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We’ve got a bumper month of events this September including two open weekends, our free annual talk on the 28th, a bat walk on the 27th and our Harvest Festival event on Sunday 25 September. This year’s Harvest Festival is going to be a fun 
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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 Today, the Friends of Windmill Gardens is celebrating after receiving a Green 
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Thursday 28 July 6pm – Brixton Windmill Centre BOOK HERE Tickets £20 (under 25s) and £40 (general admission) We are excited to have wonderful charity Eat Club here at the windmill on the evening of Thursday 28 July.  Eat Club runs on the principle that 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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  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 
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  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 
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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 
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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 
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