Find out about our regular events as well as the latest news about the Park. Events for June are filling up fast, so if you want a place on any event, we advise you to book quickly to avoid disappointment.
On this two hour bee walk, we will see and learn about a variety of bee species visiting flowers in the Mediterranean garden; the herbaceous perennial borders; and in the allotment. The walk will be led by Alison Benjamin, Director of Urban Bees and bestselling author of The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees and How to Save Them. Each participant will be given a Bees to See in Regent’s Park guide, shown some easy tips for identifying different bees, and learn how to help bees in their own garden or balcony. 25 places – 23 Friends , 2 guests.
COST: £5 for Friends, £25 for Friends’ guests.
Walking in The Regent’s Park you see plants and trees not only native to the U.K. but from all over the world. Join Ian Rodger, the Arboricultural Manager of the Royal Parks, on a walk looking at and talking about many of the strange and exotic plants that you may have seen in the Park and wondered about. 25 places – 23 Friends, 2 guests.
COST: £5 for Friends, £25 for Friends’ guests.
This walk around Park Square and Park Crescent Gardens will explain who are the CPEC, their historic role as guardians of the Crown Estate since 1813 and their role in managing and maintaining John Nash’s unique Regency exercise in urban planning which surrounds the Regent’s Park.
The walk will be led by Matt Higham, the CEPC Head of Landscape. It will take you around two of the grandest and largest private communal garden squares in London and beneath the Marylebone Road between the gardens through the Nursemaids’ Tunnel which links them. 25 places – 23 Friends, 2 guests.
COST: £5 for Friends, £25 for Friends’ guests.
Do you paint? Do you draw or would you like to learn to, or perhaps perfect a budding talent? Jesse Brown is our gifted resident artist whose work adorns all the communications, newsletters and posters from the Friends. He has kindly agreed to lead a two-hour art session in the Park to help you begin, or indeed improve, your sketching and painting.
Bring your own materials, water colours, pencils or pastels and a chair if required. This will be a highly enjoyable artistic session in the open air. 10 places – 8 Friends, 2 Friends’ guests.
COST: £20 for Friends, £40 for Friends’ guests.
There is nothing better on a summer evening than “messing about on the river”. In Regent’s Park we do not have a river but we do have two boating lakes, one of which is for small children.
The Royal Parks have generously offered to Friends and their families a free half-hour session on each lake on this evening. Come and pedal or row. Food and drink will be available from the Boat House Café (which will not be free). Last boats at 7:30 p.m. Free to Friends and their family. No guests.
1. Friends who wish to come, with or without families, must register in advance. Registration is necessary to enable the operators to have sufficient boats available to avoid queueing. Registration will close on 30 May.
2. Please remember to bring with you proof of Friends membership.
Join a guide from Discover Medical London for a walk through Regent’s Park, lasting approximately 2½ hours, starting at the Royal College of Physicians and concluding with a visit to their medicinal gardens. Whilst the majority of the walk will be inside the Park, it will include some of the Nash Terraces as these feature blue plaques commemorating notable medical figures from the last two centuries. Also featured would be The Broadwalk, Queen Mary’s Gardens, the Rose Garden, Marylebone Green and the Boating Lake, amongst other stops. 25 places – 23 Friends, 2 guests.
COST: £20 for Friends, £35 for Friends’ guests
Join a lively group of regulars & newcomers, converse and strike up new friendships. Please note that from 2nd April, when the clocks have changed, we will be meeting at 2:30pm – 4:30 pm.
We will meet in the newly refurbished Broadwalk Café, a 20 minute walk from our usual gathering place. We will return to the Primrose Hill Café on completion of its refurbishment. We thank Wallacea Living for sponsoring this community-driven initiative (and cake) and to Benugo providing refreshments. Free to attend.
As the weather warms up the demands on the Parks’ litter picking team can become overwhelming and that’s where the Friends step in to aid in their efforts to keep the park a clean, safe and welcoming place.
We have around 30 active litter pickers who put in about 100 hours during the summer at a time to suit their individual schedules. If you have a little time to spare why not consider litter picking? You can learn more here.
Starting in May, the Bandstand team will be looking for Bandstand Managers to undergo training sessions to learn how to manage a Saturday (about 3 hours) or Sunday (about 6 hours). Assistants will be provided to help the Band Managers who handle the arrival of the bands, making sure the bandstand is set up (banners, donation boxes, chairs, PA kit etc) then making announcements, taking videos and generally making sure that everyone has a great afternoon.
There are no age limits – anyone from 18 to 80 can do it. You get to listen to some great music, meet the musicians, chat to the audience and get some donations for the festival Charity. Please contact the following email to apply:
info@regentsparkmusicfestival.co.uk
Be part of a great team of Friends who staff our Visitor Information Van aka Rambling Rosie. We operate on weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays from 21 June through 21 September.
Volunteering slots occupy three hours so we need two volunteers in the morning from 10:30-1:30 and two 1:30 – 4:30. We have two amazing support staff from the park that tow her into position and help us set up if that is required. Inside the van, everything is kitted out and easy to find – a place for everything and everything in its place.
Volunteers say:
‘It gives me a strong sense of community and belonging’
‘I learn more and more about the park every time I volunteer’
‘I know that I am helping make someone’s visit more enjoyable’
‘I meet some amazing people and learn things about the park I never knew before.’
There are four experienced van managers who will oversee and are on call for each weekend shift. There is a comprehensive manual on site and additional training can be arranged if you require it. You just need a decent knowledge of the park and be willing to learn more. Sign up here.
According to PC Christian Roberts policing of Regents Park and Primrose Hill will continue this summer, however the police will all be moved into new roles by the 1st November. Roberts says ‘We have fewer numbers than last year as some colleagues have moved already into new roles however we will ensure the best coverage of policing we can although with fewer officers. I will be abstracted more this year to staff up other teams but we will do our best to keep peace and order’.
He continues, ‘However already crime has been up on last year with warm late spring weather during April and early May. Distraction theft has been the main crime throughout Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill. Victims are being distracted on the grass in Avenue Gardens and Queen Marys Gardens by suspects begging for food or some money but distracting the victim and taking their mobile phone which has been left on the grass.’
Residents in Primrose Hill have been disturbed by noise on the Hill, groups playing loud music during the recent warm weekends. So, our word to the Friends is to be vigilant and be aware – especially of distraction theft which increases as the good weather inspires many to get out and enjoy the park.
The Crown Estate Paving Commission (CEPC) are proposing to implement improvements to three pedestrian crossings around the Outer Circle roadway, Regent’s Park. The project includes three existing refuge pedestrian crossings being altered to signalised crossings. The proposed alterations form part of the Crown Estate Paving Commission’s strategic priority to improve pedestrian safety on the Outer Circle.
You can learn more and express your views at a public engagement meeting on Tuesday 3rd June. There is no need to book although registration on the day will be required. Click here to learn more: https://cepc.org.uk/residents/outer-circle/
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