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.
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.
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.
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
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.
This year’s front gardens competition is going to take a different format.
The QPCC’s Mystery Garden Shoppers will be touring the area during June and awarding certificates.
The street with the most certificates will be declared the winner, to be announced at the Queen’s Park Gardens Summer Festival.
GET PLANTING!
Thanks to our Community Council, the wonderful Crissie Chambers is able to give FREE advice and another one of her legendary sessions. Make a note of the date!
Dog workshops, classes for puppies & small dogs and one-on-one sessions all take place in the Dog Exercise Area of Queen’s Park Gardens.
Dog Owners are invited to come along with their dogs for help with training such as pulling on lead, recall and socialising.
4th June – 2pm to 3pm
‘No extension leads please’
‘Walking to heel’
‘recall, barking and fear aggression’
Ilbert Street, W10 4QJ
CALL CRISSIE ON 07949 523 71O
WWW.QUEENSPARKCOMMUNITYCOUNCIL.GOV.UK
After the staggering success of the Football Academy, the tennis club is getting ready to launch.
Join QPG Sports Hub for the launch of QPG Tennis in partnership with London Sports Trust!
It’ll be taking it’s first service at the Community Champions “Spring into Health” event in Queen’s Park Gardens on Saturday 22nd April between 12-4pm.
There will be Football matches too.
A community day dedicated to the promotion of fun, active and healthy lifestyles!
Saturday 22nd April 2017 12 – 4pm in Queen’s Park Gardens …
We could not have asked for better weather on Saturday. Our main work was in the triangular bed where the weeds seem to grow the fastest but we had a fantastic turnout of willing hands to help.
We are always looking for new volunteers and we’re happy if you can only spare an hour. If you do more than that, we’ll make sure you have a break with some chocolate and water, to revive your energy levels.
We will be gardening next on 10th June but sign up for our newsletter in case we schedule any more sessions in between.
The park is looking spectacular this Spring and we hope you had a chance to enjoy it over the weekend.
The tulips are still blooming around the shrub by the Third Avenue gate.
Even though the crocus blooms have faded, we think the heart shape still looks very cheerful on the bank.
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