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Rain Doesn't Stop Play at Conkers

Children playing in an indoor activity centre at Conkers

Conkers, the award-winning attraction about life in British woodlands, welcomed 55,800 visitors between the end of July and the beginning of September, including 3,800 educational visitors. Family visitors and schoolchildren alike were undeterred by torrential rain and chilly days, and still had a great time enjoying the range of indoor and outdoor activities, exhibits and shows.

Deanne Edwards from Conkers said "It’s been a very busy and successful summer for us – our best since we opened in April 2001. I think people really appreciate that we are an all-weather visitor centre. They love the mix of indoor and outdoor options we offer, plus opportunities to do fun physical activities and learn more about our natural environment and wildlife."

It certainly proved the right year to open the popular indoor Enchanted Forest. Children of all ages – and adults – enjoy a scrambling, bug’s eye view of a fantasy forest.

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Gallery

  • Barton-Under-Needwood Village sign
  • Children singing in Calke Abbey
  • Sculptors Philip Eames and Trevor Cooper with their sculpture of a wooden horse and handler
  • A close up of the new Newborough gateway sculpture
  • The stone and metal Village Sculpture at Revenstone
  • One of six new bird totems installed at Thornton
  • The creation of living willow sculptures by children at Stanton School
  • Children playing in an indoor activity centre at Conkers
  • Kids planting a tree
  • Kids 'ponding'
  • Sweet Chestnut emerging from shell
  • Guests on a woodland break
  • Children helping The National Forest by plant trees
  • Children being nature detectives and listening and looking for wildlife
  • People walking past trail signs
  • Line of people walking along forest path
  • Runners completing race through The National Forest
  • Birthday Walk logo
  • John Moore (61) - Retired after a career with Severn Trent
  • acorn amongst leaves on the branch of a tree
  • Andrew Brown- Jackson working with BTCV expert volunteers to build a dry stone wall
  • Johnson Controls Gold Medal for international Corporation Achievement in Sustainable Development
  • BTCV volunteers on a BTCV conservation holiday
  • BTCV volunteers planting a new woodland at Tinknall

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