Park Entrance Improved By Dukes Meadows Trust Is In Spring Bloom

Volunteers planted the area and transformed neglected patch of land

It's two years since Dukes Meadows Trust set about improving the entrance to the park at Riverside Drive by clearing and planting up the verge and installing low, wooden bollards. Tulips planted last Autumn are in bloom and the Hawthorne trees planted in 2017 are coming into leaf.

Volunteers did all the planting and the Trust paid for the plants and for area to be rotavated and the bollards installed.

Paul Davis, Chair of the Trust said; "Congratulations and thanks to our wonderful volunteers, without whom we couldn't have completed this task. The Trust has transformed the informal areas of the park over the last 20 years, building the two playgrounds, planting the orchard and hedge along Riverside Drive and organising volunteering sessions every other Sunday. It has made the improvements sustainable through the successful social enterprises it has established; the Food Market and artists studios. We love the park and would like to restore the still derelict areas around the Band Stand and Promenade Approach, to bring them up to the standard of the areas already improved by the Trust and the sports grounds within the Meadows, which are maintained to a high standard by the clubs."

Cliff Sykes from the Chiswick Cricket Club, whose entrance is beside the verge said; “It’s an amazing transformation. The verge was previously a derelict stretch of wasteland. It’s now forms an impressive entrance to the park and Chiswick Cricket Club which ties in nicely for when the new management of the bar and club house take over on 20th May. A huge thank you to Dukes Meadows Trust, who have invested time and money into the area during a long period of neglect.”

The area before the work was carried out

People can support the trust by becoming a member or volunteering, contact admin@dukesmeadowstrust.org to get involved.

The team hard at work

April 28, 2019