We’d love you to join us
You can attend a range of outdoor events and activities as a member of Bedfordshire Geology Group. We offer a wide variety of events to suit everyone. We arrange field trips, often jointly with other organisations, walks, talks, quarry visits, work parties to restore rock exposures, out of county visits, rock & fossil workshops, museum visits and more.
Non-members are welcome to attend one event for free. Members receive further details about events by email. We hope to see you soon!
Non-members are welcome to attend one event for free. Members receive further details about events by email. We hope to see you soon!
Our next events
Geology Drop-In Sessions
Join BGG members for an informal drop-in session where you can bring along you collections for help with identification and categorising. Sort those rocks and fossils in your garage with the help of our resources.
WHEN: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am until 1pm
No need to book but for further information please contact
[email protected]
Join BGG members for an informal drop-in session where you can bring along you collections for help with identification and categorising. Sort those rocks and fossils in your garage with the help of our resources.
WHEN: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am until 1pm
No need to book but for further information please contact
[email protected]
Maintenance Day at Potton Scout Hut LGS
Please join us to make this wonderful educational site safe for visitors. Bring along rakes, spades and loppers to help with vegetation clearance and sand removal. More hands make light work, so hopefully time for a pub lunch afterwards.
WHEN: Sunday 12th October
WHERE: Potton Scout Hut Quarry, Hatley Road, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2DX
TIME: 10.30am - 12.30pm
For further information and to let us know you are coming, please contact
[email protected]
Please join us to make this wonderful educational site safe for visitors. Bring along rakes, spades and loppers to help with vegetation clearance and sand removal. More hands make light work, so hopefully time for a pub lunch afterwards.
WHEN: Sunday 12th October
WHERE: Potton Scout Hut Quarry, Hatley Road, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2DX
TIME: 10.30am - 12.30pm
For further information and to let us know you are coming, please contact
[email protected]
POSTPONED
Discover Geology in the North Beds 'wolds'
Discover geology in the north Beds ‘wolds’- a car tour
We rarely visit the plateau that is surrounded on three sides by the Ouse valley from Sharnbrook, past Bedford and on to St Neots with the Huntingdonshire boundary to the north that some call the north Beds ‘wolds’. There are no known natural rock exposures in the area but there are fine churches and graveyards and other stone structures worth seeing. I envisage meeting on the edge of Bedford and travelling in convoy or sharing cars if possible. We'll stop at up to 6 sites and I hope to arrange to stop at the Giddy Goat cafe in Riseley for lunch. If you have suggestions for places we should visit or are thinking of coming, please get back to me- [email protected]
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 4.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Discover Geology in the North Beds 'wolds'
Discover geology in the north Beds ‘wolds’- a car tour
We rarely visit the plateau that is surrounded on three sides by the Ouse valley from Sharnbrook, past Bedford and on to St Neots with the Huntingdonshire boundary to the north that some call the north Beds ‘wolds’. There are no known natural rock exposures in the area but there are fine churches and graveyards and other stone structures worth seeing. I envisage meeting on the edge of Bedford and travelling in convoy or sharing cars if possible. We'll stop at up to 6 sites and I hope to arrange to stop at the Giddy Goat cafe in Riseley for lunch. If you have suggestions for places we should visit or are thinking of coming, please get back to me- [email protected]
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 4.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Fossil field walking
Come along and search for fossils. We will be exploring a field in North Bedfordshire to discover any fossils turned over in a ploughed field. Bring your wellies, trowels and sample bags to hold what you find.
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: TBC
TIME: 10.30am - 12.30pm (times to be confirmed)
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Come along and search for fossils. We will be exploring a field in North Bedfordshire to discover any fossils turned over in a ploughed field. Bring your wellies, trowels and sample bags to hold what you find.
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: TBC
TIME: 10.30am - 12.30pm (times to be confirmed)
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Family geology workshops
Paul Hawkes is kindly running 3 x 1hr session, where he will get some fossils and rocks out of the museum’s collection for visitors to examine. It can be really satisfying encouraging youngsters to take an interest in geology.
WHEN: Wednesday 29th October
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11.15am, 12.45pm and 2.15pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Paul Hawkes is kindly running 3 x 1hr session, where he will get some fossils and rocks out of the museum’s collection for visitors to examine. It can be really satisfying encouraging youngsters to take an interest in geology.
WHEN: Wednesday 29th October
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11.15am, 12.45pm and 2.15pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
2025 AGM and talk by Dr Peter Sheldon,
“Exceptional fossils – the surprising, the significant and the strange”
Dr Peter Sheldon will be presenting this fascinating afternoon talk. An ever-growing range of extraordinary fossils is shedding new light on the history of life: colour patterns in dinosaur feathers and insect wings; DNA from an ecosystem two million years old; the love song of a Jurassic cricket; and ink sacs of Jurassic squid, to name but a few. Medical imaging techniques and particle accelerators now make it possible to see inside the rock surrounding rare and fragile fossils, without causing any damage. This talk will include some remarkable, and often surprising, finds from many parts of the world. Refreshments in the form of afternoon tea will be available following the talk.
WHEN: Sunday 2nd November
WHERE: Husborne Crawley Reading Rooms, Turnpike Road, Husborne Crawley, MK43 0XE
(N.B. limited parking on site)
TIME: 2pm until 4pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
“Exceptional fossils – the surprising, the significant and the strange”
Dr Peter Sheldon will be presenting this fascinating afternoon talk. An ever-growing range of extraordinary fossils is shedding new light on the history of life: colour patterns in dinosaur feathers and insect wings; DNA from an ecosystem two million years old; the love song of a Jurassic cricket; and ink sacs of Jurassic squid, to name but a few. Medical imaging techniques and particle accelerators now make it possible to see inside the rock surrounding rare and fragile fossils, without causing any damage. This talk will include some remarkable, and often surprising, finds from many parts of the world. Refreshments in the form of afternoon tea will be available following the talk.
WHEN: Sunday 2nd November
WHERE: Husborne Crawley Reading Rooms, Turnpike Road, Husborne Crawley, MK43 0XE
(N.B. limited parking on site)
TIME: 2pm until 4pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Biddenham Pit SSSI practical tasks with the Wildlife Trust
Clearance of vegetation on and around the geological exposure.
WHEN: November (To be confirmed)
WHERE: Biddenham Pit SSSI
TIME: To be confirmed
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Clearance of vegetation on and around the geological exposure.
WHEN: November (To be confirmed)
WHERE: Biddenham Pit SSSI
TIME: To be confirmed
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
2025 proposed events - all details to be confirmed
Winter museum visit
Visit Broom South Quarry
If you have other ideas for events you would like us to organise - let us know!
Winter museum visit
Visit Broom South Quarry
If you have other ideas for events you would like us to organise - let us know!
