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Local Events Listing

Allotments, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area

There’s always something happening in our neighbourhood. This is just a sample of what is going on in the near future. If you would like to add something, contact us.

Click the dates for more info.

Saturday, 23rd July Open Day at the Beethoven Centre – 10am to 5pm
Saturday, 25th July Gardening Session (Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens) – 10am to 1pm
Saturday, 25th July Kensal Green Triangle Neighbourhood Party – 2:30 till 5:30pm
Saturday, 1st August Queen’s Park Gardens Summer Festival
Saturday, 8th August Gardening Session (Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens) – 10am to 1pm
Saturday, 12th September Gardening Session (Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens) – 10am to 1pm

There are many, many more local events in the Paddington Festival. Check for details and download the programme here.

Park Weeding

Queen's Park Gardens

Those of you who regularly walk through Queen’s Park Gardens will have noticed the mass of weeds around the circular broadleaf shrub “Griselinia Littoralis”.

Last weekend, we squeezed an extra morning of gardening to clear the weeds from the shrub bed near the Third Avenue entrance to the park.

Perhaps you saw us hard at work, or stopping for our customary chocolate break.  Please join us this Saturday for our regular, scheduled session in the Wildlife Area.  More details here.

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St John’s Music – Free Recitals

Local Community

St John’s Music aim to provide free music recitals twice a month on Thursday lunchtimes and once a month on a Saturday evening.

Their new season starts in September and details will be available soon but there are three concerts left before the summer break:

Upcoming concerts:
11/06/2015 – Lunchtime recital at 13.05
Sabina Kolodziej and Martyna Kulpinska

Programme:
Sabina Kolodziej
J.S Bach: Partita II in d minor BWV1004
Allemande, Corrente ,Sarabanda ,Giga, Ciaccona
Martyna Kulpinska
J.S Bach Sonata I in g minor BWV 1001
Adagio, Fuga, Siciliana,Presto

26/06/2015 –  Lunchtime recital at 13:05

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Consone Quartet – string quartet

Programme:
J. Haydn Quartet in f-minor op.20 no.50
I Allegro moderato
II Minuetto
III Adagio
IV Finale: Fuga a due Soggetti

F. Schubert Quartet in D-major D94
I Allegro
II Andante con moto
III Minuetto: Allegretto
IV Presto

More information at the St John’s Music website.
Directions to St John’s Church here.

Open Garden Squares Discounted tickets

Wildlife Area

open squareThe annual Open Garden Squares Weekend take place on 13th & 14th of June and Westminster residents are eligible for discounted tickets if bought in advance.

More information at the CitySave website.

This event covers a lot more than the ‘secret’ garden squares of London and we recommend studying the full places to visit, after you’ve spend an hour or two gardening with us in the wildlife area, of course.

Wildlife Area & Harrington Court Open Afternoon

Wildlife Area

Wildlife Area Tea Party & Harrington Court Allotments

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We were very proud to be part of the Chelsea Fringe on Saturday 23 May.

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The early weather was not as inviting as we might have wished but the Community Council were out in force, administering refreshments to all and seeds to the younger visitors.

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Rain is a friend to the Wildlife Area as it helps the seeds thrive and flowers bloom.

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Ray cut the ribbon on our official opening of the Grand Marigold Bug Hotel which he has worked so hard to create with the help of other gardeners.

Those showers also gave some beautiful fragrance to the Rose Garden.

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Queen’s Park Wildlife Area Tea Party and Harrington Court Allotments

Wildlife Area

Queen’s Park Wildlife Area Tea Party and Harrington Court Allotments


We are very proud to be part of the Chelsea Fringe as on Saturday 23 May from 1 – 4pm you can see what the green fingered residents of Queen’s Park have been getting up to.

Visit Harrington Court Allotments and come along to our very first Garden Tea Party in the Wildlife Area at Queen’s Park Gardens.

While you have a drink and a piece of cake you can learn about what we’ve been doing in our local Wildlife Area. Try your hand at helping out with a bit of weeding while your children can join our take-a-seed-home planting project, and celebrate the grand opening (or possibly help out with the finishing touches to the barn-raising) of the Grand Marigold Bug Hotel!

9412558834_2c0c0b8b72_cWe will also be launching Queen’s Park in Bloom over the three week period of the Chelsea Fringe. If you live in Queen’s Park, and whether you’ve got a dazzling window box or spectacular front garden, entry is open from May 16 to 7 June. There will be a Winner and a Runner-Up Award in two separate categories: Best Front Garden and Best Window Box or Container (limited to two containers per entry).  Have a look at the winners from last year here.

You can find an entry form here or at the new Community Council website.

Alternatively,  pick up a form from Queen’s Park Library or the Beethoven Centre on Third Avenue. Please remember that you can enter your own garden and also nominate entries of friends, family and neighbours who may be shy of declaring their talents! Judging will take place the w/b Monday 15 June and prize-winners will be presented with their certificates at the Queen’s Park Festival on 1st  August