Unfortunately this event has been postponed. We’ll be running a craft stall in the Community Vegetable Garden as part of the Newham Unlocked Festival in West Ham Park. Come along, choice your fruit and vegetable shapes to colour and stick to a paper crown. You can wear it with pride to remind yourself to eat…

CANCELLED! Friday 30th September, 7.15-8.15pm. Due to cold and wet weather we have had to cancel our second Bat Walk. We have tiny pipstrelle bats in the park, and just after sunset is the best time to see them. So why not come along on one of our popular free Bat Walks and try and see…

Every Sunday in August 10am-12pm7th, 14, 21st, 28th August Where does all the litter come from? The long hot Summer Days always bring more people to the Park, and, unfortunately, more litter. And sometimes even if people use the bins provided, the wind blows it around, or birds toss the rubbish out when looking for…

A small number of the Friends Group were invited to a presentation by City of London (see the presentation here) on their proposals for the nursery site in West Ham Park which took place on Monday evening (June 13th). In summary, the City of London told us the following – They made an in principle decision…

What a wonderful turnout!  Nearly 250 of you (some young, and some not so young)  attended the Friends’ vegetable garden event on Thursday – decorating a plant pot, and then ‘potting on’.  And in a short while hopefully those lovely nasturtiums will have beautiful – and edible – flowers. It was also a great day…

Notices have recently appeared on all the Park Gates, detailing in very vague terms, the City of London Corporation’s plans to ‘lease’ at least half of the existing Nursery Site on a 999 year lease – which sounds much more like selling it to me. The Friends of West Ham Park are asking as many…

Tuesday 29 March 2022 The City of London are still being remarkably quiet about their plans to redevelop the Nursery Site, although they have now posted a Public Notice on the Park Gates. This was discussed at some length during the meeting, including asking all participants to write to CoL’s agent Savills, and object to…

On Friday evening about 40 people took part in our Star Gazing which they all enjoyed – even though it was very cold.Unfortunately we couldn’t hold another one on Saturday evening as it was too cloudy. On Sunday afternoon 50 people took part in creating a Scale Model of the Solar System in the park….