Our AGM was held on the 18th of February 2025 at Happy Lizzy’s Happy Hub @ 27-23 Third Avenue.
We are pleased to publish our annual report and this can be viewed and downloaded below.
The annual report can be downloaded from Here
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Merry Christmas from the Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens
On behalf of the Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens, we extend our warmest wishes for a joyous holiday season and a prosperous, healthy New Year.
We deeply appreciate your time and dedication in volunteering this year in the Queen’s Park Gardens Wildlife Area, as well as the Triangular, Railings, and Benches Beds.
Your support has made a significant difference.
We are excited to see you again in the coming year.
Warm regards,
Chair, Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens
The Friends AGM 2023 Document
Our AGM was held at the end of January 2024 which was held at Happy Lizzy’s new Happy Hub @ 27-23 Third Avenue.
We are pleased to publish our annual report and this can be viewed and downloaded below.
The annual report can be downloaded from here.
Wildlife Area Session 14th March 2015
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Tree Decoration
Time Credit Spend
Have you voted yet?
If you could spend your Time Credits at a special event which film would you choose to see?
There’s a new Time Credits brochure to download here from Just Add Spice.
Towpath Taskforce: Kensal Green
Saturday 17th January 2015
Our first session working along side the Canal and River Trust.
We are assigned roles for the afternoon from litter picking to clearing Buddleia from the canal banks.
Katie here is helped into her life-jacket. As a precaution anyone working near the canal bank must wear a life-jacket.
Major Buddleia overgrowth!!! This is our vantage point on the barge.
Cramped location to work in. A saw is needed to separate branches. You can see the branch root sticking out from between the bricks of the wall.
Once separated we discovered more beneath the waterline.
Both sides of the bridge finally cleared of Buddleia, we can move on to our next location.
Here we are making our merry way along the Grand Union Canal Kensal Green.
Canal boats navigate around this monster. The picture doesn’t do it justice! We left this for another day or perhaps a whole day.
If you are interested in helping out for a few hours in our Wildlife Area or our Towpath Taskforce days, please come along to our next session. Click for dates and times.
Gallery Photos
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Wildlife Area Session 10th January 2015
Wildlife Area Session Gardens 10th January 2015
We are back in the gardens!
After the Christmas holidays, there is still work do be done. Clearing away leaves which have accumulated over the Autumn period.
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Christmas Card Recycling
For every 1,000 cards dropped into Marks & Spencer for recycling throughout January, a new tree will be
planted in the UK.
Last year more than 8 million cards were collected, enabling the Woodland Trust to plant more than 8,000 trees throughout the UK. With such fantastic results last year the Woodland Trust are aiming even higher this year.
The Woodland Trust hope to collect and recycle 10 million Christmas cards by the end of January 2015. This will mean they can plant 10,000 trees, creating homes for treasured wildlife such as dormice and red squirrels.
Over the past five years the Woodland Trust has planted 34,000 trees across the UK. The more cards collected, the more trees can planted by the Woodland Trust.
Look out for the special card collection bins at Marks & Spencer stores from January 2nd thru to 31st January 2015. Christmas cards with glittery or metallic covering can’t be recycled.
Towpath Taskforce: Canal Towpath Cleanup
Come and work off those Holiday Season excesses with a canal clean up. We have planned a session of litter picking and cutting back vegetation along the towpath from Kensal Green to Little Venice (approx. 2 miles).
We’ll meet Saturday 17th January 2015 at the back of Sainsbury’s Ladbroke Grove, W10 5AA. Starting at 10am and running through the morning until 2pm. We will be working alongside the Canal and River Trust who care for 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.
The stretch of waterway we will be walking along is approximately two miles in total, so please remember to wear sensible warm clothes and sturdy shoes or boots (if you have them). On reaching Little Venice we can celebrate with hot soup and rolls.
We hope to see you there.
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