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Picnic in the Park

Our 2023 Festival didn’t disappoint! Great music, great stalls and most important of all our fantastic local community came out in their droves – we estimate we had around 500 people attending over the course of the afternoon. We are so grateful for your support – this is the reason the committee put in the work – thank you for making it amazing!

And an extra thank you to the current Committee members: Sandra, Iris, Zena, Ron and Alan who spent many an hour planning and troubleshooting to put the event together. Can’t leave out the trusty core volunteers who turn up for set-up and take-down and always with a smile. – Kris, Chair

And thumbs up to Greenwich Parks Forum for their support and the Greenwich Borough Park Rangers who made sure the site was clean and clear, before and after.

Comperes John and Erik
Navida’s amazing cakes
Friends of Shrewsbury Park Stall
Roos Academy perform
Cllr Okereke, Leader of the Council chats to stallholders

If you have any of your own photos of the 2 July to add, please send them to werfsp@gmail.com

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Sunday Funday 2022 – how was it for you?

We hope you had a wonderful time at the Festival this year – although the dog show was cancelled due to the high temperatures, we plan to re-run it later in the year.

As you can see, we have some fantastic photos to share – but we’d also like your feedback so if you were there – tell us how it was for you?

Councillor Adel Khaireh and family

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The Festival is Back

This year’s Summer Park Festival will be held on Sunday 17 July from 12-4pm. We’re calling it ‘Sunday Funday’ Don’t miss the fantastic stalls, food, drink, and amazing entertainment – there’s loads for the kids to do too!

This is a real celebration of our amazing local community, who have been so resilient over the past couple of years. It’s an opportunity for everyone to get together and enjoy the park – dogs are welcome, and we have a dog show for them to get involved with.

Music, dance and performances will run throughout the afternoon and we have more than 20 stalls booked in for you to visit!

We have beer from local brewery, Common Rioters, Gin from Greenwich Gin, ice-cream from our local ice cream seller, Nepalese momos by Fililieats.com – We cannot wait!!

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Dog Show at our Festival Announced

Have you got a pretty poodle or a dress-up Dalmatian?
Now we have a chance for them to shine! The Dog Show is part of our annual festival and we want you to get ready to take part – it is all for fun, and we’re happy to provide you with an opportunity to show off! 🐕‍🦺
Just register your dog on the day, registration opens at 11.30am and goes on until 12.30pm
The categories are:
  • Best Costume
  • Cutest Puppy (aged up to 1 year)
  • Golden Oldie (aged over 7)
  • Child Handler (child aged up to 12 years)
  • Best Rescue (rescued within the last 2 years)
  • Handsome Prince
  • Prettiest Princess
  • Best In Show
  • Waggiest Tail
  • Scruffiest Dog

Go on …. get involved – we can’t wait to see all those delectable dogs enjoying themselves in our park!

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Lark in the Park LIVE!

The Summer Festival was a terrific success, judging by all the smiling faces. The day was full of summertime music, tasty food, hands-on workshops, creative craftspeople and info stalls from bees to Greenpeace.  And Canine Capers presented by the Dog Society GB!

I would like to give grateful thanks to the Management Committee who pulled together like no other group has pulled before; Ron Senkus, Iris White, Sonja O’Sullivan, Sandra Bauer, Paul Buckley and Alan Deacon.

A core of super volunteers also helped make it happen and then returned the Park to it’s pristine appearance at the end of the day.

And thank you to everyone who delivered leaflets, baked a cake, set up a gazebo or shifted tables –  or simply turned up to share Shrewsbury Park together with the neighbourhood. Continue reading Lark in the Park LIVE! →

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Sizzling Summer Spree!

In case you don’t know firsthand, the Summer Spree was a huge success, the quintessential Summer Afternoon in the Park. And the Astronaut Training was a delightful addition.

Astronauts of tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to the Management Committee: Ron Senkus, Sonja O’Sullivan, Iris White, Sandra Bauer, Paul Buckley, Alan Deacon and Andy King. They pulled out all the stops and made the event happen in style.

All of us would like to thank the members of FSP (and their tireless  friends and families) who delivered leaflets, baked, took photos for the competition, suggested ideas, put up gazebos, dragged chairs and tables and boxes around, ran errands, ran stalls, served endless thirsty people and spread their cheerfulness in what was a truly neighbourhood event.

Continue reading Sizzling Summer Spree! →

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Sign your kids up for Ready, Steady, Lift Off! at the Spree on Sunday 8 July

“What an amazing idea! At Last something exciting and fun!”

(Timeout)

DATE: Sunday 8th July

PERFORMANCE TIMES: 12.30pm, 2.00pm, 4.00pm

 SHOW INFO

Welcome to our Space Station! Train to be an astronaut, make your own rocket, colour and LIFT OFF! Ready Steady Lift Off! is an immersive theatre show for 3-8 year olds and their families combining live performance, music, storytelling and painting into one interactive theatre show.

Ready Steady Lift Off! invites you the audience to take part in our colourful astronaut programme. Come and navigate, sing, colour and play your way through the 7 stages of training, from working as a team in a space station to piloting your own rocket around our galaxy.

This immersive experience will get the family colouring and creating together, and once you’ve decorated your rocket, you will orbit around space meeting strange creatures and overcoming some cosmic catastrophes, all in a days work for the LIFT OFF team! Finally fly your rocket home!

BOOKING

Shows are FREE but booking is essential. The show is for children aged 3 – 8 (strictly no under 3’s allowed) and all children must be supervised by a parent/guardian. To book please follow the below link…

https://eea.org.uk/whats-on/events/ready-steady-lift-off-summer-spree

For more information, or to book, please contact ross.bolwell@eea.org.uk | 020 8853 4809

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Smiles all ’round at Summer Festival Frolics 2017!

The perfect way to spend a sunny Sunday in the Park

The Festival kicked off with a toast of cool water as Councillor Danny Thorpe and our own Pearly Queen, Gwen Jones, officially opened the new drinking fountain dubbed ‘The Watering Hole’. The plumbing firm, 1st About Plumbing, sent a rep and our Park Ranger, John Tomlinson, represented Parks and Open Spaces who will maintain the fountain.

Continue reading Smiles all ’round at Summer Festival Frolics 2017! →

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Fabulous Park Festival!

The Summer Festival Frolics came together with the weather and so many friends and neighbours for a Grand Day Out! And our fountain was officially opened by Councillor Danny Thorpe and Pearly Queen Gwen Jones.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who contributed time, ideas, stalls, muscle, dogs, sweat, donations, photos and most of all your good will. The Management Committee was happy to see a growing participation in this annual event and look forward to more next year.

There will be a comprehensive report and thank you – with photos – soon but for now here are the unclaimed raffle prize numbers, please contact werfsp@gmail. com to claim a prize.

A memory stick/mp3  was found in the car park field on Sunday; if you lost one please contact us werfsp@gmail.com

RAFFLE PRIZE NUMBERS

BLUE 316 -318 – 335 – 341 – 342 -354 – 359 – 364 – 367

PINK 522 – 580 – 587 – 614

YELLOW 359 – 376 – 389