Penge Green Gym Newsletter

A Fantastic Open Day and an exciting visitor!

What a wonderful, sunny day we had for our 7th annual open day. Lots of local families came to help us celebrate another fantastic year in this wonderful park. The children enjoyed getting their faces painted by our very talented volunteer Ching who also made balloon animals! They also ran around the park finding clues to the treasure hunt. We had fabulous music from Musica Medioca who we thank for their continued support, and the wonderful harpist Iona Duncan. It was our best open day yet and we look forward to welcoming the local community to many more.

Deputy Mayor Matthew Ryder and

Team London visit Winsford Gardens

As part of his tour of all the London boroughs deputy mayor Matthew Ryder and his colleagues from Team London came to visit Penge Green Gym at Winsford Gardens. He toured the park, met our volunteers and learnt about the work Penge Green Gym does in the park. He even planted a geranium for us. We have named it Matthew Ryder!

AGM

We are sending out notification for our next AGM on Wednesday 11th July 2018.

PENGE GREEN GYM COMMUNITY GROUP/
FRIENDS OF WINSFORD GARDENS

NOTICE OF FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

WEDNESDAY 11th July 2018, 12.30pm

at WINSFORD GARDENS, GARDEN ROAD, PENGE SE20 7XW

Friday 1 June 2018

Penge Festival Events

Our Open Day on Sunday 3rd June is just a very small part of the 3-week long 46th Annual Penge Festival which kicks off on Saturday 2nd with the Penge Fete in Royston Recreation Ground. More details of all the other events here: https://pengefestival.org/

On Wednesday 6th June, the Deputy Mayor of London [social integration, social mobility and community engagement], Mathew Ryder QC is visiting Winsford Gardens, Penge, between 3-3.45pm. Our Gardening session will be re-arranged, to run from 12.30-3.45pm. We hope you can come as he wants to hear your views on volunteering. 1st - 7th June is also the national #VolunteersWeek

We are also going to be in Winsford Gardens on the following Sunday 10th as part of the London Parks &Gardens Trust's Open Garden Squares Weekend. More details on that here: http://www.opensquares.org/2018/home/index.php