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July 18, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, Newsby brixtonwindmilladmin

Help us shape our future events – 3 and 9 August

Help us shape the future of Brixton Windmill and Windmill Gardens for the next 3 years! We are about to develop our business plan to take us through to 2025 and we need to hear from you! We would therefore like to invite all of …

July 6, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, News, Volunteersby brixtonwindmilladmin

Celebrating the life of Jeff Thomas

Friday 22 July, 7pm to 9pm Brixton Windmill Friends and volunteers will be celebrating the life of Jeff Thomas on Friday 22nd July. You are invited to join us to remember Jeff who died in January this year. We first met Jeff in September 2015 …

July 6, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, Newsby brixtonwindmilladmin

Our National Lottery Heritage grant award

We’ve been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to expand volunteering in the community. Friends of Windmill Gardens have been awarded a grant of £96,788 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to develop and diversify volunteering opportunities at Brixton Windmill. This exciting heritage project, …

June 4, 2022Events, Friends of Windmill Gardens, Newsby brixtonwindmilladmin

New club for older residents at Brixton Windmill

On April 26th we launched a new weekly club for local residents living near to the windmill. The Brixton Windmill Community Club (BWCC) takes place each Thursday from 10am-1pm at the new centre in Windmill Gardens. It is for older local residents living in …

June 2, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, Gardens, News, Volunteersby brixtonwindmilladmin

Growing wheat in Windmill Gardens

This April, members of Brixton Windmill’s park and gardening volunteers planted heritage wheat in the terraced garden next to Brixton Windmill. It is now growing well and we look forward to harvesting it in late summer. We first planted heritage wheat in the …

May 15, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, Gardens, News, Volunteersby brixtonwindmilladmin

Friends of Windmill Gardens visit Kew

Members of FoWG’s Tai Chi and Gardening groups had a great day out at Kew Gardens on June 9th when we visited as part of Kew’s Community Open Week. Staff and volunteers at Kew had organised a day of free and enjoyable activities. We started …

May 6, 2022Events, Newsby brixtonwindmilladmin

Beer & Bread Festival – a great success!

After an absence of two years due to Covid lockdowns, the 2022 Beer & Bread Festival held on the first May Bank Holiday returned bigger and better than ever! The park was full and the beer was flowing. Thanks must go to Brixton Brewery for …

March 2, 2022Volunteersmilling, volunteersby brixtonwindmilladmin

Volunteer of the month – Anoushka Almeida

I have been a volunteer for about 6 months, and have mainly been involved in baking and helping with the pop-up café and the shop in the Windmill Centre, also helping the team on open days.

October 27, 2021News, Shopby brixtonwindmilladmin

A new way to buy Brixton Windmill Flour!

You can now buy our stoneground wholemeal flour, milled from locally sourced organic wheat by Click & Collect.

August 26, 2021Volunteersmilling, volunteersby brixtonwindmilladmin

Dave Lennon

I’ve lived on the estate for 21 years and always had it in my mind to see what was going on locally, in order to see if I could help out and meet new people. The windmill seemed the obvious choice, because let’s face it… it’s cool as…😜

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Help us shape our future events – 3 and 9 August

Celebrating the life of Jeff Thomas

Our National Lottery Heritage grant award

New club for older residents at Brixton Windmill

Growing wheat in Windmill Gardens

Friends of Windmill Gardens visit Kew

Beer & Bread Festival – a great success!

Volunteer of the month – Anoushka Almeida

A new way to buy Brixton Windmill Flour!

Dave Lennon

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