Notice Board
DEAR RESIDENTS,
CHIDREN PLAY AREA: The new equipment has been installed and a new swings is attached to the new module. On the other side is a chin bar, can you please not attach contraption to exercise with a trainer to the children's equipment.
Last summer some children have painted or rather thrown paint inside and out the children's equipment and further thrown colour paints on the stones in the fern triange garden. As much as we like to encourage creativity turning the equipment in a manner akin to a rundown council estate is showing disresprect to our garden.
It has taken the gardeners several hours to remove the young artists work and wasted a lot of proper gardening work which was rather costly. Please if your children want to draw do bring a pad for this with you. Thank you for your help with this.
CHILDREN USING THE PLAY EQUIPMENT HAVE TO BE SUPERVISED BY AN ADULT AT ALL TIME. WE HAVE FOUND CHILDREN USING THE QUIPMENT WITHOUT SUPERSION.
WE TRY OUR BEST TO INFORM OUR RESIDENTS ON TIME, AND TO GIVE NOTICE OF SCHEDULED WORKS & EVENTS TAKING PLACE IN THE GARDEN.
To these amongst the residents compaining about the blower in summer the lack of rain meant that an awful amount of leaves have turned yellow and fallen down. We cannot afford raking the lawn financially it is far too onerous.
EVENTS 2023:
LONDON SQUARE OPEN GARDENS WEEKEND: Saturday 10th June from 10am to 5pm.
Our Gledhow ardens square will be open to the public as we do every year for ticket holders. The gates will be attended for security by garden committee members as is always the case.
NEXT MUSICAL SUMMER PARTY EVENT from TLC: June 7th from 6 to 8pm
BONFIRE NIGHT 2023: date to be advised
CAROL SINGING: date to be advised
PAST EVENTS IN 2022:
CAROL SINGING EVENTS TOOK PLACE ON 16th December.
BONFIRE NIGHT: took place on 11th December and was attended by many families.
OUR TLC MUSIC EVENT TOOK PLACE on MAY 26th 2022
Our musical afternoon early evening on 26th May 2022 was a great success. Wonderful performance from the artists were apprciated by all the residents. Congratulations to the wonderful performers. Our grateful thanks to TOBY BROWN & his superb team. The Pims were flowing generously, the children enjoyed what was on offer on the bar section. Every members of TLC team were absolutely great. Thanks are due to the wonderful chaps who checked our gates during the events and ensure security was met for Gledhow Gardens residents. Thank you to all the residents who made an effort to come and join us too.
LONDON OPEN GARDENS WEEKEND: Saturday 10th June from 10am to 5pm
As usual a wonderful crowd of people. We had 370 adults visitors and 12 children. It was heart warming to hear from visitors ccoming in telling us that people they met in others gardens told them to visit Gledhow, "a must as it was the best garden square in the area". Some came sprinting in just in time to make it and said they wholeheartedly agreed with that statement given to them. Philippe Chauvet kindly gave information about plants and background history of our garden to delighted visitors.Our thanks are given too to James Sheen's team, namely Hector, Kevin and Issy for making it so nice prior to the visit.
Our thanks to TLC, TOBY BROWN & his wonderful team of helpers. Congratulations to the artists performing on the night. Residents of Gledhow Gardens were absolutely delighted.
BONFIRE NIGHT PARTY: Took place on 5th November 2021. From 17.30 to 19.30.
CAROL SINGING: 8th December 2021 from 17.00 please add your voice to our singers. This was our very first event organised by TLC and was really a great success.
NEW GARDENING COMPANY: Sheen Company
We have two new regular gardeners, Hector and Kevin plus lovely Issy are our regular gardeners, James Sheen of Sheen Company will often be in the garden too.
THE GARDENERS WILL PARK THEIR CAR INSIDE THE DOUBLE GATES ON THEIR WORKING DAYS.
Their regular working days will be Wednesdays and Fridays, James Sheen will be there most Friday afternoon.
They have said that the garden was in a very good condition for this time of the year. Please do give them a bit of time and leeway to settle in their routine.Thank you.
AGM: 20th January 2021 took place VIA ZOOM this year.
Residents wanting to participate should contract the secretary to confirm their attendance by email via:
AGM AGENDA
26th January 2022 via ZOOM at 7.30pm to 8.30pm
- Apologies & Minutes of last year AGMs of 23/1/2021 & 5/3/2021
- Chair's Report
- Treasurers's Report and fixing the precept for 2021/2022
- A.O.B (Any other business) to be received 7 days prior to AGM (22/1/2022) midday latest
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held via ZOOM this year on 26th January 2022 from 7.30pm to 8pm
In accordance with the Kensington & Chelsea Garden Improvement Act 1851, The Elected Committee holds a meeting annually for the Residents of Gledhow Gardens having established at least one year's residence.
