Creating a Bee-Friendly Space in Wray Crescent
We are improving part of the planting in Wray Crescent to boost biodiversity.
Community Bulb Planting Day in Wray Crescent Park
Working with Islington’s parks team we’ve arranged to host a bulb-planting day in Wray Crescent Park when we hope to plant hundreds of bulbs to set the park ablaze with colour next spring. We’re inviting the whole neighbourhood to come and join us in planting bulbs in the park from midday on Saturday, November 1.…
Wray Crescent Festival: A Family Day of Fun
Saturday, July 26, 12-5pm in Wray Crescent park. Volunteers from the Friends of Wray Crescent working with Islington’s park team are proud to announce the third ever Love Our Park Wray Crescent Festival, a fabulous family day out with plenty to see and do. We have vast quantities of music, entertainment, and stalls to look…
Thanks for coming along to the bee festival
Hi everyone, we wanted to take a moment to thank everyone involved in the Big Buzz event. We hope you had a nice time, and if you have ideas for what you could do to make the show even better next year, please let us know what you’d like to do and we can begin…
October 19: Help rebuild the path
The seasons have changed once again, which means the rains are coming to Wray Crescent, which means a big chunk of park turns into a muddy swamp. That means it is time to rebuild the temporary path through the park. We need your help to do it! October 19: Help rebuild the path So many…
Announcing Big Buzz III: Return of the bees!
Hi everyone, We wanted to announce the Big Buzz Festival, which takes place on May 18, 2024. The festival celebrates World Bee Day, which takes place every year in May. We love the bees. We know how important they are to life itself. We were thrilled to win a Defra award recognizing our work on this…
Public Zoom Meeting June 23 at 6:30pm
Please join us for a public Zoom meeting to discuss the plans we have put together for a small festival in Wray Crescent this summer.
The world beyond my window
We were sent this rather lovely project created by the daughter of local resident, John Roberts. We thought it was pretty interesting and very well done, so we thought we’d share it. As we hope everyone knows we have an evolving ‘Young Friends of Wray’ group, because the park is for all of us to…
Announcing the Wray Crescent History Walk
Please join us for an exciting history walk led by qualified Islington and Camden Guide, Oonagh Gay, who specialises in North Islington history walks.
A big thank you to our local community
We wanted to say thank you to the entire local community who showed such generous support for the work we do at September’s Thorpedale Road Street Party. Not only was the party a brilliant success, but we were overwhelmed by the donations everyone raised to help our work, and put a free library in the…