YOUNGSTERS will soon be able to go on an adventure in Devonshire Park with their parents, childminders and teachers.

The Keighley park’s Friends group is creating a story trail, which will be made available as a leaflet or booklet for families, schools and nurseries.

The volunteer group, which regularly organises activities in the park off Spring Gardens Lane, is working on the trail with pupils from Our Lady of Victories School in West Lane.

Friends of Devonshire Park, spokesman Kate Toch said members were currently working on the illustrations and script for the trail.

She revealed plans for the story trail as one of several follow-ups to a busy autumn and winter of activities that encouraged more people to use the Victorian beauty spot.

The Friends recently held a basket-weaving course where people could make baskets from branches and twigs they had foraged in the park.

And they will today host the last free Guided Tree Walk in the park, open to all and setting off at 1pm from the park’s bottom entrance by Vernon Court.

Kate said the Friends were keen to invite Creative With Nature – who taught the basket-weaving course – back to Keighley in the late summer or autumn to show people how to make coil baskets.

She said: “We can offer short workshops this spring on making nettle twine - an interesting skill for children and adults alike.”

Kate said the Friends worked closely with other ‘green groups’ in the Keighley area, and with Cliffe Castle Museum and Park where the Friends held a Christmas wreath making workshop last December.

She added: “Several friends of Devonshire Park are regularly doing litter-picks in the park, following a successful community litter-pick last autumn.

“We would love to get a regular group of friends who could get involved with other aspects, like bulb planting, pruning, leaf clearing and small maintenance jobs, in conjunction Bradford Council’s Parks Department.”

Anyone interested in joining the Friends or taking part in activities, should visit the group’s Facebook page or email devonshireparkkly@gmail.com.

Devonshire Park was laid out in nine acres of land in the late 1800s and was presented to the town by the Duke of Devonshire in celebration of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.