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Newsletter August 2020
Read our most recent newsletter here:August 2020
Rowntree Park Forest School for Big Kids!
Saturday 12th of September 2020 10am-11.30am Saturday 17th of October 2020 10am-11.30am Our popular Forest School for ‘Big Kids’ offer a range of bush crafts and outdoor learning suitable for 6-12 year olds. Sessions can include nature based arts and crafts, use of tools such as knives, drills and saws, fire skills and campfire cookingContinue reading “Rowntree Park Forest School for Big Kids!”
The Very Young Friends of Rowntree Park return!
The Very Young Friends of Rowntree Park is our monthly meet up aimed at children aged 1-5 years old. The group is an outdoor group with a focus on nature-based exploration and arts and crafts. The next meet up is Thursday 1st October 2020 at 10am and lasts around an hour. The focus of theContinue reading “The Very Young Friends of Rowntree Park return!”
Rowntree Park Tree Trail
The Friends of Rowntree Park have two new tree trails released in Summer 2020. An adults 20 tree trail (1.5 km) walk around the park -suitable from prams and come wheel chair accessible too. We also have a children’s ‘little legs’ trail that takes 20-30 minutes. The trails were planned by some of our YoungContinue reading “Rowntree Park Tree Trail”
Open Air Theatre comes to Rowntree Park this summer!
We are pleased to announce that ‘Park Bench Theatre’ will run in Rowntree Park from the 12th of August to the 5th of September. There are three shows by Engine House Theatre and tickets are available through the Theatre Royal Box office (links below). A rarely-performed Samuel Beckett monologue, a brand new play anda familyContinue reading “Open Air Theatre comes to Rowntree Park this summer!”
Newsletter July 2020
Click the link below to read our July 2020 members newsletter: July 2020
Rowntree Rainbows
From the July 16th 2020 Rowntree Park became full of colour. Not just plants and flowers, but also rainbows! Rainbows for Rowntree Park – a big colourful thank you! Through ‘lockdown’ from March-June 2020, our Friends of Rowntree Park craft group were colourfully crafting in their own homes. Other groups and individuals from across YorkContinue reading “Rowntree Rainbows”
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Cascade Rowntree Park
The cascade area is just below the Richardson Street entrance at the side of the cafe. This was to be a rock garden with water cascading into a pool. Joseph Rowntree said it “Symbolised Life’. Betty Metcalfe recalls that originally it was a grass slope. There was a horse show shaped bed filled with redContinue reading “Cascade Rowntree Park”