Come and love your native parks at these enjoyable, free actions!

Love Parks Week – which this 12 months runs from 24 July to 2 August – is an annual nationwide marketing campaign run by Keep Britain Tidy highlighting the very important position inexperienced areas play in boosting the well being and wellbeing of residents and communities.

Hartlepool Borough Council is working occasions all through the week in Ward Jackson Park, Rossmere Park, Seaton Park, Burn Valley Gardens, on the Town Moor and on Seaton Carew fundamental seaside, in partnership with quite a lot of native organisations.

The actions embrace a chance to have a go at out of doors bowls, a nature hunt, arts and crafts, seaside volleyball, a day of beautiful brass band music, basketball and soccer, conventional video games and an opportunity to strive Tai Chi and Qigong.

All the occasions are free and appropriate for all ages. There’s no have to e-book.

The full programme is:

Sunday 26 July

* Little Fun Food Fest on the grass in Ward Jackson Park, 10am-4pm. Explore methods to scale back meals waste with the Council’s Parks and Countryside Team.

* Try bowls on the Ward Jackson Park bowling inexperienced with Hartlepool and District Bowls Association, 10am-4pm. Please put on flat sneakers.

* Messy crafts and video games with Play Out Hartlepool on the grass beside the bandstand in Ward Jackson Park, 10am-4pm.

* Traditional video games with Hartlepool Sport on the grass between the café and bandstand in Ward Jackson Park, 10am-4pm.

* Football and different video games with Hartlepool Sport subsequent to the play dome in Rossmere Park, 11am-2pm.

* Relax to the sound of conventional and trendy music from Hartlepool Brass Band on the bandstand in Ward Jackson Park, 1pm-3pm. Why not convey a picnic?

* Basketball with Hartlepool Sport on the Town Moor on the Headland, 11am-2pm.

* Beach volleyball with Hartlepool Sport on Seaton Carew fundamental seaside close to the seaside huts, 11am-2pm.

Tuesday 28 July 

* Sports, crafts and strolling quests with Hartlepool Sport on the play space on The Front at Seaton Carew, 11am-2pm.

Wednesday 29 July

* Urban sport with Hartlepool Sport within the Lower Garden in Burn Valley Gardens, 11am-2pm.

* A nature hunt, portray and humanities and crafts with Play Out Hartlepool on the large grass house subsequent to the playground in Ward Jackson Park, 11am-2pm.

Thursday 30 July

Come and check out Tai Chi and Qigong for well being and wellbeing, with Mark Scanlon, on the grass between the café and bandstand in Ward Jackson Park, 10am-11am.  

Friday 31 July

* Sports and play actions with Hartlepool Sport in Seaton Park in Station Lane, Seaton Carew, 11am-2pm.

Saturday 1 August

Come and check out Tai Chi and Qigong for well being and wellbeing, with Mark Scanlon, on the grass between the café and bandstand in Ward Jackson Park, 2pm-3pm.  

Sunday 2 August

* Football and different video games with Hartlepool Sport subsequent to the play dome in Rossmere Park, 11am-2pm.

* Basketball with Hartlepool Sport on the Town Moor on the Headland, 11am-2pm.

* Beach volleyball with Hartlepool Sport on Seaton Carew fundamental seaside close to the seaside huts, 11am-2pm.

Councillor Rob Darby, Chair of Hartlepool Borough Council’s Housing, Growth and Communities Committee, mentioned: “Love Parks Week is a improbable alternative to get open air, strive one thing new and profit from the good inexperienced areas we have now right here in Hartlepool.

“Our parks and open areas are on the coronary heart of our communities, offering locations the place individuals may be lively, join with nature and spend high quality time with household and pals.

“With every little thing from sports activities and video games to arts, crafts and reside music on provide, there actually is one thing for everybody.

“I’d encourage residents of all ages to come along, get involved and discover just how much our local parks and open spaces have to offer.”