Monlife

Dragons Rugby Camps
2025-08-20 09:30 - 13:30, 2025-08-13 09:30 - 13:30, 2025-08-06 09:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | Monmouthshire
Dragon Rugby camps are FREE sessions for children aged 5-11 to attend. During the sessions there will be a variety of rugby games, skills and activities to take part in. Children attending the session will be provided with breakfast and lunch as part of the day’s activities.
Join us on: 30th July, 6th August, 13th August, 20th August
⏰9:30am – 1:30pm
📌Thornwell Primary school (only 20 spaces per day)
📌Monmouth Comprehensive school (only 20 spaces per day)
📌Our Lady’s and St Michaels Primary School (only 20 spaces per day)
📌Caldicot Comprehensive school (only 20 spaces per day)
Click HERE and select ‘Join waiting list’ and you will then be contacted to confirm your space.
Please be advised that the ‘From £1 per session’ fee displayed on the booking site is a default system setting and does not apply to this activity. You will not be charged. This is a FREE Activity.
If you would like any further information, feel free to contact us at play@monmouthshire.gov.uk, we will be more than happy to help!

Craft drop in session
2025-08-19 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-12 10:30 - 12:30 | Abergavenny Community Hub/Library, Town Hall, Cross Street, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, NP7 5HD, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
All ages welcome!
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
No booking required.

Active Play - Summer 2025
2025-08-19 10:00 - 11:55, 2025-08-12 10:00 - 11:55 | Monmouthshire
MonLife will be holding FREE Active Play sessions during the Summer Holidays!! 🎉
For children aged 5–11 across Monmouthshire, each fun-filled session lasts 1 hour and 55 minutes where children will enjoy a wide choice of activities ranging from energetic physical play to creative arts & crafts.
Join us on: 29th July, 5th August, 12th August, 19th August
⏰10:00-11:55am
📌Thornwell Primary school
📌Monmouth Comprehensive school
📌Our Lady’s and St Michaels Primary School
📌Caldicot Comprehensive school
Click HERE and select ‘Join waiting list’ and you will then be contacted to confirm your space.
Please be advised that the ‘From £1 per session’ fee displayed on the booking site is a default system setting and does not apply to this activity. You will not be charged. This is a FREE Activity.

Sesiynau Hwyl Yn Y Dwr! Fun Swimming Lessons!
2025-08-18 09:30 - 10:30, 2025-08-11 09:30 - 10:30 | Caldicot Leisure Centre, Mill Lane, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4BN, United Kingdom
Come and join Menter Iaith for splash-filled fun in our Welsh-language swim sessions this summer! Open to confident swimmers aged 8 and above. These sessions are perfect for practising your Welsh while having fun in the water!
Children under 8 are also very welcome – the small pool will be open for them to enjoy with their parent or guardian.

Five 1 hour sesions from 9:30am – 10:30am every Monday (21/07/25, 28/07/25, 04/08/25, 11/08/25, 18/08/25).
Swimming lessons full of fun, learning about watersafety, lifesaving and games.
Suitable for children over 8 years old.
The samll pool will be open for children under 8 years for them to enjoy with their parent or guardian.
Numbers are limited so please book your place ASAP.
There is no cost for these swimming lessons.
For more information please contact post@menterbgtm.cymru

Book your space here!

FREE Swim
2025-08-15 - 2025-08-17, 2025-08-08 - 2025-08-10 | Caldicot Leisure Centre, Mill Lane, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4BN, United Kingdom
Under-16’s can also enjoy a free swim at your local MonLife Active Leisure centre during the following times:

Chepstow Leisure Centre:Fridays from 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Abergavenny Leisure Centre: Fridays between 8.00pm – 9:00pm
Monmouth Leisure Centre: Saturdays between 3:00pm – 4:15pm (Free to 16’s & under with a MonLife card)
Caldicot Leisure Centre: Saturdays between 11.30am – 12.45pm

