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…
Photos from the Tolly Talk
We had a really great time hosting the Tolly Talk around the park. We think people were really interested to learn about the topic and our speaker, Anita, showed us so many things we did not know and had prepared some amazing things to eat using ingredients she had foraged for. The Tolly Talk began…
We have won an award for our bees project
We’re buzzing (sorry) with news that we’re one of just 21 groups in the UK to have been selected as a winner of the 2021 Bees’ Needs Champions Award from the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The awards recognise and celebrate initiatives to support pollinators. We won the award for our inspired bees project…
Common birds of Islington Parks
These are the top nine birds you are most likely to see in any Islington park. Have you seen them all?
Wray Crescent Park User Survey 2021
We ran our first Wray Crescent Park user survey in 2020. When we did, we had hoped to feed the data to Islington Council in an attempt to show the depth of different things local people needed from our park. Even then, however, we had no idea how deeply the pandemic would change everything. We…