Arnold Circus wins (another) award!
The Boundary Gardens has won another accolade – it has just won the Community category in the Sustain Magazine Awards 2012.
The sustain’ Magazine Awards for Sustainability, Business & the Built Environment are designed to celebrate the high hopes and hard work, commitment and creativity, radicalism and rigour, inspiration and perspiration of all those achieving distinction and success in the field of Sustainability.
This was the fourth year of the award, and was held following the first night of Ecobuild, London, on Tuesday March 20th, 2012.
Congratulations to LDA Design, the architects behind the refurbishment, and to everybody who has been involved in building and maintaining our award-winning community garden.
Here is the link to the Sustain Magazine website although they are yet to put the results up!
Minutes of the Trustee’s monthly meeting in February 2012
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Minutes of the Trustee’s monthly meeting in January 2012
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New Year, new day (every month)
Ever since we started the Friends of Arnold Circus, we have held open meetings on the last Thursday of every month*.
This year we are changing.
Instead we will be having our management meeting on the last Tuesday. But the open welcome is still the same. We are happy to see people who want to come along. You might want to have an idea you want to suggest, or simply to find out what the Friends are all about. We only ask that you contact the Secretary Farid beforehand – 07859 014215 – just in case we have a full house and can’t fit any more in.
* every month except for December and August, for obvious reasons.
Bandstand busking at Arnold Circus: Forest Fire
The wonderful people at Bandstand Busking organised for the New York band Forest Fire to play a few tunes from their latest album at Arnold Circus in December.
To see more of Arnold Circus being used for what it was designed for (and what it does best) check out the Bandstand Busking website, where you can also sign up to their mailing list to make sure you don’t miss any future busks!
Plants on the Circus – a look back at 2011
Lots of people have said how good the Circus looked this year and how much they have liked it. This was the first full year after all the new planting during the massive renovation works during 2010. It probably looked it’s best in May & June.
We replanted all the bulbs (Bluebells & Daffs) & plants (Hellebores, Hollyhocks & Geraniums) and spread the seeds (Hollyhocks, Musk Mallow etc.) which we had saved from before the work began, and we put in new plants (Epimediums, Foxgloves, Geums, Aquilegias & ferns).
The water supply was eventually turned on in May, but the pipes are continually being bitten through and pulled up – by dogs, rats, and people going onto the beds – and have to be repaired and re-anchored.
The South side has looked good some of the time, but can look pretty drab & scruffy at others.Here it is looking at it’s best.
Some of the plants are being trampled, and litter (mainly bottles & cans) is being thrown onto the beds, and some irresponsible people are still bringing their dogs onto the Circus and letting them run wild, fouling the footpaths and the beds.
(The contractors (Fountains) do a good job and come most days to empty the bins & clear the litter from the paths, and I clear the litter from the beds when I am here).
Somebody brought their fighter dogs onto the Circus in May and they ripped the bark from the trees.
Great Tits nested in a bird box and hatched a clutch of eggs in May.
Somebody buried a dead cat on the Circus in November, and they had to be asked to remove it. They made a mess, uprooting plants etc., and we don’t want people to do it as it encourages rats, foxes and dogs to dig it up.
The planting contractors came back in October (and again this month), and did more planting. to finally fulfill their contract.
It is so good to see so many people visit the Circus, to meet friends, have their lunch, to come to the events, or just to look and be here.
Minutes of the Trustee’s monthly meeting in November 2011
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