kettering

26 July 2021

Family, Family Fun, kettering, Kids, magic, Magic Show, Playschemes, puppets, shows, summer, theatre

Summer playschemes around the surroundings of Kettering are back for 2021 from 26th July to 16th August in Kettering, Geddington, Broughton, Wilbarston, Burton Latimer, Rothwell Library, Desborough Library and Mawsley, showcasing the Looking Glass Theatre’s New Puppet Storytelling Show and Steve the Magician Magic Show. Free just turn up! * (please contact the Libraries directly to book)

Desborough Library

Steve the Magician – Monday 26th July – 11am

Looking Glass Theatre – Monday 2nd August – 11am

Steve the Magician – Monday 9th August – 11am

Looking Glass Theatre – Monday 16th August – 11am

Burton Latimer Community Centre

Steve the Magician – Tuesday 27th July – 11am

Looking Glass Theatre – Tuesday 10th August – 11am

Geddington Village Hall

Steve the Magician – Tuesday 27th July – 2pm

Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 5th August – 2pm

Broughton Village Hall

Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 29th July – 11am

Steve the Magician – Thursday 5th August – 11am

Wilbarston Village Hall

Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 29th July – 2pm

Steve the Magician – Tuesday 10th August – 2pm

The Centre at Mawsley

Steve the Magician – Tuesday 3rd August – 11am

Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 12th August – 11am

Melton Street Community Centre, Kettering

Steve the Magician – Tuesday 3rd August – 2pm

Looking Glass Theatre – Thursday 12th August – 2pm

Rothwell Library

Steve the Magician – Friday 30th July – 11am

Looking Glass Theatre – Friday 6th August – 11am

25 July 2021

bands, Bands in the Park, brass band, instrumental bands, jazz band, kettering, park, picnic, Silver Band

Come and enjoy music in the beautiful surroundings of Rockingham Road Pleasure Park at its Victorian style bandstand built in 1936.

The performance takes place at Rockingham Road Pleasure Park bandstand 3pm – 5pm. See schedule below.

Date	Band
Sunday 25th July	John Barker Trumpet
Sunday 1st August	Gretton Silver Band
Sunday 8th August	Dave Johnson Jazz Band
Sunday 15th August	Kettering Town Silver Band
Sunday 22nd August	Rushden Mission Band
Sunday 29th August	Raunds Temperance Band
Sunday 5th September	Moulton 77 Brass Band
Sunday 12th September	Corby Silver Band

Performances are free and bring along your chairs, picnic and enjoy the music.

Toilets are available at Rockingham Road Park Pavilion.

24 July 2021

activities, arts, circus skills, Crafts, Family, Family Fun, Games, kettering, Kids, Pop up, Summer activities in Kettering, Workshops

Every Saturday, 10am – 3pm

From Saturday 24^th July – Saturday 28^th August

Free activities and entertainment for the whole family, Just turn up and see what is happening in your local town centre! Support your local town centre, Shop and Enjoy Local.

WEEK 1	WEEK 2	WEEK 3
Saturday 24th July	Saturday 31st July	Saturday 7th August
Balloon Modelling	Balloon Modelling	Balloon Modelling
Kettering Library Take over	Kettering Library Take over Part 2	Juggling
Story telling	Story telling	Football Panna Cage
Show & Tell	Songs & Rhymetime	Football Speed Cage
Reading Challenge	Reading Challenge	Tennis Club
Craft Activities	Craft Activities	Sport partners stalls
Giant Games	Giant Games	Table Tennis Table
Table Tennis Table	Table Tennis Table	Giant Games
Splash Fountains	Splash Fountains	Splash Fountains

WEEK 4	WEEK 5	WEEK 6
Saturday 14th August	Saturday 21st August	Saturday 28th August
Balloon Modelling	Balloon Modelling	Balloon Modelling
Juggling	Juggling	Juggling
Circus Skills Workshop	Stilt Walkers with Bubbles	Stilt Walkers with Bubbles
Table Tennis Tables	Junk Percussion Workshop	Circus Skills Workshop
Giant games	The Rig Arts & Crafts	Table Tennis Tables
Circus Crafts	Table Tennis Tables	Giant games
Splash Fountains	Giant games	Circus Crafts
	Splash Fountains	Splash Fountains

