Events

Our 20th annual event will take place on SUNDAY 4 AUGUST from 11am to 6pm and we have lots of fun activities in store including our wonderful kids-only fun fair, inflatables and stalls, face painting, glitter art and bubble hair braiding, henna tattoos, free kids’ art activity, ecology discover desk, RSPB stall and other community stalls.  There will be music from the Grimsdyke Brass Band, 60s hits from solo guitarist Adam Garmin, and gorgeous sounds from the Sunny Steel Band. 

This year we are raising funds to purchase a static train for the adventure playground.  Go to the Friends of Canons Park information desk and pay £1 for each of your suggestions to name the train.  Best suggestion will win an age-appropriate Lego set!

Our ‘fun’ dog contest is always a crowd pleaser and for those who are feeling a little peckish Liam’s Coffee House at the Good Friends Cafe will be there all day serving wonderful coffee and other hot drinks, soft drinks, ices, home-made cakes, panini and speciality croissants.

The Shaw Trust horticultural charity will also be open on the day, from 121am to 5pm, selling competitively priced plants from their base next to the cafe and Dotty’s Sweets will be returning to satisfy everyone’s need for a delicious sugar rush!

Harrow Giving, run by Voluntary Action Harrow, are running a short story competition for children at the event, so get your kids to put their thinking caps on and come up with a terrific story.

 Entrance to the event is free but there are fees for the fairground stalls and activities as well as food and drink, face painting/glitter art, hair braiding and henna. 

Please note that we do not require further commercial stalls but are happy to consider approaches from local community groups that can provide a free activity for the kids.

Sessions every other Sunday morning from 31 March 2024.

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 to late autumn, working from around 10am to 1pm –  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