Residents Petition Croydon Council for Love Lane

Residents Petition for Love Lane

Residents trying to save the Love Lane community garden from developers have been told by one of their ward councillors that Croydon will not step in with a compulsory purchase order for the plot of land.

Preserve Love Lane Green for the Community

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Penge Green Gym Newsletter July 2019

Penge Green Gym Newsletter  Another fun filled Open Day Our annual open day was once again a great success.  Many local families and residents came to celebrate with us in June.  Lots of fun was had painting pebbles with our friend Jennifer of @pengeontherocks, our wonderful colleague Ching formally of Bromley Green Gym was, once again busy doing wonderful face painting and selling beautiful cards. Children made fat balls for the birds and painted on wood to make a sign for our fence.  The plant stall was very popular this year as were our home-made cakes which were all created by our wonderful volunteers AGM We are sending out notification for our next AGM on Wednesday 7th August 2018. PENGE GREEN GYM COMMUNITY GROUP/ FRIENDS OF WINSFORD GARDENS NOTICE OF SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING WEDNESDAY 7TH AUGUST 2019, 12.30pm at WINSFORD GARDENS, GARDEN ROAD, PENGE SE20 7XW And Finally... Here's a little resident of our wildlife pond who popped up to say hello.

Penge Green Gym Newsletter June 2019

Penge Green Gym Newsletter Penge Green Gym receives a QAVS Penge Green Gym is very excited announce we have been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service.  This is a wonderful acknowledgement of all the hard work done by the volunteers over the last 8 years.  We were nominated by Peter Hutchings at TCV and received a visit from Deputy Lieutenant, Colonel Ray Wilkinson  who chatted with all the volunteers and discussed all of the work done at the gardens and benefits of being at volunteer at Penge Green Gym. The Queen's Award aims to recognise outstanding work by volunteer groups to benefit their local communities.  It was created in 2002 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee.  Winners are announced each year on 2 June - the anniversary of the Queen's Coronation. Representatives of Penge Green Gym Community Group will receive the award from Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London Later this summer.  All of the volunteers were given a QAVS badge.  Brenda and Keith attended the Queen's garden party in May to celebrate the awards. PGG Chair, Brenda Little says:  "We are absolutely thrilled that the hard work, resilience, tenacity, adaptability and forward-looking mind-set of our long-standing group of volunteers has been honoured nationally in this way."  Open Day 2019 We are very excited that the local community can celebrate our award with us at the open day which is this Sunday 11am-4pm!  There will be lots to do and you can enjoy some lovely live music and homemade cakes too.  So come along and see what the fuss is all about! And finally... If all of that wasn't exciting enough, the garden looks spectacular at the moment.  The roses (which we pruned hard in the spring) are looking fabulous, and the old varieties are very fragrant.  So come and have a sniff.

Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2019

Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2019

This year we have been honoured to be recipients of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, equivalent to an MBE for voluntary groups.

It was given to us for for helping people to learn gardening skills and enjoy nature

The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to volunteer groups across the UK.

Winners get a certificate signed by the Queen and a domed glass crystal. Representatives from the group may also be invited to attend a royal garden party. Our Chair and Vice-Chair were invited last month.