Events

Our 20th annual event took place on SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2024, with lots of fun activities 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 was music from the Grimsdyke Brass Band, 60s hits from solo guitarist Adam Garmin, and gorgeous sounds from the Sunny Steel Band. 

Thanks to all who supported the Friends by attending the event – an estimated 1000 people during the day.  Our next fun day will be in August 2025. 

Sessions every other Sunday morning from 31 March – 6 October 2024.  Sessions will start again from April 2025

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