Category Events
Bloomsbury Wellbeing Walks
The new season of walks starts next week. See dates below or look out for posters on the railings of the squares. The Association of Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens invites you on brisk walks around Bloomsbury to improve your circulation and increase your weekly step count. Walks are led by the expert Camden Guides* and […]
Girls in the Garden, Brunswick Square
Arranged by the Association of Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens together with the Camden Open Spaces team, the goal of these free sessions* is to inspire and engage girls from the local area, encouraging them to feel safe and spend time outdoors discovering nature. The inaugural workshop, “Self-Care with Nature,” took place on May 29th, 2024, […]
St George’s Gardens Summer Party, 8 June
This year’s summer party by Friends of St George’s Gardens is on Saturday 8 June, 2-5pm. Please put the date in your diary and tell friends and neighbours. We’ve a free programme with something for everyone. Pete Watson’s Marama Café Band will be with us again. We have the Third Age Project’s Ukulele Band, a […]
Girls in the Garden, Bloomsbury, May & June
Girls in the Garden free Nature Workshops have been arranged by the Association of Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens in association with Camden Council and Wild Therapy. They are offering a summer opportunity for girls only to take part in creative outdoor activities in the famous garden squares, encouraging girls to enjoy their local gardens. The […]
St George’s Gardens -Caring for the tombs talk and AGM, 21 March
On Thursday 21 March at 7pm, after a short business meeting (AGM) at the Coram Family Campus on Brunswick Square, there will be refreshments and then a guest speaker: Shane Greig. Shane’s job as Structures Manager in Camden Council includes taking care of the walls and tombs in St George’s Gardens. He’ll talk about how […]
Bloomsbury Brisk walk during Happier Outdoors Festival 18 March
A week to go till the start of the first-ever Happier Outdoors Festival. And what a festival it’s shaping up to be! Over 50 organisations – ranging from Kew Gardens and English Heritage to local parks’ Friends’ groups – are offering over 110 FREE activities across 29 London boroughs. On Monday 18 March, from the […]
Fanny Wilkinson, landscape gardener, in Camden (talk on 5 March)
Fanny Rollo Wilkinson (1855–1951), recently commemorated with a blue plaque on her former home in Shaftesbury Avenue, was probably Britain’s first professional woman landscape gardener, designing scores of public gardens and playgrounds, many of which can still be found across the city today. Friday 8 March is International Women’s Day and a few days before […]
Playing in the New Year
If you couldn’t make it to the big parade in central London on New Year’s Day, then at least you could have heard the big band from Chatanooga High School rehearsing in Russell Square ahead of the event. Meanwhile, a robin was making its own music in one of the snake bark maples in Brunswick […]
Georgian graveyards and Bloomsbury’s Best – two walks
Next Saturday, 18 November, Dr Roger Bowdler will be leading another walk around the graves in St George’s Gardens, talking about graveyard history, Georgian burial practices and famous people buried in the Gardens. Do join us – at 12.00 noon at the Handel Street entrance. Also, you might like to join Chris Foster after our event, […]
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