Find out more: https://www.monlife.co.uk/monactive/swimming/

Butterfly Stories & Craft
2025-08-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
No booking required.
Suitable for ages 2 – 5.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Bird Feeder Craft
2025-08-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
Click here to book – Bird Feeder Craft Eventbrite
Suitable for ages 5+
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Creativity Garden Session
2025-08-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Caldicot Community Hub, Woodstock Way, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 5DB, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge
Let’s get creative at the Garden Workshop! Create your very own flower garden with easy-to-put-together pieces. Let’s build something beautiful together!
Click here to book –
Wednesday 30th July
Wednesday 13th August
Suitable for ages 3 – 5
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Stay and Play - Summer Half Term 2025
2025-08-13 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 23:30, 2025-08-06 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-08-06 10:00 - 23:30 | Magor and Undy Community Hall, Main Road, Undy, Caldicot, NP233GD
MonLife will be holding free stay and play sessions during the Summer Holidays! 🎉
Children and families will have the opportunity to freely choose from lots of activities including physical play, arts and crafts, den building or wherever their imagination takes them – Please note that parental supervision is required for children under the age of 11!
Join us at:
📌Magor and Undy Hub ; 30th July, 6th August, 13th August, 20th August, 10:00– 11:30am
📌Bulwark Community Centre – 30th July, 6th August, 13th August, 20th August, 1:00-2:30pm
Click HERE and select ‘Join waiting list’ and you will then be contacted to confirm your space!
Please be advised that the ‘From £1 per session’ fee displayed on the booking site is a default system setting and does not apply to this activity. You will not be charged. This is a FREE Activity.

Bug House Craft
2025-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
Click here to book – Bug House Craft Eventbrite
Suitable for ages 5+
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Drop in Craft Session
2025-08-12 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-08-07 10:00 - 11:30 | Chepstow Community Hub, Manor Way, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 5HZ, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge
Suitable for ages 4 – 7
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
No booking required.

FREE Celebrate Cycling at Caldicot Castle!
2025-08-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Caldicot Castle & Country Park, Church Rd,, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4HU, United Kingdom
MonLife and Monmouthshire County Council are here to help you walk, wheel, and cycle more short journeys.

Drop by to hear about local walking and cycling plans, get your bike checked for free by Community Cycleworks (between 11am and 2pm), and explore the Caldicot Castle bike hire service.

We’ll also have active travel maps, route planning advice, and our active travel consultation on the Castle & Country Park ‘Multi-User Route’.

11am – 4pm Sunday 10th August

By the children’s play-park, Caldicot Castle & Country Park

The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I
2025-08-09 19:00 | Caldicot Castle & Country Park, Church Rd,, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4HU, United Kingdom
Join us on the 9th August at Caldicot Castle as we have Three Inch Fools theatre company performing ‘The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I’
The Three Inch Fools present a largely historical, totally hysterical, brand new Tudor comedie Elizabethan theatre is flourishing. But will a brand-new Tudor musical romp, in which Good Queen Bess takes to the stage herself, be the making of this heroine or spell the beginning of her downfall? The stage is set for regicidal rivalries, devious dramatics, and plotting playwrights. Beset by misunderstandings and a script that…let’s just say…needs some work, this production promises to be largely historical, totally hysterical. As the old saying goes…thy show must go-eth on!
★★★★★– “So entertaining…laugh-out-loud funny”
★★★★★– “The ultimate British theatrical experience” – Hastings Independent Press
★★★★★– “Riotously fun. Hugely enjoyable”
Bring your own cushions, and camping-chairs and join us on our 10th anniversary open-air adventure. Come prepared for the weather – the performance will continue come rain come shine!
Tickets

Snail Stories & Craft
2025-08-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
No booking required.
Suitable for ages 2 -5.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.

HMS Pinafore
2025-08-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Abergavenny Museum and Castle, Castle Street, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, NP7 5EE, United Kingdom
HMS Pinafore
6 August 2025
19:00 (Doors open 18:00)
Abergavenny Castle
Outdoor Theatre

Set on board the warship HMS Pinafore, the opera cheerfully mocks such Great British institutions as Class, Patriotism and the Royal Navy.
Josephine, the captain’s daughter, is in love with Ralph a common sailor; but her father wants her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty. The couple are caught as they elope from the ship and Ralph is locked in the ship’s dungeon.
Only when certain revelations are made by Buttercup, a dockside vendor, can everyone end up freely marrying their true hearts’ loves. This comic opera gets the complete Illyria treatment, faithfully performed by a reduced cast on a beautiful nautical set.
Bring your own seating, picnic and suitable attire for the weather. Please note unless management and the cast assess the weather as a risk, the show will go on even if raining.

