Easter Bunny Event

Easter Bunny Event on Newington Green

We were really lucky with the weather, which had been forecast as heavy rain and although it was still a bit chilly, it did not rain! There were fun activities and games at the Easter Bunny Event on Newington Green, which were run by LBI Greenspace. Lots of children enjoyed some traditional past times, with story telling, an Easter Egg hunt, egg and spoon races and face painting.

NGAG ran a stall as part of our WING project, at which we gave away a number of items which help the environment in various different ways; birds' nesting boxes and feeders; bee nesting boxes; rowan tree whips; stickers and bird toys; cotton shopping bags and water savers.

We also gave a good number of rowan tree whips away to the Mildmay Gardening Club, The Islington Ecology Centre and the Hackney Tree Nursery. Our thanks go to BBC Breathing Places and Thames Water for their generous support which enabled us to do this.

People very generously gave us donations for the wildlife boxes etc that we were giving out and we ended up with over £95 in donations. We also gained three new NGAG Members. Thanks Folks!

Growing Communities, which runs the Stoke Newington Farmer's Market, came along with Maisie the Cow their fun milkfloat and provided information about the Market and their Organic Veg Box scheme.

The Mildmay Gardening Club also had a stall where they did a good trade selling some flower and vegetable plants that they had grown, making over £90 for the Club.

That Place on the Green opened at the kiosk and provided drinks, snacks, ices and contributed to the fun and games.

NGAG Volunteers followed up this event by planting some native primroses, foxgloves, a hawthorn tree and other wildlife-friendly plants on Newington Green. We had aimed to plant these at the Easter Bunny event itself but we were so busy that nothing got planted that day! 

3 April 2010