Desborough Pocket Park

23/04/2026

🌿 Desborough Pocket Park – Volunteers Wanted! 🌿

We’re looking for new volunteers to join our friendly and passionate group at Desborough Pocket Park!

Whether you can spare a little time now and then or are looking to get more involved, we’d love to hear from you. We hold around five meetings each year, and you’d be very welcome to join us at the next one.

We’re looking for enthusiastic people who can help in a variety of ways, including:
• Helping to organise one-off events, such as children’s activities
• Supporting ongoing projects like ground improvements
• Coordinating with the local authority and contractors
• Getting hands-on with practical tasks like installing paths and cutting back vegetation

We welcome individuals as well as groups from local organisations – there’s something for everyone, whatever your skills or availability.

If you’d like to make a positive difference in your community and help improve this valued green space, please get in touch!

🌱 Join us and be part of something great.

18/04/2026

What a fantastic, fun- packed Ranger Day - on a stunning spring day! 😃☀️🐸🌱🌳

Thankyou to all the families that came along today and made the event so special.

We would like to thank Desborough Community Development Trust for funding today so that our local families and children could attend our free event. 😃❤️

Thankyou also to the Desborough Pocket Park volunteers and our Ranger Louise from Fox’s Den Outdoor Learning, who ensured that all our activities ran smoothly - without all of you we wouldn’t be able to run them

We found so many pond creatures and minibeasts today - it was if they decided to appear just for us!
🌱 Water boatman 
🌱 Newt
🌱 Tadpoles 
🌱 Butterflies, including Peacock and orange tip. 🦋
🌱 Frog 🐸
🌱 Dragonfly nymph

Our families made fantastic bug hotels, willow bubble wands, clay animals and bugs, muddy paintings and bug hunted and pond dipped - well done everyone!

Our next events:

** Volunteer Day. **

Please come along and lend your support to the volunteer work that we do at the Pocket Park on Saturday 16th May - 10:15-12pm.

We hope to see you again soon!

🌱🐸🦋🐌🌳🌳☀️🌱

18/04/2026

We are ready in the park ready for our Ranger day ! 10-1 today - just turn up !

18/04/2026

****TODAY!****

🎨🌿 Free Family Event at Desborough Pocket Park! 🌿🎨

📅 Date: Saturday 18th April
⏰ Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
🎟️ Cost: FREE (just turn up – no need to book!)

Join us for a fun-filled Art & Crafts Adventure Day at Desborough Pocket Park, led by our Qualified Ranger and supported by our wonderful volunteers!

Come along and enjoy a range of exciting outdoor activities, including:
• Pond dipping using our specialist equipment
• Bug hunting adventures 🐞
• Outdoor art and crafts 🎨
• Build your own bug hotel 🏡
• Clay crafting🌳

It’s a great opportunity for children and families to explore nature, get creative, and enjoy the outdoors together.

We look forward to seeing you there!
🌱

17/04/2026

🎨🌿 Free Family Event at Desborough Pocket Park! 🌿🎨
******* TOMORROW ********

📅 Date: Saturday 18th April
⏰ Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
🎟️ Cost: FREE (just turn up – no need to book!)

Join us for a fun-filled Art & Crafts Adventure Day at Desborough Pocket Park, led by our Qualified Ranger and supported by our wonderful volunteers!

Come along and enjoy a range of exciting outdoor activities, including:
• Pond dipping using our specialist equipment
• Bug hunting adventures 🐞
• Outdoor art and crafts 🎨
• Build your own bug hotel 🏡
• Clay crafting🌳

It’s a great opportunity for children and families to explore nature, get creative, and enjoy the outdoors together.

We look forward to seeing you there!
🌱

14/04/2026

🎨🌿 Free Family Event at Desborough Pocket Park! 🌿🎨
******* THIS SATURDAY

📅 Date: Saturday 18th April
⏰ Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
🎟️ Cost: FREE (just turn up – no need to book!)

Join us for a fun-filled Art & Crafts Adventure Day at Desborough Pocket Park, led by our Qualified Ranger and supported by our wonderful volunteers!

Come along and enjoy a range of exciting outdoor activities, including:
• Pond dipping using our specialist equipment
• Bug hunting adventures 🐞
• Outdoor art and crafts 🎨
• Build your own bug hotel 🏡
• Clay crafts 🌳

It’s a great opportunity for children and families to explore nature, get creative, and enjoy the outdoors together.

We look forward to seeing you there!
🌱

10/04/2026

Where is the park in Desborough?

We’re often asked where the park is — it can be a little tricky to find if you don’t know the entrances.

There are three main access points:

Rothwell Road – just off the main road
Prince Rupert Avenue (bottom of the road) – best place to park nearby (has steps)
Federation Avenue – just up from the Wacoal factory, on the right as you walk up the street

📍 Please refer to the map for guidance.

Important: The park is pedestrian-only, so please do not bring vehicles.

09/04/2026

🌿 SATURDAY’s - Community Litter Pick – Saturday 11 April 🌿
The community litter pick is taking place THIS Saturday (11 April) from 10:00–11:00.
Please leave a comment if you can attend and indicate the area you would like to meet in. There are now 4 meeting points!!! But you are also welcome to just turn up!

Each area will have a supervising volunteer; however, participants participate at their own risk. We ask that children are always supervised by an adult and that only litter pickers are used to collect rubbish (not by hand).

There are NOW FOUR Areas to meet: please just come along to any of the following:
📍 Town Centre /Desborough Rec (meet at the library)
📍 Leisure centre (outside the main doors)
📍 Rushton Road Park (meet at the Playpark corner of Rushton Road and Dunkirk Ave)
📍 Hilltop area (outside Morrisons)

🌍 Community Litter Pick – Why It Matters 💚
• Protects wildlife – animals get entangled and trapped in plactic, cans etc 🐦
• Reduces pollution ♻️ - stops waste entering rivers, soil etc.
• Brings the community together 🤝 promotes mental well-being
• Teaches kids good habits 🧒+ it is FUN!
• Gets us active outdoors 🚶
• Raises awareness 🌎 – highlighting the issue with litter
• Builds local pride 🏡- we love Desborough
• Helps stop future littering 🚫 – clean areas are less likely to be littered again

Every little bit helps – join us and make a difference! Thank you.

05/04/2026

04/04/2026

Butterfly Conservation is a British charity devoted to saving butterflies, moths and their habitats throughout the UK.