply Pudsey Park T 0113 3367553 Thursday, 26th October 2017 E parkseducation 10am – 3pm @leeds.gov.uk Mythbusting Mammals Middleton Park Learn more about our Sunday, 22nd October 2017 nocturnal mammals and why 1pm – 3pm they are not so scary after all! Family crafts and other activities Apple Day in the Visitor Centre Education Bring your apples to press, Room. carve an apple head, bob for T 0113 3367553 apples and lots more! Event E parkseducation@ in association with Wild Apple leeds.gov.uk Play. Café open. £1 donation for crafts T 07747 092459 E [email protected] Lotherton Hall Saturday 28th October 2017 – Tropical World Sunday 29th October 2017 Tuesday, 24th October 2017 11am – 4pm and Tuesday 31st October 2017. 11am – 4pm Halloween Weekend With the Halloween Weekend Mythbusting Mammals comes the opportunity to Learn more about our bring your little monsters to nocturnal mammals and why Lotherton for a weekend of they’re not so scary after all! spooky fun. With a chance to Family crafts and other activities meet some ghostly characters in the Party Room. in the house, face painting, Entry charges apply creepy crafts and prizes for the T 0113 3367553 best fancy dress: do you dare to E [email protected] miss out? T 0113 3782959 E [email protected] W www.leeds.gov.uk/ Lothertonhall Meeting place: Soldiers Field, West Park Fields Roundhay Park, LS8 Saturday, 28th October 2017 T 0113 3786002 11am – 2pm E [email protected] Apple Day Come and celebrate Bramley Park, East End Park, the progress of this new Middleton Park, Springhead Community Orchard. Bring Park, Woodhouse Moor along apples to make juice, Friday, 3rd November 2017 longest length of apple 7pm – 8pm peel competition and make Bonfire & Fireworks decorated apple heads. Lots Extravaganza of other apple-related fun and Enjoy bonfire night in your local information provided. community park. Bonfires will Meeting place: Junction of be lit at 7pm with firework Kepstorn Road and Northolme displays at 7.30pm. To ensure Crescent, LS16 5HJ that these events remain safe W www.westpark please leave fireworks (including residents.org.uk sparklers) at home. T 0113 3786002 Temple Newsam E [email protected] Tuesday, 31st October 2017 5pm – 8pm Golden Acre Park Halloween Spooktacular Sunday, 5th November We welcome back our annual 10am – 3pm Halloween special. Come along Wildlife Bingo and scare yourself silly! Wear Join the RSPB for a free fun your most ghoulish outfit and game of Wildlife Bingo and collect spooky treats in the learn how you can give nature haunted house and farm. a home. Last Admission 7.15pm. Meeting Place: By the lakeside T 0113 3367560 in our gazebo E temple.newsam.house@ T 01524 581027 leeds.gov.uk E [email protected] £8.40 per adult, W rspb.org.uk £4.20 per child, £20 per family Beckett Street Cemetery Sunday, 12th November 2017 November 2pm – 3pm Remembrance Sunday Roundhay Park Walk Friday, 3rd November 2017 Join the Friends to remember 7.30pm – 8.30pm Passchendale from World War Bonfire & Fireworks One on a guided walk in this display fascinating cemetery. Join 70,000 others to enjoy Meet at the noticeboard by the biggest bonfire in Leeds. the main gate. All welcome! The huge bonfire will be lit W www.beckettstreet at 7.30pm and the awesome cemetery.org.uk firework display will start at 8pm.

Temple Newsam Townclose Hills, Kippax Sunday, 12th November 2017 Saturday, 25th November 2pm – 4pm 2017 Lord Darnley and the 1pm – 3pm Fair Devil of Scotland Winter Tree ID The Leeds Waits tell the tragic Learn how to identify trees and story of Mary Queen of Scots shrubs in winter at this little and her second husband, Lord known nature reserve. Darnley of Temple Newsam, Meeting place: Kippax leisure parents of the future King Centre Car Park James I of , on the T 07825 668419 450th anniversary of Darnleys E [email protected] assassination. W ywt.org.uk £8 per adult, £3 per child, £20 per family T 0113 3367461

Temple Newsam Saturday 18th November 2017, Sunday 19th November 2017 1pm- 4pm Chocolates for Christmas Learn to make chocolates from a professional chocolatier! 2-hour workshop in the glorious Great Hall during which you will create delicious Belgian truffles by hand from raw chocolate ingredients and leave with 30-50 beautifully packaged chocolates ready as gifts for Christmas day. Includes tour of Temple Newsam and post-workshop tea and cake. £35 per person T 0113 3367461 0IIHW&SR½VIWERH*MVI[SVOW Extravaganza! Friday 3rd November 2017

