Vote for The Avenues!

Environment, Local Community

The Avenues Youth Project is in the running for a share of the £300,000 M&S Energy Community Energy Fund.

The Avenues has launched a campaign calling for the local community and friends of the Avenues to show its support after it was shortlisted for a national renewable community energy project competition.

The competition is now open to the public vote. 

They are hoping to replace expensive lighting throughout the building with LED bulbs and motion sensors.  This will enable them to attain 70% savings in bills and Co2!

All of the money that is saved will be put back into the work that they do with children and young people.

 They’d be one step nearer to achieving their goal if they can get your support so we’d like to encourage you to get online and vote here.

 A local parent who recognises the benefit of energy saving said:

“I’m really excited to support the Avenues and am looking forward to seeing the results if they are successful. It will be a massive benefit for the local community if they do receive the funding”

 For more information on the project and to vote please visit

 https://www.mandsenergyfund.com/projects/the-avenues-youth-project/vote

   Carol Archibald |  Programme Manager | 020 8969 9552

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Free RSPB Activities!

Wildlife Area

This is so hot off the press that we don’t even have posters in the notice board yet!

The RSPB are running activity days in the education zone of the WildLife Area through the summer holidays. Activities are suitable for children 2-12 years who need to be accompanied by an adult.

All events are drop-in and completely free so just come along between 10am-12.30pm and 1pm-4pm.

Tuesday 8th August (YES – TOMORROW!)

Wednesday 16th August

Tuesday 22nd August

Wednesday 23rd August

Sunday 27th August

Wednesday 30th August

This is such a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nature.

Summer Festival Day 2017

Local Community, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area


The Queen’s Park Summer Festival was a great success in spite of the unsettled weather.  We were lucky enough to have the shelter of the trees in the Wildlife Area.

Thank you to everyone who came to say hello, took part in our quiz and/or the snail races.  We hope you all had fun.  The lovely ladies next to us were doing some incredibly colourful work with t-shirts and dye.
        

 

Surprise Refreshments

Wildlife Area

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

Local Community, Queen's Park Gardens, Time Credits

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

Local Community

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

Allotments, Community Gardening, Environment, Local Community, Open Spaces

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

Wildlife Area

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.