Thanks to everyone to helped to plant 1,350 trees in Trent Park on Saturday, March 16! Our next volunteer event will be Plant the Pond on Wednesday, May 29 when we will put the finishing touches to the Limes Avenue wildlife pond.  There will be water plants and edging shrubs…

What’s happened since July 2018?  Construction has commenced on Phase One new build houses New mains service infrastructure works and substation have been installed Site clearance and structural investigation works to the Mansion House Construction commencement on Highfield House and Lyon House apartments Planning permission and demolition of Woburn Cottage,…

Plants purchased with our Enfield in Bloom grant were installed in the Water Garden on March 4.  The bed near the shed has been designated as the Enfield in Bloom bed and more plants will be added over time.  Thanks too to volunteer Peter.  If there are any more green…

Get ready to vote for Trent Park! We are in the running for a Tesco Bags of Help grant for the Limes Avenue pond. Between Friday, March 1 and Tuesday, April 30 you will be able to vote for the Trent Park Pond Nature Project at the Tesco stores listed…

It’s time for an update to our many friends and supporters. Great successes!   After months of work making grant applications to benefit our park, The Friends can share this good news with you!  The biggest success is a Mayor’s Greener City Fund grant, awarded to Thames21 for work in the…

Very exciting news! Thames21 submitted an application to the Mayor’s Greener City Fund for work in the park and was successful! The grant will cover [deep breath] – a series of leaky woody dams, the planting of 2000 new broadleaf trees, interpretation signage for the restored wildlife pond, new ponds…

The Friends are frequently contacted by people who would like to rent park facilities for an event, buy a memorial tree or bench or get a professional dog walker license.  We love to hear from you all but, in case you’d prefer to reach the right person first time, here…

The Friends recently received a grant towards the upgrade of the Limes Avenue wildlife pond.   Remedial work started earlier this year with the thinning of the trees surrounding the pond to allow in more light.  Restoration of the pond will begin soon.  This will include de-silting, re-building and stabilising the…

The 2018 AGM & General meeting was held at 7.45pm on Nov 1st 2018 at Christ the King Catholic Church, Bramley Road.  The Chairman, Peter Gibbs opened the AGM meeting by welcoming 28 members and the three Cockfosters Ward Councillors Edward Smith, Elaine Hayward and Alessandro Georgiou. The minutes of…