Ahead of their quarterly open meeting next week, the Friends of Broomfield Park are celebrating their favourite green space's two Gold awards in this year's Enfield in Bloom competition.
The Park won Gold in the Best Maintained Park category, while one of its most interesting features, the Broomfield Community Orchard, won Gold in the Innovative Growing Space category. Another Broomfield Park attraction, the Broomfield Conservatory, was awarded Bronze for its Exceptional Horticultural Contribution for the Local Community.
Credit for the Park's gold award is shared among the (these days very small) team of gardeners and other council employees on the one hand, and the Friends on the other. As well as keeping up the pressure on the Council to look after the Park, the Friends themselves have been tending various parts of the Park, including the new wildflower meadow, the sensory garden and the Dipali Memorial Garden. They have also been heavily involved in restoring the Garden of Remembrance in time for the WW1 commemoration.
The Community Orchard and Conservatory are both run entirely by Friends of Broomfield Park volunteers, as is the most recent addition to the Park, the long awaited Palmers Greenery community cafe, where the home made cakes, friendly service and reasonable prices have proved a great hit with visitors to the Park. This Sunday the Greenery will host David Rennie's Water Game - great fun for all ages.
To find out more about the numerous projects that the Friends are working on, and to provide your own ideas and feedback, why not go along to the quarterly Open Meeting on Thursday 2nd October at the Ruth Winston Centre? (Incidentally, the Ruth Winston Centre was another award winner in this year's Enfield in Bloom.)
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