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Community

Scarborough 400: Stitch Your Story

Be a Part of Scarborough’s History! Join our Scarborough 400 Community Quilt Project. Help create a beautiful community wall hanging for Beeforth’s Hive. Join local sewing teacher Millie Robinson to celebrate 400 years of our town. Using Free-Motion Embroidery (drawing with thread), you will stitch a postcard panel of your favourite seaside memory: from the Castle to beach huts, South Cliff clock tower to dolphins… • When: Mondays 27 July, 3 August, or 10 August I 1pm — 4pm • Where: Beeforth’s Hive, South Cliff Gardens • Skills: Absolutely no experience needed. Machines and all upcycled fabrics provided! Age 10+ (under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult. Book your place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scarborough-400-stitch-your-story-tickets-1989088404964 Meet the maker. Millie Robinson is a North Yorkshire based artist and former primary school teacher with a passion for helping people of all ages find their creative joy through sewing. For this project, Millie is bringing her love of Scarborough to the Hive, guiding you to draw with thread and leave your own mark on our community quilt.

Mon 27 Jul14:00Beeforth’s Hive(1mi)

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Sports & Fitness

Pilates Plus

Crossgates Community Centre is being delightfully mysterious about Pilates Plus. Consider our curiosity piqued. Yours too, hopefully.

Tue 28 Jul10:30Crossgates Community Centre(2.7mi)

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Community

Go Wild - Love Parks Week

Join us for a morning of crafting fun inspired by the natural world. This week we are celebrating the gardens and the creatures who call it home with an opportunity to try out the new sculptures worksheet as well as other wildlife inspired crafts and activities. Free drop in session, no need to book. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Tue 28 Jul14:00Beeforth’s Hive(1mi)

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Community

Love Parks with Everyone Active

It’s a summer of sport with the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow this month. Our friends from Everyone Active will be helping us celebrate this and Love Parks week with a fun, free, kids obstacle course in the Shuttleworth Gardens. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Sorry only service dogs allowed in this garden.

Wed 29 Jul14:30Beeforth’s Hive(1mi)

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Arts & Culture

Beginners Knitting

Join Trudy, in a small friendly group as we learn how to cast on, garter stitch, stocking stitch, how to change colour and a rib stitch, and how to cast off.

Thu 30 JulThe Stitching Lady(0.3mi)

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Workshops & Classes

Hidden Messages in Nature: A Love Parks Creative Workshop

This workshop explores Scarborough’s beautiful South Cliff Gardens through a mix of observation and simple making, as part of Love Parks Week. Participants begin with a short walk, noticing colour, shape, and detail in the surrounding space, before creating paper flowers inspired by what they have seen. The session also introduces the idea that flowers can carry meaning, giving people a way to connect what they make with a feeling or idea. Participants can take inspiration from traditional flowers such as mignonette, stock, lupin, pink, pansy, and alyssum—plants that have long been part of Scarborough’s gardens—or create their own designs using colour and shape to express a feeling, memory, or message. The workshop also draws on European paper flower-making traditions, including Polish decorative styles, where paper is shaped, layered, and structured to create more detailed and expressive forms. Participants can keep their designs simple or develop more intricate pieces, depending on their interest and confidence. This workshop is most suitable for adults and older children, 12+ (all under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult). Booking essential, get your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-messages-in-nature-a-love-parks-creative-workshop-tickets-1988824720276

Thu 30 Jul14:00Beeforth’s Hive(1mi)

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Community

Busy Bees - Alice in Wonderland Themed Fun

We are “Going All In” for the National Year of Reading. All of this summers Busy Bee’s sessions will take inspiration from the books and stories we love and that have a link to the history, heritage and nature of the gardens. This week we are going down the rabbit hole for an Alice in Wonderland inspired session. This is a free drop in session, no need to book. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Thu 30 Jul14:00Beeforth’s Hive(1mi)

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Community

Book Club

Book Club — brought to you by Crossgates Community Centre and surfaced by us. A beautiful collaboration, if we do say so ourselves.

Thu 30 Jul20:00Crossgates Community Centre(2.7mi)

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CommunityFood & Drink

Coffee Morning

Another belter from Crossgates Community Centre. Coffee Morning — pop over to their site for the full lowdown.

Fri 31 Jul11:00Crossgates Community Centre(2.7mi)

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Live Music