Easter Highlights

Here’s our pick of the best days out, events and activities for all the family this Easter you won’t want to miss.

Brewery Square’s Swashbuckling Easter

There’s plenty of family fun at Brewery Square in Dorchester this Easter.

The hugely popular Easter Egg Hunt is back from 10 – 13 April, as you’re invited to hunt for the Easter Egg images around the square in return for a free Easter prize! Simply collect a form from the Concierge Office (opposite the Dorchester South Station), and return your completed form to claim your prize!

Popular children’s entertainers Cook and Line from CBeebies Swashbuckle are performing their muchloved pirate show on Saturday 11 April. This free family show is guaranteed to entertain, as Cook and Line act, sing and dance on stage. Two free 30-minute performances will take place at 11am and 1pm.

Plus, there’s a competition for five lucky families to meet Cook and Line after their first performance, so keep an eye on Brewery Square’s social media for details.

Fun For All at Verwood Hub

Whether you enjoy live concerts or shows, watching the latest blockbusters, want to improve your health and fitness or simply need a place to meet and have a coffee, the Verwood Hub, Community and Leisure is the place to be.

The Verwood Hub is a hugely versatile facility which includes the fantastic Merryfield Theatre, featuring a brand-new, digital surroundsound cinema showing some of the latest releases. Make the most of a state-of-the-art Technogym gym, 3G football pitches, sports hall, a licensed bar as well as free Wi-Fi!

With an exciting and varied calendar of events including shows, theatre, cinema, concerts and cabaret evenings, there’s something for the entire family to enjoy! Find out more at www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/verwood-hub

Bournemouth Easter Fun Fair

Enjoy all the fun of the fair at Bournemouth’s Redhill Park from Saturday 4th April until Sunday 19th April.

Open daily from 1pm until 10pm, there’s fun for the whole family with all your favourite thrill rides, children’s rides, games and side stalls, as well as plenty of places to grab a tasty snack.

And best of all, each ride is just £1 per person every day! (Excluding extreme rides.) Don’t miss all the fun of the fair at Bournemouth’s largest Easter event.

Warning! Extreme Fun Alert!

Exciting Science, the brand new, exciting and educational show will amaze and astound all ages from 4 years & upwards, as they put the “Exciting” back into “Science”. (See what we did there!)

With fun and fact filled experiments, watch in amazement as our crazy scientists recreate a volcanic eruption, turn a vacuum cleaner into a missile launcher or take aim at you with our smoke blaster! So, stand clear and prepare for action, as this show is full of wiz, bang, pop (and splurt!).

Showing at The Regent Centre, Christchurch, 11am on Saturday 18th April so book your tickets now at regentcentre.co.uk

Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park

Explore an amazing underwater world and journey to the ocean depths at Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park! Get up close to over 2,000 creatures, including our playful otters and rescued sea turtles. Then meet the world’s smallest penguins at Fairy Penguin Island. Native to Australia, they are the only colony that you can see in all of the UK!

Plus, NEW for 2020! Our state-of-the-art attraction, NIGHT & DAY, opens in April! Experience the 24-hour wonder of a coral reef as it moves from night to day in our re-imagined Ocean Tunnel display.

Dance along the bio-fluorescent tropical shore and then journey underwater, surrounded by Blacktip reef sharks, Green sea turtles, and a beautiful array of tropical fish species... We can’t wait for you to see it!

New Tree Top Trail at Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Centre

Launching this Spring, the Tree Top Trail at Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Centre is an exciting high ropes adventure for all the family!

Experience a thrill from new heights as you swing through the trees, cross rope bridges and zip line to the finish.

Available for families and groups soon - be the first to experience the adventure by following Avon Tyrrell on Facebook or Instagram or visit www.avontyrrell.org.uk

Horrible Histories: The Worst of Barmy Britain

We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So, prepare yourselves for Horrible Histories live on stage with the West End show that’s never toured before!

It’s history with the nasty bits left in! What if a Viking moved in next door? Why not light up your life with the great fire of London? Will you see eye to eye with Admiral Nelson? Does the Duke of Wellington get the boot?

This fantastic show will entertain all ages with its hysterical historical journey through the barmiest bits of British history, at the Christchurch Regent Centre, at 1.30pm & 4.30pm on 4th April.

Alice in (Wimborne) Wonderland

Panto time? Oh, yes it is! Join Alice as she falls down the rabbit hole and finds herself in the most peculiar place she’s ever seen! She’ll need her wits about her as the evil, but hilarious, Queen of Hearts is after the secret recipe to create the best Jam Tarts for her tea party!

Alice will need her Wonderland friends’ help to stop the evil Queen from stealing the recipe, as they fight good against evil and discover the power of true friendship. Will they make it to the tea party? Come along to the Tivoli Theatre this Easter and find out!

GO EAST at Monkey World this Easter

Monkey World are fundraising for their charity EAST (Endangered Asian Species Trust) who are preparing to release gibbons back into the wild in Vietnam.

The gibbons were rescued from the black market trade, and to ensure their safety in the forest, the team need to buy new radio collars so they can track their journey back to the wild. Learn all about their work and join in on the stalls, trails, games & activities during the Easter holidays to help put gibbons back into the trees!

You can also see over 250 rescued monkeys and apes. Many of the primates have been neglected, kept in unnatural conditions, or experienced unbelievable cruelty. Monkey World rehabilitates them back into family groups, where they can all enjoy the company of their own kind in a safe and natural environment.

Over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, Monkey World will also be giving away free Easter Eggs daily to the first 100 children into the park. Visit www.monkeyworld.org for details.