Events

Our next fun day will be on Sunday 3 August 2025, from 11am to 6pm.   This much-anticipated event is now in its 21st year and regularly attracts around 1000 people during the course of the day.  There is always something for everyone, no matter what age you are, from the kids’ fairground, free art and craft desk, face painting and ‘fun’ dog show to community stalls, musical entertainment – such as the Grimsdyke Brass Band – and free taster sessions of healthy activities such as Nordic Walking, Tai Chi and yoga.  

We do not host commercial stalls and we try to offer a number of activities that are free, as we know how expensive the school holidays can become!

Why not join us and help to make our event even more amazing?  We are looking for people to volunteer to plan the event and to help out on the day in whatever way they can, from setting up and taking down to selling tickets for the dog show or helping to run a stall.

 Please use our contact page to get in touch and find out more!

Sessions every other Sunday morning from April to October. Please watch this space or look for our posters around the park, announcing this year’s sessions.

We would love to hear from any keen gardeners who would like to work in or around the George V Memorial Garden at the centre of the park, to help restore it to its former glory.  In 2018 we formed a small but very effective gardening club that now meets every other Sunday morning, from early spring until early October, working from around 10am to 12.30pm –  although everyone is welcome for whatever amount of time they can spare.  The Gardening Club sessions are very rewarding.  So far the group have cleared many of the overgrown flower beds and planted bulbs, bedding and perennial plants. Why not join them and make a real difference to the garden?  All tools and equipment, including gardening gloves, are provided – or you can bring your own if you prefer. 

If you are interested in joining the group, please contact our gardening volunteer coordinator, Tony Bennett, via our Contact Us page.

Cancelled until further notice – but we hope to re-introduce them again one day.

In the meantime here is a list of birds that can be seen in Canons Park at various times of the year.

​7 Black-headed Gull
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon – several
Stock Dove – singing & at nest hole
Ring-necked Parakeet – common
Great Spotted Woodpecker – drumming
Green Woodpecker – calling
3 Magpie
Carrion Crows
2 Long-tailed Tit
Blue Tit – singing
Great Tit – singing
2 Coal Tit – singing
Eurasian Nuthatch 3 singing / calling
1 Dunnock – briefly singing
REDWING Only 1 (48 on 2 February 2020)
2 Mistle Thrush feeding in the open grass
Robin – 3 singing
Wren – 2 singing
2 Starling – calling near Donnefield gate
Chaffinch – singing. Male feeding under trees
2 Goldfinch
Greenfinch trilling near Donnefield gate