Author: Catherine Hamilton

This year Windmill Gardens has achieved another Green Flag award – once more the contributions our gardening volunteers make to ensure the park is looking beautiful and cared for have been recognised by this national award scheme. We’d like to thank all our FoWG gardeners 
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Three historic sites in London and the South East are shortlisted for public vote in ‘Everyday History Heroes’ competition to uncover places that celebrate the everyday people who shaped the nation.  Vote for us HERE Friends of Windmill Gardens are honoured and delighted that to 
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Harvest Home at Brixton Windmill on 3 August  It was lovely to welcome the South East Grain Alliance and UK&I Bakery Family to celebrate ‘Harvest Home’—marking the arrival of the first wheat and bakes of the new season. Thanks to Andy Forbes for the welcome 
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Brixton Windmill at the French Embassy Brixton Windmill recently celebrated the inaugural French-UK Bakers’ Day at the French Embassy in Kensington.  Ann Bodkin, one of our volunteer millers, was invited to celebrate St Honoré, the patron of French bakers, honouring the community that feeds us.  Here’s 
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Susannah Williams has been volunteering with us for around a year – she’s become a core member of the Windmill Community Club team, helping out every Thursday. She particularly enjoys cooking the two course lunch for club members which is hugely appreciated.  She has also 
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A new facilitator at Brixton Windmill Community Club We are very much looking forward to welcoming Lindsay Levkoff Lynn who will join us from mid April as our new Community Club Facilitator. Lindsay is very excited to be taking on the role as Facilitator for 
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We would like to welcome Alice Ashton our new part time Volunteer Coordinator at Friends of Windmill Gardens.  Alice started with us in mid March and brings lots of experience of working with volunteers in similarly sized local organisations.  Here are some words from Alice: 
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It’s good to see how others operate and over the years FoWG volunteers have taken a trip to the other end of the Tube line to visit our counterparts at Upminster. The last few years have been very eventful for them, having gained National Lottery 
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Morris has been volunteering for us in various capacities since 2022. Most recently we’ve been really pleased to have him on board as a photographer. What sort of volunteering do you do with Friends of Windmill Gardens and how long have you been volunteering? I 
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We are really excited to be supplying flour to another bakery – Toad Bakery in Camberwell Toad Bakery, one of South London’s most popular bakeries (on Peckham Road in Camberwell), has created the Windmill Sourdough, made with 100% April Bearded wheat grown by Andrew Lingham 
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