Looking for what’s on this weekend for the family on the Bank Holiday weekend? Our guide to sunny days in Oxford is a good start and then scroll down to see what else is on offer!
SATURDAY 3rd MAY
👩🏻🌾 Earth Trust Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is back again with calves, sheep and newborn lambs. The Owl Conservation project will also be there, as well as beekeepers. Story times, and games in the field too!
📅 3rd – 5th May ⏰10am – 4pm💴Under 2s: Free, Adult/child: £8, family tickets: £30 (advance booking + booking fee) 🎫 Pre-booking required ℹ️ More info and booking on the Earth Trust website.
💦The Splash Pad at St Edmunds Park
It’s open! This fab nature-inspired splash pad re-opened on Friday and will be keeping us cool until the end of summer. Love the amount of splash pads that we have! Splash pad crawl anyone?!
📅 Open from Friday 2nd May⏰10am – 4pm💴 Free 🎫 No pre-booking required ℹ️ More info on the Didcot Council website and more info on our post.
🐏 Oxford City Farm: Family Friendly Day
Get your wellies on and get down to the farm to see the animals. There are 12 new chicks, new pigs, goats and their kids and sheep. Walk the Wildlife Walk amongst the chickens and peep at the beehives. There’s also an area for free play and much to learn about farm to fork in the vegetable patch. Community farming – we love you!
📅 Open every Friday and Saturday⏰ 10am – 1pm 💴 Free 🎫 Booking only needed for parties over 10 ℹ️ Visit the Oxford City Farm website for more info. Never been to the farm? Check out our recent visit here.
💦Hinksey Splash Pad and Hinksey Open Air Pool
I’m not sure if 21 degrees is going to entice me into any sort of water activities but you can bet that your kids will be interested (it’s all that no coats in the dead of winter training!) Get a free More Membership to book the pool. The brand spanking new Splash Park and Mini Wheels Track next door is free and doesn’t require booking.
📅 Hinksey open 7 days a week for the season ⏰8am – 5pm at the weekends 💴 Adult: £5.70, Junior £3.60, Under 5: Free 🎫 Booking required ℹ️ More details on the Oxford City Leisure website and check out our visit here.
🚲Oxford Wheels Project: Beginners and Improvers BMX Coaching Sessions
If you have never been to the Meadow Lane Skate Park then get yourself down there pronto; it’s open from 10am until dusk and is run by volunteers of the Oxford Wheels Project. They do all sorts of coaching there from Beginners BMX to Skateboarding for children and adults. The bowl has a lot of bumps and corners to pump around and there’s a good selection of obstacles. The first BMX sessions start on Saturday 3rd and there’s sessions for beginners and improvers.
📅 Saturday 3rd May ⏰ 9.30am – 10.30am 💴 £7 per session🎫 Online booking required ℹ️ See the OWP website for more details.
SUNDAY 4th MAY
🚂Pendon Museum
Love this museum! Rural scenes and transport of the 1920s and 30s in a miniature form. Our favourite is the Vale scene; so realistic and the small details are insane! A must for train enthusiasts. Check out the website where there are videos of the locomotives moving through the scenes.
📅 3rd – 5th May ⏰ 11am – 4pm 💴 Adults: £8, Children (5-16) £6, Children under 5: Free 🎫 Purchase tickets at the museum ℹ️ Get a full picture of this experience on the Pendon website.
👩🏻🌾Earth Trust Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is back again with calves, sheep and newborn lambs. The Owl Conservation project will also be there, as well as beekeepers. Story times, and games in the field too!
📅 3rd – 5th May ⏰10am – 4pm 💴 Under 2s: Free, Adult/child: £8, family tickets: £30 (advance booking + booking fee) 🎫 Pre-booking required ℹ️ More info and booking on the Earth Trust website.
🗼Faringdon Folly Tower
It’s open! 100 feet high with panoramic views – will you climb to the top of the tower? If heights aren’t you bag then stay on the ground and enjoy the free woodland sculpture trail…who will find all of them?
📅 Saturday 4th May ⏰ 11am – 5pm 💴 Adults: £3, Children (11 – 16): £1, Under 11: Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See Folly website for further details.
🍃May Nature Day at Kate’s Place
A chance to connect with nature with activities such as seed planting, painting, cooking on the open fire and a chance to spot our resident tadpoles in the wildlife pond. It’s free to attend and everyone is welcome.
📅 Saturday 4th May⏰11am and 3pm 💴 Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the Flo’s – the place in the park Facebook page for more details.
