York RLFC Foundation launches its latest school holiday programme for ages 5-15.

These free sessions are a turn up and play multi-sports session with York RLFC Knights.

For more information, take a look at the York RLFC website here.

Football coaching for girls with City Wildcats!

These are 45 min coaching sessions for different age groups of girls with City Wildcats.

Session 1: 10 - 11:00am (7-9 years)

Session 2: 11am - 12 noon (10-14 years)

Booking in advance is recommended at officialsoccerschools.co.uk/yorkcity

All spaces are free to attend

Are you currently home educating in York? Join us at Homestead Park for our relaxed nature socials. 

We will connect with nature, form community and create together - each session includes nature journaling, an exploration outside, and a social space inside with refreshments. Family friendly for all ages.

Join for family friendly for all ages in the Homestead Park Pavilion

Sessions take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and cost £5 per child (free places are always available - just ask).

To book, email: paulinecarneyart@icloud.com

Football in the park is back this summer!

These are 45 min coaching sessions for different age groups with York City FC Foundation.

Session 1: 10 - 10:45am

Session 2: 11am - 12 noon

Booking in advance is recommended at officialsoccerschools.co.uk/yorkcity

York RLFC Foundation launches its latest school holiday programme for ages 5-15.

These free sessions are a turn up and play multi-sports session with York RLFC Knights.

For more information, take a look at the York RLFC website here.

Football coaching for girls with City Wildcats!

These are 45 min coaching sessions for different age groups of girls with City Wildcats.

Session 1: 10 - 11:00am (7-9 years)

Session 2: 11am - 12 noon (10-14 years)

Booking in advance is recommended at officialsoccerschools.co.uk/yorkcity

All spaces are free to attend

Our regular music night July edition

Pizza from Bistro Guy from 4pm

Music from Holly Taymar from 5:30pm

Birdsong and horticultural delight - all day long

These happen once a month, from April to September, so come along for some gorgeous sounds and great food in the lovely surroundings of a performance in the park.

As usual, there’s no need to book, just show up on the day. 
The performance is free, food is to buy if you’d like to.


Join artists the Wilson Sisters and writer Gayle Johnson to weave with natural willow and create words inspired by the river, its wildlife, and the surrounding landscape.

Willow trees play a vital role in flood resilience. Their fast growing roots help hold riverbanks together, while their wonderfully flexible branches help slow floodwater. In this workshop, you'll have the chance to reflect on the strength and resilience of the natural world as you create your own willow weaving and a collection of words inspired by the landscape.

It's a relaxed, drop-in session for all ages. No experience is needed, just bring your imagination!

Meet at the Pavilion Building, at the corner of the main lawn.

You can find out more on the event’s page via eventbrite

This event is part of the York River Trail - www.ousewem.co.uk/york-rivers-trail

This Saturday it's the RSPCA annual summer fair!

It is a fundraiser for their local branch, which is need of a new home itself. There will be many stalls, a bouncy castle, a small dog show, food and games.

Are you currently home educating in York? Join us at Homestead Park for our relaxed nature socials. 

We will connect with nature, form community and create together - each session includes nature journaling, an exploration outside, and a social space inside with refreshments. Family friendly for all ages.

Join for family friendly for all ages in the Homestead Park Pavilion

Sessions take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and cost £5 per child (free places are always available - just ask).

To book, email: paulinecarneyart@icloud.com

Join artist Jessica Jenyns for a relaxed nature-inspired, printmaking workshop celebrating the flora and fauna of Homestead Park and York’s rivers.

Printmaking workshop exploring York’s river flora and fauna through cyanotype and monoprinting using natural materials.

Suitable for 7+ years (accompanied by an adult), teens and adults.

Meet at the Pavilion building, at the corner of the main lawn.

Book a spot (one for each maker) via eventbrite

This event is part of the York River Trail - www.ousewem.co.uk/york-rivers-trail

Are you currently home educating in York? Join us at Homestead Park for our relaxed nature socials. 

We will connect with nature, form community and create together - each session includes nature journaling, an exploration outside, and a social space inside with refreshments. Family friendly for all ages.

Join for family friendly for all ages in the Homestead Park Pavilion

Sessions take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and cost £5 per child (free places are always available - just ask).

To book, email: paulinecarneyart@icloud.com

Our regular music night July edition

Food from Yahala Mataam from 4pm

Music from Katie Lou McCabe from 5:30pm

Birdsong and horticultural delight - all day long

These will be happening once a month, from April to September, so come along for some gorgeous sounds and great food in the lovely surroundings of a performance in the park.

As usual, there’s no need to book, just show up on the day. 
The performance is free, food is to buy if you’d like to.


Are you currently home educating in York? Join us at Homestead Park for our relaxed nature socials. 

