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We are planning a repeat of our successful Big Bird Watch event. So pencil in Saturday 30th January 2010 at 11am. There will be a chance to go bird spotting with Keith our park bird champion or you could put your hand to making a bird feeder. Edit Posts

We are having our missed meeting this Tuesday in the park keepers room, up by the loos at the top of the hill. Big apologies for the last minute confirmation. It is the only date we can squeeze in before Christmas.

If you want anything adding to the agenda, please email to:

hillyfields4@googlemail.com

our agenda will include the proposed works and programme to the playground

and

plans for the RSPB’s Big Bird Watch in the park

Everyone is welcome

The Friends of Hilly Fields have been very busy with their grant application and some of you may have noticed that we haven’t held our autumn meeting.  The date will be set shortly, we’ll keep you all informed.

The Friends of Hilly Fields are delighted to announce that their “wild about play” application to the Big Lottery’s Changing Places Grant has been successful. The grant is towards the refurbishment of the playground and as the name suggests, is focused on diversifying the play experience by introducing some of the park’s  natural elements into the playground.

Following the successful stage 1 application, the group were awarded a development grant by the lottery. This enabled a measured survey to be undertaken, which in turn enabled the group to work up a more detailed design and costings. Before submitting the second stage of the application, the group also needed to become a constituted group and hold a community engagement event, not to mention all the land ownerships forms to sign, the letters of support and a councillor’s signature.  Our community engagement event was held in the playground on a windy Saturday morning on 6th June, coinciding with the Brockley Max event. We had lots of positive feedback and support, so thank you to everyone.  All the hard work has paid off, the stage 2 application was submitted in mid August  and the Friends were notified of their success at the end of September. We were awarded the full £49,999.

The inaugural AGM of the newly constituted Hilly Fields Park User Group has been postponed to 10 June to comply with rules governing setting up a properly constituted group.

It will be held at 8pm.

The meeting on 21 May will go ahead as an ordinary user group meeting.

The Hilly Fields Park Users Group will be holding a special meeting on 21 May to adopt a constitution so it can proceed with a grant bid to do up the play area.

Stop Press – The AGM meeting will now be on 10 June. This 21 May meeting will be an ordinary meeting.

We need to be a constituted group before we apply for stage 2 of the Changing Places grant.

This will double as a general user group meeting. More details will follow.

7.30pm in the Park Keeper’s Office by toilet block at top of the hill

All are welcome – please come along and get involved.

Agenda (pdf version – opens new window)
1. Introduction
2. Apologies
3. Minutes of last meeting
4. Maintenance and Repairs

• Tennis Courts
• Playground
• Park furniture/Notice boards
• Footpaths
• Trees
• Grass/meadow
• Boundary Planting/Hedging

5. Bird Champion
6. Lewisham Community Sports
7. Envirowork/Bothy Update
8. Development Issues

• Management Plan
• Kyrle Memorial Garden
• Playground update
• Changing Places Grant: incl requirements for group
• Bowling Green

9. Website Progress
10. Cafe
11. Dogs
12. Eastern Road Gate
13. Any Other Business