Green Chain Walk Walking Festival

This will be Saturday 12th September-Sunday 20th September.

We hope to contribute a walk, but the whole event is still in the planning stages. More information in the next newsletter.

Lewisham Peoples Day. Saturday 11th July. 

In Mountsfield Park, Catford

This is a fun day and is extremely well policed. We will probably not be having a stall this year, but there are many other attractions!

Bernard Bligh.

Bernie sadly died at the end of January this year. He was a man full of knowledge on any aspect of nature and will be missed.

Many of you may remember him from as far back as the 1970s when he ran an exciting Nature Centre in the mansion complete with a colony of bees in a see–through  hive. People still come into the Visitor Centre saying they remember looking for the queen bee who was marked with a white dot. Bernie was the Conservation Officer for Lewisham for many years and was the inspiration for our present humble Visitor Centre.

School Visits to BPP for Nature Lessons

A community officer from Lewisham Council is in the process of setting up facilities to allow local schools to make nature visits to the park. A classroom would be set up in one of the rooms in the mansion and the Visitor Centre would be included as a part of the resources. Some visits are now being arranged, but until things are finalised we cannot publish contact  numbers. Hope to be able to give more details in the next newsletter. The Friends website will publish any new information as it becomes available.

Mansion lettings for wedding receptions etc.

At the moment this enterprise has had to be suspended. If it starts up again we’ll put the details in the newsletter and on the website