Ulla, Cathy and the HCGA are running extra community gardening sessions in the park on Thursday afternoons, so if you can’t make it at 10 on a Thursday morning, come in the afternoon and bring the kids!
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Westbourne Summer Festival 2017
The lovely Westbourne Summer Festival takes place on Sunday on the green by the canal. Join our neighbouring community for a lovely selection of activities organised with the cooperation of PDT, CityWest Homes, City of Westminster, Community Champions, NHS London and many more.
Surprise Refreshments
We had a steamy session in the heat today but it was well attended by all ages and skills. We achieved a lot and learned some new things too.
Hassan’s father brought a most welcome end to the session by kindly supplying much needed refreshment!
Our next gardening session will be on in August. Do come and say hello to us at the Summer Festival on 5th August.
New Time Credits Brochure 2017/18
Just Add Spice have published their latest Time Credits brochure with lots of new ways to spend your hard-earned Time Credits.
You can look at it here or right-click to download (Mac users alt-click).
There are many ways to earn Time Credits and participating bodies are listed at the end of the booklet. You’ll see our name there among them.
For many of our gardeners, Time Credits are a lovely added bonus to the pleasure they get from working with their neighbours to create a place the local community can enjoy. Some volunteers just like to get their hands a little bit muddy once in a while!
Whatever your reasons for joining us, Time Credits present the opportunity to do new things and meet new people, a bit like our gardening sessions.
Please check (and bookmark!) this area of our website to find out when the next session will be or ask to go on our mailing list, to receive an email reminder a few days before we garden.
Wonderful Volunteering Opportunity
Paddington Development Trust is running the Activity Programme for the St Mary Mags Project.
The project will restore and conserve St Mary Magdalene Church, North Paddington, plus adding a new building, which will see them re-opening as a community, heritage and arts hub with a mixed programme of learning, events and exhibitions. The building works will start this summer and they have a number of volunteering opportunities coming up in the Autumn. One of these is a very unique opportunity for volunteers to take part in the conservation work alongside the professional conservators. Another is to be trained by a professional oral historian in how to plan, collect and edit oral histories, and how to research at the archives.
On 14th July from 3pm to 5pm they will be running a ‘Tea and Talk’ event at the church to give people more information about the project and what the roles will involve and there will be cake! It should be an interesting afternoon as well.
Nomadic Community Garden
There’s a new community garden project just south of the railway tracks in Claremont Road, behind the station, where the printers used to be.
Nomadic Community Gardens (NCG) is a not-for-profit social enterprise, that temporarily transforms previously empty land awaiting development, into an urban oasis open for use by the public, where people can grow their own produce, create art, share skills and discover what it means to build their own community.
Activities you can expect from this site are allotments, fruit harvesting, DIY workshops, beekeeping, street art and sculptures, respite area, butterfly homes and anything else you want to see!
They need artists, gardening and maintenance volunteers, pop-ups, entertainers and anyone who has a skill set they can share (the list goes on!).
This space is an opportunity for residents of the Queen’s Park area to make it their own, look after it and help to build it up into a valued asset for the local community.
Please spread the word!
Please note the opening times at the bottom (closed on Mondays).
Opening times will vary but generally follow sunlight hours. The gardens will be closed on Mondays.
Summer
Monday: closed Tuesday: 9-7 Wednesday: 9-7 Thursday: 9-7 Friday: 9-7 Saturday: 9-7 Sunday: 9-7
Winter
Monday: Closed Tuesday: 9-4 Wednesday: 9-4 Thursday: 9-4 Friday: 9-4 Saturday: 9-4 Sunday: 9-4
Busy Bees
So many busy bees.
We have been so lucky with the weather recently and so many people have joined us to swell our ranks this year. It is very gratifying to know that the community want to help maintain our little park, both with us on Saturdays and with Ulla’s HCGA team on Thursdays.
We are still working hard to keep the weeds at bay in the triangular rose bed and Ulla’s sessions have planted some wonderful aromatic plants around the border.
Next week, we shall return to the Wildlife Area to tidy and weed. Do come and join us on 8th July any time between 10am and 1pm.
Ray and his team have put all the air pollution monitors in place in the park and in various positions around Queen’s Park. We will report the findings over the next few weeks but want to thank Ray and Simon for their hard work.
The Secrets of the Rose Garden
Today marks the start of the London Creativity and Well Being Week.
Being out doors in the fresh air and with nature is one of the simplest ways of ensuring your well-being. Ulla and the community gardeners have been very creative in the Rose Garden. Have you seen the amazing poppies and even gooseberries?
Have a look here for more information about this week.
The 50+ members of the community can also take part in these Open Age events around Queen’s Park and at the Second Half Centre in St Charles Hospital.
St Luke’s Summer Fair
St Luke’s C of E Primary School are having their Summer Fair in St Luke’s Church, Fernhead Road on 24th June 2017 from midday until 3pm.
£1 entry fee to join in all the fun.
Enjoy and Support our Fantastic Library
There is so much to do. It’s a wonderful resource and if we don’t use it, we’ll lose it.
You can find out more here.