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Botton’s Family Funfair will be with us again this coming bank holiday weekend, from Saturday 28th until Monday 30th.
They will be on the football field (which is currently having the new cricket wicket prepared) by Hilly Fields Crescent.

We have gained our first Green Flag…well done everyone involved with park.

We are very pleased that the Bubble Theatre will be on tour at Hilly Fields this summer, 11th to 14th August 2010.

http://www.londonbubble.org.uk/see_stuff/sirens_of_titan

Our resident bird champion has kindly arranged the following with Lewisham’s People and Rivers Project. The weather forecast is cloudy but as long as it doesn’t rain, we should be okay for hearing the birds.

birdwalk_2010

Drums and masks set the scene for our story telling event last Saturday for our official opening. Finding a spot of shade, “Inpired Word” rose to the occasion with their story of Anansi the spider.

There were busy children and a few adults too making clay bugs and butterflies
at the other end of the playground.

Just a reminder that the next Friends Meeting is on Tuesday 8th June at 7.30.
We have someone from animal welfare attending and probably the green space regeneration manager from Lewisham.

It will be held as normal in the park keepers room at the top of the hill.

For minutes of last meeting click here (it will download onto your desktop):-

HF_9 March 2010 _Minutes

There will be the official opening of the playground during the Brockley Max event on Saturday 5th June.
We have arranged for a story teller for the under 8s from 12.30, probably doing two sessions over the following hour.

From 1pm we have arranged for a craft workshop.
We received funding for these events as part of our Changing Places grant from the Big Lottery.

The mayor turns up at 2pm.

We are pleased to announce that our new playground has opened. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so full.

The playground gates returned to Hilly Fields today for fitting. The original artwork was done by last year by a year 2 class from Gordonbrock. Artist Sally Adams translated it into a gate design, and then Heather Burrell at APT studios in Deptford has worked the design into the gates.

Last Autumn we were busy planting the tulips donated to the Friends group by the Big Bulb Plant. They are now flowering and brightening up the entrance to the bowling green.

Spring bulbs in Bowls club