The Secret Garden

We're back at Firs Farm in July! Next Wednesday 3rd July then 10th and 17th July before we take a break over the summer. We have an exciting line up of stories and activities coming up for you so be sure to book onto these popular sessions! Please note the new times in July:

Tales & Trails - 10.15am
Tiny Tales - 11.15am and 12pm

Book now at https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup

We look forward to seeing you for more magical adventures and fun next week!

Join us tomorrow at The Secret Garden at for magical adventures inspired by the story of The Enormous Turnip. Take a 30 min break from the heat for an air-conditioned session of smiles!

TINY TALES - 10.15 & 11.45AM. Ages 0 - 13 months
Nursery rhymes, music, movement and storytelling.

TALES & TRAILS - 11AM. Ages 1 - 5
Magical storytelling, drama, music and movement.

For info and to book see https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup

See you there!

Join us this Wednesday with your baby or little one for lots of fun, creative play and magical adventures at The Secret Garden at Firs Farm Community Hub! Sessions are just £6 and you can also enjoy amazing coffee and treats at Leon's café before/after as well as outdoor fun in the Wetlands. For more info & to book see https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup

Join us for a magical adventure with The Gingerbread Man at Tiny Tales and Tales & Trails tomorrow at

TINY TALES - Stimulating fun, songs, music and storytelling for our youngest customers. Ages 0 - 13 months, 10.15am or 11.45am, £6

TALES & TRAILS - Fun-filled interactive storytelling & drama session with songs, music and creative play. Ages 1 - 5, 11am, £6

More info and booking via https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup

We're back at Firs Farm next 22 May PLUS every Wednesday in June - yay!! Activity bookings are now open at https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup

Please book in advance as we were sold out last week!

Join us for:
TINY TALES - stimulating fun, songs, music and storytelling for our youngest customers. Ages 0 - 13 months

TALES & TRAILS - interactive storytelling & drama with songs, music and creative play (indoors) followed by a trail in the Wetlands forest area. Themed around a different popular story each time. Ages 1 - 5

We'll see you there!

Join us next Wednesday 8th May as we pop up in at their lovely new Community Hub. Book on to our popular activities at https://pbbl.uk/thesecretgardenpopup Only 2 spaces left at both Tiny Tales sessions so book soon!!

We can't wait to bring you lots of spooky fun this half term with café treats (including creepy cupcakes!), garden play and face painting with
And bookings are now open for our fang-tastic line up of activities for children age 1 - 8:

SPOOKY TALES & TRAILS
Lots of frightful fun with an interactive spookalicious storytelling session (indoors), magical songs, music and
creative play inspired by Winnie and Wilbur:The Amazing Pumpkin followed by an exciting Halloween-themed garden trail.
Ages: 1 - 7 years
Duration: 40 mins
Cost: £7.50 (siblings £6)

CREEPY CRAFTS
Head to the Creepy Craft Den with to design and create a boo-tiful spider web dream catcher using a wooden hoop, wool and ribbons before making spiders (scary or cute!) to take up residence in the web.
Ages: 2 years+
Duration: 30 mins
Cost: £6.50 (£5 siblings)

HALLOWEEN DRAMA
Take the story off the page and put it on the stage! A 60 minute drama workshop full of Halloween-themed fun and games. Children can get creative and exercise their imagination while parents can relax over coffee and cake at the 'audience' end of the room, ready to enjoy a relaxed performance finale at the end! Based on the book Winnie and Wilbur:The Amazing Pumpkin.
Ages: 4 - 8 years
Duration: 60 mins
Cost: £10 (siblings - £8.50)

We're excited to be back in Winchmore Hill this month with two fantastic events: Wow! Said the Owl and Dinosaur Fun.

As well as delicious homemade cake, drinks, snacks and themed craft packs in the cafe, bookings are now open via link in bio for our fantastic activities in the main room:

TALES & TRAILS ages 1 - 4
Fun-filled interactive storytelling session with songs, music and creative play followed by a garden trail. 

TINY TALES ages 0 - 1
We're introducing a new activity, which will be themed around the same story of the week but aimed at our youngest customers. Full of stimulating fun, music, movement and storytelling this session will engage and delight! This will be followed by a 'Coffee & Chat' half hour where you can stay in the activity room to chat to other mums/carers while enjoying drinks and cake from the café

CRAFT PACKS age 2+
Pick up one of the lovely packs with a different craft activity each time which will tie in with the theme/story of the week.

- join Zara for lots of Duplo building fun at 9.30am.

See you there!!