22 July 2021

Family, Family Fun, kettering, Kids, Sticker Trail, Summerr, things to do, trail

From Thursday 22^nd July – Saturday 28^th August, 10am – 4pm

Collect your passport from Kettering Swimming Pool and explore the map to find clues, claim your treat and be entered in our prize draw to be in with a chance to win some fantastic prizes this summer. Free to take part

14 July 2021

activities, art, Bingo, Family, Family Fun, kettering, park, trail, walk, walking, Wellbeing

Families looking for things to do can explore the town’s green spaces, thanks to the free Keep Discovering Kettering Park Bingo passport trail.

The trail invites you to discover green spaces across Kettering to find more than 20 animals and other characters on wooden posts around the town’s parks. Participants can place their passport over the stencil and use a crayon to colour it in.

Printed passports contain a guide to the locations of the posts, you will need to explore the park to find the post and a blank space for your rubbing so you can collect them all. Passports can be picked up from several venues across Kettering.

For more information and to download your passport online, visit: www.thisiskettering.com/keephealthy

26 June 2021

comedy, kettering, show, Standup, Wicksteed Park

Wicksteed Park presents: Comedy in the Park in their Open Air Theatre!

The lineup includes John Bishop, Al Murray, Rob Beckett, James Acaster, Judi Love and Tom Davis for a night of laughter.

For more information, click here.

25 June 2021

80s, kettering, show, theatre, Wicksteed Park

Wicksteed Park’s Open Air Theatre present,s 80’s in the Park!

Some of the biggest 80’s icons will take to the stage, including Billy Ocean, Bananarama, T’Pau, Go West, and more!

Find out more and buy tickets at: www.wicksteedopenair.com/

13 June 2021

charity, Cransley Hospice Trust, Cycle, kettering, reopening

Cycle for Cransley 2020 has been postponed due to the coronavirus and will be back on 13th June 2021!

With exhilarating and picturesque routes through the rolling Northampton countryside, this incredible cycling challenge offers something for all ages and abilities.

The ‘Cransley Family-Fun Spin’ is back, at a maximum of 10-miles, the ‘Cransley Cruise’ at a manageable 25-miles, the challenging ‘Fun-Filled Fifty’ (at 50-miles!) and for the elite amongst us, the thrilling ‘Cransley Fondo,’ a 63-mile (100km) extravaganza… what’s more, BRAND NEW for 2021, there will be knuckle-biting off-road route for the mountain bike fans, at up to 30-miles! All routes include a fabulous Cycle for Cransley medal for every finisher!

All rides will begin from the ‘Kettering Rugby Club’. Make sure you stay take the time to soak up the atmosphere in the new and improved Event Village following your ride! Thanks to generous support from our Headline sponsors ‘Tollers Solicitors’ and KLM Taxis the event will be bigger and better than ever before.

For more information, click here.

There’ll be entertainment, food and drink, fantastic stalls and cycling experiences for the whole family to enjoy.

Event sponsorship ensures our hospice can continue to care! Raise £30 to get a free pint or £75 to get a free ‘Cycle for Cransley’ cycle jersey!

1 April 2021

charity, Cransley Hospice, kettering, Northamptonshire Walks, walk

Grab your walking boots and hop, skip, run or cycle in the footsteps of Cransley Hospice Trust‘s incredible nurses. ?

Between the 1st and 30th April, walk along The Cransley Way and to see how far you can get.

The Cransley Way is 100 miles long which is the average distance that one of their nurses will walk in a month, but you can tackle as much or as little as you like. ?

Find out more and register here.

25 February 2021

Ironstone, Keep Healthy Kettering, kettering, Wellbeing, Yoga

Photo of young concentrated woman doing yoga exercises using laptop while sitting on floor at home

Join Keep Healthy Kettering and Ironstone Wellbeing for this FREE, virtual yoga session!

To sign up, register using this link and book onto the Keep Healthy Kettering class. Or sign up using the Ironstone App, more details can be found on the app here.

A Zoom account will be required and session login details will be shared with you 60 mins before the start time.