On Bank Holiday Monday, 8 May the Friends of West Ham Park put on a community event to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III
By Nicky Brown
On Bank Holiday Monday, 8 May (the second of three Bank Holidays in May) the Friends of West Ham Park put on a community event to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III, an event funded with a grant from Newham Council’s King’s Coronation Grant.
Almost 150 people turned up so we were a bit rushed off our feet!
The plan was for everyone to make their own 5-a-Day Crown as a reminder to eat more fruit and vegetables, although in reality only the children took part!
Heads were first measured up for the crown – you don’t want your crown the wrong size do you? Then you got to select five fruit or vegetable paper shapes (from an extensive selection including watermelon, banana, onion, apples and more) which were then coloured with paint or felt tips.
Finally the whole lot was assembled into a very colourful crown that the King would’ve been proud to wear.
Meanwhile mums and dads got a tour of the Community Vegetable Garden – which is starting to come to life again after the long winter – we have a number of fruit trees, apples, pears and plums, plus strawberries, raspberries, red- and blackcurrants, gooseberries and blueberries, also potatoes, tomatoes and other crops.
The Community Vegetable Garden in West Ham Park is open from 10am-12pm on Tuesdays, and 2-4pm on Wednesdays. We are always looking for new volunteers to help with planting, weeding, some digging and other jobs in the garden. We also have groups of young people over, so if anyone has experience of teaching groups in the open air, we would welcome that too. Come and join us!
The charity Start Young UK took over the bandstand in West Ham Pak for the Coronation with live music, a DJ, dancing and arts and crafts just one of the events in the Borough
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