Our annual Open Day is nearly here!
This is your opportunity to explore the site and view the plots as well as see our newly refurbished Clubhouse and learn about it’s fascinating history. We will have stalls, childrens activities and you can meet the bee keeper and learn all about bees!
Refreshments will be available – burgers and hotdogs as well as tea and home made cakes.
We are delighted to recieve a Green Flag Award for the 19th year in a row!
The accreditation – the international quality mark for parks and green spaces – is testament to the hard work and dedication of the volunteers who care for the green space so that visitors and residents alike can enjoy it.
Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Award Scheme Manager, Paul Todd MBE, said: “I would like to congratulate everyone involved at Dorset Road Allotments and Leisure Gardens on achieving a Green Flag Award.
“Dorset Road Allotments and Leisure Gardens is a vital green space for communities in Beckenham to socialise, enjoy nature, for children to play safely and it provides important opportunities for park users to improve their physical and mental health.
We know that staff and volunteers work tirelessly to ensure that it maintains the high standards of the Green Flag Award, everyone involved should feel extremely proud of their achievement.
It is important that our free to use spaces are maintained to the Green Flag Award standard, making them accessible for all members of the community while ensuring the environment is protected.”
The runners from the local GoodGym came to help us begin the mammoth task of taking down an old unusable chicken run so that we can create a new community event space.
The GoodGym guys ran to the site, then aided by committee members Jaime and Anne, started to remove the chicken run bit by bit – check out their post about it on the GoodGym website.
We look forward to seeing them in June for the next Chicken-run installment.