Reconnecting Boston Manor Park

Activities, events and volunteering opportunities at Boston Manor Park

January and February 2026

Please note more events may be added and to receive an updated monthly newsletter please join our mailing list by emailing bostonmanorpark@hounslow.gov.uk

New Stakeholder group for Boston Manor Park: deadline 31 January for public expressions of interest

Thank you to those who have registered an interest in joining the new Stakeholder group.

We are working closely with our stakeholders, including the London Borough of Hounslow, The Arts Centre, Boston Manor House, Friends of Boston Manor and Parks team to collaborate on the future of BMP and we are still looking for local residents to join a new Stakeholder group to help shape and support the future of the park. If you think that might be you, please get in touch by 31 January, email: bostonmanorpark@hounslow.gov.uk with ‘Stakeholder’ in the subject line.

Corporate sponsorship: a big Thank You to Helios

A local family run company (based opposite the park) that specialises in sourcing ingredients has offered to support our activities with a generous £5k donation every year for 3 years. The donation will go towards supporting our Children and Youth engagement activities, which are currently unfunded. In return, we will run two fun filled team away days each year for the Helios family business. We are extremely grateful for Helios’ support which makes an important contribution towards our significant annual income generation target now that our National Heritage Lottery funding has ended.

Corporate team building and volunteering: we’ll host your team for an amazing day of giving back and having fun!

We offer bespoke opportunities year round for teams to spend a day (or just a few hours) in the park, volunteering on meaningful conservation and gardening projects and including team-building and fun activities, such as guided sensory/foraging walks, natural arts and crafting, learning basic survival skills in the park and orienteering challenges. Email Vanessa: bostonmanorpark@hounslow.gov.uk for details.

Know a teacher?

BMP School Outdoor Workshop Programme 2025/26 and SEND Work Experience and Workshop 2025/26 programme here and new joint BMP/BMH workshop here. Boston Manor House also offer a workshop programme here. All
educational workshops can be found on the Boston Manor House website.  New ECO workshop launching in Jan 2026!

Key Jan/Feb upcoming events!

Nature, Creativity and Wellbeing

  • RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch - Bird Walk and Survey, Saturday 24 January, 8:30am to 10am, meet on the lake platform. Take a leisurely walk around the park to record numbers and species of birds in the park. No experience necessary, but bring binoculars if you have them. FREE. Our next bird walk will be Saturday 7 March.
  • Chess group meet-up, every Saturday, 12pm to 4pm, meet in The Manor Kitchen Café within Boston Manor House: a drop-in event for anyone who wants to learn or play. All ages and levels welcome. Organised by Alex Smythe who runs a welcoming local social chess group that plays regularly in BMP. FREE. Contact Alex for any further information, please email alexander.brentford@gmail.com
  • Adult Cycle Training (for adults who live, work or study in Hounslow), every Thursday 9:30am (beginners) and 10:30am (improvers), register on the cycling in Hounslow page: meet by the green cycle hub container near lake. Helmets and bikes provided. FREE.
  • Make your own Macrame hanging planter and bracelet, Saturday 17 January, 1:30pm to 3:30pm, service yard workshop: Come and learn how to make hanging Macrame planters and bracelets. Open to adults and to children aged 8yrs up (working with an adult- please book for two). Simple natural or recycled materials will be used and you can take home anything you make! £10 per person.
  • Mosaic making workshop, Saturday 24 January, 1:30pm to 3:30pm, service yard workshop: Make a beautiful indoor or outdoor mosaic to take home! Children aged 8yrs up and adults: come and make a beautiful mosaic to take home. Limited places. Meet at workshop by Service Yard at 1.30pm. Grouting demonstration and all equipment will be provided. £15 per person.

Children and families: February half term

  • Doodling Art workshop with Mairi McLeod, Saturday 14 February, 1.30-3pm, service yard workshop: celebrate friendship this Valentine’s Day- come and make a beautiful piece of art to take home. Inspired by nature and mindfulness, a doodling workshop with a difference! Open to adults and to children aged 8yrs up (working with an adult- please book for two). £10pp, booking via Eventbrite. (www.artbymairi.com)
  • Cut the crap! Recycling exhibition in Service Yard workshop, Monday 16, Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 February, 10am to 2pm, service yard workshop: pop in with your children to our hidden workshop space, to inspire them to reduce, re-use and recycle more. This mini display created by Act for Ealing (www.actforealing.org) climate change campaigner Enid Barron has toured Ealing and is now on loan to us for a few days. FREE entry, drop-in.
  • Basketball drop-in sessions with SUPA, Monday 16, Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18, 10:30 to 11.30am: 6 to 12 yr olds, meet on courts under M4, guided by coach Mario and friends for an hour. Drop in, £3 cash per participant per day.

