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…
Planting the seeds: Workshop #1
Hello, The first seeds are planted! 26 people during the day worked together to plant the seeds in the new raised beds. We’ll be getting together again in a few weeks to plant some seedlings — though we’ll be watering our plants regularly until then! So pleased to hear so many positive responses from around…
Community Kitchen Garden Update!
After months of planning and some seriously hard work put in by our members, the Community Kitchen Garden and Tiered Wildflower and Herb beds are installed!! We moved the Earth! Well, to be fair, our fantastic community of volunteers managed to move 17 tons of earth into the plant beds in just over four hours!…
Wray Crescent Kitchen Garden. Funding achieved
Hello, we are proud to be able to announce that we have secured funding for the kitchen garden project in Wray Crescent from the Mayor’s Green Fund.
Hopeful shoots – and a Feb 9 meeting
Spring’s slowly on the way, so here’s an early warning that the next meting will take place on February 9
Cold weather action
Lots of people have mentioned that when it gets cold they sometimes see vulnerable people sleeping rough and wonder what they can do to help them. Islington Council recently published a report on what it is doing about the complex problem of homelessness. The report contains quite valuable information that should be useful to anyone…
The trees are alive!
We were most surprised this morning to find that the trees have decorated themselves for the season – or one has. Wray Crescent has its own seasonal tree. How lovely 🙂
Season’s greetings from the Friends
Season’s greetings everyone. If you are visiting because you saw one of our posters around the park then welcome! Friends of Wray have only been active a little while, but we’ve done quite a lot of stuff: Created the group. Held five meetings. Had a brilliant summer BBQ — please join us next year! We…
Islington publishes 17-year local plan
Islington has published a document detailing its planning policies and goals over the next 17-years. I imagine everyone should take a look. “Islington Council has set its sights on Clerkenwell Fire Station, Sainsbury’s in Liverpool Road and the Seven Sisters Road gyratory in a major planning document covering the next 17 years. “In the Nag’s…