We are WINNERS!

Environment, Local Community, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area

We are so very proud to announce that the London in Bloom incentive has awarded us with a Silver Gilt in The London in Bloom Small Conservation Area of the Year – up to 5 acres category.

The Annual Awards is where London in Bloom celebrates the efforts of London’s boroughs, communities, businesses and individuals who do so much to make London a special place to live, work and visit.

We hope our certificate will soon be on display at the Beethoven Centre and we would like to thank everyone who has made a  contribution to our efforts in the Wildlife Area, from the QPCC to Quinn’s contractors, the various people who have supplied wood chip and tree rounds, seeds and tools, but most of all we would like to thank the local residents who turn out in all weathers to maintain the area as a place for everyone to enjoy.

End of Summer

Wildlife Area

We were busy again last weekend. Tasks included planting primroses and spreading gravel around the woodland walk. We had a good turn out and the weather stayed dry until we finished at 1pm.

Earlier in the week we planted some bluebell and wild garlic bulbs.

Please sign up for our mailing list alerts to find out when the next session will happen.

HCGA are continuing to run sessions on Thursdays in the rose garden between 10am and midday – for those who remember it before, you should take a look to see the great work that has already been done there! Still plenty more to do though. Please contact Ulla (ulla@nullhcga.org.uk) if you are interested and she will confirm the sessions are going ahead.

Holiday Fun from Play Association!

Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens

With funding from John Lyon’s Charity Steve from the H&F Play Association wil be holding holiday fun sessions in the park for local young people between the ages of 8  and 13, although under 8 year olds are welcome if accompanied.

The sessions will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and there will all sorts of activities to do.

Call Steve to find out more: 07828 123300

Film Festival

Local Community

Fancy a free film, close to home?

The Queen’s Park and Harrow Road Film Festival is under way at the Beethoven Centre.

10th Aug – 6pm –  Kids Film – Goose Bumps

11th Aug – 2pm – Open Age 50+ – The Lady in the Van

17th Aug – 6pm – Kids Film – The Good Dinosaur

18th Aug – 2pm – Open Age 50+ – The Theory of Everything

24th Aug- 6pm – Kids Film – Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanut Movie

31st Aug – – 6pm – Kids Film – Ice Age 4

For more info and to reserve your place call 020 7266 2776 at the Beethoven Centre.

 

Festival 2016: Another Great Year

Wildlife Area

Once again, this year’s Summer Festival was blessed with fine weather and a lot of fun for everyone. We met so many wonderful families and residents.

Did you visit us? Did you complete our quiz to win a chocolate bug or did you vote for what you’d like to see in the empty space?
Did you take a stroll through our new Woodland Walk? Did you visit Ulla, our Community Gardener in the Rose Garden?
Or did you just take a look around and relax away from the crowds for a while?
Whatever you did in the Wildlife Area, we hope you enjoyed yourself.

If you would like to look at, and comment on our Development Plan, you’ll find it here. You can also have your say about one corner of the Wildlife Area that we’re not sure about.

Please take a look through our galleries:

The Wildlife Area

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and a flavour of the rest of the festival

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Development Plan

Wildlife Area

If you visited our table in the Wildlife Area at the Festival, you may have had a chance to look at our Development Plan for the Wildlife Area.

If you would like to read the document, please send an email (see below).

We would also welcome your thoughts about what to do with the sparse area next to the Children’s Playground.

You can send us an email or leave a comment below.

Fun at the Festival

Wildlife Area

For those of you attending the summer festival on Saturday 6th August, do come along and visit our stand in the Wildlife Area.  We will have a quiz for children (small chocolate ladybird prizes for anyone who completes it!).  Also we will have details of projects we are planning to carry out in the next year and would welcome your input!  

Look at all the other things you can do on the day – not forgetting the special event in St Jude’s Hall for the over 50s, free dog micro-chipping and free bike marking.

The weather looks like it might be kind to us all on Saturday.

Green Flag Awarded to Queen’s Park Gardens

Wildlife Area


We are thrilled to see that our park has been awarded a Green Flag again this year.

It is a constant battle to keep it looking good as positive and negative use of the space run side-by-side but with the help of the QPCC, HCGA, Ulla, the industrious pre-school groups and of course, a little group of volunteers, we’ve made it.

You can read more here.