Our next litter-pick will be Saturday 3rd July.
Please contact us if you would like to join and help improve the park for both people and wildlife!.
- 9.30 – 11.30 am
- on Saturday 3rd July
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First Litter Pick for 2021
To celebrate the Great British Spring Clean, our monthly litter picks will finally be returning this weekend.
The weather is looking good! It’s a great way to meet others, enjoy the outside space and feel good.
If you would be interested in joining us then please contact us to let us know which of the two sessions you would like to attend.
- 9.30 – 11.30 am, or
- 12.30 – 2.30pm.
- on Saturday 5th June
Friends of Victoria Park Meeting
The next meeting of the Friends of Victoria Park is to be held
- at 7.30pm
- on 14th May 2021
The meeting will be held by Zoom
Join us to learn about progress on the project to regenerate the Park and our plans as we come out of lockdown.
Please register here to join the meeting
Agenda
- Apologies
- Welcome
- Minutes of last meeting
- Matters Arising
- Update from Project Team
- Friends Update
- Any Other Business
Have you discovered Victoria Park this summer?
Have you re-discovered Victoria Park this summer?
Maybe you have recently moved into the area and discovered Victoria Park for the first time.
Why not get involved?
We are looking for enthusiastic people to join our committee to help us expand the group, help to plan and organise events, support our social media and help us connect with more of the local community.
If you would be interested in joining our committee please contact us.
Please note, this is a voluntary unpaid role.
FoVP Meeting 22 July
The next general meeting of the Friends of Victoria Park will be held
- at 7.oo pm.
- on 22nd July 2020
- via zoom
If you would like to join us then please contact us and we will send details on how to log in to the meeting.
Agenda
- Apologies
- Welcome
- Election of Chair person
Simon Howard-Smith has offered to return to the role of Chair. Any member unable to attend the meeting may email secretary@victoriaparkashford.co.uk to cast a vote either for or against.
- Project Update from ABC
- Group Update
- Hosting of monthly stakeholder/interested party meetings.
- Any Other Business
Update Summer 2020
Well, this isn’t quite the summer we had planned. All our planned events this summer, including our Summer Series, Family Fun Run, Big Butterfly Count and British Spring Clean Litter Pick have had to be cancelled. It has been a big disappointment for us, especially after our successful quiz evening in February. However, these unfortunate events have given many people the opportunity to spend much more time than usual in the park and shown the importance of local open spaces in our community.
Ashford Borough Council has now appointed the project team for the project in the park, and whilst not much is able to happen in the park at the current time, they are working hard to bring plans up to date and plan future events. One of the biggest events in the park each year is Create, and this year would have been the 25th anniversary of Create. Due to the restrictions on mass events in the park, Create is unable to happen in its normal format this year. However, the team from ABC are currently working with Animate Arts to put together a Create Festival at Home offering, with exciting playlist from local bands, and a youth takeover of the Council’s Victoria Park Social media pages. Watch out for links from our Facebook page.
We are also starting to plan for the future and looking at what we can do either as online or socially distanced events. We will be sharing links to the Big Butterfly Count website, so that you can join in with the national event whilst social distancing, and will provide opportunities to share your photographs of the amazing butterflies in the park on our facebook page.
We are looking to increase our core team, so that we can create more diverse and resilient events in the future. If you would be interested in joining the committee, or helping with planning events, please contact us.
We will be holding our next general meeting via zoom on 22nd July. Please see the separate announcement for details.
