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We need your help to raise £250,000 to support the development of the Betteshanger Project. In return, you’ll become part of our future, achieving our goal of remembering the past, whilst building a better and more sustainable future for all to enjoy.
Put yourself in the picture: from £10, have your picture featured in our 5m mosaic mural of The Waiting Miner in our new cafe.
Personalise your pit check: from £50, choose your limited edition miners pit check number and shape. Add your name or dedicate it to a loved one. Your check will hang at the entrance to the new Visitor Centre and one will be sent to you as a keepsake.
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Have you ticked off everything on the kids summer bucket list? Why not join us for an Archery taster session? Our qualified instructors will teach you how to stand, aim and shoot at a target with a basic recurve bow.
Find out more: goo.gl/Qt3Qbh
#Betteshanger #Summer #archery
We're running drop-in Fossil Hunting sessions on Tuesdays through the Summer holidays. Betteshanger is a treasure trove for fossil hunters big and small. Explore the old spoil heap and see what hidden treasures you uncover: goo.gl/Qt3Qbh
#Betteshanger #fossilhunt #summer
What are you made of? SURVIVAL is back, and this year it's the kids turn to get down and dirty with our new junior OCR course. Tailored to young adventurers, kids will climb, swing, crawl and conquer the course - building teamwork skills, confidence and determination.
Sign the kids up now to the muddiest, most epic adventure: goo.gl/o1XD9E
#Betteshanger #SURVIVAL #juniorSURVIVAL
Bring the family along to a Really Wild Wooders day of outdoor forest fun. Swap stories around the campfire, toast tasty marshmallows and get creative. Build a den, craft your own bow and arrow, headdress and whip up some charcoal face paints.
Then put your bow and arrows to the test, and prove your archery skills in a fun competition to round off the day. It's going to be wonderfully mucky time!
Book now for our Family Forest Skills Day: goo.gl/Qt3Qbh
#Betteshanger #familyfun #greatoutdoors
Let's see what you're made of this bank holiday and put your daring to the test at our Daredevil Weekend. Plummet down a 7m vertical drop slide, show off your skills on the free fall stunt jump and hop across the lily pads on the Blue Lake.
Go on, we dare you - book tickets now: goo.gl/KznDwk
#Betteshanger #BeADaredevil #bankholiday
Better Betteshanger
Betteshanger Park is a key part of the wider Betteshanger Sustainable Parks vision of a once-in-a-generation opportunity for everyone to see how ‘old energy’ can be transformed into ‘new energy’ and to get involved with the generation of renewable energy first hand.
