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Burnley Nature Festival
October 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Burnley Nature Festival is Back.
A jam packed afternoon of outdoor activities, raising awareness of the fabulous ways you can connect with the outdoor spaces and places across our Borough.
There will be activities for EVERYONE, delivered by an amazing array of partners and organisations.
What’s on?
- Event Info Station
- Tree Climbing Demonstration – Burnley Borough Council
- Create Your Own Magical Flying Bird – Towneley Hall
- Book Sale and Tombola – Towneley Hall Society (Cost applies)
- Dragon Trail – Friends of Towneley Park
- Face Painting – Chloes’ Face Paints (Cost applies)
- Natural Crowns and Crafting – Calico / Burnley Together
- Journey Sticks and Crafting- Canal and River Trust
- Transient Art Activities – Giant Leap and Go Outdoors Childcare
- Guided Walks Meeting Point – (See full walk schedule)
- Nature Based Arts and Crafts – Children and Family Wellbeing
- Numbers in Nature – Lancashire Adult Learning
- Mobile Music Pod – Lancashire Music Service
- Bug Sweeping and All Things Insects – National Trust Gawthorpe
- Story Time Movement – Bowland Fitness (See times)
- Movement and Meditation – Burnley Leisure and Culture (See times)
- Soft Archery – Burnley Leisure and Culture
- Paintballing – Friends of Thompson and Queens Park / Burnley Borough Council (Cost applies)
- Park Play – Burnley Leisure and Culture
- Community Land Art – Artist Winston Plowes
- Spring Bulb Lasagne – Pennine Lancashire Community Farm
- Nature Calling – Blaze Arts
- Seed Bombs and Herb Planting – Lancashire Wildlife Trust
- Rainbow Drumming Tent
- Buzz Wire, Book Sale Bottle Tombola and All Things Bridleways – Burnley Bridleway Association (Cost applies)
- Campfire Treats from Whitehough Outdoor Centre – BFC in the Community
- Scouting Skills – Burnley and Pendle Explorers
- River Dipping and Sampling – River Ribble Trust
- Honey for Sale – Newground Team from Offshoots (Cost Applies)
- Beeswax Candle Making and Bee Paitining – Newground Team from Offshoots
- Pumpkin Carving – Newground Team from Offshoots.
- Campfire conversations (with toasted marshmallows) – Newground Team from Offshoots
- Free play, Puddle Jumping and Mud Kitchen – Offshoots Community Garden
- Tree Clearance and Bug Hotel Building – Trees for Burnley
Any amends to the schedule of activities on the day will be found here.
For more information and to keep up to date regularly check back here or follow the event on Facebook.
Dress for the weather
The majority of the festival will be outdoors around Towneley Hall gardens, woods and Offshoots Community Garden. The festival aims to highlight all the fantastic ways to enjoy the outdoors, rain or shine. Unless a severe weather warning is in place, the event will go ahead so bring weather essentials.
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