Wheelchair accessible although please note this is an historic site so the ground is very uneven and seating areas will be more accessible than others. Assistance dogs and well behaved dogs on leads welcome.
Performance length: 2hrs (inc 20 interval)
Book your tickets here

Bird Treat Craft
2025-08-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
Click here to book – Bird Treat Craft Eventbrite
Suitable for ages 5+
All children must be accompanied by an adult

National Playday 2025: Spaces for Play
2025-08-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Caldicot Leisure Centre, Mill Lane, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 4BN, United Kingdom
National Playday 2025: Spaces for Play
Join us at Caldicot & Monmouth Leisure Centres for a day full of fun, games, and community spirit! 🏃‍♀️🎨🤸‍♂️
📅 Wednesday 6th August
🕚 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Caldicot & Monmouth Leisure Centres
This year’s theme, #SpacesForPlay, celebrates the importance of welcoming, inclusive spaces where everyone can explore, move, and enjoy the freedom to play.
Bring the whole family and celebrate play in your community!

Old Station Tintern Summer Activities
2025-08-06 10:00 - 12:30 | Old Station Tintern, Tintern Heights, Catbrook, Brockweir,, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 7NX, United Kingdom
Come and discover, create and get back to nature on one of our nature-based activity sessions taking place at Old Station Tintern most Wednesday’s over the Summer Holidays (excluding Wednesday 13th August).
Book your tickets here
Wednesday 23rd July – Fingers story time and fun (10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm)
Join us for a hands-on session at Old Station Tintern which starts with a delightful story time inspired by nature. Then it’s time to get messy planting seeds and creating artwork and colourful plant labels. Each child will take home their planted seeds ready to watch them grow and flourish.
Wednesday 30th July – Butterfly story time and creative fun (10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm)
Let your imagination take flight and join us for a flutter-filled session at Old Station Tintern. Young children can dive into the world of butterflies though stories and hands-on creativity. Reveal the bright colours of a butterfly shape, create your own dazzling butterfly with paint and make a bright and beautiful collage.
Wednesday 6th August – Little explorers’ nature trail (10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm)
Calling all curious kids! Join us at Old Station Tintern for stories, craft and a chance to explore, learn and make wild memories on an outdoor nature trail. We will lend children explorer equipment, a hat and jacket for the session to walk around our beautiful site together hunting for bugs, spotting birds, beasties and beautiful plants.
Wednesday 20th August – All aboard the imagination train (10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm)
Step into the world of trains and travel at Old Station Tintern with stories and a hands-on activity session of making and messy creativity. Build your own colourful train collage, use toy trains dipped in paints to roll out tracks and patterns, and decorate a hot-air balloon collage and let your imagination fly away with you.
Wednesay 27th August – Messy and magical willow lanterns (10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm)
(Booked separately as slightly more expensive. Click here to book.)
Join us at Old Station Tintern for stories inspired by nature with a craft activity for kids. Get ready to roll-up your sleeves and unleash you little one’s creative spirit in a joyfully creative rustic art session making and decorating your own willow lanterns with tealights and listening to stories.
Event details :
Dates – Wednesdays on the 23rd July, 30th July, 6th August, 20th August and 27th August.
Times – 10.00am – 11.00am or 11.30am – 12.30pm. Each session will last around 1 hour.
Cost – £3.50 per child (except the Willow event which is £4). Each booking for one child. Adults do not need to book.
Ages – Suitable from ages 3 – 7.
Where to go – Craft activities will be under the stretch tent next to the overflow car park.
Terms & Conditions
For ages 3 – 7.
One adult required for every two children (adults do not need to book)
The session will be supervised by one Old Station Tintern staff member
Maximum group size 10 children
Pre-booking required
No refunds available

Fairy Door Craft
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Usk Community Hub, 35 Maryport St, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 1AE, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge!
Click here to book – Fairy Door Craft Eventbrite
Suitable for ages 5+
All children must be accompanied by an adult

Lego Workshop
2025-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Caldicot Community Hub, Woodstock Way, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, NP26 5DB, United Kingdom
Summer Reading Challenge
Click here to book –
Wednesday 23rd July
Wednesday 6th August
Wednesday 27th August
Suitable for ages 5 – 9
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