🛹Oxford Wheels Project: Beginners Skateboarding Sessions
Meadow Lane Skate Park is open for business. Skateboarding business. 30-minute sessions cater to complete beginners and those who have some experience and want to progress further. If you can stand on a board and want to learn the next steps, this is the perfect starting point.
📅 Saturday 4th May⏰10am and 10.45am starts 💴 £8 per session🎫 Online booking required ℹ️ See the OWP website for more details.
🚂 Cutteslowe Miniature Railway
Such a lovely miniature railway experience and with the track extension it’s great value for money too. There is SO much to do at Cutteslowe park: numerous playgrounds, huge sandpit, free splash park (now open!), crazy golf, tennis courts, wildlife area, duck pond, beach volleyball court, café and more! It’s easily a whole day adventure!
📅 4th and 5th May⏰ 1pm – 4.30pm 💴 £2 per ticket, Under 2’s free with fare paying adult🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the website for more details and more pictures from our visit here.
🚌Oxford Bus Museum: FREE heritage bus rides
FREE heritage bus rides at 12.15pm and 2.15pm. The museum houses a collection of historic buses, coaches and trams plus a model railway too. Super fun and interesting for the whole family!
📅 Sunday ⏰10am – 4pm 💴Adults: £8, Children £5, Under 5: Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the website for more details.
MONDAY 5th MAY
For info: Bannister Community Mile is on and there will be a mass participation run down Oxford High Street, finishing on Iffley Road (by the Roger Bannister track) between 9am – 11am. Road closures will be in place.
🫡VE Day Flypast
Look up! As part of the VE Day celebrations there will be a formation of military aircraft flying over Buckingham Palace, which will then disperse and fly over other areas…including Oxford! From this map it looks like it will be between 1.45 – 2.25pm so keep your ears open – I’m sure we’ll hear them before we see them!
📅 Monday 5th May ⏰ 1.45 – 2.25pm 💴 Free – just look up! ℹ️ Check out the map on the Military Airshows website and follow their Facebook page for up to date info.
🐏 Common Leys Farm Country Fayre
Meet the animals including sheep and lambs, mare and foals, ferrets, meerkats, donkeys, rodents and more! There will also be pony rides, bouncy castles, vintage tractors and the chance to seed some animals.
📅 Monday 5th May ⏰10.30am – 3.30pm 💴 £5 per ticket, Children under 3: Free 🎫 Booking essential ℹ️ Book via calling Common Leys farm on 01993 208 148 between 9am – 5pm. All the info on the Common Leys Farm website.
👩🏻🌾Earth Trust Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is back again with calves, sheep and newborn lambs. The Owl Conservation project will also be there, as well as beekeepers. Story times, and games in the field too!
📅 3rd – 5th May ⏰10am – 4pm💴Under 2s: Free, Adult/child: £8, family tickets: £30 (advance booking + booking fee) 🎫 Pre-booking required ℹ️ More info and booking on the Earth Trust website.
🚂 Cutteslowe Miniature Railway
Such a lovely miniature railway experience and with the track extension it’s great value for money too. There is SO much to do at Cutteslowe park: numerous playgrounds, huge sandpit, free splash park (now open!), crazy golf, tennis courts, wildlife area, duck pond, beach volleyball court, café and more! It’s easily a whole day adventure!
📅 4th and 5th May⏰1pm – 4.30pm 💴 £2 per ticket, Under 2’s free with fare paying adult🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the website for more details and more pictures from our visit here.
🚌 Oxford Bus Museum: FREE heritage bus rides
FREE heritage bus rides at 12.15pm and 2.15pm. The museum houses a collection of historic buses, coaches and trams plus a model railway too. Super fun and interesting for the whole family!
📅 Sunday 5th May⏰ 10am – 4pm 💴 Adults: £8, Children £5, Under 5: Free 🎫 No booking required ℹ️ See the website for more details.
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Harcourt Arboretum: Spring Fair 10th May
A celebration of spring and a wander around the bluebell woods. Enjoy activities for the whole family and local food and drink.
Family Dance Party 10th May
Body Politic have partnered once again with Dancin’ Oxford and The North Wall to bring you a special Family Dance Party in Cutteslowe. Join for a ‘hip-hopping, toe-tapping’ daytime disco for all of the family. Featuring a live DJ, party games, bubbles and disco lights and more!
Bridewell Open Day 11th May
The gardens will be alive with colour as the gates are thrown open to the public for one of their much anticipated open days. Check out one of our visits here. Check out a previous visit of ours here.
