Despite the strange times that we have all been dealing with for the best part of this year, we hope that you are all coping and keeping well.
Through the restrictions we face, the Friends are still providing entertainment that all of our local community are welcome to join.
Free online quiz and bingo nights have been taking place on alternate Saturdays throughout the summer and autumn, and have been well attended. The added bonus has been the provision of great meals, delivered to your door, for the sum of £6 per person. The next big Festive offering, full details of which will be provided shortly.
REMEMBRANCE DAY – SUNDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2020 at 11.00 am
As usual we will be honouring those who made great sacrifices to retain our freedom and will be laying a wreath at the Lych Gate entrance to the park, together with our friends from the Harrow Weald Memorial Hall. This event will observe social distancing rules and may be cancelled should further restrictions be in force.
Should this be the case, we will provide updated information on our Facebook page, and on the event information at harrowweald.co.uk.
FRIENDS MEETING – MONDAY 9th NOVEMBER 2020 at 7.00pm
Our next group meeting will take place online through Zoom. If you would like to attend this meeting please click here for the access information details
A SPECIAL DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
We look forward to a fun and friendly Festive evening on SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER 2020 at 6.45pm for a 7.00pm start.
The evening is being held in aid of Macmillan Cancer Care and all profits will go to the charity.
In addition to a CHRISTMAS QUIZ, the highlight of the evening will be “live” recorded PERFORMANCES by some of our favourite local bands and other artists that we haven’t featured before, as well as a performance by The Players Theatre company. We are delighted to announce that our special guest, Barry Cryer, will be making an appearance to launch the evening.
As an additional bonus, Christmas dinner can be ordered for delivery to your door, within the local area.
Full information to follow on our website and Facebook. Save the date to your diary!
The Stage
During the brief respite from lockdown there were many differnet groups using the stage, booking for music, plays and displays have been coming and we look forward to getting back to using the park with these restrictions.
If you would like to organsie an event on the stage next year please contact us we would oove to help you get your ideas into reality
Awards
Nature kept going and so did The Friends we planted hundreds of bulbs (within a strong socially distanced regime in line with Local and central Government rules)
Thank you to everyone who work towards these and a massive thank you to The Royal Horticultral Society and London In Bloom
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Fountain restroration
Now the building has started to be completed we have been looking for pictures of the orginal Fountain, there is on ongoing discussion regarding what was there! Do you have any pictures, could you identify what used to be there?
Toilet block renovation
More exciting news coming soon! we have a full program of events, ideas and plans.
The Friends Community Orchard - Apple Juice
The area around where we live was apple Orchards and many locals still have some of these tree's, so we decided to create a a community Apple juice to help fund some of community events.
Autumn SEEDS ready for sowing
Following the popularity of our SEED GROWING competition earlier this year, a new batch of seeds for planting will be distributed very soon. If you would like to try your skills at nurturing and growing these seeds, please watch our website for the latest information.
Selling partner products
THANK YOU! To all who purchased luggage from our Partners. The monies raised helped us to fund numerous community events.
Offers of up to 30% off on Rimowa, Samsonite and other branded luggage are still available.
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We also have a LIMITED TIME, LIMITED STOCK amazing offer from one of our partners. You can purchase a 70 piece wooden train set for £80 on our website.
The same train set is on sale for £100 at Toy Central. Click on this link to get a discount code for further £30 off Coupon Code 2822HSBR
Harrow Volunteers:
In the coming weeks we are hoping and expecting things to settle down and some of the community projects we have planned can start.
Why not get involved with us now and become part of the planning, we need handypersons, gardeners, nature knowledgeable people, organisers, form writers and more. Around the park.
Online regional volunteers wanted!
We have stated to build a map of localised community hubs around the UK as part of our goals to help create tomorrow’s parks today.
It is possible for each hub to generate a small income for parks and community groups in a number of way’s
This is an interesting project that would benefit from some volunteer technical skills.
Project goals:
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- Expand community hub knowledge base
- Centralise resources to help community groups to grow together equally.
- Help groups generate small income
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Learn and Share Php, CSS, Graphics, Api’s, Databases, Mysql, Geotargeting, Writers, Tweakers, People with isms for getting things correct, Opensource projects, Linux, Networking, Load balancing, Social Media, Affiliates, Interpreters.
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