27th MAY TO 3rd SEPTEMBER
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| Mon 24 July – Fri 1 Sept | Bewdley Museum Summer holidays children’s craft activities – 10.30am – 2.30pm |
| Wed 2nd Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Children’s craft DROP IN session. Join in at the visitor centre for a FREE drop in craft session. There’s no need to book, just drop in any time between 11am-12.30pm. |
| August | Severn Valley Railway Engine House Geopark displays including ‘Fossils in the Geopark’ |
| Sat 5th Aug | Severn Valley Railway Engine House ‘Ask the Experts’ and specimen display with the West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society. Learn about rocks and fossils with the experts and bring your own specimens for identification |
| AUGUST | Arley Arboretum This summer is all about dinosaurs! Do you have what it takes to be an Arley Dinosaur Ranger. Come and put your dino knowledge to the test and earn yourself a Dinosaur Ranger Certificate.  |
| Mon 7th Aug | Lapworth Museum of Geology Museum Tour – Earth Sciences Building, Birmingham University (R4 on campus map) |
| Wed 9th Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Rock and fossil hunt. 11am-12.30pm (meet outside the visitor centre) These ranger-led events are a super fun way to get kids exploring. Have a dig on our old coal spoil and see if you can find fossils from 320 million years ago! There is so much to discover! |
| Wed 9th Aug | Arley Arboretum ‘Ask the Experts’ with the Geologists in the Geopark. Learn about rocks and fossils with the experts and bring your own specimens for identification |
| Sat 12th Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Family Fun Day including rock and fossil hunt. There will be ranger led events throughout the day as well as a family orienteering competition! From 11am-3pm for a fun family wildlife day! |
| Wed 16th Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Pond Dipping. These ranger-led events are a super fun way to get kids exploring wildlife. Join in for a pond dip from our dipping platform at Elfin Pool. See if you can catch a slippery fish, a massive diving beetle or a dancing pond skater! |
| Wed 16th Aug | National Trust Croome ‘Ask the Experts’ with the Geologists in the Geopark. Learn about rocks and fossils with the experts and bring your own specimens for identification and a rock and fossil detective trail based in The Hub. |
| Fri 18th Aug | Severn Valley Country Park. The Comedy of Errors. Rain or Shine Theatre Company are celebrating their 25th year with a national tour of The Comedy of Errors! 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm |
| Sat 19th Aug | National Trust Croome Panorama Tower open day including landscape interpretation viewing cards. ‘Ask the Experts’ with the Geologists in the Geopark. Learn about rocks and fossils with the experts and bring your own specimens for identification and a rock and fossil detective trail based based in The Hub. |
| Sun 20th Aug | National Trust Dudmaston River Severn walk. At the banks of the River Severn, along the southern tip of the Dudmaston Estate sits Hampton Loade. Starting and finishing from Hampton Loade car park, join this self-guided 7km walk along the river towards Severn Valley Country Park and back. |
| Wed 23rd Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Bushcraft. Join that ranger in Hall Close Coppice and help build an outdoor shelter. See how to make a fire and then toast some marshmallows and enjoy some hot chocolate around the camp fire! |
| Wed 30th Aug | Severn Valley Country Park Mini Beast Hunt. These ranger-led events are a super fun way to get kids exploring wildlife. Join in for a mini beast safari and see which creepy crawlies you can find! Will it be a lovely ladybird, a slimy snail, or a beautiful butterfly? There is so much to discover! |
| Sun 3rd Sept | National Trust Dudmaston Outdoor Theatre: The Secret Garden. This summer, join young Mary Lennox on a journey of discovery as she is sent to her uncle’s house in the countryside, where mysteries and secrets lurk round every corner. 14:30 – 16:00. |
| GEOFEST 2023 – Events from May and June | |
