Book your place now to audition at this years #QueensParksGotTalent to preform at the 12th annual #QPSummerFestival . Don’t miss your chance!

Queen’s Park Community Council have a pop-up shop at 548 Harrow Road, for the next three weeks.

This is our chance to have a say in the future of our neighbourhood.

Next time you go shopping on Harrow Road, Tuesday to Friday, make a little extra time to pop in and talk to someone. Take a look around, see what’s happening and learn what your neighbours would like to happen.

Several workshops have been scheduled too. Don’t miss them!

You’ve probably seen the signs around the estate but don’t miss this chance to get your dog chipped for free!

St Jude’s Hall in Ilbert Street (on the corner of Fourth Avenue).

If you can’t make this session, check the Westminster website.

Don’t miss your chance to enter the Queen’s Park In Bloom Front Garden Competition 2015

The deadline is midnight on Sunday, 7th June, 2015.

You can find more details at the Queen’s Park Community Council website.

The annual Open Garden Squares Weekend take place on 13th & 14th of June and Westminster residents are eligible for discounted tickets if bought in advance.

More information at the CitySave website.

This event covers a lot more than the ‘secret’ garden squares of London and we recommend studying the full places to visit, after you’ve spend an hour or two gardening with us in the wildlife area, of course.

Wildlife Area Tea Party & Harrington Court Allotments

We were very proud to be part of the Chelsea Fringe on Saturday 23 May.

The early weather was not as inviting as we might have wished but the Community Council were out in force, administering refreshments to all and seeds to the younger visitors.

Rain is a friend to the Wildlife Area as it helps the seeds thrive and flowers bloom.

  

Ray cut the ribbon on our official opening of the Grand Marigold Bug Hotel which he has worked so hard to create with the help of other gardeners.

Those showers also gave some beautiful fragrance to the Rose Garden.

Queen’s Park Wildlife Area Tea Party and Harrington Court Allotments

We are very proud to be part of the Chelsea Fringe as on Saturday 23 May from 1 – 4pm you can see what the green fingered residents of Queen’s Park have been getting up to.

Visit Harrington Court Allotments and come along to our very first Garden Tea Party in the Wildlife Area at Queen’s Park Gardens.

While you have a drink and a piece of cake you can learn about what we’ve been doing in our local Wildlife Area. Try your hand at helping out with a bit of weeding while your children can join our take-a-seed-home planting project, and celebrate the grand opening (or possibly help out with the finishing touches to the barn-raising) of the Grand Marigold Bug Hotel!

We will also be launching Queen’s Park in Bloom over the three week period of the Chelsea Fringe. If you live in Queen’s Park, and whether you’ve got a dazzling window box or spectacular front garden, entry is open from May 16 to 7 June. There will be a Winner and a Runner-Up Award in two separate categories: Best Front Garden and Best Window Box or Container (limited to two containers per entry).  Have a look at the winners from last year here.

You can find an entry form here or at the new Community Council website.

Alternatively,  pick up a form from Queen’s Park Library or the Beethoven Centre on Third Avenue. Please remember that you can enter your own garden and also nominate entries of friends, family and neighbours who may be shy of declaring their talents! Judging will take place the w/b Monday 15 June and prize-winners will be presented with their certificates at the Queen’s Park Festival on 1st  August

….with the Community Champions this Saturday 16th May 2015 in Queen’s Park Gardens and St Jude’s Hall from 12 noon to 4pm.

There will be lots of heath information on hand, as well as other fun activities throughout the park.

As you walk into the park you will be handed an unresolved health scenario to solve. You take your scenario to different stalls until you find the stall that can resolve your scenario. Once it’s resolved you are given either a token or a raffle ticket. Tokens can be exchanged for other activities in the park, see below.

Tokens can be exchanged for:

Pony Rides, Bucking Bronco, Face Painting, Henna, Massage, Balloon modelling, Climbing wall and Bucking bronco…and loads more.

Raffle prizes:

Jubilee membership, Fitness first membership, Pamper hamper, Meal at Nandos or Meal at Alice House…and so much more.

Wait!!! There’s MORE! Queens Park Rangers will be teaching football skills, African dance taster session, Yoga taster session and Music  sessions…and so much more.