Weather and the Park

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Our Discoverers Weather Workshop, held at the end of April, was a great success. The next Discoverers’ event is being planned… watch this space!

Heritage centre planned

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Plans are underway for a new history and heritage centre in the Park, providing display and storage facilities for the Hearsum history archive

Friends AGM 2014

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This year’s AGM will be held on Saturday April 12 at King’s House School, Richmond, starting at 10am. More details in the March newsletter

Go stargazing in the Park

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Join the campaign against light pollution with our next family-friendly Discoverer’s event – and check out how many stars you can see in the Park

Holly Lodge appeal

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Victorian activities, an art group, gardening sessions – just some of the activities going on at the Holly Lodge Centre. But they all cost money!

Concert and carriage rides

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Park-related winter fun: the Holly Lodge Centre’s Christmas Concert on December 3 and carriage rides throughout December

Another lost species?

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This year’s decline in the Park’s population of breeding Skylarks sends a disturbing message to us all, warns our chairman Ron Crompton

Pen Ponds conservation work

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Volunteers have been busy removing Rhododendron from the shoreline of Upper Pen Pond and replacing it with more natural native vegetation

Book now for Skeleton fun!

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Calling all Discoverers – here’s your chance to get hands-on with lots of real-life bones, draw what you see and design your own animal