12 dated events coming up in and around Penrith & Ullswater, Cumbria. Collected from the organisations running them, not from anyone paying to appear.
Come along and enjoy our weekly Lego Club for ages 5 and up.
Our regular event aimed at children under five and their parents/ carers.
Come along and enjoy our weekly Lego Club for ages 5 and up.
Our regular event aimed at children under five and their parents/ carers.
A brand new light trail through the gardens and round the ruined castle, about an hour on foot at your own pace, with warm food, mulled wine and hot chocolate, and marshmallow toasting at the top of the lawns near the end. Parking is free. The castle suggests a baby carrier over a pushchair because the lighting is low. The family ticket covers two adults and three children, or one adult and up to four.
Join us as we explore the outdoors with nature spotting, foraging and bushcraft.
Penrith's Christmas lights switch on, with a lit up parade, performers, rides, crafts, face painting and Santa. Bring something that lights up for the 6pm switch on.
Nature-based outdoor sessions for your little ones.
Join us as we explore the outdoors with nature spotting, foraging and bushcraft.
A one-hour live Cinderella from Gary Starr Creative in the dead days between Christmas and New Year: Ugly Sisters, Buttons, a Fairy Godmother and plenty of shouting back. Short enough for small children.
Nature-based outdoor sessions for your little ones.
Join us as we explore the outdoors with nature spotting, foraging and bushcraft.
Nature-based outdoor sessions for your little ones.
Join us as we explore the outdoors with nature spotting, foraging and bushcraft.
Places you can turn up to whether or not anything is on.
A 65ft waterfall in National Trust woodland above Ullswater, about a mile there and back from the car park. Tea room, toilets and a picnic area. Parking is £7 for two hours and free for members.
A free park opposite Penrith station with a genuine castle ruin in it, plus a play area, tennis, bowls, a putting green and an obstacle golf course at a pound or two an hour. Toilets on site, and a kiosk in the summer months.
Penrith's leisure centre does the full rainy-day stack under one roof: Jungle Jacks soft play, a 25m pool and learner pool, a climbing wall and a Saturday inflatable. Not glamorous, very useful.
Two minutes off the M6 at Penrith: a big indoor play area at £5 a child, a giant-screen cinema, a cafe and free parking. The motorway stop that is worth the stop.
Come for the playground. The Lost Castle is turrets, tunnels, drop slides and zip wires, built in the grounds of a vast roofless ruin near Penrith and billed as one of the UK's largest adventure playgrounds.
Heritage boats on Ullswater between Glenridding, Howtown and Pooley Bridge, running 363 days a year. A full lap is dear for a family; a single leg plus the lakeshore walk back is the better deal.