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…
Join us for the third session with the Orchard Project
We have teamed up with LBI and the Orchard Project to improve the orchard area in our park. Please join us for our third session in the series, which takes place between noon and 2pm on Saturday September 28. We have more sessions to come after that. What we have learned already During the first session…
A new acting secretary
With regret, Hettie has this weekend stepped down as secretary of FoWCoS. I think we all want to thank her for all her efforts and look forward to continuing to work with her in future. Thank you Hettie, your genuine sincerity and care mean so much and I’m so glad you will keep doing things…
Tolly Talk: Join us for ‘Tales from the Trees’, 2pm June 16
Coming up really soon, please join us for the next event in our Tolly Talks sessions. This talk is all about the trees, featuring noted plant and tree expert and author, Bob Gilbert. He will take us on a walk through the park and tell us about all the trees the park contains. The talk takes place…
Event: Pot a plant to take home
Hi everyone! We wanted to let you know that Islington’s parks team are back in Wray Crescent this weekend on Saturday, April 13 to give you free plants, part of the regular, Islington-wide Pot A Plant to Take Home series of park visits. What is Pot A Plant to Take Home? Each year, Islington’s lovely…
Public meeting March 23
We are inviting our friends, neighbours and fellow park users to attend the next public meeting of Friends of Wray Crescent. The meeting takes place on Saturday March 23 at 11am. During the meeting we will discuss Please join us to get involved and help build the park for the whole community. Please sign up…
How to use Islington’s planning portal to examine the plans for our park.
Islington Council have presented their slightly revised plans for a new park building as a planning application. The council’s letter dated 29 February 2024 says that we have only until March 31 to make representations of objection, comment, or support, and that these must be submitted online – though the process is not easy. How…
Welcome to spring/summer in Wray Crescent
Welcome to spring in Wray Crescent! We wanted to update everyone on news and forthcoming events in Wray Crescent Park, and the introduction of a new secretary for the group. We also wanted to invite everyone to mark a date in their diaries as we will hold our next public meeting on March 23, at…
Join the Friends of Wray this Christmas
As we reach the end of the year and begin planning for what we can achieve in the next one, we wanted to invite you to a pair of holiday season events we’ve put together for Christmas 2023 – an informal get together at the N19 pub and an impromptu carol singsong in the park. …
The Return of the Wray Crescent History Walk
Islington Guided Walks held a really successful guided walk around Wray Crescent when they came to visit last autumn. They came festooned with stories concerning our local area, and around seventy people turned up – we think everyone was really interested. They are back September 29 The good news is they’re back to deliver a…