News

It is a great shame that we are unable to meet properly in person for our AGM this year. I hope it will not be too long before we are able to meet more informally at a Friends’ event, preferably one where we may have a glass in our hands and raise a toast to the resumption of our normal activities in support of our wonderful parks and their magnificent staff.

An important aspect of our wonderful Parks is to be able to sit and enjoy the borders, birds and wildlife, energy expanded by others etc. The Parks have recently focused on the benches in The Park to make that a more comfortable activity.

Both Kensington Gardens and Brompton Cemetery were awarded their respective Green Flag Award and Green Heritage Site Accreditation for 2020/21. These awards acknowledge well managed parks and green spaces all over the UK and around the world and set the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces.

For the first time in 169 years, visitors can take a 360 tour around The Crystal Palace, the venue of the formidable 1851 Great Exhibition held in Hyde Park – but this time without leaving your home

Since early April we’ve been sending out regular blogs via MailChimp with only a few short gaps during all these months.

This has been possible because we have a genius at work behind the scenes. Our membership secretary, Lynden Easton, has worked miracles using only her computer at home to send evermore ambitious postings.

HALLOWEEN, CHRISTMAS and MONTEVERDI …. read on

Manager Jason Taylor had an unusually quiet Park for the first weeks of lockdown. Kensington Gardens took the brunt of the mobs. However that’s all changed.