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| Sun28thMay | Wyre Foresthttps://www.wmsp.co.uk/dinosaurs-2/ Family Fun Day. Did you know Wyre is the largest woodland National Nature Reserve in the country? Join in to celebrate all things Wyre! Moth trapping, Meet the Machines, orienteering, Outdoor Yoga, Talk – The Nature of Wyre . . . trees! |
| 29th May – 31st May | National Trust Dudmaston Help a Plant Grow from the National Trust’s 50 things to do before you’re 11 and 3/4. Get green fingered at Dudmaston this Half term. Plant a seed, take it home and watch it grow |
| Mon 29th May | Malvern Walking Festival Geology around Gardiners Quarry. Exploring the the Precambrian Malverns Complex in Gardiner’s Quarry |
| Mon 29 May – Fri 2 June | Bewdley Museum Half term activities – Children’s craft activities from 10.30am to 2.30pm. |
| Tues 30th May | The Hive Clay Workshop . Make plants, creatures and buildings for your imagined island. You can take your clay island home where you can choose to keep it or learn how to submerge your island in water and watch it sink before your eyes! FREE |
| Wed 31st May | Severn Valley Country Park: Mini Beast Hunt 11am-12.30pm (meet outside the visitor centre) Our ranger-led events are a super fun way to get kids exploring wildlife. |
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| Thurs 1st June | Worcester Cathedral Half Term Activities – Take Flight at Worcester Cathedral! |
| Thurs 1st June | The Hive Origami and Art Workshop . Create some origami animals or art inspired by nature in this FREE workshop. Your work can also help create a piece of art that will form part of a community route map that will be displayed at The Hive! FREE |
| Fri 2nd June | Severn Valley Country Park : Mini Raft Fun. Come along and join in the fun! Gather natural materials from around the park and make your very own mini raft. |
| Fri 2nd June | Lapworth Museum of Geology Out of this World – Visit the Lapworth Museum of Geology for a special day which is Out of This World. We are joined by Science Rapper, Jon Chase, who will share with us the wonders of the Solar System we call home. |
| Fri 2nd June | Worcester Cathedral Half Term Activities – Take Flight at Worcester Cathedral! |
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| Sat 3rd June | Severn Valley Country Park : Park Run . A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it’s up to you. |
| June 3rd – July 2nd | Bewdley Museum: for one month Bewdley’s Stone Heritage. Table top display – most days. Check with the museum. |
| Sun 4th June | Malvern Walking Festival A Mathon Meander. This is a wonderful, undulating meander in West Malvern and Mathon, crossing over ridges of Silurian limestone and valleys of Silurian shale. |
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| Mon 5th June | Lapworth Museum of Geology Museum Tour – Earth Sciences Building, Birmingham University (R4 on campus map) |
| Wed 7th June | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
| Wed 14th June | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
| Wed 14th June | National Trust Croome Rock and fossil detective trail and Geopark display, based from the Temple Greenhouse. Self guided. |
| Fri 16th June | National Trust Dudmaston Wild Food UK Foraging Courses at Comer Woods |
| Sat 17th June | National Trust Croome Rock and fossil detective trail and Geopark display, based from the Temple Greenhouse. Self guided. |
| Mon 19th June | National Trust Croome Panorama Tower open with landscape interpretation |
| Sun 18th June | National Trust Dudmaston River Severn walk. At the banks of the River Severn, along the southern tip of the Dudmaston Estate sits Hampton Loade. Starting and finishing from Hampton Loade car park, join this self-guided 7km walk along the river towards Severn Valley Country Park and back. |
| Tue 20th June | Herefordshire Walking Festival – Guided Walk – Geology of the Middle Malverns. Meet at Swinyard Car Park at 10am, on a walk to Gullet Pass Pit, Gullet Top Quarry and along the ridge at Swinyard Hill and as far as Clutters Cave before returning across the top of Castlemorton Common |
| Wed 21st June | Herefordshire Walking Festival The Hills and Valleys of Bromyard. Explore the Frome Valley with its iconic hopyards, Bromyard itself, one of Herefordshire’s fascinating market towns, before we climb back to the wonderful Bromyard Downs. |