Head down the rabbit hole today at our Mad Hatter's Tea Party at Salisbury House. Open from 9.30am for these yummy cupcakes and more!

Dont miss our Mad Hatter's Tea Party this Wednesday 30 August at Salisbury House in Bush Hill Park. Lots of topsy-turvy fun and entertainment for children up to age 8. We still have a few spaces left on our activity sessions so book soon via link in bio!

Join our Alice's Adventures in Wonderland interactive storytelling session with music and drama at Tales & Trails at 1pm, then create your own special tea cup hat at 1.45pm at our Mad Hats Workshop with

The café is open from 9.30am for delicious homemade cake, drinks and lunch. We also have the wonderful face painting, and of course lots of play in the lovely enclosed garden. See you there!!

Dont miss our Mad Hatter's Tea Party this Wednesday 30 August at Salisbury House in Bush Hill Park. Lots of topsy-turvy fun and entertainment for children up to age 8. We still have a few spaces left on our activity sessions so book soon via link in bio!

Join our Alice's Adventures in Wonderland interactive storytelling session with music and drama at Tales & Trails at 1pm, then create your own special tea cup hat at 1.45pm at our Mad Hats Workshop.

The café is open from 9.30am for delicious homemade cake, drinks and lunch. We also have the wonderful face painting, and of course lots of play in the lovely enclosed garden. See you there!!

Amazing day yesterday at at our summer special event: The Good, The Bad & The Disney. We loved all of the fantastic fancy dress - we were honoured to have so many princesses and superheroes join us! We had loads of fun with Supertato and friends at Tales & Trails and evil pea cupcakes in the café, fabulous face painting with and a wonderful Disney sing along performance from our special guests, the incredible A HUGE thank you to everyone!!

We'll be back next month with our Mad Hatter's Tea Party on 30th August at Salisbury House. See link in bio for more info and activity bookings. See you there!

Don't miss our 2nd special event this summer... Mad Hatter's Tea Party!! Join us at Salisbury House on Wednesday 30th August to take a trip down the rabbit hole to enjoy lots of fantastical fun. Bookings are now open for our fab line-up of activities - see link in bio for more info and to book!

Don't miss the first of our two summer special events at the beautiful Salisbury House in Bush Hill Park. Children can come dressed as their favourite superhero, villain or princess!

The café will be open 9.30am - 2pm for delicious homemade cake (including superhero and princess cupcakes!), drinks and snacks, sandwiches and toasties. You can also enjoy lots of garden play, face painting with the fantastic as well as a free Disney sing-along at midday with our fabulous special guests

Don't miss an extra special, longer TALES & TRAILS. Supertato: Bubbly Troubly will be brought to life at this interactive storytelling session with songs, music, drama, bubbles and a craft activity. Followed by an exciting themed trail around the garden as you go on a hunt for all of Supertato's friends!

Or for younger ones we have the wonderful TINY TALES to enjoy lively songs, movement, magical bubbles and an engaging story followed by our garden trail.

BOOK ACTIVITIES NOW VIA LINK BIO. See you there!

Loads of roarsome fun at The Secret Garden in Winchmore Hill yesterday with The Lion Inside at Tales & Trails, lion puppet sticks and of course lion cupcakes! We'll be back at the Friends Meeting House N21 in September, in the meantime don't miss our 2 summer special events at Salisbury House - more info & bookings opening for 26 July tomorrow!!

Don't miss our summer special events at Salisbury House in Bush Hill Park, more details coming very soon!!!

In the meantime we're back next Wednesday 5 July in Winchmore Hill at the Friends Meeting House for lots of roarsome fun with The Lion Inside at Tales & Trails and delicious lion cupcakes and crafts in the café! Book T&T via link in bio to secure your place.

You're very welcome to bring older children too if the teacher's strike goes ahead on 5 July and we'll put on an extra Tales & Trails so they can enjoy the interactive storytelling and garden trail too. See you there!

We hope you're enjoying the sunny bank holiday weekend! We don't have an event this half term BUT we have three fantastic events coming up in June and July in Winchmore Hill:

Wednesday 7 June - The Snail and the Whale

Wednesday 14 June - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Wednesday 5 July - The Lion Inside

See link in bio to book on to Tales & Trails interactive storytelling and themed garden trail for just £4.50. We plan to be out in the lovely Friends Meeting House garden for these sessions if the weather is good, or otherwise we will be in the 'Story Cabin' by the café. We'll also have a new craft activity each week that will tie in with the story.

 will be running Duplo play sessions at 9.30am at these events, so why not join in the building fun before your Tales & Trails adventure.

In other news, we are currently making some exciting plans for a summer special event or two... More info coming very soon!! 