We will connect with nature, form community and create together - each session includes nature journaling, an exploration outside, and a social space inside with refreshments. Family friendly for all ages.

Join for family friendly for all ages in the Homestead Park Pavilion

Sessions take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and cost £5 per child (free places are always available - just ask).

To book, email: paulinecarneyart@icloud.com

Sunday Lime is an intergenerational, protected space for Global Majority* folks and their families in York and the surrounding areas to catch up like cousins, to hang out with no agenda. Tea and snacks provided, clothes & plant swap (or just take), games, hanging around. Intergenerational space for togetherness, conversation, play and rest.

Wheelchair accessible, two disabled bathrooms and quiet room available.
Message or email if you want funding for transport to get to the event.
Parking is available at Homestead Park - Shipton Road entrance or message about accessible parking.

Why Lime? Our Trinidadian friend @pixel.vistas introduced the slang word which is linked to the art of doing nothing, hanging out, eating, drinking and chilling together.

*Global Majority is an expansive term that refers to people who make up the Majority of the worlds population: Black, Indigenous, Brown, Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Arab, Latin American, Asian and mixed ethnicity people.

Are you currently home educating in York? Join us at Homestead Park for our relaxed nature socials. 

We will connect with nature, form community and create together - each session includes nature journaling, an exploration outside, and a social space inside with refreshments. Family friendly for all ages.

Join for family friendly for all ages in the Homestead Park Pavilion

Sessions take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month and cost £5 per child (free places are always available - just ask).

To book, email: paulinecarneyart@icloud.com

Join in with this packed programme of great events for women and girls, from orienteering, to music jam to felting workshops and screen printing. See the full programme and book on the website of Friends of Rowntree park. These events do need booking for as numbers are limited.

A chance to try new things, meet new people and be empowered in the public space.

Since 2023, the annual festival that runs in June has brought together over 300 girls each year to take part in free events and activities. The programme is designed with, and for, teenage girls. Helping them feel welcome, confident and inspired in York’s parks.

The focus is on aiming to reduce the drop off of park use as girls enter their teenage years. The free events allow girls to try new things, meet new people and reclaim the public space.

A mix of sports and exercise, arts and crafts, nature and wellbeing, social awareness, the performing arts – anything that will work in an outdoor space! The activities and events introduce girls to new things, allow them to explore an interest, meet new friends and role models and create a community of likeminded individuals.

See the programme here: https://letsmakespace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Make-Space-York-Festival-2026.pdf

For the longest day of the year, the park will be opened early. You are welcome to come and use your park for whatever Solstice activities you feel up for on that day.

Some of the park gardeners will lead a short walk, looking at what’s in bloom and gathering herbs for some nice foraged tea which to can share at the end.

There will be a limited selection of food and drinks offering available.

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There are many solstice traditions around the world, many going back generations. One folk ritual is to bask in the morning dew at the light of the summer solstice. On this day of light, the dew is thought to have magical and powerful properties that cleanses the spirit and blesses you for the year ahead. So we welcome those who feel the urge to walk barefoot, run their hands through the long glass, or take a morning roll on the lawn as the sun rises.

Alternatively, feel free to bring your yoga mat or a comfy pillow and have an early morning nap under the trees listening to the solstice bird song. The park is here for you to celebrate the solstice morning in a way that feels right for you.

This is an unsupervised activity, please roll and bask at your own risk!

Our regular music night June edition, this time on a Saturday and coinciding with the solstice weekend and the Make Space Festival

Food from Bistro Guy from 4pm

Music from Holly Taymar from 5:30pm

For details of other events on that weekend, see their listings in the What’s On page of this website.

These happen once a month, from April to September, so come along for some gorgeous sounds and great food in the lovely surroundings of a performance in the park.

As usual, there’s no need to book, just show up on the day. 
The performance is free, food is to buy if you’d like to.


Join in with this packed programme of great events for women and girls, from orienteering, to music jam to felting workshops and screen printing. See the full programme and book on the website of Friends of Rowntree park. These events do need booking for as numbers are limited.

A chance to try new things, meet new people and be empowered in the public space.

Since 2023, the annual festival that runs in June has brought together over 300 girls each year to take part in free events and activities. The programme is designed with, and for, teenage girls. Helping them feel welcome, confident and inspired in York’s parks.

The focus is on aiming to reduce the drop off of park use as girls enter their teenage years. The free events allow girls to try new things, meet new people and reclaim the public space.

A mix of sports and exercise, arts and crafts, nature and wellbeing, social awareness, the performing arts – anything that will work in an outdoor space! The activities and events introduce girls to new things, allow them to explore an interest, meet new friends and role models and create a community of likeminded individuals.

See the programme here: https://letsmakespace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Make-Space-York-Festival-2026.pdf