Planet Buxton

17/10/2026

is This Friday INSET Day 23rd Oct. Free activities for families and teenagers .
10-3 come anytime and stay as long as you like.
in the Assembly Rooms with Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust .

14/10/2026

Fun for the family during half term ….

🍂🎃 **OCTOBER HALF TERM FUN AT POOLE’S CAVERN!** 🎃🍂

Looking for things to keep the family entertained this half term? Come along to Poole’s Cavern and enjoy THREE FREE fun children’s activities! 🙌

🦴 **THE DIG in the School Room
🕚 11am–3pm Saturday 24 October - Sunday 1 November
Get hands-on and discover more about the past with our exciting archaeology-themed activity!

🔎 **BOOK HUNT
📅 Monday 26 October - Friday 30 October
Café at the Cavern are running book hunt (Monday - Friday) Find a token and win a book! 📚

🦇 **FAMILY EXPLORER TRAIL
Explore the wonders of Poole’s Cavern with our Family Explorer Trail and discover more about this amazing underground world. 🌍\
🎟️ A Poole’s Cavern admission ticket is required for this activity.
📅 Saturday 24 Oct. - Sunday 1 November

Whether you're exploring, discovering or getting hands-on, there's something for curious little adventurers to enjoy this October half term! 🍁

Three activities, lots of fun and family memories waiting to be made 💚

14/10/2026

Here are some great nature activities with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust,including Halloween Family Fun.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust are one of our amazing organisations at our on INSET Day, 23rd October. They will be doing sensory nature activities and helping children whittle sticks to make their own Halloween wands to take home. More information is in the comments.

Check out our upcoming events for the rest of 2026👀🍂❄️...

11/10/2026

Thank you for sharing our …

🌍💚 Looking for something to do on our INSET Day? 💚🌍

Our families have been invited along to the Buxton Green Assembly on Friday 23rd October, taking place in the beautiful Buxton Crescent Assembly Rooms.

🍂 10am–3pm
🌱 FREE family event
🎨 Lots of fun activities for children of all ages
⏰ Drop in anytime and stay as long as you like!

There will be lots of brilliant local organisations there with activities all about our town, our planet and our future. 🌎🌳♻️

It sounds like a lovely way to spend part of the INSET day together. 💚

Take a look at the poster below for all the details 👇

11/10/2026

Our protectors of local are on TV tonight about a different project …
Families and teenagers can meet at our on Friday 23rd October in Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust Assembly Rooms, anytime between 10am and 3pm .

11/10/2026

It was a privilege to join for the opening of their new home. They do an amazing job supporting families and providing essential services. They have helped Buxton families keep 7000 items out of landfill by providing a dedicated place to donate and borrow baby clothes, toys and equipment.
They will be joining our again this year on 23rd October with support from Rotary Club of Buxton . .

09/10/2026

Saturday, for teenagers and young people … pop along between 11am and 3pm to find out about this exciting project…

The climate and biodiversity crises can feel overwhelming.

What if you could explore local solutions while developing new skills and meeting like-minded people?

Generation Hope Buxton gives young people the opportunity to:

📸Learn new skills
✅Gain volunteering experience
😃Improve confidence
👍Work with local experts
🦋Learn wildlife surveying techniques
🔍Explore local history
🏛Help create a public exhibition
🌳Shape the future of local nature recovery

Come and find out more about the project, part of the Fixing Our Broken Planet programme in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London , as we start discussing how Buxton's heritage has impacted climate change today.

TOMORROW: Saturday 10th October 11am-3pm
11am-1pm
Poole's Cavern & Buxton Country Park Visitor Centre

Ages 13-25 welcome.

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

06/10/2026

It will be fun for children to design their own at our this Friday. Bring old clothes, material and costumes that need a bit of magic from the Transition Buxton CIC team with their sewing machines. Your family can and donate items for the Halloween activities on with Transition Buxton .
If you want to get rid of items before Friday, then pop them into boxes at the library, the station and the Pump Room Visitor Centre. If you have a big clear out and have bags of items suitable to become costumes, then send us a message for your items to be collected from you and we’ll pick them up from you before Wednesday. We’d love more of your unwanted stuff and you’ll be amazed what the sewing team turn things into!

05/10/2026

An exciting opportunity for Buxton’s young people …

🌳 VOLUNTEERS WANTED 🦋

Generation Hope Buxton is looking for young people aged 13-25 to join our new climate, heritage and nature project, part of the Fixing Our Broken Planet programme in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London

You could help as a:

🪲Wildlife Survey Volunteer: Help record species and contribute to Woodland Watch.

📸Photography Volunteer: Capture the changing landscape, wildlife and project activities.

🔍Heritage Research Volunteer: Investigate the history of Grin Low's quarrying and lime-burning past.

🏛Interpretation Volunteer: Create videos, social media content and exhibition displays.

Interested? Come and find out more about the project, as we start discussing how Buxton's heritage has impacted climate change today.

Saturday 10th October 10am-2pm

Poole's Cavern & Buxton Country Park Visitor Centre

Under 16s must attend with an adult.