 Tickets for outdoor cinema discounted
Get your picnic blanket and popcorn at the ready!
Tickets for this year’s outdoor cinema at Dinton Pastures Country Park are now discounted. At a price of £9 per person, they are said to be the cheapest outdoor cinema tickets in Berkshire.
From next week until the end of the month, there will be a screening every Saturday evening:
- 13 Aug: Bridget Jones’s Diary
- 20 Aug: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021)
- 27 Aug: Clueless and Legally Blonde (double feature)
For an extra £4 for each person, you can book to arrive early from 6pm and join the preview party with live performances by local artists before the film starts.
Food stalls on site will offer tasty refreshments, or you can bring your own picnic.
Find out more and grab a ticket on the GoCinema website.
 Summer mini funfair for children
There is never a dull moment at Dinton Pastures Country Park this summer, especially for the little ones.
A mini funfair for children is now open in the park. Right next to the Dinton Adventure Golf, it offers a variety of attractions like an inflatable slide, runaway train, trampoline trailer and children’s small cars.
The funfair runs from 11am to 5pm daily until the end of August. Booking is not required, so just pop in with your children and have fun.
 Family nature walks at Buckhurst Meadow
Buckhurst Meadow in the Montague Park development boasts stunning scenery and a rich variety of wildlife. It is always leisurely to walk and explore the meadow, especially during sunny summer days.
This Saturday (6 August), there will be two sessions of nature walks in Buckhurst Meadow, starting at 10am and 2pm. Each session will last one to 1.5 hours, and you will be introduced to different butterflies and dragonflies along the way. Light refreshments will be available at the end of each walk.
The walks are suitable for all, particularly families with school-age children. Dogs on leads are also welcome. Booking is essential.
Visit the Thames Basin Heaths Partnership website for more information and to reserve a place.
 Last chance to join Barnes Fitness Summer Series
Next Thursday (11 August) will see the last race of the Barnes Fitness Summer Series at Dinton Pastures Country Park.
The race is held on a lovely off-road, traffic-free route around the country park. It welcomes runners of all abilities, but you have to be at least 13 years of age for a 5km run and 16 years for 10km run.
Your participation can be turned into something that helps the environment. Runners can choose to dedicate a tree through Trees not Tees and, instead of a medal, receive a certificate with the exact location of their saplings.
Join the race on the Barnes Fitness website.
 Conservation scheme for great crested newts
Great crested newts are widespread in the UK, but they are also a protected species in decline due to habitat loss.
NatureSpace District Licensing Scheme improves, protects, and enhances conservation for great crested newts. It directly funds the creation or restoration of ponds occupied by great crested newts that are lost through development, while ensuring suitable surrounding habitat for them.
The scheme has recently been extended to cover Wokingham borough.
Developers, from householders to major infrastructure and commercial development projects, can use the scheme to do an impact assessment and meet their legal obligation to great crested newts.
For more information about the scheme, visit the NatureSpace Partnership website.
 Planting the borough's tree stories
While you’re out and about this summer, why not take a snap of your favourite tree for our new tree stories project?
Trees are hugely important, giving us oxygen, storing carbon, habitats for wildlife and providing us with tools and shelter.
We want to hear why particular trees in the borough are important to you. Maybe it's your favourite place to sit with a book? Or where you played as a child? Or it's a particularly old or rare species?
We'd love for you to take a picture, upload it to Tree Stories on our Engage Wokingham Borough platform and share why you have chosen that tree. You may even see your photo and story featured on our social media pages and in our tree strategy!
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