What's On

Every Tuesday

Swanage Walking for Health run short walks in Swanage every Tuesday morning. The group usually split into two groups depending on the abilities of those attending, with one of the options being to walk on Swanage Pier. 

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May 2019

Pause at the Pier -  Mindfulness Walk

Saturday 11th May at 8.00am

Join "mindful nurse" Nikki Harman (RGN) for a mindfulness-based stroll on the pier, with some relaxing techniques to add in to the beautiful scenery and put a spring in your step.

£5.00 per person 

BOOK  HERE

Park to Pier Walk: Jurassic Coast

Sunday 12th May

10.30am - 12.00pm

Join a Jurassic Coast Ambassador for a guided walk along the edge of Durlston Bay and learn about the environment in which this coastline formed. £3

BOOK  HERE

Pause at the Pier  - Mindfulness Walk

Tuesday 14th May at 9.30am

Join "mindful nurse" Nikki Harman (RGN) for a mindfulness-based stroll on the pier, with some relaxing techniques to add in to the beautiful scenery and put a spring in your step.

£5.00 per person 

BOOK  HERE

Pirate Themed Activities on the Pier 

In conjunction with the Purbeck Pirate Festival Weekend, we are holding two activities on the Pier.

Make your own Pirate Mask 

Saturday 25th May - 10.00am-4.00pm  

Join in and make yourself a pirate mask to take home with you . . . simple cutting and sticking with artist Darrell Wakelam. Just turn up and have run.  £3.00 per person

Pirate Magic Show

Sunday 26th May

10.00am-4.00pm with shows at 11.00am & 2.30pm

Kevin Burke returns to the pier with his hugely popular Pirate Magic Show; and between shows, Kevin will be stilt-walking around the area and making balloon models... fun for kids and adults alike! Donations welcome

June 2019

Creative Writing and Poetry on the Pier - Journeys 

Tuesday 4th June 2019

10.30am-12.00pm

Join Jurassic Coast (UNESCO World Heritage Site) poet-in-residence, Sarah Acton for a gentle morning of creative writing and poetry on the pier. On the theme of journeys, we’ll connect creativity and writing to sense of place by finding out more about the pier as a place where so many journeys started and ended by paddle steamer and local railway, weaving memory and imagination to travel together on the page. We’ll see Swanage Bay from the pier’s-eye-view, working with the outdoor creative process and the natural landscape to inspire and stimulate. With readings, prompts and reflection, we will write and share journey-inspired words. All levels and abilities welcome.

These walking workshops take place outdoors, walking at a slow and gentle pace along the pier with seating and frequent rest stops on route. Please dress for the weather and bring a pencil and paper to write on. You may also like to bring a cushion. If the weather is too wild and woolly to hold onto our paper and pens, we will move indoors and use the classroom.

Cost: £10.00 per person

BOOK  HERE

Pause at the Pier - Mindfulness Walk

Saturday 22nd June at 8.00am

Join "mindful nurse" Nikki Harman (RGN) for a mindfulness-based stroll on the pier, with some relaxing techniques to add in to the beautiful scenery and put a spring in your step.

£5.00 per person 

BOOK  HERE

Creative Writing and Poetry on the Pier - Purbeck Stone

Wednesday 26th June 

10.30am-12.00pm

Join Jurassic Coast (UNESCO World Heritage Site) poet-in-residence, Sarah Acton for a gentle morning of creative writing and poetry on the pier. We are taking Purbeck stone as our theme, connecting creativity and writing to the shifting living landscape to reflect on how quarrying and stone shaped lives here, weaving our own memory and imagination with the course of the stoneboats. We’ll see Swanage town and the local landscape from the pier’s-eye-view, working with the outdoor creative process and nature to inspire and stimulate. With readings, prompts and reflection, we will write and share Purbeck stone-inspired words. All levels and abilities welcome.

These walking workshops take place outdoors, walking at a slow and gentle pace along the pier with seating and frequent rest stops on route. Please dress for the weather and bring a pencil and paper to write on. You may also like to bring a cushion. If the weather is too wild and woolly to hold onto our paper and pens, we will move indoors and use the classroom.

Cost: £10.00 per person

BOOK  HERE

July 2019

Creative Writing and Poetry on the Pier - The Sea

Tuesday 30th July 

10.30am-12.00pm

Join us to celebrate National Marine Week with Jurassic Coast (UNESCO World Heritage Site) poet-in-residence, Sarah Acton for a gentle morning of creative writing and poetry on the pier. We will take the sea as our theme, using the very special vantage position of Swanage Pier to connect our writing to the coastal landscape, using memory and imagination to travel in time and over miles. We’ll see Swanage and the local seascape from the pier’s-eye-view, working with the outdoor creative process and nature to inspire and stimulate. With readings, prompts and reflection, we will write and share sea-inspired words. All levels and abilities welcome.

These walking workshops take place outdoors, walking at a slow and gentle pace along the pier with seating and frequent rest stops on route. Please dress for the weather and bring a pencil and paper to write on. You may also like to bring a cushion. If the weather is too wild and woolly to hold onto our paper and pens, we will move indoors and use the classroom.

Cost: £10.00 per person

BOOK  HERE

September 2019

Park to Pier Walk: Jurassic Coast

Saturday 14th September

Find out why Swanage and Durlston Bays exists and how they formed. Learn about the types of rocks seen and the environments they formed in, and also the geological structure of the area.  £3

BOOK  HERE

If you would like to help out at an event please see our volunteering page or get in touch.

Watch this space for more events coming soon, you can also visit our Facebook page for further information.