Photo Credit © Angela Mitchell - grass snake
The Friends of Milton Creek are very excited to announce the arrival of Space @MiltonCreek. There is still a lot to be done to complete the project, plus an estimated £30,000 needs to be raised pay for all the work required to comply with current building regulations.
It was a big day today. Building work has started at long last. We have been waiting ages to get to this point but hopefully things will now progress quite rapidly.
Great news, the Milton Creek Country Park Trust has received permission to build a new community hub which they are calling “Space in the Park”. When completed this will provide a 16ft x 40ft warm dry space where they can hold meetings, run workshops and classes etc. Open the post to see the plans of the new building.
Thanks to a donation from a local building firm the Trust has been able to purchase 10 new fruit trees for the community orchard. These are traditional Kentish varieties of fruit trees grow by Brogdale.
As part of this project the existing trees, as well as all the new trees, will be getting substantial wire cages which will provide much better protection from the thriving rabbit population, marauding dogs and mowing machines.
Martin Brockman has created a group of green oak benches to mark the industrial past of Milton Creek and the wildlife of the tidal lands found on the Saxon Shore Path . Carved onto curved oak beams are oyster catchers, egrets, seagrass and local flora alongside the Thames barges and industrial cranes linked to past industry.
Great news, this is the 9th year running that Milton Creek Country Park has been awarded Gold by South & South East In Bloom. This would not be possible without all the hard work the Park Ranger and his team of volunteers put into the country park week in and week out. What a great team!
ROOM is an arts and event space that is available for hire by local artists, organisations or individuals. For availability please email info@miltoncreek.co.uk. Details of planned events can be found on the What’s On page and on Facebook. Room was on loan but has now been acquired by the MCCP Trust and will be available to hire until it is replaced by the much larger and more useful “Space in the Park”
Excellent news, this is the 2nd year that Milton Creek Country Park has entered and been awarded a Green Flag. The Green Flag Award® scheme recognises and rewards well managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces. This would not be possible without all the hard work the Park Ranger and his team of volunteers put into the country park week in and week out. What a great team!
Every year we try to add a new piece of artwork to the Park. Yesterday (6th March) the Friends and the Kris Staples the park ranger toured the Park with Martin Brockman from Outdoor Studios looking at possible locations and designs for this years installation.
The Art Trail (Blue Route) has been re-routed to include three new stone benches that have just been installed. Sculptor Patrick Walls was co-commissioned by Ideas Test and funded by Creative Estuary to design and make them, featuring designs created by the community and pupils from Regis Manor Primary School.
Ideas Test co-commission with Creative Estuary saw artist Patrick Walls ran a sculpture workshop in March. Kyra writes about how the sculptures made at this workshop will be used by Patrick in artworks coming to the Park in the summer
Milton Creek Country Park was a finalist in the Keep Britain Tidy – Love Parks Award 2022 for our Frisby Golf Event held on 27th July 2021 as our first public event after lockdown
We are pleased to announce that the Milton Creek Country Park Trust is now registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) reg. no. 1193109
The rustic reindeer workshop sessions have all sold out. So we are running a raffle for an extra large reindeer to be drawn on Sunday 19th December. All the proceeds will go the the Friends of Milton Creek to fund further improvements to the Park.
Would you like to try something new. Colouring is an “in the moment activity” that relaxes the brain and calms the body. Sessions are free to attend and all materials are supplied. Relax for a while in the company of other adults and try out this popular new pastime.
