Bromley Environmental Education

Wildlife Wednesday, these gorgeous birds are RedPolls. A small bird that migrates from the colder north to enjoy a milder winter with us! The boys are much brighter in colour then the females and their call sounds similar to a spring! These are one of some of the birds you can hear and see on our dawn chorus walks like the one we are running this Saturday at 7:00. A beautiful way to start the day with our educational instructors before going back to the centre for tea, coffee and biscuits; https://bromleyparks.co.uk/product/dawn-chorus-bird-watching/

Wow what a busy day we have had today! Home education have begun learning about our native birds in practice for the big garden bird watch and we got to join the rangers during their bat hibernation surveys! We got to see some amazing animals in the chalk caves, including cave spiders, tissue moths and of course many bats!

Have your year sorted with a birthday party like no other! Time to book your birthday parties for 2025! Places are filling fast and we are so excited to give you a quick and easy, contact us at [email protected], https://bromleyparks.co.uk/beeche/.

Have your year sorted with a birthday party like no other! Time to book your birthday parties for 2025! Places are filling fast and we are so excited to give you a quick and easy, contact us at [email protected], https://bromleyparks.co.uk/beeche/.

Two weeks to go! We are so excited and look forward to seeing you there!

Traders for SEAS 2025

What a gorgoues day it has been! We had the honour of joining the rangers at one of our other parks today! We are getting very excited for our proper first week back with sessions and events this weekend, including the return of bug club, woodland toddler explorers and bug keeper experiences! Makesure you book on to avoid missing out; https://bromleyparks.co.uk/bookings/

Welldone Joe and Keira and Khloe for an amazing bug keeper experience you all did an excellent job and we throughly enjoyed having you!

We have snow, but don’t panic we are still open. Drive safely as the roads are still icey.

Welldone Monique for completing our arachnophobia course this afternoon! Willow our Curly Hair tarantula does an excellent job helping people conquer their phobias and showing everyone why we should love our gorgoues spiders! #2025

We are so excited to be invited back to the South East Arachnid Show on the 26th of January! We have a table and we hope to see you there 🤩

Sunday January 26th 2025 sees the 14th annual South East Arachnid Show,. This will be the only arachnid trade show in the south east of England. Doors open 11am and the show finishes at 5pm.

SEAS is held at the Ashford International Hotel in Ashford, Kent and sits just off junction 9 on the M20 so its easy to find. The full address of the venue is as follows.

Ashford International Hotel
Simone Weil Avenue,
Ashford,
Kent,
TN24 8UX
Tel: 01233 219988

Traders are offered entry at 8.30am on Sunday or alternatively they can store their stock at the hotel the night before the show.

The best ways of getting to the trade show are;
By car, just off junction 9 of the M20, it is also just 23 miles from Dover ferry port for anyone coming from the continent.
By train, the venue is 3 miles from Ashford international train station.

There is a small entrance fee to the show, the prices are as follows.

Adult – £5
Child (5yrs-15yrs) – £2
Child (under 5) – Free
O.A.P – £2
Cash only

Distance to travel? Don’t want to do an early morning start to get there on time?
The trade show is being held in a very plush 4* hotel so if you wish you could travel down the night before and have a night of luxury to wind down from your journey.
The hotel includes a gym, swimming pool, sauna and steam rooms — great for relaxing on the Saturday. The hotel is also equipped with a full bar and restaurant.

Leeds Castle described as the most beautiful castle in the world is 20 minutes away off Jcn 8 of the M20, with a 9 hole golf course, Go Ape attraction a hawking centre and of course the castle itself.

https://leeds-castle.com/

You also have the Mcarthur Glen factory outlet centre next to the railway station.

https://www.mcarthurglen.com/en/outlets/uk/designer-outlet-ashford?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA9bq6BhAKEiwAH6bqoO5cvdonIRIIRgqilJcDGx5U_b6QRWKuP4QIZjZYsAHhJGc-li_OtRoCgI0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

A discount is offered by the hotel for those staying on the saturday night, but we have found you will get cheaper prices on Trivago, booking.com etc

Another option available, is the Eureka business park 5 minutes from the hotel by the footbridge crossing the motorway from Sainsbury's or 1 minute by car. Here you have the choice of 2 budget hotels. As well as the hotels there is a Bannatyne’s health and fitness club, a 12 screen multiplex cinema with an imax and 4D screen and an array of eateries Frankie and Bennie’s, beefeater, Nandos,Chiquita,Pizza Hut, and the obligatory McDonalds, Burger King and KFC so you could turn it into a weekend break. If you are interested in the budget hotels, the details of the 2 hotels are as follows.

Travelodge, Ashford
Eureka Leisure Park,
Rutherford Way,
Ashford,
Kent
TN25 4BN
Tel: 0871 9846004

Premier Inn, Ashford
Eureka Leisure Park,
Rutherford Way,
Ashford,
Kent
TN25 4BN
Tel: 0845 080 5104

There are also 2 Holiday Inn within a 5 minute drive

Holiday Inn Ashford central
Canterbury Road,
Kennington,
Ashford
Kent
TN24 8QQ
Tel: 0871 942 9001

Holiday Inn Ashford North
A20 Maidstone Rd,
Ashford
Kent
TN26 1AR
Tel: 01233 713333

Another amazing bug keeper experience yesterday! We love seeing our wonderful customers come back to us! To watch them grow and show off the wonderful love they have for bugs! Well built a beautiful enclosure yesterday for our leaf insect 😍.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! Love from BEECHE 🎁🎄

What an amazing creation of enclosures during our bug keeper experience today! The sticks and our snail midnight loved them and we really enjoyed seeing our lovely customers come back time and time again!

Good afternoon all, we are so pleased to bring back our favourite club! Which is bug club and 2025 is going to have 20 weeks of sessions and include new animals! We are doing a special Christmas offer to get 3 for free!
Besides private experiences we are now closed until the new year but we will still be checking our emails and phone if you need us!

A very busy day today! We finished our last work experience group of the year, the friends of high elms had a big cook up to celebrate their last session. Finely most importantly we welcomed Ed! Ed is joining our educational team and with all his wonderful skills on breaking arachnophobia and knowledge on invertebrates we know he’s going to do an excellent job at BEECHE!

Our first day of the Christmas market has been amazing! Santa has brought many wonderful gifts and we are so excited for tomorrow! If you enjoyed your visit please share your photos and creations with us! Few spaces left on tomorrow’s session.

Two days left to go until our Christmas Market! We have a few final spots left for our Christmas craft and present from Santa. You can book through our website here; https://bromleyparks.co.uk/product/christmas-market/. The reptiles will also be here and lots of exciting stalls filled with wonderful little gifts to get your Christmas sorted!

Good morning all, we are unfortunately closed today due to being sort staffed! However, the centre will be open tomorrow as normal from 11:00-15:00. Please stay safe out there with these strong winds and have a lovely weekend.