Category Archives: Wildlife Area

Queen’s Park Air Pollution Monitoring

Wildlife Area

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Traffic on our roads surrounding Queen’s Park Parish is not reducing. More cars, buses and lorries mean more Nitrogen Dioxide in the air we breathe.

You may remember we raised concerns last year in our blog.

We want to identify the levels of Nitrogen Dioxide and other pollutants in our local air.

Come join us on Saturday 3rd June and help us put our monitoring tubes out.

We’ll meet in Queen’s Park Gardens at 10am, the entrance to Queen’s Park Gardens is on the corner of Third Avenue and Ilbert Street W10 – please note…this is not Queen’s Park located in Brent. Meet us by the football pitch. We will pair up into teams of two or three. Tubes will be placed at least two meters high, possibly higher, so if you can bring a footstool or folding ladder (ideally something easily portable) this will be helpful. Once mounted, tubes will be in position for four weeks.

During this four week period if anyone is interested in measuring particulate matter, solid and liquid particles suspended in the air, around Queen’s Park Gardens and surrounding roads please contact us for the date and time. Date and time will be posted here as well.

There will be another opportunity in four weeks time to help collect our pollution monitoring tubes. These tubes will then be posted off to a lab and their contents analysed for Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations.

All equipment will be checked before beginning. The forecast is for excellent weather, so this will prove to be a fantastic Saturday.

Please contact the Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens for more information or contact our tireless organiser,   Ray Lancashire.

Open Age have moved to The Avenues

Wildlife Area

 

After a long and successful base at the Beethoven Centre, Open Age have now moved to The Avenues. The new term starts next Tuesday.

This is a resource for the mobility impaired, elderly or just looking for some good company.  Learn to do new things, visit new places and make lasting friendships within your local community. Membership is free and most classes only ask for a peppercorn contribution.  If you are housebound, there are telephone-based reading groups as well.  Do you know anyone over 50 years whose well-being might benefit from this wonderful organisation.

Impromptu November Session

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

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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Bulb Planting in the Park

Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area

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.

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 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.