Family Focus

FAMILY friendly

As you’d expect in a town with such a strong sense of community, Letchworth Garden City is the perfect place for families, with activities and attractions for all ages

For kids (and grown-ups) who are animal lovers, Standalone Farm has everything from alpacas to spring lambs, shire horses, playful goats, rabbits, a bull, geese, piglets and even a pair of friendly donkeys.

There are activities every day paths around the park, and

including the chance to bottle sunbathing, picnics and play, the

feed lambs in spring, groom ponies, help feed the pigs, watch milking demonstrations and then practise on a model cow, as well as tractor trailer rides.

The idyllic farm walk takes you past paddocks, grazing fields and ducks paddling happily in Pix Brook, offering the chance to observe the farmer and his team driving tractors, tending animals and other mornings, with tickets starting at £1,

aspects of life on a traditional working farm.

Greenway Café offers simple family lunches as well as drinks and snacks throughout the day. Plus there are picnic and play areas, ride-on toys Howard Park and Gardens is perfect for youngsters, with a heritage trail, children’s play area, paddling pool with play fountains, refreshments and a stage setting with banked seating for events. There are flat disabled parking and toilets.

Not far from the town centre on the edge of Norton Common is the historic heated lido, Letchworth Outdoor Pool. Set in lawned gardens with plenty of space for lido features an Olympic sized (50metre) pool alongside a toddlers’ pool, as well as a café for refreshments. As at the farm, parking here is free.

Also worth a look is the Kids’ Club at Broadway Cinema on weekend and a delightful model railway.

and our great range of sports clubs and facilities (See page 30).

Standalone Farm

Open March to October. Wilbury Road, SG6 4JN www.standalonefarm.com

Letchworth Outdoor Pool

Built in 1935 this 50-metre pool also offers a sunbathing area, toddler pool, refreshments and snacks, inflatables, floats and free car parking.

Open May to September Icknield Way, SG6 4UF www.stevenage-leisure.co.uk

Dot to Dot Gallery

Run by arts and enterprise charity Rhapsode, the gallery has resident artists, offers workshops and events, children’s storytelling sessions and an in-house craft café.

6-8 The Wynd, SG6 3EN www.rhapsode.org.uk

LETCHWORTH ARTS CENTRE

Offers a great range of after school and holiday activities from children’s theatre to art and drama classes, and a wonderful in-house cafe.

2, The Arcade, SG6 3EW www.letchwortharts.org