| Wed 21st June | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
| Wed 21st June | Severn Valley Country Park 20 Years of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark. A series of displays at Severn Valley Country Park for the public to enjoy. The displays will celebrate the Geopark and will include organisations such as Alveley Historical Society, West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society, Geologists in the Geopark and Bewdley School Discovery Society. |
| Wed 21st June | National Trust Dudmaston Evening opening: Dudmaston After Hours. Browse the art and exhibitions in the galleries or take an evening stroll through the garden. The second hand bookshop will be open and the Orchard Tea-room will be serving light refreshments. The Ronnies, a vocal harmony group specialising in the sounds of the 1940s, will perform in the Orchard |
| Thurs 22nd June | Herefordshire Walking Festival Perton to Putley – The Green Way. Across the Woolhope Dome from Perton to Putley via Checkley and Woolhope. |
| Fri 23rd June | Herefordshire Walking Festival Walk Through History; From Pre Roman to The Present; Following The Gillian Bulmer & Brian Hatton Way. Farm tracks, footpaths, Green lanes, woodland, fields, inclines through: Fields, Meadows, Orchards, Woods, to The River and the Healing Spring. |
| Sat 24th June | Herefordshire Walking Festival Iron Age Dinedor. Starting at the Wye Inn, Holme Lacy Road, a gentle wander through country lanes and paths to Dinedor Ridge seeing the site of Rotherwas Ribbon Neolithic way. Then along to Dinedor Camp iron age hillfort and back down through fields and lanes to the finish point for a drink and snack in the Wye Inn. |
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| Wed 28th June | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
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| Fri 1st July | Lapworth Museum of Geology Borrow a Back – Fossil Detectives Backpack Trail. Visit the museum reception to borrow one of our new backpack trails on your visit to the Lapworth, Birmingham University |
| Fri 1st July | Lapworth Museum of Geology Tilly The Trilobite’s Hidden Word Trail. Can you find the letters hidden around the museum? Grab a trail sheet from the Reception desk and get hunting at the Lapworth, Birmingham University |
| Sat 1st July – Sun 23rd July | Bewdley Museum Fossils in the Geopark exhibition |
| Sat 1st July – Sun 20th July | Bewdley Museum Romans in the Wyre Forest exhibition. A family friendly exhibition exploring Romans in the Wyre Forest. Includes a display of Roman finds from the museum collection from Walltown Fort and Larford. |
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| Mon 3rd July | Lapworth Museum of Geology Museum Tour – Earth Sciences Building, Birmingham University (R4 on campus map) |
| Wed 5th July | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
| Wed 12th July | Severn Valley Country Park Wild Toddlers. Fun term time sessions for children under 5. Join in to discover, play, connect and learn! Each week explore a new theme. Get hands-on with the outdoors or get crafty indoors (depending on the weather!). |
| Sun 16th July | National Trust Dudmaston River Severn walk. At the banks of the River Severn, along the southern tip of the Dudmaston Estate sits Hampton Loade. Starting and finishing from Hampton Loade car park, join this self-guided 7km walk along the river towards Severn Valley Country Park and back. |
| Tue 18th July | National Trust Croome Panorama Tower open day including landscape interpretation viewing cards |
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| Wed 19th July | National Trust Croome: Geology inspired craft day and Rock and Fossil detective trail based in The Hub. |
| Sat 22nd July | National Trust Croome: Geology inspired craft day and Rock and Fossil detective trail based based in The Hub |
| Mon 24 July – Fri 1 Sept | Bewdley Museum Summer holidays children’s craft activities – 10.30am – 2.30pm |
| Sat 29th July | Bewdley Museum Ask the Experts with the Geologists in the Geopark – 11am – 3pm. Learn about rocks and fossils with the experts and bring your own specimens for identification |
