The Manchester Festival of Nature
The Manchester Festival of Nature continues to introduce local people to the wild plants and creatures that inhabit the city and its surroundings, organised by the Manchester Nature Consortium.
The Manchester Festival of Nature 2024 will be the usual mix of family friendly arts, craft and musical activities introducing visitors to the brilliant wildlife of Manchester.
It will be the fourth live festival, with between 5,000-7,000 people turning up at Heaton Park in 2019, 2022 and 2023, and, hopefully, the sun will shine and more people will come along.
Activities will include natural dyeing, mindfulness, forest bathing, a giant Jenga, wildlife recording, wind spinners, woodland games, willow weaving, seed bombs, scavenger hunts, den building, sphagnum squeezing and some clever research games from MMU. There will music adding to the great atmosphere.
The festival will begin at noon, with the LEGENDARY POLLINATOR PARADE taking place from 1-1:30pm. It will end at 4pm.
The people of Manchester are so lucky to have such wonderful wildlife on their doorsteps and we can't wait to help them experience it
Who was involved in MFoN 2023?
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside | City of Trees | Action for Conservation | The Conservation Volunteers | Manchester Museum |  Canal and River Trust | Lancashire Peatlands Initiative | The National Trust | The Mersey Rivers Trust | Mums for Lungs | Northern Lily CIC | Communitree Outdoor Education Ltd | A Mind Full of Trees | The South Pennines Park | Plantlife | Manchester Friends of the Earth | Manchester Metropolitan University | Calm At Work | Ceebee Gold Foundation International | Wild Awake Mindfulness | South Lancashire Bat Group | Idaraya Life CIC | Standard Practice | Lingua GM CIC | Manchester City Council | Heaton Park
This is a chance to understand and cherish the amazing wildlife in the city