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…
Wray Crescent keeps its Green Flag
We’re really pleased to confirm that Wray Crescent once again retained its Green Flag status, one of over a dozen parks in Islington to win this status.
Help write a song for Wray Crescent
Come and help write a completely original song for Wray Crescent to be performed at the festival on July 29.
We have affiliated to the Royal Horticultural Society
We think the knowledge and advice we can now access will be of great value for our work around the park and in the vegetable garden, but there’s lots of other reasons we chose to join.
Wray Crescent news: Repairs, libraries, and plants
March will see the first book library put in place, repairs made across the park, and some intensive planting in the new flower beds.
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…
Our congratulations to Yvonne Conolly
We are so pleased to share the news that our very own Yvonne Conolly has been honoured with an important UK education award presented by Prince Charles. As reported in the Evening Standard, the Prince said: “Her place as a pioneer of the Windrush generation must be cherished by us all. I cannot begin to imagine the…
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…