Love Parks Week
Love Parks Week is a celebration of our Parks featuring free arts, crafts, performance and sports, bringing together our community of all ages.
2024 highlights
This year's Love Parks Week was great fun! Thanks to everyone who came along, we hope you enjoyed the activities as much as we did. Below are some of our favourite pictures from the week and a round-up of all the activities we hosted in our green spaces across the District.
Photography: Flora Westbrook
Wild and Wellbeing in Horsham Park Human Nature Garden.
Wild and Well Yoga and Meditation
Calming 30-minute yoga sessions.
Wonderbugs Wellbeing Crafting
An hour's crafting using natural materials to create dream catchers and Viking bracelets.
History Walks with Friends of Horsham Park
Sally Sanderson, Chair of the Friends of Horsham Park, hosted a history walk.
Affirmation Art Workshops
The wonderful Paintbox hosted Watercolour Words and Affirmation Workshops.
Reynard The Fox
An engaging theatre show for family audiences of all ages, using The Fabularium’s unique aesthetic featuring storytelling, puppetry, original live music and their bespoke animal headpieces. The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodland’s most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster of the forest.
Come together on Henfield Commons.
Twisted Bliss Circus Skills
A range of circus skills including Hula Hoops, Ribbons, Juggling Balls/clubs, Diablo, Flower Sticks, Baby Stilts and spinning plates.
Wonderbugs Carnival Crafts
Nature crafting sessions in the woods, making wood cookie necklaces, Viking bracelets, nature crowns and more.
Festival Lantern
Visitors created wonderful festival lanterns with Paintbox out of recycled materials.
Reynard The Fox
An engaging theatre show for family audiences of all ages, using The Fabularium’s unique aesthetic featuring storytelling, puppetry, original live music and their bespoke animal headpieces. The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodland’s most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster of the forest.
Wild and Well Yoga and Meditation
Relaxing yoga and meditation sessions.
Woodland Wonders in Leechpool Woods.
Wonderbugs Forest School Sessions
Crafting sessions making wooden cookie necklaces, bows and arrows, nature crowns and Viking bracelets.
Wild and Well Yoga
Relaxing yoga sessions.
Reynard The Fox
An engaging theatre show for family audiences of all ages, using The Fabularium’s unique aesthetic featuring storytelling, puppetry, original live music and their bespoke animal headpieces. The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodland’s most infamous scoundrel who prides himself on being the trickster of the forest.
Forest Bathing by Hinoki
A HINOKI Forest Bathing mindful sensory experience that opens you up to nature’s offerings and helps you find your connection to nature in Leechpool Woods.
‘Woodland Spirit’ Selfie Station with Happy Accidents
Take a quiz to discover your 'Woodland Spirit' animal'. Collect your 'Woodland Spirit' animal head and snap a selfie in your favourite wood/park spot!
Nature Fest at Fletchers Croft, Steyning.
Twisted Bliss Circus Skills
Circus skills including Hula Hoops, Ribbons, Juggling Balls/clubs, Diablo, Flower Sticks, Baby Stilts and spinning plates.
Animal Tales
The Fabularium animals brought interactive theatre opportunities to Steyning including music, story telling and puppeteering.
‘Woodland Spirit’ Selfie Station with Happy Accidents
Take a quiz to discover your 'Woodland Spirit' animal'. Collect your 'Woodland Spirit' animal head and snap a selfie in your favourite wood/park spot!
Plant Pokes Workshop
Make Do and Trend's workshops creating butterfly and dragonfly plant poke decoration using clay.
Wonderbugs Nature Crafting
Nature crafting sessions making bird feeders, seed bombs and planting sticks.
Team Spirit at Bennetts Field, Horsham.
The Fabularium host The Woodland Games
The Fabularium animals led a traditional competitive sports day and ended the day with a community softball tournament.
Horsham Sports Services
Disk Golf, Soft Archery and Dodgeball tasters with Horsham Sports Services.
Learn to Run Taster Sessions
Horsham Wellbeing offer a free 10-week Learn to Run course for adults looking to take their first steps to getting active. The free taster sessions for both adults and children* (aged 12 and over) included a warm up, some fun activities to get you moving and a cool down/stretch at the end.
Kicks Dance Sessions
30-minute taster sessions with Kicks Dance, who help to make children feel confident, happy, safe and special through dance.
Basketball with Horsham Hawks
Visitors enjoyed basketball sessions with the Horsham Hawks.
Horsham Rugby Club
Horsham rugby club ran a free taster session.
Exercise Taster Classes with Places Leisure
Places Leisure hosted 3 x 20minute taster exercise classes.