‘Bring your food, family and friends to the Big Picnic in the Park – it won’t be a Town Picnic without you!’
A perfect chance to catch up with friends and family in Chesham’s beautiful Lowndes Park. Friends of Lowndes Park are delighted to be providing an amazing free Rainbow Forest activity to keep the children entertained by play experts.
Join us for the grand opening of our amazing new playground in Lowndes Park!
29th March
10am
Lowndes Park
28th October
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Lowndes Park
Family event, all ages welcome!
Free to attend*
Love Lowndes continue to fundraise for the new playground in our beautiful park.
The Pumpkin Parade is an FREE event* that celebrates the wonder and glory of autumn. With fancy dress competitions, seasonal fete games, great food and the main avenue being lit up by Chesham’s pumpkins at sunset; it’s set to be a magical, inclusive afternoon in the green heart of Chesham.
*Items marked with a * will require payment.
All competitions will be divided into age groups so that everyone can join in the fun!
Category One: 0-7s
Category Two: 8-15
Category Three: 16+
Find out more info here.
The Rocket Oven is a Chesham business. It’s a beautiful Airstream style trailer which is run by husband and wife team, George and Tori. The concept is born from the pandemic, a love of good food and wanting to work together to share our passion.
Our food ethos is simple: fresh, local and honest. These principles are the key ingredients to everything we make! We specialise in making flatbreads which are stuffed with anything from herbed falafel, tzatziki and sumac onions to slow roasted shoulder of lamb gyros with a roasted garlic mayonnaise.
*Entry to the event is free to all. The dream web and crafts activities are also free. The competitions and some games will be chargeable as we’re running this event to raise some money for the new playground.
And if the Pumpkin Parade has just whetted your appetite for all things orange, autumnal and just a little bit Halloween, then we’ve got another treat for you.
The Elgiva theatre are screening Spookley the Square Pumpkin on the 29th October at 2pm as part of the On Location Film Festival. All proceeds go to Love Lowndes.
This family-friendly film will be a lovely treat for the little ones.
In a world where the only good pumpkins are round pumpkins, Spookley the Square Pumpkin is often teased because of his shape.
But when a storm terrorizes his patch, a pumpkin cast out for his shape must step up to use his smarts to save the day – and to prove himself.
1st October, 7pm. Elgiva Theatre, Chesham
The funniest show you will see all year…made up on the spot! These guys have spent the last 15 years perfecting the art of winging it. Watch in amazement as they take audience suggestions and transform them into genuinely hilarious sketches and songs in the blink of an eye.
The Noise next Door are 12 time sell-out veterans of The Edinburgh Fringe and have appeared on The One Show (BBC One), Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1) and have also appeared alongside the likes of Michael McIntyre, Katherine Ryan and Harry Hill.
Coordinated by Chesham hero Mark Rann of Chesham Comedy Club. More acts to be announced soon.
Don’t miss your chance to ‘laugh out loud’ for Lowndes Park.
“Hilarious…a superior kind of chaos.” Telegraph
“Comedy Gold.” Guardian
“21st century comedy at it’s finest and funniest.” The Stage
Age suggestion 15+
29th October, 2pm. The Elgiva Theatre, Chesham.
In a world where the only good pumpkins are round pumpkins, Spookley the Square Pumpkin is often teased because of his shape.
But when a storm terrorizes his patch, a pumpkin cast out for his shape must step up to use his smarts to save the day – and to prove himself.
Fancy coming dressed up in your best Hallowe’en costume? We’d love to see it and maybe take your photo in the theatre!
All the proceeds from this screening go to Love Lowndes – our fundraising project tasked with raising £150,000 for a new playground for Chesham’s children.
1st October, 3pm. The Elgiva Theatre, Chesham.
One of the country’s most sought after comedy club headliners, The Noise Next Door, are coming to Chesham!
All in aid of Love Lowndes, our fundraising project for the new playground in the park.
It’s time for YOU to take control in the comedy show where anything can happen. Join the stars of Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1) and The One Show (BBC One) for a stampede of songs, scenes and gags all based on what the audience want to see.
This amazing comedy improv team leave audiences everywhere in awe of their lightning-quick wit and totally original comedic talents.
World-class comedy ***** USA Weekly
Comedy Masterpiece ***** ThreeWeeks
Suitable for kids from 6 to 106!
Book now at The Elgiva Theatre, Chesham.
We are inviting those with an interest in Lowndes Park to come and meet the Friends of Lowndes Park over a glass of wine (and some nibbles) at 7.30 at the Town Hall on Thursday 17th of November. We want to use the event to discuss the council’s proposals for the Playground and how the Friends hope to get involved. We have also invited Peter Hawkes to display some of his images of the park from the turn of the 19th/20th Century. This will be an opportunity to join the Friends or maybe get involved in the park.
The playground: you know it, we know it, and the Council knows it – all the equipment is broken or needs replacing. Chesham Town Council have taken a survey of public opinion and are now ready to move forward with the next step in this project. And they have asked us to get involved. It’s going to take some fundraising! Why not come along to our meeting (we are going to sneak the AGM in as well, and wine and nibbles) to find out more!
The wonderful Sensory Garden along the main avenue of Lowndes Park is getting a new look!
But we need your help. Plants aren’t cheap, and as you know, our team of volunteers are creating the garden in their free time. So, to stock it with beautiful scented and tactile plants, we need donations.
Our incredible team of gardening volunteers are stripping out the old to make way for the new.
If you have any plants you’d like to donate, or if you’d like to join the team in creating the new sensory garden, please contact Joan Clark on 01494 783035 or Phil Folly on 01494 783691.
Bring plants and join the fun at the next Lowndes Park working party on 14th November between 10am and 12pm.
To help keep our wonderful park in tip-top beautiful condition, a merry band of volunteers gather on a regular basis to help with gardening, planting, litter picking…and socialising and having fun of course.
The group hasn’t been able to meet for a while, so we’re thrilled to say that the working parties are back.
As you can imagine there’s lots of work to be done but to start with, they concentrated on weeding the beds and doing some pruning.
We’re always looking for new members to join us.
If you’d like to find out more contact Joan Clark on 01494 783035 or Phil Folly on 01494 783691
The working parties usually take place every Monday and on the second Sunday of the month (see Events for timings and where to meet).