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July 19, 2023Gardens, Newsby Catherine Hamilton

FoWG receives three-year grant from City Bridge Trust

FoWG receives three-year grant from City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charity funder. FoWG will work in partnership with Share Community and Urban Canopy to deliver gardening workshops in Windmill Gardens from 2023 to 2026 We are pleased to announce we have received …

July 18, 2023Gardens, News, Volunteersby Catherine Hamilton

Green Flag Award for 2023

Windmill Gardens awarded the coveted Green Flag Award as it is officially recognised as one of the country’s best parks. In a record-breaking year, Windmill Gardens is raising its prestigious Green Flag Award – a huge thank you to all our gardening volunteers for making …

June 2, 2022Friends of Windmill Gardens, Gardens, News, Volunteersby Lucy Bridal

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 Lucy Bridal

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 …

February 16, 2021Gardens, Newsgardening, Gardening Group, vegetables, Windmill Gardensby Lucy Bridal

Report from the park and gardening group

The recent completion of the terraced garden is the latest addition to the park refurbishment. Annick Alet reports on the latest developments and plans for the future.

July 31, 2020Gardens, Newsfoodbanks, gardening, vegetablesby Kim Winter

Friends grow fresh veg for foodbanks

Since the beginning of June, the Friends of Windmill Gardens have been donating fresh vegetables to the foodbank distribution centre on the nearby Blenheim Gardens estate.