Alice Wood

With the most egg-citing time of the year fast approaching, families will be looking for thing to do during the two-week break.

Check out some of the best activities to do in and around the city this year:

Castle Easter Quest

• When: April 1 to April 17
• Time: 10am to 4.30pm
• Where: Lincoln Castle
• Price: Easter quest free for castle ticket holders. £2 for non-ticket holders.

Explore the William the Conqueror themed Easter quest. Find the clues and be rewarded with a yummy treat!

The Great Whisby Easter Egg Hunt

• When: Now to April 13
• Time: 10am
• Where: Whisby Nature Park
• Price: £2

Crack the mystery and unscramble the mess the Whisby Easter Bunny has left. There will be a prize for every completed trail leaflet.

Eggcite!

• When: April 4 to April 17
• Where: Various
• Price: Price per event

Eggcite! is an arts festival for children held over the Easter holidays across four different venues. Events will include arts and crafts, theatre, storytelling, music and more. More details can be found here.

Mystery of the Star-Eaters

• When: April 8
• Time: 10am to 4pm
• Where: Starting at City Square
• Price: £12 adults, under 12s free with paying adult (advance tickets available here)

A live detective adventure game. Find all 13 clues hidden across the city centre to solve the Mystery of the Star-Eaters. More details can be found here.

Countryside Lincs

• When: April 9
• Time: 10am to 4pm
• Where: Lincolnshire Showground
• Price: Various on the door prices, or discounted advance tickets available here

Once every year Lincolnshire Showground is transformed into a fun-packed day all about food, farming and the countryside.

For more information, visit Lincolnshire Showground.

Easter at Lincoln Cathedral

• When: April 9 to April 16
• Where: Lincoln Cathedral
• Price: Free

What better place to spend holy week than at Lincoln Cathedral? A full list of services and events can be found here.

Easter Craft Workshop

• When: April 15
• Time: 10am to 12pm
• Where: Boultham Park Restoration Project @ Boultham Park Outdoors Bowls Club
• Price: Easter bonnet making £2.00 Face painting £1.50

Join us over the Easter weekend and make your own Easter bonnet. Everything you need to make an eye-catching piece of headwear will be provided, as well as a chocolaty treat for taking part.

There is also the option of having your face painted! For more information email [email protected]

Easter Craft Fair

• When: April 13
• Time: 10am to 4pm
• Where: Branston Hall
• Price: 50p

St Barnabas Hospice and Branston Hall invite you to the annual Easter craft fair, where there will be handmade items, a chocolate tombola, an Easter egg treasure hunt and face painting. For more information email Betty Otter [email protected].

Easter Egg-citement

• When: April 14 to April 17
• Time: 12pm to 3pm
• Where: Hartsholme Country Park
• Price: £2.50 per child

Explore the park and find hidden treasures left by the Easter bunny, which will lead you to a delicious treat! Booking is essential, please email [email protected].

A Lincoln village school has won a regional award for its energy-saving project with Lincolnshire County Council.

William Farr CofE Comprehensive School in Welton, the council and renewable energy hub Greenio jointly won the Large Scale Project of the Year at East Midlands Efficiency Awards, held in Nottingham on Thursday, March 16.

The school has been working with the council’s sustainability team for four years, putting in place energy-saving measures expected to make savings of £180,000 each year – making the school one of the greenest in the county.

Previous energy-saving projects at the school have included fitting intelligent control systems to boilers to ensure they run more efficiently, while more than 200 insulation jackets have been fitted to pipework in 11 boiler rooms.

All the school’s internal and external lighting has also been replaced with LED lighting, and 150 kWp of Solar PV panels have been installed.

Together these measures have led to the school cutting its carbon emissions by 60%, saving £180,000 and 380 tonnes of CO₂ each year.

The project will now progress to the National Energy Efficiency Awards to be held in Birmingham in September 2017.

Steve Golightly, senior sustainability officer at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “William Farr is a shining example of what can be achieved when a school really commits itself to saving energy.

“It is now one of the most energy efficient schools in the East Midlands, and shows huge savings can be made when they have the vision to put these measures in place.

“All three partners in the project were delighted to receive this award, together with pupils who have been involved at every stage.

“It was presented for the latest stage of the project, which involved replacing all the school’s gas boilers with five biomass boilers and a ground source heat pump system.

“The biomass boilers, installed by Greenio, burn wood pellets and are energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

“The school gets paid for the energy it’s producing, and is expected to be paid £2 million over the next 20 years – a great boost to their finances when all schools are facing pressures on their budgets.”