Any qualifying resident of Gledhow Gardens Council Tax Payers having established at least one full year's residence and wishing to participate must send an email to reach the Secretary by 20th January 2022 midday at
natalieloubiere@yahoo.com or info@gedhowgardens.org.uk
Please send any points for discussion you want included in our Any Other Business, in writing, at the above address, to arrive no later than 22nd January 2022 midday.
The Chair
2 Gledhow Gardens
LONDON SW5 0BL
The Hon. Secretary
30 Gledhow Gardens
LONDON SW5 0AZ
www.gledhowgardens.org.uk & info@gledhowgardens.org.uk
Mobile: 07983 964994 for emergencies only.
2019 SUCCESSFUL EVENTS:
TREE SURGERY TOOK PLACE. Sadly this year we have lost our beloved ancient Cherry tree, 1 Laburnum in the children area, 1 Cherry tree facing the single gete entrance and a lovely Cherry tree on the apron in front of No. 14 and 15 Gledhow Gardens. We shall have to replace these trees fairly soon.
Could we take this opportunity to remind you that tree climbing is not allowed but equally jumping up to catch branches however tempting it maybe. Sadly one major branch was broken in that manner in the last few days of May 2019.
BRIGHTER KENSINGTON GARDEN SQUARES JUDGES:
Two judges visited our garden on 8th of June in the morning.
OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND (OGSW) Saturday 8th June 2019, between 10am to 5 pm we welcomed 388 visitors with 6 children this year. The number of visitors was down on last year because we only opened on the Saturday and not the full weekend.
As always the visitors were very complimentary about our garden. What was really nice was welcoming people who liked our garden so much, they made an effort to come back either every year or every second or third year.
These returning visitors included some from United States, Australia, New Zealand and garden lovers from United Kingdom.
To avoid disappointment to visitors we shall open on Sunday next year as local gardens belonging to the scheme were only doing the Sunday during the weekend.
SUMMER JAZZ PARTY: WITH OUR THANKS TO TOBY BROWN AND JAMIE CORONNA OF TLC
It was a good party, well attended and we were lucky with the weather.
We thank lovely Jamie for spending his sunday and Toby of TLC and their team for providing lovely music and quenching everyone's thirst with lovely Pims and Prosecco.
Thanks are to be given to his team of wonderful bartenders and the lovely Jazz Band. The compliments and thanks keep on coming!
2017-2018 SUCCESSFUL EVENTS:
GLEDHOW GARDENS SUMMER PARTY: Our Jazz Party took place on 3rd June last year. The weather was good and all enjoyed the day. Our grateful thanks to Toby Brown and the TLC Tream for sponsoring our party and quenching our thirst on their lovely Proseco. The children had a great time and so did we all.
OPEN GARDEN SQUARES WEEKEND (OGSW): Our garden was open again on 9th and 10th June. The sun shone throughout the weekend it was a great success.
We were slightly down on our last year 952 visitors due to many gardens around us only opening on Sunday and probably attending Trooping of the Colour. However, it picked up on Sunday and 789 adults and 47 children came to Gledhow Gardens. All were delighted by our garden. Some visitors like us so much, they come back to us several times to enjoy our beautiful garden. We have had wonderful compliments, of note was the "Fernery" created last year that enchanted so many of our visitors. Many saying it was their favourite garden. This was a successful occasion, a long list of compliments has been typed again, alas too long to include here.
BONFIRE PARTY & FIREWORKS NIGHT 2018: Sadly due to the very heavy rain the night before and the unrelenting downpour on the day our annual bonfire was poorly attended. Thank you to the courageous spirited residents who made it regardless of the wet weather.
2017 BONFIRE NIGHT
Our bonfire night was well attended this year and a great success as always. The weather was dry and mild, but what really made the night so very special was the fantastic fireworks display, courtesy of Luke Richdale to whom we are greatly endebted, his generosity and fabulous masterful display was extraordinary this year again. The compliments came flowing in from the residents attending, the people watching from their houses, the people in the streets and I was told that quite a gathering of people were watching and applauding in Bolton Gardens on the street. "Stupendous display", "fabulous", "wonderful", "amazing" and much more superlatives were used, too many to list! I heard the food was excellent, the wine was flowing, the mulled wine was superb and the children had a grand time too. Thank you all for joining us on the night. Our thanks go as well to our young helpers on the day, Felix and Freja Richdale, his friend too and Romane Gouilliard, without forgetting our committee for their time and hard work.