Sponsored by
Double festival fun
THERE will be double the fun at the second annual Wild About Wood Festival at Castle Howard next week.
Due to overwhelming demand for the free activities and workshops from more than 1,300 children at last year's event at the Arboretum, organisers have decided to increase the size of two day event and its centrepiece - The Discovery Zone.
Now twice the size, it will include more than 5,000 workshop and activity places such as pond-dipping, explorienteering and building with oak. New this year are Arboretum Art, shelter building, Mollusc Madness and bushcraft skills - all designed to introduce children to the marvels and mysteries of the natural world around them.
Dr Katherine Forsey, education & outreach programme manager at The Arboretum Trust, said: "We were thrilled by the enthusiastic response to The Discovery Zone in 2009. Our staff and volunteers worked incredibly hard to make sure all the children had the very best experience and that nobody was left disappointed. But we've recently launched our Schools' Initiative, in which we offered free Wild About Wood tickets to North Yorkshire primary schoolchildren, so we expect to welcome even more youngsters in 2010."
She added: "We're determined that every child has the opportunity to participate and have fun with nature, so we and our wonderful workshop providers wanted to put together an even bigger and better programme for 2010. We're incredibly grateful to the Howardian Hills AONB Sustainable Development Fund, who have funded this expansion and enabled us to keep all The Discovery Zone activities free of charge, and are excited to be able to offer children so many new experiences to explore."
As well as The Discovery Zone, the festival offers a huge variety of woodland craft demonstrations, including pole-lathe turning, heavy-horse logging and willow weaving.
The festival takes place on Saturday, September 11 and Sunday, September 12.
Email to a friend
Print this page
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Scarborough
Saturday 26 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 10 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 14 mph
Wind direction: North east
