Half Term Holidays in Hilly Fields

This bank holiday weekend and the Tuesday, Botton’s Family Fun Fair will be setting up behind the cafe. You’ll need some money for the tokens to cover the rids, but there are also free activities.

Poppies and postcards.

In 2014, the temporary portacabins were removed and instead of having the contractors reinstate grass on the hill, we decided to commemorate the start of WWI by sowing a meadow. We purchased over 1Kg of seeds from the National Wildlife Centre and with the invaluable and enthusiastic assistance of students from the neighbouring Prendergasts School, ...

Junior Parkrun at Hilly Fields – launches May 10th

Local blogger and runner Neil Gordon-Orr has written about the launch of a new regular Parkrun event just for kids. He says:Parkrun has grown to be a massive phenomenon. In the UK alone there are now 320 free, timed 5k runs taking place every Saturday morning, with up to 68,000 taking part each weekend. Many children ...

Family Fun for Bank Holiday Monday

Ruh roh! Shaggy dog fines from firm without a scooby

Dogwalker writes:Today there were some confused and upset dog walkers in Hilly Fields as fines of £75 were being handed out for dogs being walked off their leads. The fines were being handed out by an agency used by Lewisham Council. The issuers were claiming that it is illegal to walk a dog off its ...

2015 Orchard Maintenance

We have started our orchard watering for 2015. Anyone wishing to help out should contact us on hillyfields4@googlemail.com   You can join our summer rota, we can pair you up with another orchard friend and learn the ropes. Later in the year we will be mulching the trees and in winter we give them their ...

Pack mentality

Michael is calling for a culture change in the Hilly Fields dog-owner community since his dog has been bitten twice in recent months. He writes:I’m a regular user of Hilly Fields and it’s a park I greatly love. It’s very sad then that the “sociable” dog owners of Hilly Fields don’t seem that responsible. There’s ...

Dawn Chorus Walk

Spring Meeting

Our Friends’ meeting is Tuesday , 10th March, 2015. That’s at 7.30 in the cafe. The minutes from our December meeting are now in the Minutes and Reports section. Further meetings this year should be: 9th June, 8th September and 8th December, 2015.  

Brockley: Life Changing

@BrockleyCentral think I've just spotted Hilly Fields on the latest lottery ad! pic.twitter.com/lcOCuLsidA— Daisy (@cherrydelights) February 7, 2015 To celebrate 20 years of Lotto, the National Lottery ads are focused on giving people "a taste of what life as a lottery millionaire could be like". In this regard at least, their latest campaign, predominantly filmed ...