Service update
- Improvement work at Dinton Activity Centre car park has been completed. The fully refurbished car park is now open to visitors.
Free Easter Egg Trail at Dinton
With a number of Easter events taking place in the borough, there is one that your children shouldn't miss.
From Monday 3 to Friday 14 April, there will be a free Easter Egg Trail at Dinton Pastures Country Park.
You can pick up a map from the Coffee House (next to the main car park) or Coffee Deck (on the upper deck of Dinton Activity Centre) for your children and follow the trail to find the Easter eggs hidden in the park together.
There are a half-mile trail and a two-mile trail to choose from, both of which guarantee you lots of fun and stunning scenery of Dinton Pastures. You can also do both, if you wish.
Come join the next Storytime
The next Storytime session at Dinton Activity Centre will be held on 18 April (Tuesday), from 11am to 11.30am.
Tony Knight, a platform announcer famous with commuters for his poetry readings, will continue hosting the session with our libraries team. They will be reading stories and poetry to parents and children, and having fun activities together.
Entrance is free and no booking is needed. Just pop into The Coffee Deck at Dinton Activity Centre, grab a seat and have a great time with your child!
Our Library Storytime sessions are generally designed for young children aged two to five, providing them with a fun and enjoyable introduction to books and libraries. We hope sharing books and stories with young children can help build good language and listening skills and give them a head start when they begin school.
Dinton Summer Series returns
Barnes Fitness will once again host its popular Summer Series at Dinton Pastures Country Park.
Now in its 11th year, Dinton Summer Series welcomes runners of all abilities. The friendly series of 5km or 10km runs will be held on an off-road, traffic-free route around the country park.
The series consists of four monthly running events between May and August. Barnes Fitness is giving out vouchers from local businesses to those who sign up to all four events before the series starts.
To find out more, visit the Barnes Fitness website.
Volunteers hop to it for village’s breeding toads
We're pleased to see that the toad population at Priest Hill, in Swallowfield parish, is still healthy many years after we installed crossing signs that go up during the annual migration and come down afterwards.
Numbers are still checked annually by the volunteer Toad Patrol, part of the Berkshire Reptile and Amphibian Group, who count the amphibians while helping them safely cross the main road to breed in a nearby pond.
This year, they moved 1,118 toads as well as three frogs between 18 February and 26 March, patrolling on most nights when temperatures allowed, and this is considered a healthy number by wildlife experts.
It shows that our signs and, more importantly, the volunteers' efforts are paying off because in other parts of the country, numbers have been seen to drop when toad crossings aren't supported.
In total, the volunteers have now helped 13,176 toads to cross the road since 2009 and we'd like to thank them for their continued efforts over more than a decade.
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