Cliffe Castle Support Group

05/06/2026

Great idea 🐇🐦‍⬛🐝

05/06/2026

Monday Group 1st of June

After a very busy half term holiday at the park our intrepid volunteers, tidied up the car park whilst it was the quietest time of the day.
We often can’t retrieve the litter underneath parked cars when we do our Sunday morning litter pick. So this is a very helpful alternative approach and it keeps this much used area looking welcoming and tidy.

Some light pruning was also done to the beautiful fragrant roses and plants around the edges. With this TLC these roses keep flowering until the end of summer, have a sniff next time you pass they are gorgeous.

Our next Monday group meet-up is on the 15th June 3pm-4pm, it’s a drop in so just come along - meeting place the lodge yard.
Alternatively email [email protected], so we know that you are joining us.

04/06/2026

Cliffe Castle Bee Blog
Read all about it. 🐝🙃🌸

2026: CC Bee Blog 6Catastrophe! When Andy and I checked the colony on Monday 1 June, we found that they had swarmed and we had a much-reduced number of bees, with a few eggs and larvae on 4 frames. Museum staff member, Sally Anne, advised that they had swarmed on Saturday 30 May. This was two days b...

29/05/2026

Free activities for under five’s

Free drop-in play sessions for U5s at Keighley museum

23/05/2026

Cliffe Castle Park Tree of the Month May

Hawthorn
Looking fabulous a pollinator haven full of blossoms.
📍Sound up.

22/05/2026

Hidden West Yorkshire

Great listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nm7zj6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

20/05/2026

CCSG Pollinator and Monday Group Gardening Activities

Did you know honeybees support 50% of food production world wide which requires pollination, the other 50% is supported by wild bees and other pollinators.

Wild bees are important too. 🐝

CCSG volunteer pollinator activities create a safe environment, habitat and food source for all species which visit Cliffe Castle Park.
We also encourage visitors to get involved in the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme POMs doing citizen science FIT count through out the summer months. Our next planned FIT count is 28th June.
We share our knowledge through Bee ID sessions and family walks.

With close links to Airedale Beekeepers association, who join us at community and museum events supporting their observation hive in the museum, lookout for their Cliffe Castle bee blog which they post weekly.

Photo credit VP Cliffe Castle Lavender 2025



Airedale BKA
Bradford District Parks
Bradford Museums and Galleries

20/05/2026

Community Gardening at Cliffe Castle Park with Get Out More this Friday 25th May. ⬇️

Bradford District Parks

*Call for volunteers!!*
Could you lend a hand with the community garden at Cliffe Castle Park this Friday? We will be making pallet compost bins for putting weeds in and along with a few other projects. No experience necessary🌱 if you would like to get involved please contact us on 01535 668588 or [email protected]

Cliffe Castle Support Group
Keighley Town Council
Keighley Healthy Living

20/05/2026

Celebrate at Cliffe Castle — beautiful gardens, thriving wildlife and the perfect reminder of how important our pollinators are. Head inside the museum to see the working hive and its incredible colony in action. A lovely day out in nature.

https://www.visitbradford.com/things-to-do/cliffe-castle-museum-and-park-p1622031

17/05/2026

Pollinator & Wildlife at Cliffe Castle

Today we couldn’t do the pollinator count because of the temperature and intermittent showers.
🐝We were going to set up at the beautiful Hawthorn tree at the bottom of the large sloping field. It’s completely full of blossom and looks stunning amongst all the fresh green spring leaves of surrounding trees.
🌳The tree stands in the meadow which is left to grow all summer, not just for “No Mow May” when the wildflowers and grasses get a little longer extra footpaths will be cut into the meadow grass, giving easy access for those who want to enjoy walking through the long meadow flowers and grasses.
🐝Feeling inspired by all the different flowers already growing there, I decided to take a look at other No Mow areas. Year on year extra little pockets of wildflower areas are appearing, yet the playing fields and formal gardens look tidy and welcoming. I like this balance and hope it inspires visitors to keep on visiting, and enjoy the diversity of the park.
👍Well done to Cliffe Castle grounds team who put a lot of thought and effort into planning and development of these beautiful larger wildlife areas. Many areas are extending much further than May, into the summer, supporting pollinators, wildlife, education and wellbeing.



Bradford District Parks
Bradford Museums and Galleries
Bradford Council