Family Wild Walk - Newington Green & Shakespeare Walk Adventure playground

Get ready for an adventure from the newly refurbished St Jude's Street Garden children's playground, a short hop from Dalston Kingsland station, through to Newington Green and on to the award-winning Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground.

Join our chief explorer, Cath, and encourage your kids to be chief explorers as they help us lead a mile-long adventure to discover how wild North East Hackney really is!

Make friends, learn from each other and connect with nature!

We will have some microscopes to look closely at what we can see, but the main mission for today is to explore some of the playgrounds in this corner of Hackney - a newly refurbished one, an old and loved play space and a beloved staffed Adventure Playground.

There is also a statue for a famous feminist...

Perfect for all ages and buggy-friendly, this walk is a great way to see our home, Hackney, in a new way.

When: Saturday 13th June at 10:45 am, aiming to set off at 11.

Where: Meet in Mabley Green playground (link to Google Maps).

Please book a ticket for each of you joining, and let us know how many children will be with you, just so we can plan for volunteers.

If you want more time at the first playground where we are meeting, do get there early. At the end you can stay to eat your picnic and explore the adventure playground.

All families are welcome to come along. Well-behaved dogs (on leads!) and friends are also welcome.

For more information and to find out where future walks will be, join our WhatsApp Community.

This starting point is near Dalston Kingsland, with an overground and lots of buses.

Bring a snack/drinks for yourself and your family, and dress for the weather on the day. We'll bring extra snacks and a big picnic blanket in expectation of good weather!

Below is a map. We are going from bottom to top.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpFmSY-0i-QIYnnI-3pJfqDScHMbO9EC/view?usp=sharing

Download it HERE

There is no fee; we just ask you to promise to take a friend (and/or more children!) on another walk!

If you would like to donate to support future walks, you can do so here:

Local Giving - Family Wild Walks with Outdoor People

The purpose of our walks is to

• Help you make it easy to get outdoors

• Promote the essential need for children to play outdoors regularly and to provide a space to share practical, easy ways to do that

• Share how just lovely our `East London home is, how green and verdant, full of nature and surprise - and lots of great playgrounds and Adventure Playgrounds to explore and enjoy!