See you all soon for more cake and fun in the sun!

We're excited to share with you 3 new cafe event dates and themes coming up in Winchmore Hill!

Tales & Trails bookings are now open - don't miss our interactive storytelling sessions with music, movement and more followed by a trail around the lovely garden. Then enjoy a themed cupcake and craft activity in the cafe, open 9 - 11.45am. 

will be running 2 sessions on 17 May and it's 'Emergency' week the fab Duplo playroom.

We'll see you there!

We're back next Wednesday 3rd May! Head down to the Friends Meeting House in Winchmore Hill for lots of royal fun. We'll have coronation-themed cupcakes, décor and crown making to enjoy in the café, open 9 - 11.30am.

This week's king-inspired Tales & Trails story is Zog and The Flying Doctors by Julia Donaldson. Join our popular interactive storytelling session with songs, music and more then set off on your own regal quest around the garden to complete the themed trail.
TIME: 10.15 & 10.45
COST: £4.50
BOOK NOW via link in bio

See you there!

Happy Easter! 🐣🐰

We had so much fun with you last week at our Easter special event with egg hunts, Peter Rabbit Egg-ventures, animal encounters, ballet, street dance, glitter and of course lots of cake!

Enjoy a chocolate-filled weekend and we'll see you all soon!

Lots of lovely ladybird fun last week in N21 with What the Ladybird Heard at Tales & Trails, and ladybird cupcakes and ladybird stone decorating in the café! There were also some fab creations at

We're back on 5th April at Salisbury House for our Easter special event - see you there!

We're back next Wednesday 15th March in Winchmore Hill and have a delicious cake menu and two fantastic activities lined up for you! We'll be going on a farmyard adventure with Tales & Trails: What the Ladybird Heard. And yes, you guessed it, there'll be ladybird cupcakes to enjoy in the café. You can even pre-order so you can be sure not to miss out! 

As it's a teacher's strike day next Wednesday, you are very welcome to bring older children to enjoy our activities, cake and garden play too! Both and Tales & Trails will be suitable for 1 - 8 year olds.

See you there!

We're so eggs-cited to share with you the line-up for our Easter event on Wednesday 5th April. Activity bookings are now open via link in bio! See below for full details.

The café will be open from 9.30am - 2.30pm for delicious treats including Easter cupcakes, homemade cake, sandwiches & toasties, hot and cold drinks and children's snacks. As well as plenty of garden play we'll also have a glitter station for children to get face glitter and glitter tattoos!

A Peter Rabbit Egg-venture - enjoy a wonderful Peter Rabbit themed interactive storytelling session with songs, music, drama and a fun and creative craft activity (all indoors). Then it's time to set off on an eggs-citing egg hunt in the lovely Salisbury House garden.

Animal Encounters - join to meet a friendly selection of animals and creatures, some from Peter Rabbit including an adorable hedgehog and a cheeky frog!

Express Yourself 'Mini' Ballet with The Artz Kidz] - a fun ballet class using props and a variety of songs to help children express themselves through ballet movements.

Upbeat Pop/Street Dance with The Artz Kidz]  - learn how to find that beat and inner groove! Enjoy a great dance class that encourages children's confidence to shine.

We're back on Wednesday 22 February and we'll be popping up in a brand new venue! Join us for all the usual fun, cake, entertainment and garden play but this time at the Friends Meeting House, a lovely listed old building in Winchmore Hill.

Activities - we're kicking off Tales & Trails 2023 with an unmissable Gruffalo adventure! Interactive storytelling with songs, movement and more (indoors) followed by a garden trail. Just £4.50 - BOOK NOW via link in bio. will also be there with marvellous marble runs.

Café - we'll be open from 9am so you can come straight after the school run or grab your coffee and cake fix before Busybricks. We'll have toys inside the café or you can ask for a takeaway cup if you want to escape into the garden. We'll be open until 11.30am but you can stay and enjoy the garden after this. We'll be serving the usual delicious homemade cake, hot and cold drinks and snacks.

We'll update you later this month on events coming up in March onwards. We plan to continue to have some events at Salisbury House too. In the meantime, we would love it if you could pop by to join us on 22nd February in Winchmore Hill and tell us what you think - hope to see you there!

Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and got to enjoy lots of festive fun with your family. Can't quite believe it's 2023 but here we are! We had a blast with you all at our final event of 2022 back on 21st December.

