Queen’s Park Working Group, a community and Council partnership, has secured Area Partnership funding to undertake a community consultation as an essential input to developing ideas of how to improve Queen’s Park & Recreation Ground. As a result, we are very keen to find out your views about the park, including suggestions as to how it could […]

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) and Friends of Queen’s Park are holding AN INTRODUCTION TO CITIZEN SCIENCE on THURSDAY 31st AUGUST, 6.30PM. meeting at the SMALL POND.  This will be a ‘how to’ session – identifying wildlife species; collecting and recording data.  Wildlife guidebooks will be available. We’ll be studying and observing at ground level so please […]

In April we advertised for a Treasurer and Secretary to join our Management Committee.  And we’re delighted to report that a park user with financial background and keen interest in the park will become our new Treasurer after the AGM in November. However, we’re still keen to recruit a secretary.  The secretary’s role focuses on […]

FoQP are delighted to see that there are some new cute and colourful arrivals to the Queen’s Park big pond! This week the pair of coots now nesting at the base of the sculpture revealed three new young! Two flamed-haired cootlings could be seen off the nest speeding after mum coot for food, whilst a […]

We’ll be meeting at the ROSE GARDEN this coming Sunday. Plenty to do there – weeding, dead-heading. A general tidy-up of rose bushes and beds. Hoes, weeders and a few snips/secateurs provided. We have a pair of loppers, but if any volunteer has a pair they could bring along it would be appreciated. We can […]