New wooden sleepers installed with the help of volunteers from NHS Property Services – thank you to The BIG Alliance for arranging the corporate volunteering day

Come and volunteer here on Tuesday! This lovely space is ready for new planting. Volunteers have dug out the self-seeded saplings, weeded the border, and prepared the ground with our own leaf compost. With a bench, and shaded from the sun in the summer, this refurbished area will be beautiful. Thank you to Islington Giving’s Make It Happen Fund for our grant.

On Saturday 19 October, come along any time between 10am – 4pm, for our Open Day. Visit the Garden. Plant spring bulbs. Children’s activities will be available. A great opportunity to make new friends and learn more about Olden Garden. Coffee and cake provided.

Thank you to the volunteers who repositioned and raised the water butt beside the greenhouse, building a new platform from sleepers. It is working again!

Over 70 visitors came to our London Open House Festival day and appreciated our ‘beautiful and tranquil place’, a ‘recharge in the centre of town’, a ‘hidden gem in the neighbourhood’, a ‘wonderful and magical oasis’, Thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make the day such a success.

We are taking part in London’s Open House Festival on Saturday 21st September. Explore the garden, walk in the woodland, and join in our family activities.

Or try some volunteer gardening: apple harvest, leaf clearing, and mulching flower beds with our own compost.

Just drop in at any time, 11am – 3pm. Tea and cake will be available.

Huge thank you to our volunteers for their hard work stabilising our terracing and flower beds with wooden sleepers, replacing old disintegrating ones with the newly purchased sleepers.