Proudly presenting, at the park near you… Raglan Avenue

Posted on March 14 by Kerry Hood

People digging holes and planting trees in Raglan Avenue

We are very grateful to Raglan School Eco-council for funding and planting a new row of trees, along side the all-weather path, to form an avenue… christened Raglan Avenue!

Phil applying a sledge hammer to stake a new tree

About 20 parents and friends turned out to plant and stake the new trees, with lots of help from the children of Raglan school. The new trees look fantastic!

The kinds of trees that we planted were:

goat willow (salix caprea)
silver birch (betula pendula)
flag pole flowering cherry (prunus serrulata amanogawa)
common/european beech (Fagus sylvatica)
golden leaved elm (Ulmus carpinifolia aurea)
variety of plum (prunus sp.)
liquid amber or american sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
flowering cherry (Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea)

Your Invitation to our VE Day Big Lunch

Posted on February 22 by Kerry Hood

We’re looking forward to seeing you this year!

Havelock Big Lunch celebrates VE Day 75

We hope to see you there for our 2020 Big Lunch on Saturday 2nd May. We’ll be celebrating VE Day 75 with old school games, tea, cakes, BBQ, drinks, raffle, tombola and more.

Costumes are very much encouraged to help the celebrations!

Please let us know if you plan on coming on our Facebook event – CLICK HERE – and help us spread the word by sharing the event on with the options below, on social media, WhatsApp groups and amongst all your friends. If you’d like a poster to display, then please reply to this email.

More events coming this year so be sure to like our Facebook page to stay in the loop.

Friends of Havelock Rec Committee xx

Bugs, birds, bats and beyond day for 2018… followed by a bat walk

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Kerry Hood

event held on Saturday 14th July 2-4pm.

We were joined by Friends of the Earth and Kent Bat Group. The bat group helped us conduct a survey of our park in the evening, and we recorded 3 different species of bats! 😁

A Roesels’ Bush Cricket – a species that’s expanding it’s range across the country.

Big Lunch 2018

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Rebecca Davis

The Big Lunch was held on Saturday 9th June, from 12-4pm.

The sun shone and we had a great day!

It’s Snow Days in our Park!

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

This is the weather where people will walk a long way for the nice safe slope in our park! Here’s some of our pics of this year’s snow days in our park!

And some more scenic pics:

2018 Events

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

Put these dates in your diaries!

14th April, 2-4pm – Easter Mini Olympics

9th June, 12-4pm – The *Big* Big Lunch!

14th July, 2-4pm – Bats, Birds, Butterflies and Beyond

5th August, 12-3pm – Summer Family Picnic

Havelock Hoedown 2017

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

We had a fantastic afternoon, and even the sun came out to play!
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a good day!

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There’s a special mention for the Baker Girls who really contributed to the fun, and Mick whose calling meant that all the dances were do-able!

Bird-box & Bug day 2017

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

We painted little bird boxes to go home, and hunted all over the field to see what bugs we could find!

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2017 Events

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Rebecca Davis

Our events for 2017 will include our third Big Lunch in June, our third ‘Bug Day’ in July, a brand new summer picnic event in August and our second Havelock Hoedown. Now all we need is for the weather to be on our side in 2017 – we didn’t mind the rain really, but we have put in an early order for sunshine on these dates in 2017.

Our happy Hoedown in Rain and Shine!

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Kerry Hood

Happy Hoedown!

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Our locals were not put off by the weather, we know how to have fun here, whether it rains or not!