Category: Events

Park events and Friends group meetings

Orchard Project – August 2, 11am

Hi again, just in case everyone forgot, we have another event coming up this weekend – a fruit tree pruning session with the Orchard Project. Some may have seen that one of our orchard trees has been severely cut back. This is because someone harvested it very roughly last year and did it so much…

By Editor 2025-07-29 0

Thank you from Wray Crescent Festival

Thank you We wanted to thank you all for coming to the third Wray Crescent Festival. We hope you had a nice time and look forward to returning again on July 25 next year. We also wanted to thank everyone who made the event possible, which would never have happened without the help of dozens…

By Editor 2025-07-28 0

Celebrate Bees at the Big Buzz party, May 24

We’ll be holding our annual Big Buzz event celebrating World Bee Day on May 24 – that’s this coming Saturday. The party begins at 12 noon and ends at 4pm. What to expect The big attraction is a kid’s magic show at 2:30pm, with Nutty Magic Ravioli. His shows are great fun and very lively from…

By Editor 2025-05-17 Off

Free ‘Grow Veg’ workshops for kids

In homage to the life’s work of the community garden’s inspiration, local resident and teacher, Yvonne Conolly OBE, the Friends of Wray Crescent is proud to announce the Children’s ‘Grow Veg’ Workshop, a series of summer educational workshops for young people aged six to twelve years of age, starting May 10. What the workshops will teach The…

By Editor 2025-04-23 Off

Orchard advice to download right here

Thanks to the Orchard Project we now have three short guides to share with anyone who wants to take better care of their fruit trees. The guides explain good practise when pruning young trees, what to think about when planting new trees (and what to do to help them settle in), with a useful seasonal…

By Editor 2024-09-24 Off