BoxtreeParkFriends

We are the BoxtreeParkFriends. We are based in Harrow Weald Recreation Ground, the lovely park facing the High Road. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT  WE ARE NOT  CONNECTED TO THE PARKLIFE CAFE OR THE FRIENDS OF HARROW WEALD (charity).

We are a group of local residents, all volunteers. Our aim is to improve our park and the surrounding area, to make new friends and to enjoy leisure time in a lovely green open space.

We do this by working together - gardening, planting bulbs, shrubs and trees, carrying out small repair jobs, litter picking, emptying the bins, locking the gates, and running lots of community events. The work that our members do in the park has made it a cleaner, safer place.

We attend local police consultative meetings and we are a member of the Harrow Parks Forum. We have quarterly group meetings which are open to the public and all are welcome. Our AGM is in January each year. All of these things are advertised on this website, our Facebook page (BoxtreeParkFriends), on posters and banners in and around the park and via our mailing list.

We have many ongoing projects, such as London In Bloom (we won Gold in 2021 & “Thriving” in 2024 for our community orchard) and the “I Dig Trees” scheme, where we asked people to take saplings and grow them on for 18 months so that we could plant more robust trees in our park. We had an amazing response and distributed 950 saplings in Harrow and surrounding boroughs!  Each autumn we collect surplus apples from local people and we turn them into the lovely BoxtreeParkFriends’ pure apple juice.  ALL the money we raise from the sale of our juice goes directly towards our events and projects in the park.