Join us March 7 to plant woodland plants in Wray Crescent
Please join the Friends of Wray Crescent on the revised date of Saturday March 7 from 11am, when we will be planting many woodland plants, including bluebells, wood anemones, wild garlic and others to make our park beautiful this spring. We’ll also be refreshing the path, working in the Yvonne Connolly garden and so much…
Wray Crescent Licensing put on hold
After a meeting at the council building last week, Islington Council agreed to withdraw its licensing application for the park pending further consultation with park users. Council officers took pains to explain they had no intention of doing anything other than making it easier for community events to take place, but agreed they needed to…
Come help plant trees in Wray Crescent park
We are running a tree planting workshop this weekend. Come help us plant trees to help the planet breathe! When: December 7 at noon.
Urgent: Licensing Application — what do we think?
Islington Council has made a licensing application for what it calls a premises/club premises license (see attached image). The posters advertising this application appeared in Wray Crescent on November 5, and require that anyone with something to say files their response on December 2. While the description of what the license is for sounds innocuous…
Community Bulb Planting Day: November 16
Winter is coming, which means it’s time to think about spring. Plant tulips for the future! We’re delighted to let everybody know that Islington park ranger, Julian Evans will be leading a community bulb-planting day with the Friends of Wray in Wray Crescent on November 16 between 12-2pm. (Regular workshops continue all across winter in…
Urgent Appeal: We need volunteers October 26
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the AGM on October 19 – and please join us again for a special workshop session on October 26 between 11am-2pm. Things have moved quite fast since we held our meeting. We have taken delivery of a ton of earth to top up the vegetable beds and loads…
Annual Report 2018-2019
We held our first AGM on October 19. During the meeting some executive post holders changed and the number of management committee members was raised to a total of ten. The latter is primarily an administrative move, but makes it easier to hold meetings and reach decisions. Minutes of the meeting will be published ASAP,…
Friends of Wray: AGM October 19
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce our next AGM. It has already been around a year. The AGM takes place on October 19 at 11am at 12 Pine Grove N4. The agenda for the meeting at present looks like this: Report on our first year’s work and voting in the committee. A chat about…
Announcement: Corbyn Street Party July 14
Greetings everyone! We wanted to let you know two things: 1. We’ll be running our regular Saturday Kitchen Garden workshop at 11am this Saturday, and every Saturday in July — please join us!! 2. The super, brilliant Corbyn Street Party is back again this year on Sunday July 14. This is always a great event…
Photos from the Kitchen Garden launch party
A blustery Saturday afternoon became a sunny one for the official opening of the ‘Yvonne Conolly Garden’, Wray Crescent’s community kitchen garden project. What happened on the day? We saw three speeches, a bake sale, a barbecue and a chance to do a little gardening. We enjoyed a hilarious sausage catching competition for dogs and…