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Easter Event for Children. Mon 10 April 10.30-12.30
TEN More Days to the First Litter Pick in 2023
Up-dated Nature and History Walks in the Park for 2023
   Cherry Tree Walk in April Added
Successful Elm Week Celebrations Workshop
Early Cherry Trees.  How to Recognise them
Gardening Group News
Don't Miss the Box Elder Flowering
Volunteers Wanted.  Do you have a skill to offer?
Wanted Info on who is Damaging the Pond Railings
JOIN EASY FUNDRAISING Nominate FOGP as your Charity
AMAZON SMILE IS CLOSING on 20 February 2023
Memorial Benches.  How to buy one.  New Photo
POLICE: New Contact Info for reporting Mopeds in the Park
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Easter Event for Children
Old House Footprint by the Pond
TEN More Days to the First Litter Pick in 2023
All welcome if just for an hour.

SUNDAY, 26 MARCH FROM 10-12
Meet at the park entrance at the bottom of Anson Road North
Alyson is bringing spare her house plants in case you want to start a collection!
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SATURDAY, 22 APRIL from 10-12
Meet by the walled garden and old house footprint
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Litter picks and bags provided.  Wear gloves and strong shoes
UPDATED: WALKS IN THE PARK 2023
ADDED:  Cherry tree walk:  19 April at 6pm
Bettina would like to talk about Gladstone Park's cherry trees and how to recognise them.  The varieties in the park are some of the most numerous she has seen.
There is no need to book for any of the walks. Just turn up on the day. If it looks like rain and you think the walk might be cancelled:  email:  gladstoneflowersNW@gmail.com
Successful Elm Week Celebrations Workshop
After becoming trees through movement the children were mesmerised by David's illustrations of how an acorn becomes an oak tree. Their creative depictions of trees reflecting the seasons were beautiful as you can see below. Permission was given to use the images. The nature table intrigued the adults!
Below:  David and Mr Fox with a wary Squirrel on his post watching.   Top: winter and summer and below: spring and autumn
Early Cherry Trees:  Spring has arrived
You have probably noticed the cherry trees flowering in the park.  There's a pink one by the cafe, a white one, almost over, by the park's veteran box elder tree that is slowing dying a productive death, and another along Kendal Road. These are Prunus cerasifera which you can recognise by their reflexed sepals or bud covering as shown below. Info from Bettina who will be leading a cherry tree walk in April.
Prunus cerasifera = white with green leaves
Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii' = purple flowers with purple leaves
Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra' = pink with purple emerging leaves

The Peace Grove has two of these species flowering although they are not so obvious when young.
 
Gardening Group News
To our surprise we had to water the new hedge in February!  Weeding continues and new planting has been added after it started raining. There are shrubs and trees flowering in the walled garden, yellow flowering witch hazel, see below, winter flowering jasmine and honeysuckle and a Viburnum bodnantense. The snowdrops are over but the daffodils, Anemone blandas and the many hyacinths on the terrace bed bring much looked-for colour in the gardens.
Robert has finished putting up wiring to help the 3 clematis in the NE corner to grow vertically up the wall.  He has also added wiring above the winter jasmine to allow us to extend it up the wall.
For info:  The witch hazel provides an early food source for insects as it is insect pollinated unlike the common hazel.  Despite its name it is not related to the common hazel which is wind pollinated.
Box Elder Flowering
A sight not to be missed in the park is the box elder flowering by the tennis courts, next to the tulip tree.  The rose red  'flowers' are the male catkins of Acer negundo var Violaceum.
Volunteers Wanted
Do you have a skill to offer?
Can you lead a walk or arrange a talk?  
Are you good at organising?  
Could you take on the litter pick organisation?
Any other ideas you could contribute?
Email:  helen@gladstoneparkfriends.org
DO PLEASE JOIN EASYFUNDRAISING
IT IS SUCH AN EASY WAY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FRIENDS OF GLADSTONE PARK.

For example if you buy anything from John Lewis they donate 2% of the value to the Friends!  These donations help the Gladstone Gardening Group to buy tulips, alliums and other bulbs for spring colour and contribute to the perennial beds in the walled garden.

HELP MAKE YOUR PARK EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL BY CONTRIBUTING
RAISE MONEY FOR THE FRIENDS OF GLADSTONE PARK
VIA EASY FUNDRAISING

A huge variety of companies are paying charity donations via the website Easy Fundraising.
Follow the link below and nominate the Friends of Gladstone Park as your charity.   Download the app which allows you to see which companies support charities this way when you use your browser.
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/
AND NO LONGER VIA AMAZON SMILE
Amazon have recently announced that they are closing Amazon Smile as a way to raise money for charities from 20 February.
MEMORIAL BENCHES: MORE NEEDED AS WE WOULD LIKE SOME ALONG THE NEW CYCLE PATH AND IN THE PEACE GROVE.   People like to rest, stare at the sun, comfort their baby or just admire the view when walking the park especially along the new cycle track where there is just one bench at present.
Is there a loved one you would like to remember and think about when visiting the Gladstone Park?
PHOTO:  Husband and wife, Paul and Yvonne with Helen A taking a welcome break from gardening.
COST:   Email:   brent.parks.services@brent.gov.uk
or speak to Brent Council on 020 8937 5619
NO MOPEDS PERMITTED TO DRIVE IN THE PARK
If you see a moped in the park, photograph it with the number plate visible and take down details of the time and where you saw it. Email your ward SNT as below and the police have agreed to follow this up where there is sufficient evidence.
Mopeds are not allowed to drive through the park and people are not allowed to sleep in the park.
If you have information about mopeds, rough sleeping or antisocial behaviour:
  • Email or Tweet your ward, either Dollis Hill, Willesden Green or Cricklewood and Mapesbury Safer Neighbourhood Team, (SNT), as below.
  • Do not put yourself at risk by taking photographs of people, but make a note of registration numbers, descriptions, time and location.
  • Remember that the SNT can only follow up messages when they are on a working shift, so they should not be contacted about urgent issues.
DOLLIS HILL: E:  DollisHill.SNT@met.police.uk   Tweet:  @MPSDollisHill
WILLESDEN GREEN: E: WillesdenGreen.SNT@met.police.uk  Tweet:  @MPSWillesden
CRICKLEWOOD AND MAPESBURY:  E: Mapesbury.SNT@met.police.uk   Tweet:  @MPSMapesbury


IF A CRIME IS HAPPENING IN FRONT OF YOU
  • PHONE 999 if the suspect is nearby or if anyone is hurt or in danger.  If you see a weapon or drug dealing and the dealer is visible, call 999.  If you find a hidden stock of drugs, call 999.

FOR OTHER CRIMES
  • phone 101,
  • use the MPS website www.met.police.uk
  • tweet @MetCC
  • go to Wembley police station counter.
You can also contact the charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or www.crimestoppers-uk.org

DUMPED RUBBISH
 
To report dumped rubbish, use Brent Council’s "Cleaner Brent" App or report it online via their website.
                                                                                             
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