Friends of Lowndes Park Chesham

At the last working party the Friends took a little time out to celebrate retaining our Green Flag status. For the full story of our success see the article in Chiltern Voice.

If you have been walking through the park in the last week you may noticed work being carried out on the performance area. The Friends of Lowndes Park have been awarded £50,000 from the Lottery to renovate the park’s performance area and to erect a seasonal canopy for bands to perform under. The work should take 3 to 4 weeks.

Chesham in Bloom held a very successful community tree planting event in upper Lowndes Park on Saturday 26th March. The Bloom team, which included volunteers from the Friends of the Park and the Chesham Environmental Group, planted nearly 300 native trees. These mostly comprised of rowan, hazel and birch. For more photos please click on the title.

The Friends are moving the weekend working party to the second Sunday of the month and the next one will be on Sunday 12 February. We hope to be pruning roses, weeding the beds and then take a look to see if the snowdrops we have planted over the last few years are coming through. We meet at 10am in the Archena Garden which is next to the Temperance Hall in Church Street.

The Friends are hoping to plant around 30 native tree saplings in the Wildlife Area at their working party on Sunday 8 January. They have been donated by the 10th Chesham Guides and were given to them by the Woodland Trust. The varieties of tree include Holly, Wild Rose, Hawthron, Hazel and Dogwood.

We would like to thank Helena Mills who raised £570 for the Friends of Lowndes Park in memory of her good friend Ben Cargill. Over the course of the last summer she took part in not one but three triathlons. Please click on the title for more details and picture.