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Grow Mayow Community Garden updates

  
Sunday 3rd April 

Nature watch club 10am – 12 pm
All welcome
 Sunday 17th April  Forest Gardening course  10am -3pm Cost £25    
This 1 day course will clearly explain the principles of managing a forest garden in an urban setting. Through a series of practical steps. Combining theory and practical exercises, there will be opportunities to practice perennial planting design, and learn about implementing and maintaining your own site.      
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Sunday 24th April  Permaculture for kids club  Every Last Sunday of the Month
10.30am – 12.30pm £1 per child
Children age 8 up to 12 welcome

Grow Mayow Community Garden is a completely voluntary run project located in Mayow park Sydenham It’s a place which• Cares for the environment – soil, plants, water and wildlife.• Offers all people access to green, breathing space, for relaxation and leisure.• Demonstrates practical ideas for healthy living – growing food, recycling waste, art and using Permaculture principles. • Learning – through demonstrations and workshops.
Mayow Park Mayow road, Sydeham, London SE26 4JA
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Sydenham Wells Park needs your vote!

£15,000 bursary for revamping older children’s play area!


The playground in Sydenham Wells Park is on the shortlist of 20 to receive a renovation bursary from Robinsons Fruit Shoot. The five play areas across the UK with the most votes will each receive a £15,000 renovation in time for the summer holidays. Sydenham Wells Park is the only playground in Lewisham to be shortlisted and we have until April 20th to vote on the website. Please vote today at the weblink below to help us get closer to winning and spread the word amongst your friends. Thank you!

News from Sydenham Wells Park

Monika Mitchell, Chair of Sydenham Wells Park User Group reports on recent developments in the park.
     
For the seventh year we are delighted to report that Sydenham Wells Park has been awarded the coveted Green Flag status. 


We have had a donation of a Monkey Puzzle tree, which has  been planted in a discreet place inside the duck pond area. We have also planted a replacement Handkerchief tree within this area – the original of which died several years back – look out for the new tree in May when it will flower! 



Every Tuesday Iris Humphries leads the Healthy Walks Group which meets by the duck pond in the park at 11amfor a walk around the park. If you are interested come and join in and meet the locals – everybody is welcome. The Healthy Walks group accommodates a mixture of pace so everyone is catered for. 



If anybody is interested in keeping bees please get in touch as we have people who will tend the hives. 



Plans for the future include:

 

• Installation of a drinking fountain

 

• Redesigning the Rose garden at the of the park

• Ideas for the plot at the top of Taylors Laneare being discussed possibly as an Outdoor Gym or as a Community Garden.

• The Playground and Tennis Courts are in need of updating and we are constantly looking for funding for both of these. Any ideas will be most welcome.

 

 The Sydenham Wells Park Improvement Group meets four times a year in the hut inside the park’s compound by the main gate and everyone is welcome to attend – just keep an eye on the Notice board for the dates.

 

Thank you for being a visitor to the Park.



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Visit to High Elms Country Park – Thursday 17 March

Meet at Penge East station at 10.15am for 10.26 train to Bromley South, then bus to Farnborough village and a walk of less than 1 mile along good country footpaths to the High Elms Estate.
 
The visit will take in BEECHE (Bromley Environmental Education Centre at High Elms). Distinctive features of the BEECHE building include its straw bale walls and natural light via sun pipes.
 
The visit includes a guided tour, £1 per person. Enjoy lunch at the BEECHE cafe.
 
For more information or to say you wish to attend, please contact: Alona Sheridan on 8244 4259 or Iris Humphries on 8693
9525
 

Green Chain Walk extension

Iris Humphries explores the five-mile extension to the Green Chain Walk which opened late last year.

The South East London Green Chain, also known as the Green Chain Walk, is a linked system of open spaces between the River Thames and Crystal Palace Park. In 1977 the Greater London Council and four London Boroughs created a Green Chain of 300 open spaces, linked by a network of signed footpaths, in order to protect them from building activity. 

The four London boroughs are Bexley, Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich. Many parts of the system are also part of the Capital Ring route. A Southwark section was planned from Nunhead to Crystal Palace, following the old High Level rail route.

This long-awaited extension finally opened on 26 September 2010 with splendid signage in place and a large crowd of walkers gathered at Nunhead station to inaugurate it.

The new route (about 5 miles in length) links Nunhead Cemetery and One Tree Hill with Horniman Gardens and Sydenham Hill Woods. At Lapsewood Walk it crosses the bridge painted by Pisarro and follows the route of the High Level railway to Crystal Palace, winding through the woods as far as the Dulwich Woodhouse. It then dives down Wells Park Road to the old Upper Sydenham Station house into another patch of the Great North Wood along High Level Drive, again following the old railway track and then up a steep footpath to Bluebell Close on Sydenham Hill, finally reaching the Italian Terraces in Crystal Palace Park and Crystal Palace station.At the Upper Sydenham Station house there is an alternative spur around beautiful Sydenham Wells Park, where a comfortable wooden bench has been placed.

The Sydenham Society post-Christmas stroll explored the route from Bluebell Close to the Harvester on Dulwich Common for our seasonal Christmas drink following the splendid new signage. The route is very easy to follow and it is hoped that walkers will now follow and enjoy the new extension to the Green Chain.

Iris Humphries

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