What’s on

Saturday 15th June 11.30 – 8.00 pm

Organised by the Friends of Blakers Park and run in association with Stanford Avenue Methodist Church

Meet your friends, family and neighbours at our al fresco day-long party. Live music, stalls and games.

Bouncy Castle, fire engine, face painting, home made cakes, barbecue, plants, books, stalls, raffle and Blaker’s Shopping Bag on sale!

Free entry

But please bring a tin of food to donate to FareShare, the community food network.

Dogs on leads are welcome but only if their owners behave and instantly remove any mess, because it’s being held in the chld-friendly dog-free area. The Park Rangers will be on hand to lend firm advice.

. The deadlne for submitting bookings is 1st June.

Please download our lovely

and display it prominently so that the entire community gets to know that the Picnic and Summer Fair is on its way.

Thank You’s

A heartfelt thank you to all the incredibly generous individuals and organisations without whom the picnic simply couldn’t go ahead. They’ve donated their time, supported us with their services or made a donation in the run up to this year’s picnic and deserve to be publicly thanked. They include:

Brighton and Hove Council who awarded us a grant of £750, without which the picnic possibly wouldn’t happen.

Morgan Carn who have printed some rather fine posters
Hummingbird Studio who have loaned us some easels

Nick, Cliff and Symond who are providing their technical expertise for our sound, stage and lighting. Also Simon Bottrell at 7Creative for designing the poster and Duncan Blinkhorn from Friends of William Clarke Park for lending us equipment and being generally supportive. Plus all our lovely volunteers who stepped forward on the day to run the children’s games.

Others to thank include Beaumonts Estate Agents, Savery Books, Fiveways Fruits, WigWam Toys, The Cleveland, David & Co, Barfields, Living at Fiveways, The Eleventh Flower, Quaff, Soul Sister, Hove Art Room, Lark on Lowther all of whom have donated raffle prizes.

Unfortunately gardening in Blakers Park appears to be very low down in the priorities of CityParks and it is one of the few in the city not to have a dedicated Council gardener. This means our existing flower beds, as pictured, have been planted and maintained entirely by volunteers.
Now that we have two more beds we need help from more volunteer gardeners. The Friends are acquiring plants already to put in the beds, some from CityParks nurseries and others that we are buying.
All that’s needed are a few friendly gardeners to spend one or two hours a week making Blakers Park even better for the community.
Could this be you, or someone you know?
If so, send us an e-mail.  (friendsblakersparkorguk)   or call Emma Keane, our CityParks ranger, on 01273 292929.