Love Parks Week – twenty fifth July – third August

Step into summer season with Love Parks Week 2025, a celebration of our shared out of doors areas by way of a week-long sequence of free occasions. Discover the wildlife, magnificence, and sense of belonging that make our parks so particular.

Love Parks Week, which takes place yearly, celebrates parks, inexperienced areas and the devoted volunteers and employees that take care of all of them 12 months spherical. 

These important neighborhood areas are extra than simply greenery; they’re locations the place folks come collectively, get pleasure from recent air, and expertise nature proper the place they dwell — in cities, cities, and neighbourhoods.

No matter your age or curiosity, — whether or not you are a household who needs to make out of doors summer season recollections, a nature lover, a sports activities fanatic, a younger explorer, or just seeking to get outdoor and really feel good – there’s one thing for everybody. 

Join us in connecting with nature, caring for our parks, and discovering new methods to benefit from the outdoor.  Events will happen at Wallace Park, Moira Demesne, Moat Park, Lough Moss, Castle Gardens, Glenmore, Hillsborough Forest.

Friday twenty fifth July – Big Tidy Up Hillsborough Forest 1pm – 3pm. Meeting Point high automobile park, Hillsborough Forest. Adults solely.

Join the neighborhood effort to assist restore Hillsborough Forest after the injury attributable to Storm Eowyn. It’s an awesome probability to make a distinction, meet others, and benefit from the outdoor whereas giving again to nature. Please put on lengthy sleeved tops and trousers. 

Park Life 
Saturday 26 July: Nature’s Delight, Moira Demesne, Moira
Sunday twenty seventh July: Sunday Sounds, Baillies Mills Accordion Band, Moira Demesne 
Tuesday 29 July: Plant and Play, Castle Gardens, Lisburn
Thursday 31 July: Jurassic Adventures, Moat Park, Dundonald
Sunday third August: Sunday Sounds Northern Ireland Concert Band, Moat Park 
No reserving wanted. For extra info go to: Park Life 2025: A summer season of free household enjoyable returns to Lisburn & Castlereagh! 

Park Runs 
Saturday twenty sixth 9.30am. Variety of parks 
Sunday twenty seventh 9.30am. Variety of parks. Junior (Lough Moss and Moira Demesne) 
Saturday 2nd August 9.30am. Variety of parks. 
Lace up your trainers, step outdoors, and be part of a neighborhood of health fanatics getting energetic in nature. Park Run is a free, weekly, neighborhood occasion the place you possibly can stroll, jog, run, or volunteer with occasions happening in a lot of our parks each Saturday at 9.30am. There’s Lough Moss and Moira Junior Park Runs, and Wallace Park, Hillsborough Forest, and Knockbracken Reservoir Park Runs to select from.
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Pilates within the Park 

Join us for calming out of doors pilates classes appropriate for all ages and health ranges. 
Led by knowledgeable teacher, these feel-good classes are the right method to begin your day.
Check out the remaining classes beneath  
Moira Demesne –  28/07/25 |  10:30–11:30am| Limited Spaces Available
Moat Park Bowling Pavilion –  04/08/25 |  10:30–11:30am
Castle Gardens, Lisburn –  11/08/25 |  10:30–11:30am | Limited Spaces Available
Please notice out of doors courses are climate dependent 
Please carry a yoga mat or towel and keep hydrated by bringing your individual water.
Register right here https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/LCCCPilatesinthePark/
Registration closes at 12noon on the Friday earlier than every session. Spaces are restricted and might be allotted on a primary come first served foundation. 

Wednesday 30 July 1pm – 3pm Glenmore Woodland Trail.  Join us for a calming and galvanizing afternoon in nature with Louise’s Tree Tour. Kids and households can discover the woodland and learn to establish all kinds of native tree species, discovering the richness of the native panorama. The afternoon contains hands-on bug and minibeast searching, with nets and magnifying viewers to carefully look at the unimaginable biodiversity of the realm. (If you’ve a fishing internet and a bug magnifying insect container please carry these alongside). There’ll even be an opportunity to hug a tree and join extra deeply with nature – a enjoyable and significant method to foster a lifelong appreciation for the pure world. Young folks have to be accompanied by an grownup.  Event is free. Just meet at Glenmore exercise centre entrance at 1pm to participate.  

Thursday 31 July (10am – 12pm) Lough Moss. Tree Tour with Louise. As a part of our already offered out summer season scheme programme younger folks might be participating in a calming afternoon in nature figuring out bushes and discovering the wealthy number of tree species within the space.   As a part of the day they’ll discover the woodland and learn to establish all kinds of native tree species, discovering the richness of the native panorama. The afternoon contains hands-on bug and minibeast searching, with nets and magnifying viewers to carefully look at the unimaginable biodiversity of the realm. Young folks will even get an opportunity to hug a tree to attach extra deeply with nature – a enjoyable and significant method to foster a lifelong appreciation for the pure world. While this 12 months’s summer season schemes are already absolutely booked up go to  to see the sorts of actions kids can participate in and mark in your calendar for 2026!

Monday 4th August (10am – 12pm) Glenmore Woodland Trail  – Tree Tour with Louise. 
As a part of our already offered out summer season scheme programme younger folks might be participating in a calming afternoon in nature figuring out bushes and discovering the wealthy number of tree species within the space.   As a part of the day they’ll discover the woodland and learn to establish all kinds of native tree species, discovering the richness of the native panorama. The afternoon contains hands-on bug and minibeast searching, with nets and magnifying viewers to carefully look at the unimaginable biodiversity of the realm. Young folks will even get an opportunity to hug a tree to attach extra deeply with nature – a enjoyable and significant method to foster a lifelong appreciation for the pure world. While this 12 months’s summer season schemes are already absolutely booked up go to  to see the sorts of actions kids can participate in and mark in your calendar for 2026!