Easter Passion Play

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Join the community event in the Abbey Grounds and witness the Passion Play

The Big Easter Event in Abingdon on Saturday, 6th April, is set to be great fun for the whole community with the highlight being the Passion Play.

It tells of the dramatic final days of Jesus’s life. The rollercoaster from adoration by the crowds through plotting, cynical power politics, suffering and betrayal to the end…but what end?

The aim of putting on the Passion Play is not to project any particular interpretation of the events of those days, but to encourage people to think about the events in their own way…what do they mean? Should they mean something? So what happened and why did it happen?

This will be the third time that the Passion Play attempts to answer these questions, after 2013 and 2016, but this time with a difference. The 2019 staging will be a completely new production featuring a small team of professional actors from LAMPS  Collective, an Abingdon based theatre company. These will be supported by a large ensemble of amateur actors and singers who will have the exciting opportunity of performing alongside them – many local people who been attending auditions and rehearsals over the past few weeks. It builds on the experience of the successful creative team which staged previous productions and will once again be directed by Sam Pullen-Campbell.

The Passion Play will be re-inacted from 2pm to 3pm in the Abbey Grounds, where beforehand the Big Easter Event which starts at 12.30pm will entertain with live music from local choirs and musicians, food including lots of chocolate, spring crafts and games and stalls.

For more to do at Easter, check out our Easter egg-stravaganza

Easter egg-stravaganza

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Shell out on some family fun at these cracking Easter egg hunts.

Who doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt? You may pretend you’re helping your children or grandchildren around the trail looking for chocolate treats but in reality you can’t wait to join in the eggcellent fun yourself – chocolate doesn’t care how old you are. Here’s our round-up of some of the many hunts you can get cracking on during the Easter holidays.

Unless stated booking is not necessary for events

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Shell out on some family fun at these cracking Easter egg hunts.

Who doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt? You may pretend you’re helping your children or grandchildren looking for the chocolate treats but in reality you can’t wait to join in the eggcellent fun yourself – chocolate doesn’t care how old you are. Here’s our round up of some of the many hunts you can get cracking on during the Easter holidays.

             *Unless stated booking is not necessary for events

Dapdune Wharf, Guildford

Family fun, craft and the all-important egg hunt.

Friday 19th April, 11am-5pm

Polesden Lacey, near Dorking

Polesden’s animals are being spring cleaned; work out what is recycled and what is upcycled in the woodland to win a chocolate prize.

Saturday 6th-Monday 22nd April, 10am-3pm, £3 plus admission

Watts Gallery, Compton

Complete the Moonscapes trails and earn yourself a chocolate treat.

Tuesday 9th-Monday 22nd April, 10am-5pm, free with admission, pre-booking advised

Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming

Follow a fun-filled trail around the arboretum and win a delicious treat at the end.

Saturday 6th-Monday 22nd April, 10.30am-6pm, £3 plus admission

Cranleigh Showground

Cranleigh & District Lions Club’s Great Easter Egg hunt offers the chance to win a chocolate egg if you find a plastic one. Lions along the route will have buckets of mini eggs, if you need extra energy during the hunt too!

Friday 19th April, 10.30am, for children 10 and under, must be accompanied by an adult, free

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Bocketts Farm, Fetcham

Follow a themed-trail with choccy treats, enjoy craft corner and meet cute newborn chicks too at the Easter extravaganza.

Saturday 6th-Tuesday 23rd April, 10am-5.30pm

Birdworld, Holt Pound, Farnham

Join the dinosaur Easter egg hunt, follow the Easter trail, and have some arts & crafts fun as well as watching the regular penguin feeding!

Monday 8th-Thursday 18th April

Shalford Mill

Follow the White Rabbit – it wouldn’t be Easter without a bunny – and find clues from Alice in Wonderland on this Wonderland-themed trail to claim enough points to win a chocolate egg.

Saturday 20th-Monday 22nd April, 11am-4pm, £3 plus admission

Gilbert White House, Selbourne

Use your orienteering skills to find the Easter bunnies hiding in the gardens.

Saturday 6th-Monday 22nd April, free with entry

sutton green garden centre, Guildford

Search the garden centre for the clues to work your way to the Easter bunny and collect your chocolate treat!

Saturday 13th-Sunday 21st April, only £1 each

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Shell out on some family fun at these cracking Easter egg hunts.

Who doesn’t love an Easter egg hunt? You may pretend you’re helping your children or grandchildren around the trail looking for chocolate treats but in reality you can’t wait to join in the eggcellent fun yourself – chocolate doesn’t care how old you are. Here’s our round-up of some of the many hunts you can get cracking on during the Easter holidays.

Unless stated booking is not necessary for events

The Oakley Court, Windsor

The Easter bunny has checked into the hotel and hidden clues around the hotel and grounds. Use the clue sheet to solve the missing word and a delicious treat will be waiting for you.

Friday 19th-Monday 22nd April, free for all

Highclere Castle, near Newbury

Follow a trail through the ‘Downton Abbey’ gardens and woodland finding clues en route to claim your Easter egg. Easter bonnet competition (entries welcome), bouncy castle and other games. Easter trail in aid of the Murray Parish Trust which supports children’s emergency services across the south of England.

Sunday 21st April, 11am-3pm, pre-booking of adult tickets essential, £7, numbers of children needed

Basildon Park, near Reading

Little ones can follow the Ranger’s dog Buddy on an adventure around the parkland while older ones can follow a day in the life of Leo the Ranger and learn about the work they do on the estate.

Saturday 6th-Tuesday 23rd April, £3 plus admission

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Cliveden, Taplow

Solve the clues along the trail with the theme of natural life cycles, to enjoy chocolate at the end.

Saturday 6th-Monday 22nd April, 10.30am-3.30pm, £3 plus admission

Greys Court, Henley

There are two separate trails to be enjoyed at Greys Court this Easter; hunt for clues in the run-up to and over the Easter weekend. If you’re lucky you may get to both, for double the chocolate!

Saturday 6th-Tuesday 23rd April, 10am-5pm, £3 plus admission

Blenheim Palace, Woodstock

Enjoy a traditional fairground with the Easter trail in the wonderland at Blenheim Palace.

Friday 19th-Monday, 22nd April, free with annual pass or from £43 for a family ticket (2&2) including entry to palace, gardens and grounds

Fairytale Farm, Chipping Norton

Explore the Giant Rabbit Burrow and meet the Easter Bunny, who will tell an Easter story; every child will receive a full size Easter egg. Join the Easter Bunny over Easter weekend who has hidden six golden eggs on the Enchanted Walk trail – find their location and win a chocolate prize. Other activities over the holiday period, 6th-22nd April.

Buscot and Coleshill Estates, near Swindon

Hunt for nature clues around Buscot Weir to win.

Friday 19th-Monday 22nd April, 11am-3pm, £3 plus admission