13 November 2024
This Friday afternoon you're invited to grab your knitting needles and join a communal crafting session in the Broomfield Park clubhouse.
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06 November 2024
The Make Space for Girls Broomfield Park project has published a report on the series of workshops with young women that were held in spring this year. Their purpose was to explore and co-design ideas of what's needed to make Broomfield Park more appealing and welcoming for teenage girls, non-binary teens, and boys.
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05 November 2024
Enfield Council is currently advertising for a multidisciplinary team, led by a conservation landscape architect, to deliver the project to dismantle the remains of Broomfield House, 'memorialise' it, bring the land it occupied back into use as part of Broomfield Park and restore various heritage features of the park.
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21 October 2024
A page on the council's website reveals new details about the project to dismantle the remains of Broomfield House and restore various historic features of Broomfield Park. The development phase of the 'Unlocking Broomfield Park for the Community' project is currently under way, using Lottery funding. The delivery phase, if it goes ahead, is expected to be completed by December 2028.
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09 October 2024
Broomfield Park's volunteers have won five awards for their tremendous green-fingered efforts in the prestigious Enfield in Bloom competition.
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24 September 2024
Thanks to the hard work of gardener Victoria Black and volunteers from the Friends of Broomfield Park, our local park's Long Border is now in great shape. And on Sunday 6th October you'll be able to buy some of the plants that make the borders so beautiful to grow in your own garden.
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29 August 2024
It may be one of the events in this year's Broomfield Summer Festival, but prepare to be chilled when the British Touring Shakespeare Company bring their new take on Jekyll and Hyde to Broomfield Park on Saturday 7th September at 4pm - the only London date on their countrywide tour.
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27 August 2024
The latest addition to the public amenities in Broomfield Park is a community chess table, located near the Palmers Greenery café and available for use without charge.
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22 May 2024
The Palmers Greenery Community Café in Broomfield Park will be celebrating its tenth anniversary in early June with a series of free events: a Wellbeing Wander, a dog show and a Community Fun Day - something for everyone! But the Palmers Greenery is much more than just - to coin a phrase - an 'ace café'.
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22 May 2024
After a closure lasting eight months, the doors of Broomfield Conservatory will at last be thrown wide open on Sunday to let the public into Palmers Green's own mini-Kew Gardens.
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22 May 2024
Responses to a survey of visitors to Broomfield Park show that it is well loved. People believe it benefits their physical and mental health and helps them connect to the wider community and natural world.
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17 April 2024
On Saturday 4th May a group of walkers will pass through Broomfield Park, inaugurating the first leg of a new North to South London Walking Trail that stretches from Cockfosters to Carshalton Beeches.
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10 April 2024
The Make Space for Girls Broomfield Park project is recruiting local girls, young women and non-binary teens to take part in a series of workshops starting this month aimed at teasing out what it is that deters them from using the park as a social space for 'hanging out'. The findings will be used in the design of new park facilities that they will be happy to make use of.
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09 April 2024
Sally Everist from Friends of Broomfield Park's horticulture group updates us on work to keep the park's flower beds looking good and invites us to a plant sale.
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29 March 2024
Since it closed for repairs and redecoration several months ago, we've been waiting impatiently for one of the glories of Palmers Green to shrug off its plastic cocoon and reveal itself to visitors to Broomfield Park. But we're going to have to wait a little bit longer...
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06 February 2024
In the face of budgetary pressures, Enfield Council is seeking to determine how best to work with voluntary groups and attract outside funding in order to maintain parks and open spaces 'as efficiently as possible'. The council is currently running a consultation with users of Tottenhall Recreation Ground as a pilot project.
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16 January 2024
Enfield Council has been awarded more than half a million pounds of lottery money to pay for the first phase of its project to 'unlock Broomfield Park for the community', which includes 'memorializing' Broomfield House.
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19 December 2023
The Friends of Broomfield Park go from strength to strength with a wide range of projects aimed at both beautifying the park and helping improve local people's lives.
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29 November 2023
The Environment Agency has agreed to commission an ecologist to carry out an environmental audit and recommend an enhancement strategy aimed at increasing biodiversity and water quality in Broomfield Park. Next spring FoBP volunteers will start testing water quality in all the watercourses and carry out new planting to help improve water quality and provide natural food for birds and other wildlife.
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