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December nativity” scene. With strolling storytellers and all the animals Lotherton Hall tucked up for winter it is Friday, 24th November 2017 - guaranteed to get you in the Saturday 23rd December 2017 festive spirit. T 0113 3367460 The Christmas £8.40 per adult, Experience £4.20 per child, £20 per family Lotherton’s popular Christmas Experience returns with a bang! Explore the Elf Village, Middleton Park meet Santa and go on the Sunday, 10th December 2017 Twelve days of Christmas 1pm – 5pm walk. Explore the fairies’ secret Christmas in Middleton hideaway and head to the Park house for a taste of Edwardian Come and celebrate Christmas Christmas, complete with our in Middleton Park – make selfie studio. Don’t miss the festive wreathes and yule brand new Christmas shop, logs with natural materials café full of seasonal treats and, and enjoy a Christmas carol on occasion, there will also be concert. carols, crafts, magic shows and T 07747 092459 more! For full details, visit the E [email protected] website. W thechristmasexperience.co.uk January Temple Newsam Saturday 9th December 2017 Pudsey Park – Sunday 10th December Saturday, 20th January 2018 2017 10am – 3pm 11am – 4.30pm Big Garden Birdwatch 500 Years of Christmas Learn how to identify the birds Enjoy a magical journey in your garden, Crafts and including meeting Father other activities in the Visitor Christmas, a Tudor banquet Centre Education Room and display and carol karaoke in bird spotting in the park. the house. Experience our war T 0113 3367553 time farm, make a wreath to E [email protected] take home and see the “Living £1 donation for crafts Helping our city flourish Donate today to help our parks grow. leedsparksfund.org #LoveLeedsParks

Registered Charity 1096892 February Walled Garden to plant your very own sunflower to take Lotherton Hall home. Saturday, 10th February 2018 T 0113 3367560 – Sunday 25th February 2018 E temple.newsam 11am – 3pm @leeds.gov.uk Love Birds Week at Pudsey Park Lotherton Thursday, 15th February 2017 Trail and animal keeper talks 10am – 3pm in Wildlife World and crafts in House. Bird box making in the Love Birds Nestbox Education Centre on Learn how to help our feathery Sundays and Wednesdays. friends! Crafts and other Entry charges apply. activities in the Visitor Centre T 0113 3367553 Education Room and bird E parkseducation spotting in the park. @leeds.gov.uk T 0113 3367553 E [email protected]. Tropical World uk £1 donation for crafts Tuesday, 13th February 2018 11am – 4pm Middleton Park Love Birds Saturday, 17th February 2018 Learn how to help our 1pm – 3pm feathery friends! Crafts and Explore Middleton Park other activities in the Party Come and explore Middleton Room and bird spotter sheets Park with an experienced local available all week. guide. We will walk along good Entry charges apply. paths using the established T 0113 3367553 Middleton Park Trail but with E parkseducation lots of additional stories to @leeds.gov.uk bring the park to life. T 07747 092459 Temple Newsam E [email protected] Wednesday, 14th February 2018. 1pm – 3pm Sunflower Planting Meet at the showhouse in the Parks and Countryside Education Service

Outdoor learning for schools and youth groups! Explore our zoos at Lotherton Hall, Tropical World and Pudsey Park Guided farm tours Historical re-enactment Discover local wildlife Bushcraft, orienteering, den-building ...and more! Parks and Countryside workshops, guided tours and fun sessions are available all year round. For more information visit: www.leeds.gov.uk/parkseducation or contact us on [email protected] or 0113 378 6002.

Leeds in Bloom

The Leeds in Bloom scheme aims to beautify the GMX]XLVSYKL¾SVEPHMWTPE]WERHIZIV]SRIGERNSMRMR Help make Leeds ‘blooming’ beautiful by setting up or joining an ‘In Bloom’ group. Or enter one of our GSQTIXMXMSRWEWJSPPS[W  (IWMKRE¾S[IVFIH WGLSSPGLMPHVIRSRP] Business and communities Private gardens For more information visit: www.leeds.gov.uk/InBloom or contact us on [email protected] or 0113 3780860 March how to make your garden wildlife-friendly in time for Roundhay Park spring. Family crafts and other Sunday, 4th March 2018 activities in the Visitor Centre 10am – 3pm Education Room. T 0113 3367553 Wildlife Bingo E [email protected]. Join the RSPB for a free fun uk game of Wildlife Bingo and learn how you can give nature £1 donation for crafts a home. Middleton Park Meeting Place: By the play area Sunday, 18th March 2018 near the Lakeside café 10am – 3pm T 01524 581027 E [email protected] Build a Mini Bug Home Give nature a home with the Lotherton Hall RSPB with a free build a mini Saturday, 10th March 2018 bug home activity. 11am – 3pm Meeting place: Outside the March of the Penguins Visitor Centre. Learn about our penguins! T 01524 581027 Family activities and crafts in E [email protected] the Nestbox Education Centre W rspb.org.uk and talks by the penguin enclosure – times will be Temple Newsam advertised on the day. Friday, 24th March 2018 – Entry charges apply. Sunday 15 April 2018 T 0113 3367553 Springtime Babies E parkseducation Join us to celebrate new life @leeds.gov.uk on the farm! Lots to do over the Easter break with extra Pudsey Park activities on over the bank Sunday, 11th March 2018 holiday weekend. 10am – 3pm Entry charges apply. Wildflower Planting T 0113 3367560 Come and plant some E temple.newsam wildflowers and learn about @leeds.gov.uk

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