The bowling season opened on the Wandsworth Common Green, the only public green remaining in the borough. The Friends are hosting bowls social sessions on Sunday afternoons, 3-5 pm. No experience required and tuition is provided. Pay £5 at the tennis hut next to the green for an agreeable and leisurely 2-hour session with whoever turns up.

The Friends took part in a policing event which brought together all the people involved in Keeping Wandsworth Common Safe - the Met’s Safer Neighbourhood Team, Parks Police, the Council’s Community Safety team, and the MAC who, working with Enable, have been instrumental in bringing all these teams together.

We threw a great party for all our volunteers to thank them for their sterling efforts to making the Friends work. Swan and duck food baggers, litter pickers, walk and talk leads, planting teams, wildlife recorders, writers and transcribers, stall and event helpers, leafleteers etc. If you’d like to volunteer for any of these activities or have other help you can offer, just get in touch.

The party also coincided with our 4th birthday!!

Regular walks to showcase the Common’s flora and fawna continue with our first bat walk of the season, thanks to Iain Boulton, and more bird walks, thanks to Barbara Littlechild.

Despite Barbara’s generosity with her time, we never have enough space to satisfy everyone and so we have to operate a waiting list.