Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Heartseedling Creative Drop-in: Craft & Connect.
Cost: Free
Overview: Join our friendly Heartseedling drop-in craft sessions! Bring your own portable craft project or come along and add your unique creative touch to our 'Sewn from the Soil: Talking Threads' exhibit. Everyone is warmly welcome – no experience needed!
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Train Station Transformation Under 18s - Chiltern Rangers
Cost: Free
Overview: Help at this community garden & learn how to look after small urban green spaces for wildlife -🐝 inspired to do a bit at home
Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
High Wycombe Beekeepers' Association Taster Day
Cost: £25. Cost will be refunded to High Wycombe residents who book onto the HWBKA Taster Day via the Pride of Place website. Please book onto the day on Eventbrite and email the HWBKA treasurer for the refund to be arranged.
Overview: If you’re thinking about taking up beekeeping and want to find out more, our Taster Day is a great introduction to what is involved.
Heartseedling Creative Drop-in: Craft & Connect.
Cost: Free
Overview: Join our friendly Heartseedling drop-in craft sessions! Bring your own portable craft project or come along and add your unique creative touch to our 'Sewn from the Soil: Talking Threads' exhibit. Everyone is warmly welcome – no experience needed!
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Junk Modelling
Cost: Donations requested
Overview: Junk modelling - Come and let your imagination transform everyday junk into fantasy fun!
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Community & Climate Cafe - Visit to the Community Allotment
Cost: Free
Overview: Join us at the next Community & Climate Cafe to visit the Grow Together Bucks Community Allotment.
Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Make your own Reusable Strawberry Bag!
Cost: Donations requested
Overview: 🍓 Make Your Own Reusable Strawberry Bag! 🍓
A Creative Workshop for Sustainable Living
Home Energy and Retrofit - Come and learn about upgrading your home to make it fit for the future!
Home energy and retrofit: Home energy and retrofit - Come and learn about upgrading your home to make it fit for the future!
Cost: Donations requested
Overview: Join us to learn about upgrading your home to be more efficient and reduce your energy usage and bills.
Climate Fresk
Cost: £5 / £25 / £45
Overview: Want to help tackle climate change but don’t have the time to become a climate scientist? Join the Climate Fresk movement.
Embroidered Postcards Workshop
Cost: Donation requested
Overview: Make your own stitched postcard using scrap paper, old magazines, fabric, and trimmings. Add simple hand embroidery for a personal touch—no experience needed.
Pop-up PoP-in
Cost: Free
Overview: Pop in to Pride of Place, and have a chat! By all means bring your crafting with you, and - or - bring your thoughts and ideas on what we can do together so that we can be even more proud of High Wycombe, and we can have a chat!
You can also call in to hire items from our Summer Party Library of Things!
Clothes Upcycling
Cost: Donations requested
Overview: Get inspiration on how to make new from old!
Got some basic skills but not very confident with a needle and thread or sewing machine? Want to learn how to create something new by repurposing old clothing? This workshop is for you!
Crafty Friday
Cost: Free, but a donation is welcome!
Overview: Free Kids Crafts every Friday during the Summer Holidays. Just drop by the Refresh Shop in the Chiltern Shopping Centre and enjoy a free craft activity, making use of the stock that has been donated to us that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Community & Climate Cafe - Walking the Wye
Cost: Free
Overview: A gentle stroll from the town centre following the River, picking up some history, geography and ecology along the way (bus back to starting point)
Crochet for Everyday Living
Cost: Donation requested
Overview: Whether you’re brand new to crochet or picking up your hook after a long pause, this relaxed and practical workshop is the perfect place to begin (or begin again). You’ll learn a variety of useful stitches, gain confidence reading patterns, and start your own handmade reusable items—from washcloths to market bags.
Putting the heart into White Hart Street - Chiltern Rangers
Cost: Free
Overview: Join us to start looking after the plants in White Hart Street, adding a splash of colour and an urban retreat for our local pollinators.
High Wycombe Beekeepers' Association Open Day
Cost: Free
Overview: Our Apiary Open Day is an opportunity to meet our bees and some of the beekeepers and get a flavour of what beekeeping is all about.
Repair Cafe
Cost: Free (Donation per repair)
Overview: Join us at High Wycombe's Repair Cafe, where broken items find new life!
Learn to crochet
Cost: Free
Overview: Learn to crochet - Are you interested in learning how to crochet? The brilliant Jess will be with us at Repair Cafe. Happy to help you start from scratch or develop your skills!
Putting the heart into White Hart Street - Chiltern Rangers
Cost: Free
Overview: Join us to start looking after the plants in White Hart Street, adding a splash of colour and an urban retreat for our local pollinators.
Circular Economy - what it is and why we need it
Cost: Free
Overview: Circular Economy - what it is and why we need it
Picked, Pickled & Plated!
Cost: Free
Overview: Cooking with and preserving seasonal food.
Lunchtime Train Station - Bring a Pollinator Day!
Cost: Free
Overview: Join us at the train station to continue planting for pollinators and improving this gateway to our town for everyone!
Heartseedling: Why do we put our hands in the soil?
Cost: Free
Overview: Join us at the next Community & Climate Cafe to unearth the reasons that inspire people to grow food. From the simple joy of sowing a seed on a windowsill, in a garden, an allotment or a community growing space, we’ll explore the power of '“WHY” how stories can cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves, connection to nature and our communities. This sessions is for anyone interested in our relationship to growing food, community, and creativity to cultivate a more resilient future. Join Victoria (Vix) for this interactive session - a passionate food grower who wanted to grow her own pasta sauce, and a creative practitioner interested in inspiring others through stories and lived experience with a Chilterns-based exhibition in the works.
Wildflower nursery session
Overview: Join Chiltern Rangers at the Community Wildflower Nursery helping to grow wildflowers to support pollinators. Lots to learn and great people to volunteer with!
Stitch or crochet your own reusable washcloth!
Cost: Free
Overview: Stitch or crochet your own reusable washcloth!
Got some basic skills but not very confident with a needle and thread, sewing machine or a crochet hook? Want to learn some new crochet stitches that give textures good for cleaning? This workshop is for you! You'll start to make a reusable washcloth, which you can take home with you!
Train Station Transformation - Chiltern Rangers
Cost: Free
Overview: Help at this community garden & learn how to look after small urban green spaces for wildlife -🐝 inspired to do a bit at home
Repair Cafe
Cost: Free (Donation per repair)
Overview: Join us at High Wycombe's Repair Cafe, where broken items find new life!
Learn to crochet
Cost: Free
Overview: Learn to crochet - Are you interested in learning how to crochet? The brilliant Jess will be with us at Repair Cafe. Happy to help you start from scratch or develop your skills!
Making Wycombe Creative & Sustainable - Open Meeting and Pride of Place launch
Cost: Free
Overview: Creative and Sustainable Open Meeting: - key note speaker John Shaw to talk about Chiltern Rangers and launch the Pride of Place project
Join the Fun!
A steering group of local people will guide the project, and we'll have workshops led by awesome partners like Grow Together Bucks, Khepera, and the Wycombe & District Beekeepers Association. Plus, we'll keep supporting ongoing activities like litter picking and conservation efforts.