A blossoming collaboration with Gladstone Park Primary School
The Willesden Green Town Team has a proud tradition of entering the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) London In Bloom competition, in the It’s Your Neighbourhood section. We entered in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024. We have had good ratings and feedback for our work on the Willesden Green Jubilee Station Platforms (1 and 4) and the planters outside the station. Last year we received a ‘thriving’ rating and a recommendation to do even more to reach out to our community in 2025. Check out Gladstone Park Primary School’s Instagram post.
1st May 2025: We were thrilled to be asked to deliver a seed-sowing session at Gladstone Park Primary’s first Gardening Club for years 3 and 4. Our next engagement with Gladstone Park Primary School is on 1st July when we will be talking about our work at three assemblies at the school and again at their International Day on 11th July. So if you are a parent or carer, or a family member of a pupil and will be joining International Day do come along and see our Grafting Demonstration. We will be situated in the Reception Garden and will be grafting probably at 4pm.
They grew, and drew, sweetpeas and sunflowers and now they have been transferred to the planters on the Willesden Green Station platform 1.
Gladstone Park Primary School’s Gardening Club
Our collaboration with the school has been supported by Brent’s Together Towards Zero programme, which was entered into by Gladstone Park Primary. As part of their objectives for that programme we were invited in at the beginning of the year by the enthusiastic, creative and eco-aware team of Governors, Parent/Teacher Group representatives and teachers who wanted to promote eco-friendly practises and awareness whilst engaging with the community. We have been the lucky beneficiaries of their time and energy and were thrilled to be invited to join their very first Gardening Club session on May 1st.
Our goal was to show the children how easy it is (and fun!) to grow plants from seeds. We hope they will share this with their families, encouraging them to grow their own instead of buying imported, less eco-friendly seedlings, usually driven all the way from Europe.