This project goes from strength to strength.
Last year we told you about the new girls only session and the increase in mixed boys and girls. This month, boys and girls in the 4 – 11 years age group can join in the fun form 12pm to 2pm on a Sunday.
These sessions meet in the hard courts. Get involved!
The Paddington Festival 2016 Gala Award for Queen’s Park Festival’s Volunteer of the Year goes to Simon Walton for his fantastic volunteering at the Queen’s Park Summer Festival.
The award was presented by Ryan Dalton on behalf of Cllr. Barrie Taylor. The top three winners in this category all received trophies and certificates.
Many of you will recognise Simon as he volunteers in so many areas around the community, and for many years. We are endlessly grateful for the time he gives to the Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens in both practical gardening and administrative roles.
We are extremely proud that Simon has been recognised this year. We are proud and grateful to all our volunteers. For more information about our gardening sessions, please check here or join our mailing list.
Photo Courtesy of Ray Lancashire
The weather was so good on Saturday that we arranged an impromptu gardening session which was really well attended.
We finished laying gravel on the woodland path and cleared huge amounts of leaves from all the walkways and meadow.
Our next session will be on the morning of the Queen’s Park Winter Fair. Do come along if you can.
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The Queen’s Park Community Council are presenting their third annual Winter Fair on December 10th this year.
The Over 50s party will start in St Jude’s Hall at midday and events in the Rose Garden begin at 2pm.
Local Football fanatics and QPG Football Academy supporters in Queen’s Park are being asked to Pitch In! and make a donation towards weekly refreshments for the 50+ young people who are now registered and attend their coaching sessions each week in Queen’s Park Gardens, Ilbert Street. If you can pitch in and help them to continue the brilliant work that has taken place over the past 7 months then please click on the donate now button at the top of the page on their brand new website – www.qpgfootball.com
They are now up to 4 sessions per week (details here) and the Girls-Only sessions are currently funded by the Queen’s Park Community Council’s wonderful grant scheme, which looks to fund new and exciting projects in the area, like this. The other 3 sessions per week are supported by local volunteers & coaches from Queen’s Park Rangers Community Trust.
Later this month they are having our first ‘away’ match against another local team, which will take place over the entire day. They’d would love to be able to provide further refreshments for this additional time and would be extremely grateful to those of you who are in a position to ‘PITCH! in’ and ensure that the Academy continues to prosper.
The team at QPGFA thank you in advance for any donations that you make towards the Academy and thank everyone for all the fantastic support, as they continue to establish themselves locally. They’ve achieved so much in the past 7 months and we are all very excited about Queen’s Park having their own youth team in the London Football leagues next year. You can also follow their story weekly on both Facebook, Twitter, Periscope and Instagram by searching for @QPGFootball.
After seven very successful months of football training and matches in Queen’s Park Gardens, and having formed great partnerships with both Queen’s Park Community Council & Queen’s Park Rangers, QPG Football Academy, also known as QPGFA, has now expanded to four 2 hours sessions a week including a QPCC funded session dedicated girls session.
Volunteering as a gardener in the park has many benefits. It is good exercise in a lovely , outdoor environment. We break for chocolate half way through and have a nice chat but we also earn one Time Credit for every hour worked.
There are many wonderful ways to spend Time Credits, with the various Westminster sports halls being the most recent addition, but some events afford one-off opportunities and Queen’s Park Gardens Firework Night is one of them.
Two Time Credits gave us entry to the front area at the top of the hill. We know what you’re thinking. They’re fireworks. They’re in the sky. You just need to be outdoors and look up. However, if you get there in good time, you also get some hot chocolate and you have to admit, Ray managed to get some wonderful photographs.
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Queen’s Park Community Council are holding what will be the 10th firework event in Queen’s Park Gardens on 5th November. The gates will open at 5:15pm and the fireworks will start at 6pm.
If your volunteering work has earned you Time Credits, you can use two of them to enter the VIP area at the top of the hill. Entrance is via the gate midway down Ilbert Street.
It is always a wonderful, family event and we hope to see you there!
Thank you to everyone that joined in with the massive bulb planting session in the park at the weekend. It is going to look magnificent in the spring time.
@QPCouncil are pleased to support @RotaryInLondon with their #PolioCampaign. Thanks for the Crocus bulbs which we are planting this morning pic.twitter.com/zARFM9ZPGZ
— Queen’s Park Council (@QPCouncil) October 8, 2016
Thank you to Rotary in London, Ulla & the HCGA team and Queen’s Park Community Council (from whom we ‘stole’ the photos) for facilitating and organising this wonderful event.
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.
