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- Many thanks to Sue Belton of the Worthing Society and Anthony Pope who runs the mini golf for their generous donations to FoDG. 🙌![]()
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- The Summer Picnic on 18th was such a success that we are already thinking of having one next year. Worthing Head Ranger, Anthony Read is very enthusiastic and will again provide support and funding and Greg from the Egremont is willing to sponser a prize for the tug’o war. (The Egremont is very keen to retain the title so interested teams maybe should start training.)![]()
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- We have completely failed to thank WBC Denton Gardens Gardening Team - Dave, Colin, Liam and Michael - for all their work in helping to make Denton Gardens so lovely, and for their invaluable advice to us newbies. So a big THANK YOU to the team. We love working alongside you. 🙌 👏👏👩🌾👏
What a wonderful time we had at the picnic in Denton Gardens today with the stone unveiling by Mayor Ferdousi Henna Chowdhury. I have a photo album you may want to see. Here is the link to it: www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=gina.deen&set=a.10166536606250235
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Do any of our members want to be volunteers for our Events Team? It is not a full time thing but we have a few ideas of our own for a couple of future events and welcome any others. Please DM me with either your intention to help or with your ideas . ![]()
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Thank you to all the volunteers who turned up for our session this morning. 🪴👏🪴👏![]()
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We had a good long chat with Councillors Vicki Wells (Environment) and Rita Garner (Culture and Leisure) about the background of the Gardens and thought about the future. ![]()
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Vicki assured us that the Adventure Golf proposal has definitively been scrapped. 🙌 👍 Both Vicki and Rita are enthusiastic about and supportive of community projects such as ours and want to be involved. ![]()
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We were very heartened by the councillors’ taking the time to find out what’s going on on the ground 😉 in Worthing. They are keen to get ideas from the community to take forward. What a turnaround and what a relief! 😀![]()
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And thank you Anthony for the brand new tools. 😍![]()
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Next gardening day 👩🌾 🧑🌾👨🌾 - Wednesday 10-12.
The last Saturday of June is tomorrow already and the park rangers will be joining us in Denton Gardens for 2 hours (10-12) of weeding and general care. ![]()
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In addition we are expect visit from Cllr Vicki Wells who is in the new Labour cabinet with the brief for the environment, which includes waste and recycling, water quality and parks. ![]()
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See you there?
Regarding the environment, FoDG team were all set with picker-uppers and bin bags to do a massive cleanup after Saturday’s picnic. ![]()
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To our astonishment and delight, there was not a single piece of litter left in the park for us to pick up. ![]()
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Clearly Denton Garden folk are very environmentally aware. Very proud!
Poi Passion Circus and Fire Arts had a great time with you all yesterday thanks for the invite and hope to see you all again soon.
A big thank you, from the Friends of Denton Gardens committee to everyone who made the Saturday picnic such a success. To the Park Rangers for all their hard work and loan of equipment and for paying for the Face painter and Circus skills so the kids could participate in them for free!![]()
To Coast Cafe, for letting us use their toilets, putting up a tug of war team, allowing the musician to charge the speakers, and for opening their back hatch for orders and donation. To the Mini Golf for opening on the day, organising the clown and donation. To the Egremont for their tug of war team and the offer of future sponsoring of that particular event. To Poi Passion for their amazing work with the kids and their generous offer for their fees. To the Trading Faces face painter for lovely detailed work. To Matthew English for playing the violin and also filling in at the last moment for another musician who sadly had had bad news and had to cancel. To the Mayor of Worthing, Councillor Henna Chowdhury for her gracious presence, cutting the ribbon on the new Pergola and unveiling the commemorative stone. To CIL for awarding us the money to pay for the pergola and stone. To the Labour Councillors who turned up and have supported us in our fight to retain the gardens for their free and peaceful use. To The Worthing Society for their amazing past and ongoing support. To all our volunteers who come along on Wednesdsy mornings and last Saturday of every month to do some gardening. To The Worthing Journal for keeping us in the public eye also to The Worthing Herald for their coverage too. Lastly, to everyone who came and enjoyed the afternoon. ![]()
Look what we can achieve when we all pull together! ❤️
Let's welcome our new members:![]()
Sophie May Grantham,![]()
Angela Francis,![]()
Hannah Johnson,![]()
Helen Lynn,![]()
Lucy Beynon,![]()
Jules Dallimore,![]()
Ria Clarke,![]()
Sarah Hanley,![]()
Rebecca Lovity
Yoo Hoo! Looks like the weather will hold for Saturday's picnic. See you all there !
