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
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
Park-related winter fun: the Holly Lodge Centre’s Christmas Concert on December 3 and carriage rides throughout December
Another lost species?
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
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!
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
Another brilliant bat event
Accompanied by an expert from the Bat Conservation Trust, an eager band of Discoverers watched bats do their stuff over Adam’s Pond
Christmas cards on sale
The Friends’ Christmas cards are still on sale at the Visitors’ Centre, and if you hurry you might even get a Friends’ calendar
Discoverers evening bat walk
Book now to see the Park’s bats in action and use a bat detector to hear the noises they make – with an expert on hand to explain it all
James Batten & St Paul’s view
A clue on an 18th-century map and the ‘keyhole’ vista of St Paul’s Cathedral, by Michael Davison