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.

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.

We have Tom Boswell Trees to thank for a delivery of some lovely, fresh wood chip to renew the paths and educational area.

Astrid worked hard to get the area looking good for the festival.

They also gave us more logs for our Woodland Walk stepping stones which Astrid and Ray have been digging in.

Open Age, Queen’s Park Community Council, Beethoven Centre and the two local housing trusts have got together again to make a special event on the day of the Queen’s Park Summer Festival.

The over 50s can enjoy and afternoon of music, dancing, bingo, raffles and of course, wonderful refreshments from 1pm to 5pm in St Judes Hall, right next to the park.

For more details about the festival in the park, check our home page.

Come along and show us what you’ve got!

From midday to 4pm  on Saturday in the Beethoven Centre, the creative arm of Queen’s Park Community Council will be holding their annual auditions, searching for talent to perform at this year’s Summer Festival.

To register your interest please email: qpauditions@nullgmail.com or fill out a form at the Beethoven reception and leave with a member of staff for the attention of Oliver James Events.

Talent categories are: Singers, bands, rappers, comedians, instrumental, spoken word, magicians, acting, or any other hidden talents that you want to share with your Community.

The combination of wet weather and humid heat has given the Wildlife Area all the help it needs to flourish.

The meadow is full of ox eye daisies and buttercups but if you look more closely you’ll also find a few poppies, cornflowers, corn marigolds,teasels, oil seed rape to name but a few (to name the ones we can remember!).

We were thrilled when a new visitor pointed out that at least one pair of Common Blue Damsel flies were hovering around the long grasses.

There were many families visiting the area while we were gardening this weekend. When we see others enjoying the place, it makes us happy to spend time there.

If you’d like to join in the fun of our random gardening sessions, check this page or better still, ask to join our mailing list.

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Despite the damp weather, we had a wonderful turnout from Friends old and new.

We reinstalled a couple of the new willow whips which had “come out”, watered them all, weeded around the willow dome, then spent the rest of the time removing bindweed from triangular rose bed.

The meadow is looking great with lots of campion,  some sorrel and even a cornflower.  We’re waiting for some of the news seeds to come through but this combination of rain and sun is perfect for propagating.

Thank you to everyone who came along.

If you want to join out next session, make sure you’re on our mailing list, we’ll send a reminder. Please check our tweets and Facebook as well!

Everyone is welcome – for as little or as long as you would like.    You’ll need to wear suitable clothing and boots or shoes for the outdoors.  

We will provide all the tools, some guidance, and a sweet snack for break-time.   You will also earn time credits for every hour worked.  You can spend these all over London, including some local activities. More information here. 

Despite the damp weather, we had a wonderful turnout from Friends old and new.

The Bug Hotel Roof Terrace was netted to prevent birds from taking the new seeds; the last of the donated top soil was sifted, ready to spread over the meadow next session; some of us began to clear a route for our new, Woodland Path, and we all took time to admire our wonderful, newly refurbished Stag Beetle Loggery.

Thank you to everyone who came along.

If you want to join out next session, make sure you’re on our mailing list, we’ll send a reminder. Please check our tweets and Facebook as well!

Everyone is welcome – for as little or as long as you would like.    You’ll need to wear suitable clothing and boots or shoes for the outdoors.  

We will provide all the tools, some guidance, and a sweet snack for break-time.   You will also earn time credits for every hour worked.  You can spend these all over London, including some local activities. More information here.  

Thank you to Quinn London, once again, for completing our beautiful Stage Beetle Loggery. We are so thrilled to see it there.

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It is very satisfying to sow seed, knowing we can watch it grow over the coming weeks.

We finished clearing the grass from the farthest corner of the meadow and seeded the area marked off with the logs.

Thank you to everyone who came along. We’re having another session on 16th April.

If you want to join out next session, make sure you’re on our mailing list, we’ll send a reminder. Please check our tweets and Facebook as well!

Everyone is welcome – for as little or as long as you would like.    You’ll need to wear suitable clothing and boots or shoes for the outdoors.  

We will provide all the tools, some guidance, and a sweet snack for break-time.   You will also earn time credits for every hour worked.  You can spend these all over London, including some local activities. More information here.  

Please note we are in the middle of having works done to repair our stag beetle loggery, so take care around the willow dome. Thank you to Quinn London for this. It is well protected and will be completed very soon.

For those of you who feel like something more energetic, there is a free bootcamp class in the park on Tuesday and  Saturday at 10am, run by OurParks.  For more details, or to sign up (you need to book) look here.