Author: Catherine Hamilton

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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Windmill Gardens has been awarded the coveted Green Flag Award as it is officially recognised as one of the country’s best parks  Friends of Windmill Gardens is celebrating after receiving a Green Flag Award for Windmill Gardens park. The news that Windmill Gardens has achieved 
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Steph has been volunteering with Friends of Windmill Gardens for over a year and is always keen to help us whether that’s in the cafe or in our communications team.  What sort of volunteering do you do with Friends of Windmill Gardens and how long 
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Our Millers take a tour of Charlecote Mill 26 April  One of our milling volunteers Sarah reports on a recent millers’ trip to a watermill in Warwickshire: A day off work and an early start to reach Charlecote Mill in Warwickshire for ‘A day of 
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This month we are featuring one of our cafe volunteers – Carol Wizard. Carol has been helping out in the cafe for over three years. Tell us a bit about yourself – what do you do when you’re not volunteering? Besides Brixton Windmill, I also 
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