8 dated events coming up in and around Ashton-under-Lyne & Tameside, Greater Manchester. Collected from the organisations running them, not from anyone paying to appear.
Join our playful sessions and meet new friends, explore the library spaces, learn new rhymes and songs and enjoy some sensory play in our Bounce and Rhyme Sessions.
Come and join the fun at Failsworth Library’s Lego Club.
Come and join the fun at Failsworth Library’s Lego Club.
Join our playful sessions and meet new friends, explore the library spaces, learn new rhymes and songs and enjoy some sensory play in our Bounce and Rhyme Sessions.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Thousands of pumpkins to pick from, and every paid ticket (bar under 1s) takes one home. New for 2026 is a spooky walk-through and a Halloween show, on top of the usual barn animals, tractor rides and the bouncy pillow. Two cheaper versions run alongside it: a Mini Pumpkin Patch on term-time weekdays, with a haunted tractor hayride and a not-too-spooky story, and a Pumpkin Patch After Dark in half term that the farm says suits all ages.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
A low-bang display set to Disney music, with animal feeding and a carousel beforehand, run over four nights so you can pick the least chaotic one. Built for families with small children, and priced by date, so check a few.
The full production: an immersive train ride to the North Pole, an elf village, an enchanted forest, Mrs Claus's kitchen, build-a-bear, a reindeer stable and a private grotto visit with a coin for Santa's toy shop, then the rest of the farm park for the day. Full prices are steep, but early dates are up to 60% off and the discount falls as Christmas gets closer.
Bring the whole family along and enjoy some shared story time and guided reading activities.
Places you can turn up to whether or not anything is on.
Tameside's free canal-side museum, with a walk-through 1920s street and a play zone for under fives. Closed Mondays, open bank holidays.
Tameside's all-rounder on the Ashton and Stalybridge border: a big sandpit playground, summer water fountains, a boating lake, a miniature train, crazy golf and an aviary. Free to get in, pocket money for the extras.
A 200 acre hilltop above Hyde with views across Manchester to the Welsh mountains on a clear day, and a proper hill for a kite. Very little else, and that is the point.
A council-run indoor adventure centre in Droylsden: Clip 'n Climb walls, a 54 metre crawl-through cave, a high ropes course hung from the ceiling, bouldering and soft play, at leisure-centre prices. Weekends and school holidays only for most of it.
Tameside's fun pool, with a wave machine, a wild water rapids ride, bubble beds and the Red Ripster slide. Only open for fun sessions on Thursday and Friday evenings and at weekends, and they sell out.
A big family-run farm park on the Ashton and Oldham border: feed the cows, alpacas and goats, hold the rabbits, then lose an hour on the jumping pillow. Card only, and from October most days are ticketed events.