Gardening and Conservation activities

Weekly Gardening and Conservation Sessions:
Every Tuesday, 10am to 12:30pm: meet outside the Service yard/ walled garden. Join Vanessa and carry out a variety of gardening and conservation tasks all around the park. These sessions are physically more active than our Thursday sessions.
Every Thursday, 1:30pm to 3:30pm: meet outside the Service yard/ walled garden. Join Vanessa for relaxed, general gardening and growing vegetables. These sessions take place in the walled garden, yard and nearby formal beds and are less physical than Tuesday sessions.

Public Volunteering (families welcome), Saturday 24 January, 10.30am to 12.30pm, meet by Service Yard. This autumn/winter: Help us to mulch the fruit trees, maintain paths and learn how to coppice, build dead hedges and hedgehog homes in the woodland.

Youth Volunteering (13 yrs up), Saturdays 17 and 24 January, and 14 February, 10:30am to 12.30pm: Volunteering specifically for young people (13 to 18-year-olds) with regular sessions for teenagers looking to meet the Duke of Edinburgh award 'Volunteering' requirement and all teenagers wanting to volunteer. Meet promptly by Hub (or Service Yard) – start times can vary, check date and times above. Activities include conservation, gardening and helping run family events/holiday clubs (at other times). Email Tash in advance if you are interested: bostonmanorpark@hounslow.gov.uk.

SPACES TO RENT AT BMP: Classroom, Workshop and Woodland

As part of helping the park to become financially sustainable, we are hiring out the Education room in the Park Hub building, the Workshop space (by the Service Yard) and the enclosed Woodland play area (by Boston Manor House) for very modest rates during Mondays to Thursdays 9am to 4pm only – outside of these hours, bookings (and fees) are taken by the Potting Shed cafe. These spaces are perfect for exercise classes, holiday clubs, arts and crafts classes, birthday parties, group meet-ups. If you would like more information about costs/ availability or to book any spaces, please email bostonmanorpark@hounslow.gov.uk for the information pack putting ‘BMP space hire’ in the subject line.

Know a Scout, Beaver or Cub group?

Night walks, bat detecting and evening exploration/orienteering sessions with Tash available (£3 per child). Sessions can be run in Polish, French or English, from 6yrs up.

Park Hub ‘The Potting Shed’ Cafe:

Our café The Potting Shed thepottingshed.london is open 7 days a week, 9am to 4pm. Food 9am to 3pm. Instagram @pottingshedlondon

Boston Manor House events:

A wide range of events are on at the House (theatre, music, crafting, Christmas related!). My Country is my home (about the Polish community in UK) on until March 2026. See What's on - Boston Manor House

The Manor kitchen:

The House café is now run by the same team that runs The Potting Shed! Open 10:30am to 5pm daily (except Mondays). Instagram @themanorkitchen

Self-guided BMP Trails:

BMP Audio Trail: you can download the Echoes app on Google Play or the App Store (free download), search for Boston Manor Park on the app (starts near car park) and plug into a mindful walk through the park, listening to poetry, music and the sounds of nature. You might recognise some familiar voices and will finish feeling calm and relaxed in the walled garden. Pick up the walk leaflet outside Hub.

BMP Activity Trails (self guided, all available to download or pick up in paper form (Trails 2 and 3 only) outside Hub:

  • Trail 1 (Nature and Wellbeing)
  • Trail 2 (Get to know the park!)
  • Trail 3 (Wonderful Wildlife)

Download free copies in English and Polish from the Let's Talk Hounslow Volunteering in Hounslow Parks page and on the Ealing Parks Foundation website.

Secret Bird Mosaic Trail

Can you spot our 7 bird mosaics hanging in the woodland (top woodland path, starting near the lake and ending by oak tree by M4 flyover)? You will see a jay, a woodpecker, a sparrow, a magpie, a robin, a starling and a chaffinch. Mosaics were made by the community and Susie John, a local artist. Pick up a leaflet with photos outside Hub to help you spot them!

Go Orienteering Trails

Can you find all the markers (‘controls’) hidden around the park? Learn how to navigate and then find and follow three different (easy, medium and hard) orienteering routes around the park. Download the free orienteering maps.

Strava Running Club

Boston Manor Park’s own running club and running routes (co-created with WE RUN EALING, community based running organisation). Find out more and join the Boston Manor Park running club on Strava (BMP2023 is Club on Strava).

Join our BMP outdoor events and volunteering mailing list:

Email BostonManorPark@hounslow.gov.uk to receive regular updates on all our outdoor events and activities, including lots of family events in school holidays.

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See our School Workshop Programme 2025-26

    

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