To recover from all the excitement, we'll be taking a short break to allow for some valuable planning time and the joys of tax returns, as well as continuing negotiations with Enfield Council to ensure we can keep bringing you our fun, family, cake-filled events! We'll update you with our return date as soon as this is confirmed along with upcoming holiday special events. In the meantime, wishing you a wonderful start of the new year, hopefully feeling refreshed and full of exciting plans and ideas for the year ahead (oh yes, and hope the return to school went smoothly!!)

Look forward to seeing you all soon, The Secret Garden Team x

Join us next Wednesday 21st December, 9.30am - 2pm for loads of festive fun at our final event of 2022! Although most activity sessions are now full, there are still some spaces at TALES & TRAILS - A FESTIVE ADVENTURE at 9.30am for magical interactive storytelling, songs and puppetry (indoors) followed by a festive garden trail. Just £5 - book via link in bio!

You can also still come just to enjoy the cafe, open 9.30am - 2pm, for homemade Rudolph cupcakes & mince pies, hot & cold drinks, seasonal sandwiches & toasties along with festive tunes, face painting, Christmas shopping and a wonderful singalong finale Mumsing's Jammin' Christmas! We can't wait to see you and your Christmas jumpers next week!

We have a lovely selection of handmade gifts available to purchase and collect from The Secret Garden - check out our festive shop (link in bio). Including these adorable mini decorations perfect for elf on the shelf, dolls' houses, fairy gardens or as general fun decor around the home. Includes a mini Christmas tree, mini festive wreath, mini Christmas stocking and string of mini fairy lights, all in a mini burlap Christmas sack!

We also have Christmas Eve bags, dolls' accessories, toy oven gloves, children's hair clips and more. You can order online and collect from the café this Wednesday 7th or Wednesday 21st December. Or just get in touch if these aren't convenient. Happy shopping!

                                                   

Christmas is coming!!! And we can't wait to bring you a magical festive event on Wednesday 21st December. Dust off your santa hats and Christmas jumpers and head down to The Secret Garden for Rudolph cupcakes, mince pies, festive sandwiches, Christmas tunes, fabulous face painting and a festive singalong finale!

Here's our festive activity line up. Book via link in bio:

Christmas Cuddlies with
Enjoy meeting some adorable animals including a fluffy chinchilla, a furtive ferret and Shelly the terrapin. These fun-filled sessions will be interactive, educational and entertaining!
9.20am & 10.10am (30 mins)

Tales & Trails - A Christmas Adventure. Join us as we bring to life an exciting version of Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present by John Burningham. Ride, ski, fly and climb with Father Christmas on a Christmas Eve mission to Roly Poly Mountain! An interactive storytelling session  with music, movement and puppetry (indoors) followed by a festive garden trail inspired by the story.
9.30am, 10.15am & 12.30pm (30 mins)

Christmas Bauble Crafts - head to the Craft Den to create beautiful festive decorations with yarn wrapped shapes, pinecones, beads and buttons.
11am & 11.35am (30 mins)

Busybricks - Build, design and create with your child at the mega Duplo playroom - make colourful Christmas trees, grottos full of gifts, snowy scenes and more! Get building or sit back and enjoy coffee and cake from the café as the children play.
Time: 11am & 12.10pm (50 mins) Book at

MumSing Jammin' Christmas - join Sophie from for a special Jammin’ Christmas! Sing along to your favourite Christmas songs at our festive finale at 1pm (free to join in). Let's party!

We've lots of exciting activities for you in the run up to Christmas including a special festive event on Wed 21 Dec - activity bookings for this opening soon!

In the meantime, join us for term time fun with , Tales & Trails (indoors if wet/cold) and creative craft packs. We're next open on Wed 16th Nov and Wed 7th Dec from 10am - 12.30pm. There'll be plenty of heating on and we'll keep you warm with coffees, teas, hot chocolates and babyccinos! As well as outdoor play we also have mats and toys available inside from 10.30am for babies and children to enjoy.

WED 16 NOV
9.30am - Busybricks Duplo playroom - 'Land of the Dinosaurs'
10.40am - Tales & Trails storytelling and garden trail - Baby's First Bank Heist by Jim Whalley

WED 7 DEC
9.30am - Busybricks Duplo playroom - 'Christmas Trees and Santa's Grotto'
10.40am - Tales & Trails storytelling and garden trail - Stickman by Julia Donaldson

Book activities now via link in bio or at www.thesecretgardenpopup.com or just pop in for drinks and homemade cake!

Spooktacular fun at our Halloween special event today!! Haunted houses with , creepy creatures with , trick or treat tote bag crafting with , twitchy witches and spooky spiders at Tales & Trails and fang-tastic monster and spider cupcakes in the café.

See you again soon... we're back next Wednesday 2nd November!