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Event Audience: Children

Our Local Heroes, is a collection of artworks immortalising the famous (and not so famous) amazing people that live or once lived in and around our borough.

Using a range of print techniques including Collagraphy, Risograph and Press Printing, artists have created art pieces and designs that have incorporated a unique stamp collection.

Look out for locals such as Dr Barnardo, Fanny Cradock, Barbara Windsor, Sir Winston Churchill, Alfred Hitchcock and many more… There’s even some current local heroes that you should learn about.  

Created by adults with learning disabilities and/or autism through their day opportunity services for a developing exhibition in 2024 at Tate Modern, this has become a collection like no other.  This project is led and promoted by Uniting Friends.

Thanks to artist from:

LBR WEL services (Woodbine, Link Place)

Snaresbrook Arts

London Ability (Ellingham)

Disability Resource Centre

Supported by Colours of Redbridge through the Creative People and Places fund, Arts Council England.

Join us in celebrating this famous fictional elephant and create your own colourful patchwork Elmer Picture!

Calling all budding gardeners and their families! Join the Woodford Greeners for games, stories and help us spruce up the library planter.

The Woodford Greeners are a local volunteer-led community gardening group passionate about making Woodford Green even greener and sharing this passion with others. Join us for a hands-on gardening adventure where young green thumbs will dig, plant, and learn all about how things grow as they help us spruce up our library planter!

Tools will be provided, but we encourage everyone to get stuck in and recommend you wear something you don’t mind getting dirty.

Suitable for kids 3yrs+ and their families.

Join us for a fun-filled afternoon celebrating 25 years of support from the Friends of Valentines Mansion!

Explore the splendour of our Victorian kitchen and discover the secrets behind making jam tarts with potato pastry. Enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities including children’s crafts, delicious Victorian cakes and refreshments, and live music from guest musicians.

The event also features a special prize-giving ceremony for the Friends’ 2025 Children’s Poetry Competition — reserve your place for this part of the afternoon via the booking link.

No need to book for the main event — just drop in and enjoy this event organised by the Friends of Valentines Mansion!

Join us for an evening featuring our senior ensembles, Jazz Orchestra and Saxophone Ensemble. The groups will be playing an array of jazz favourites. 

Pay on the door

Doors open at 7.00pm, concert starts at 7.30pm

No charge for children accompanied by an adult. Seating will be café style.

Join us and create a personal card to give to someone special this Fathers Day.


We’ve discovered a vintage Carrom board in the library—but we don’t know how to play!If anyone drops in who knows the game, we’ll set it up for a fun teach-and-play session forages 5+. Come along, share your skills, or learn together—let’s see what happens!

Free, drop-in for families, limited spaces.

Photo by gingerbeardman on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)​

Sonia Sabri Company presents Mughal Miniatures: Animal Paradise 

Mughal Miniatures is a vibrant outdoor performance for all the family, which celebrates and takes inspiration from the exquisite traditional art of Indian and Persian miniature painting. Performers in sumptuous costumes create a captivating living-picture, transporting you back in time to the richness of the Mughal Empire with a surprising contemporary twist.

Mughal Miniatures: Animal Paradise explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through expressive dance, evocative puppetry and incredible music.

Free, no need to book, just turn up.

Sonia Sabri Company has created an Easy Read document about the show, which you can read here.

About Sonia Sabri Company

Sonia Sabri Company is the UK’s leading South Asian dance and music company. Established in 2002 and joining the Arts Council’s National Portfolio in 2012, Sonia Sabri Company (SSCo) is led by Artistic Director, Sonia Sabri and Musical Director, Sarvar Sabri. SSCo is a Birmingham Hippodrome associate company and partners with many organisations across the West Midlands. The Company’s work pushes boundaries and collaborates across art forms such as dance, digital, theatre, visual arts, and live music.

Mughal Miniatures has been supported by Without Walls and co-commissioned by Applause, Brighton Festival, Certain Blacks and Hat Fair.

An ideal taster session which is suitable for competent riders who have limited off road cycling experience who would like to try mountain biking.

Redbridge Cycling Centre offers one-to-one coaching sessions for adults and children (recommended age 6 and above) who want to learn to ride. Whether you’re starting from scratch or just need a refresher, it’s never too late to learn!

Over the past year, hundreds of people have successfully learned to ride with us. Most learners pick up the basics within a single one-hour session, although follow-up or refresher sessions are available if needed.

Please note that these sessions are very popular, and a waiting list may be in operation during busy periods.

All sessions take place outdoors, so please dress appropriately for the weather. Refunds are only available if a session is cancelled by the centre.

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