JL Events

31/01/2025

We have some EGG-CITING updates! 🤣🐰
Not 1… but 3 new Spring event dates for your diary, with more fun still to come!!

07/01/2025

HELLO! Ok so I’m a bit late but… HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 🌟 I hope you have all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas break! I know many of you are keen to get your diaries full for 2025 and we’re working hard behind the scenes securing venues and updating our booking system. We hope to have everything ready very soon!

I’ll post the first couple of Spring events on our JL Events Community Group over the next few days and the dates that bookings will open. If you want to join please follow this link so you don’t miss out!

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvfazRREhs98s4BFCXapFU

Thank you to all who supported us last year 🙏 It was so great to end 2024 on a high at Oaktree and we can’t wait to welcome you all back to our events this year.

🌟 Let’s make 2025 bigger and better for all! 🌟

08/12/2024

It’s our last Christmas Fair at Oaktree Garden Centre today and our last event of 2024!!!

We have had the pleasure of meeting so many wonderful small businesses this year who work so hard to make their dreams a reality. Please head over to Oaktree today to see what gems you can find for Christmas or take a look at their social media pages to see where you can find them! (Not all pictured are here today so follow their pages below!)

Stall holders if you’ve been at any of our events this year (not just Oaktree!) feel free to tag your businesses and share photos of anything of your creations you’d like to share!

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07/12/2024

The fantastic Helen the Vintage Singer is joining us tomorrow at Oaktree Garden Centre from 11am-12pm, and the students of Footlights Bracknell will be performing from 1.30pm! 🎶

07/12/2024

We are ready at Oaktree Garden Centre with another fantastic selection of craft stalls and all UNDERCOVER! 🎁✨ Join us here until 4pm, with live singing 12-1pm, face painting, biscuit & bauble decorating for kids and more!!

06/12/2024

🎄💫 This weekend at Oaktree! 💫🎄

💫 Biscuit Decorating with Beescuiteers 🍪
💫 Christmas Bauble Decorating 🎨
💫 Visits from Bluey, Saturday at 9.30am & 11am 💙
💫 Face Painting 🎨
💫 Ride & Candy floss 🍭
💫 Oaktree’s Santas Grotto (Sunday Only) 🎅🏻
💫 Musical performances from the fabulous Kuran Sings (Saturday 12-1pm) and the students of Footlights Bracknell (Sunday 1.30-2pm) 🎶

All this along side our fabulous stall holders who will be ready and waiting with their handmade, unique Christmas gifts to shop from!! 🎁💫 BBQ & Mulled wine from JL Butchers🍷🌭, Christmas trees, beautiful decorations and Christmas photo ops around the garden centre🎄and delicious lunches from the Cafe! ☕️

Saturday 9am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm, Free Entry & Free Parking and all undercover (apart from the ride!)

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02/12/2024

Just one more weekend to go at Oaktree Garden Centre!😱 We have yet another fun filled weekend planned, this time including….

💫 Biscuit Decorating from the fabulous Beescuiteers 🍪
💫 Christmas Bauble Decorating 🎨
💫 Visits from Bluey & the snow machine!❄️(times TBC)
💫 Face Painting 🎨
💫 Ride & Candy floss 🍭
💫 Oaktree’s Santas Grotto (Sunday Only) 🎅🏻
💫 Musical performances from the students of Footlights Bracknell (Sunday) 🎶

All this along side our fabulous stall holders who will be ready and waiting with their handmade, unique Christmas gifts to shop from!! 🎁💫 BBQ & Mulled wine from JL Butchers🍷🌭, Christmas trees, beautiful decorations and Christmas photo ops around the garden centre 🎄, and delicious lunches from the Cafe! ☕️

Saturday 9am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm, Free Entry & Free Parking!

01/12/2024

💫 Attention! 💫 Bluey is making a quick visit to Oaktree today in about 30 minutes! This was an unplanned visit so don’t worry if you miss her, she’s back next Saturday for some scheduled meet & greets!

01/12/2024

We have some amazing stalls here today at Oaktree Garden Centre! Head over for your Christmas shopping today! 🎁 Here until 3pm with a FREE children’s craft activity table, face-painting and BBQ!

01/12/2024

And we’re back for day 2! What an amazing day we had yesterday at Oaktree Garden Centre and today we’re back with new & returning stalls and musical performances from the Amici Singers from 10.30-12pm and the Beaufort Band 1.30-3pm

29/11/2024

We have a spectacular weekend planned at Oaktree Garden Centre! 💫🎄🎅🏻

The Christmas Craft Fair is back for its second week!! 32 local small businesses each day will be joining us with their beautifully handmade gifts, homewares & produce for the ultimate Christmas shopping experience! 🎁

🎅🏻 Santa is coming to town! Oaktree’s grotto is opening its doors tomorrow and it looks so beautiful!! (I took a sneaky peek today! ✨)

We also have another very special visitor on Saturday… Bluey! 💙🐶 She’ll be visiting the shop and craft fair at approximately 10am, 11.30am and 1pm (each visit lasting approximately 20 minutes).

Sunday we have musical delights from the Amici Singers in the morning and the BWCB Beaufort Band in the afternoon 🎶

PLUS all weekend we have the BBQ running for festive treats, mulled wine, face painting, children’s crafting where they can make their own light up globes (Saturday) and activity packs on Sunday 🎨
AND… a fairground ride for the little ones to enjoy! 🎠

Free Entry & Free Parking

9am-4pm Saturday, 10am-3pm Sunday

27/11/2024

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25/11/2024

Bluey made a quick surprise visit to yesterday! 🩵 Don’t worry if you missed her, she will be back on the 30th November and 7th December for free meet & greets, photo ops and she may try to make it snow! ❄️☃️

Timings will be confirmed soon, we will aim for 3/4 20 minute visits each day 💙🩵

24/11/2024

Next Sunday at the Oaktree Garden Centre Christmas Fair 🎶

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24/11/2024

This dude was AWSOME at our Father’s Day Fair back in June and he is returning today to Oaktree Garden Centrere to meet his mini hero fans, take selfies & teach them some cool Spidey poses! 🕷️🕸️

In store 10am-12pm with Boogie Magic Parties!

23/11/2024

Join us today at Oaktree Garden Centre! We’re all undercover and have so many lovely local businesses for you to meet 🎁

22/11/2024

⭐️ This Weekend at Oaktree ⭐️ Thankfully at Oaktree we are sheltered & undercover and able to go on as planned with the first of our Christmas Crafts Fairs🎄

We are so sorry to be seeing lots of events being forced to cancel, we know how much effort goes in to planning for the organisers and stallholders 😔

21/11/2024

💫🎄💫 Thank You! 💫🎄💫 To everyone who put a donation in the collection buckets and to our stallholders for their contributions to at the Christmas Fair 🫶 The Just Giving page is still open and we were so close to hitting our target! If anyone would like to help us across the finish the line please donate to the link in our stories or page 🙏

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