Victoria Park Barry's first park to be awarded the prestigious Green Flag Award    Victoria Park is a classic historic park tucked away in Cadoxton on the eastern side of Barry. It offers a unique blend of traditional and modern features and planting within its 6.5 acre grounds.

 

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You can keep right up to date with events on our Facebook page. Join the group and get all the latest news as soon as it happens.

 

Latest photos from Halloween and Children in Need are available on our Facebook page.

 

Further details of all events from Jon Greatrex, Victoria Park Manager 07809 551465 / 01446 709580. Email jgreatrex@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk   

 

Events

 

The Victoria Parkies Easter Egg Quiz.

Date: Good Friday 29 March 2013

Venue: The Park Office, Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  10am to 1pm

Come along to our fun quiz for families and kids. Find some clues, answer some easy and some (a bit) harder questions, and win an Easter Egg.  As usual there will be plenty of prizes, fun and games for all ages.

 

Hope for Evie Charity Easter Fete.

Date: Saturday 30 March 2013

Venue: Victoria Park

Time:  12 – 4 pm

Come along with the family and enjoy a day of fun and games. With bouncy castles, face painting, stalls, police dog demo, music, games, local talent, ices, BBQ, and much, much, more. All in aid of hopeforevie.co.uk

 

                      

Play Aloud! At Victoria Park this Easter

Date: Tuesday 2 April-Friday 5 April 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  11am-1pm

Admission: Free - An adult must attend and register their children for these events.

For the second week of the Easter holidays, the Play Aloud team will be running free, open access play sessions at Victoria Park. Children aged 5-14 years are free to drop in and out at their leisure. We will have a range of play activities including arts and crafts, outdoor play, and cooking (facilities allowing).

 

For more information contact the Play Aloud team on 01446 704738 / 007702 678328

 

The Fifth Annual Victoria Park Fun Dog Show

 

   

Date: Sunday 5 May 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  1pm-5pm

Admission: Free to watch £2 per class entry, £1 fastest dog, £1 agility course.

Join us for the best fun dog show in the Vale. Fun classes for all dogs, and their owners. Bro Radio will be broadcasting direct from the show. Trade stands, and our doggy department stores.  Activities and fun, musical mats. Refreshments include superb teas and homemade cakes. Raffles and competitions, with prizes galore.  Its just a fabulous doggy day out! All in aid of the Dogs Trust, Guide Dogs for the Blind and Friends of Cardiff Dog Pound.

 

P.D.S.A. Pets Check Road Show

Date: Tuesday 14 May 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  10am-4pm

Visit the Pets Check vehicle and talk to an experienced PDSA vetinary nurse about all aspects of your pets care and welfare. Health checks cover – Body condition score and weight, teeth and gums, eyes and ears, coat condition and general fitness.

 

 

Art4U Drum and Percussion Workshop

Date: Saturday 25 May 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  11.00am-1pm

Admission: Free

 

                 

 

Join Glyn Pooley and friends from Art4U for a bit of a bongo fest in our restored bandstand. Have a go at drum and percussion with some really talented players who will coach you in a fun way. If you have your own drum or percussion instrument then bring it along and join in. Call Glyn on 07854 375891 or Jon at the Park on 07809 551465 to reserve a place, as spaces are limited.

 

                              

 

“The Big Event” Jamboree and Family Fun Day – with Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Date: Saturday 6 July 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  Starts 12 noon

Admission: Free

Come and join in the fun on the 5^th annual Family Fun Day put on for all by our friends from Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.

Bouncy Castles, face painting, loads of games and stalls. Quizzes and brain teasers. Fun races for the kids on the field, clowns and jugglers, and a performance from some very special guests! Teas, coffees, ices, and all the usual refreshments. It’s a fun day for all.

 

CADSTOCK 2013 – Rock and Blues in the Park

      

    

Date: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 July 2013

Venue: Victoria Park, Cadoxton, Barry

Time:  Starts 1pm both days

Admission: Free

Free Community  Music Festival at Victoria Park.  The best local bands, playing the best live music, supported by the best local businesses, and hosted by the Vale of Glamorgan Parks Department. The line up already includes Freeway, The Underdogs, Outback, The Hindenbergs, Circle of Fire, Green Haze,  Back to November, Special guests Eric Unseen,  King Paul and the Zeronoughts, and a famous guest!

More bands being announced soon.... watch this space!

 

Bro Radio will be broadcasting LIVE from Cadstock so come along and meet the crew and get on air.

Bouncy castles, stalls  and superb refreshments are all here as well.

 

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Further details of all events from Jon Greatrex, Victoria Park Manager 07809 551465 / 01446 709580. Email jgreatrex@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk   

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How to find us

Road: M4 to Junction 33, A4232 to Culverhouse Cross, A4050 to Barry.

A4231 to Barry Dock. Continue straight through the roundabout, turn right in the bottom of the dip onto Coldbrook Road East, continue to left hand fork up Church Road to the top of the hill then turn left. (Look for the brown tourist signs).

 

Immediately turn left again and the main gate to the park will be on your right about 150m along Sea View Terrace.

 

Bus: Nearest stop The Royal, Barry Rd, 100m from park. Contact Traveline Wales on 0871 200 22 33 for local routes.

 

Rail: Nearest station is Cadoxton, 150m from park.

Tel: 08457 484950 for rail information

 

Opening times: 8am until dusk (times posted on notice boards in the park) Find directions on a map.