Days Out

Our guide to family days out & and events for kids

Princess Alice Hospice Sponsored Abseil

Saturday 24 March 2012  9am-4pm
Our 90ft sponsored abseil will take place off the Queens Stand at Epsom’s famous Racecourse, home of the Epsom Derby! You will be able to take in the beautiful scenery of nearby Epsom Downs and on a clear day take in some London landmarks before you begin your descent.
The abseil costs [...]

2012 Pokémon Video Game National Championships

For the third year running the Pokémon Video Game National Championships UK will be held at Birmingham’s NEC where Pokémon trainers will battle each other for an invite to the Pokémon World Championships in Hawaii!
New for this year, players can build their teams using Pokémon from the National Pokédex and must play using the Pokémon [...]

Sing Your Heart Out workshop

For terrified beginners to seasoned singers – come and find the natural voice just bursting to get out of you.
£20 per person / £15 concession
11am to 4pm

Junk Percussion Workshop

Come join the ‘Recycled Beats’ drummers in a noisy and energetic day of junk percussion building and playing.
All materials provided but do bring any clean, good-sounding rubbish and rhythm ideas of your own to incorporate as well if you like.
11am to 3pm, parents and families welcome to return at 2.45 to hear the final [...]

A Story In The Picture

Join award winning children’s writer and illustrator Petr Horacek and artist Claire Horacek for a hands on workshop aimed at making stories by using a range of art techniques such as painting and collage.
10am to 1pm
Ages 6-11
£2 per child

Sense and Sensibility

 
Rhinefield House Hotel
Brockenhurst, Southampton SO42 7QB
Sunday 28th August, 5.00pm
Sense and Sensibility
Written By Laura Turner
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Join Chapterhouse Theatre Company for an evening of Regency wonderment as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood make their first forays into the excitingly decadent world of eighteenth-century high society. Follow the sisters as they fall in love, [...]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Gregynog Hall
Tregynon, Newtown, Powys SY16 3PW
Wednesday 24th August, 7.30pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s glorious romantic comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. This magical evening is simply the best in family entertainment as flitting fairies, forest bound lovers and raucous tradesmen all join to create the perfect summer evening. With music especially [...]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Warkworth Castle
Warkworth, Northumberland NE65 0UJ
Friday 12th August, 7.30pm
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – By William Shakespeare
Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s glorious romantic comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. This magical evening is simply the best in family entertainment as flitting fairies, forest bound lovers and raucous tradesmen all join to create the perfect summer evening. With music [...]

Cranford

Belsay Hall & Gardens
Belsay, Nr Ponteland, Northumberland NE20 0DX
Saturday 13th August, 7.30pm
Cranford
Written By Laura Turner
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Relax into a lazy summer’s evening of delightful entertainment as Chapterhouse transports you to the sleepy Victorian town of Cranford. Based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic novel, this brand-new adaptation of Cranford will bring a smile [...]

Cranford

CRANFORD AT HELMSLEY CASTLE ON THE 14TH AUGUST, 7:30PM.
HELMSLEY CASTLE, CASTLEGATE, HELMSLEY, NORTH YORKSHIRE.
Cranford
Written By Laura Turner
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Relax into a lazy summer’s evening of delightful entertainment as Chapterhouse transports you to the sleepy Victorian town of Cranford. Based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic novel, this brand-new adaptation of Cranford will bring [...]