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We need your help! Crowdfunding the new English fairytale
We’re dipping our toe in the water of crowd-funding, and would like to invite you to help us to publish a beautifully bound and illustrated version of the new English fairy tale that you helped to create at the Spellbound Forest. Contribute £10 to receive a copy of the book through the post, with your ...
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
If you came to the Spellbound Forest, you probably stood and listened for a while to the classical musicians along the paths and deeper in the woods. What you may not have realised, was that they were playing a specially commissioned piece. The Book of Imaginary Beings was written by composer James Stephenson just for ...
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Spellbound Setup Blog
Thursday Wow, what a day. From a beautiful forest, the site is slowly becoming more and more enchanting. Every time I walk along a path, something new and wonderful has appeared. It feels more and more like it is waiting for you all to arrive and really bring it to life. Warning! Turning the corner ...
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What goes where at the Spellbound Forest?
Here is a more detailed map of what will be happening where at the Spellbound Forest. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to pick up a copy when you arrive.
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We believe in fairy tales
Do you? There will be some nice things to buy at the Spellbound Forest like t-shirts, activity books, pencils and crowns to tell the world that you believe in fairy tales too.
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Northern Rail laying on extra Sunday trains for Spellbound!
We’re ever so pleased to announce that Northern Rail are laying on extra trains to Delamere on the Sunday of the Spellbound Forest. Here is the special Sunday timetable for Sunday 20th May. For other train times and fares information visit northernrail.org or call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 48 49 50.
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Origami Bird
Add to the glorious flock of birds on the Earl Mar’s daughter’s pathway, but making one of these origami birds at home, and bringing it with you to hang in the trees of the Spellbound Forest.
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Travel Activity Pack
Our marvellous friends from Creative Tourist have put together this fantastic activity pack. Especially for families travelling by train. Lots of things to read and do, print it and get stuck in! Note: additional trains may be added to the Sunday timetable – we’ll keep you posted.
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The Spellbound Forest receives Arts Council funding
We are thrilled to have been awarded Grants for the Arts funding from Arts Council England. The funding will in part go towards the Spellbound Forest, being held at Delamere Forest in May and also support the organisation’s development and to further establish them within the family arts sector. Wild Rumpus was set up in ...
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90% of us can’t name an English Fairy Tale
We all know the stories of Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood and Snow White, but Macclesfield-based arts organisation Wild Rumpus have revealed in a survey that 90% of people couldn’t think of one fairy tale that they knew to be English. While it’s never in doubt that England has a long history of folklore and fairy ...
