Announcement: Meet your local council candidates at Tolly Talks
We would like to announce the first Tolly Talks event, presented by the Friends of Wray Crescent, on June 25 at 7pm on Zoom. We have invited all four of the candidates standing for election in the Tollington Ward by election to join us at this event. At time of writing, all four have agreed…
We continue to campaign for a truly multi-use park
We continue to try to put forward the argument that what the park needs isn’t an investment in one use above all other uses, but an investment in multiple things. We’re really pleased the Islington Tribune gave us a fair hearing in this. It’s important to note that arguing for a fair balanced use of…
Please attend Islington’s second meeting on the future of our park
The second of two project information sessions regarding Islington’s plans to effectively transform Wray Crescent Park into a cricket pitch takes place on June 15 at 7pm. We want to urge all park users to attend this meeting. At present, we are not at all impressed by these plans, which appear to favor the needs…
The Big Dig: November 14 and 21
Hi everyone, just an update on the two socially-distanced workshop sessions we will hold on November 14 and November 21. What are we doing? We will be planting a new summer and autumn fruit hedge around the Yvonne Conolly Garden, along with other tasks. What about lockdown? Unfortunately, lockdown has been declared since our previous…
What we’ve been doing, Newsletter, Working parties in November
We’ve published the latest edition of our irregular newsletter. If you’re already on our mailing list you should expect to receive it by email, but we’ve made it available here. Here are some of the highlights: Working parties November 14 and November 21, starting at noon. Green Flag Award for Wray Crescent Park Yvonne Conelly wins…
Join our socially-distanced working group on September 12
We are inviting people to join us in a socially-distanced workshop session in the park on September 12. We plan to work in the woodland copse to make good some of the damage done there over summer, distribute topsoil into the beds, move saplings and mend the wood chip path in time for the autumn…
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…