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Two fly agaric toadstools on the brown leaflittered woodland floor. The fungi have white stems and red tops with white spots and are the classic fairytale mushroom

Fly agaric (c) Jon Hawkins

Plan your Fungi Festival foray!

Start planning your fungi-filled weekend

Fungi fanatics, join us on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October 2025 for Fungi Fest at Potteric Carr nature reserve in Doncaster.

With talks, walks, workshops, stories and more, it's going to be a spore-some weekend!

Saturday 11th October Sunday 12th October Launch Event Plan your visit to Potteric Carr

We can't wait to welcome you back to Fungi Fest! Please note, there is an admission fee to enter Potteric Carr, as well as an additional charge for certain Fungi Fest events. Pre-booked event tickets include admission to Potteric Carr.

Saturday 11th October

We've not left mush-room with our spore-some line-up of events over the weekend of Fungi Festival.

Help Yorkshire's fungi flourish

Species across Yorkshire have been pushed to the brink of extinction, but you can help.
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Sunday 12th October

The fun-gi continues on Sunday with even more spore-tacular activities!

The People's Postcode Lottery and Postcode Planet Trust logos

And there's spore!

More fabulous fungi events happening across Yorkshire.

Pink waxcap
Event

Wonderful Waxcaps Workshop

Discover amazing grassland fungi in a 1-day workshop, introducing ID skills, exploring in the field and sketching, at the foot of Whernside.