New route for Summer Series
By popular request - a new route for this Wednesday 5k! Don't forget to register if you haven't already at Summer Series 5k
If you're not a runner or injury is stopping you from running and you want to join us as a volunteer for the event then send us a message.
July 2019 Meeting
The next meeting
of the Friends of Victoria Park will be heldat 7.30 pm
on Thurday 4th July 2019
at Ashford Indoor Bowls Centre
Victoria Park, Jemmett Rd, TN23 4QD
The agenda for the meeting is
- Apologies
- Welcome and Update
- Minutes of Previous meeting
- Matters Arising
- Election of new committee member
- Logo
- Finance
- Events and Activities
- Summer Series
- Create/Mr Harpers Birthday
- Butterfly Count
- Family Fun Run
- Any Other business
Download a printable copy here
Summer Run results
Below are the results of the first Victoria Park Summer Run.
Apply now to join the next run on 10th July.
| Race 1 | ||||
| Position | Bib number | Time | Forname | Surname |
| 1 | 15 | 00:20:41 | Chris | Boyce |
| 2 | 3 | 00:21:14 | Jacob | Henwood |
| 3 | 12 | 00:21:20 | Linda-Jean | Delport |
| 4 | 11 | 00:22:41 | Darren | Fagg |
| 5 | 14 | 00:23:12 | Cedric | Duwat |
| 6 | 5 | 00:24:06 | Justin | Burden |
| 7 | 13 | 00:26:04 | Steve | Hickman |
| 8 | 7 | 00:29:17 | Hannah | Chambers |
| 9 | 8 | 00:29:28 | Rachel | Theobald |
| 10 | 9 | 00:29:28 | Kevin | York |
| 11 | 2 | 00:30:55 | Julia | Henwood |
| 12 | 6 | 00:32:00 | Anna | Harvey |
| 13 | 16 | 00:32:17 | Victoria | Guilloit |
| 14 | 1 | 00:34:05 | Edwin | Bartlett |
| 15 | 10 | 00:34:24 | Megan | Delport |
Summer 5k Series fee reduced
We have reduced the fee for entering all four runs to £20.00.
To enter
Download an Entry Form
Either:
- Post or deliver it as directed on the form wih your entry fee or
- Contact us for details of how to send the form by email and pay electronically.
We will contact participants who have sent the higher series entry fee.
Email your Summer Series 5k application form
You can now email your summer series application form and pay electronically.
Use our contact form to ask us to send bank details.
We will reply with bank details and an email address to send your form to.
Summer Series 5k
The Friends of Victoria Park are pleased to announce the Summer Series 5k runs.
A series of 4 evening 5k runs. Join just for 1 or for all 4.
The runs will take place at 7.00pm on:
Wednesday 12th June 2019
Wednesday 10th July 2019
Wednesday 7th August 2019 and
Wednesday 4th September 2019
The fast and slightly undulating course makes this event ideal for setting a new 5k PB – and it’s great too for beginners or those simply looking for a short evening run.
Every finisher will be awarded a medal.
Full details of the series and how to enter can be found at
victoriaparkashford.uk/victoria-park-summer-series-5k/
Very Hungry Caterpillars
This week Butterfly Conservation celebrated the 50th Birthday of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle’s classic has introduced millions of children to the amazing life cycle of a butterfly.
Anyone familiar with the tale will know that the leading larva hatches on a Sunday and spends Monday to Friday eating fruit. On Saturday the caterpillar’s diet takes an interesting turn as it binges on junk food including cakes, cheese and salami.
Although there is a fictional element to this otherwise educational story, the eating habits of a caterpillar are probably more varied than you might imagine.
Discover what hungry caterpillars really eat..
https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/what-do-hungry-caterpillars-really-eat
Butterfly Conservation
April 2019 Meeting
The next meeting of the Friends of Victoria Park will be held
at 7.00 pm
on Monday 29th April 2019
at Ashford Indoor Bowls Centre
Victoria Park, Jemmett Rd, TN23 4QD
We will be joined by Chris Dixon, Arts and Cultural Industries Manager, at Ashford Borough Council, who will tell us about Create Music Festival 2019
Join us if you would like to help protect, conserve and enhance Victoria Park and invite friends and neighbours who would also like to help.
The agenda for the meeting is
- Welcome
- Create
- Apologies
- Minutes of Previous meeting
- Matters Arising
- Amendment to constitution
- Events and Activities
Photo competition
5k Fundraiser
Armed Forces Day
Create
Butterfly Count - Any Other business
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Notice
Under Item 6. this meeting will include the following proposals to amend to the constitution:
Paragraph 1 currently reads:
The group and its members will be called and known as the ‘Friends of Victoria Park’ (from here on the group will be referred to as the ‘Group’). The Group was formed on 5th March 2018
The management Committee suggest it is amended to:
The group and its members will be called and known as the ‘Friends of Victoria Park’ (from here on the group will be referred to as the ‘Group’). The Group was formed as a consultation group by Ashford Borough Council on 5th March 2018, and became an independent constituted group on 7th September 2018.
Paragraph 11 currently reads:
The Friends of Victoria Park shall be administered by a Management Committee of not less than seven and not more than eleven members elected at the Group’s Annual General Meeting. Committee Members must be at least 18 years old.
The management Committee propose it is changed to:
The Friends of Victoria Park shall be administered by a Management Committee of not less than seven and not more than eleven members elected at the Group’s Annual General Meeting or, when the number of Committee Members is below eleven, at any General Meeting. Committee Members must be at least 18 years old.
A vote on these changes will be taken by show of hands during the meeting. Anyone not able to attend the meeting may notify the secretary of their acceptance or objection to the proposed changes by contacting us.
Have a passion for Victoria Park?
Why not get involved?
Litter cleared from Park
Volunteers, led by Aniko Szocs of Keep Ashford Clean, who gathered in Victoria Park to clear litter today, 19 January, were joined by Amy Casey, Ashford Borough Council’s newly appointed Waste and Recycling Education Officer.
Together they succeeded in clearing 11 bags of recycling and 8 bags of general waste together with a child’s scooter, a shopping trolley, a no parking sign and other discarded items.
Keep Ashford Clean undertake frequent litter picks in open spaces in Ashford. Their next litter pick is on 16 February at Singleton Lake. Another litter pick is planned in Victoria Park to mark the Great British Spring Clean on 23 March.