Latest Events in Horndon on the Hill(July Updated)

All profits raised will go towards to our CIC - carenotcapital.org Tickets are available for morning or afternoon slots. Guided tour times: Morning 11am / Afternoon 3pm . Garden closes at 6pm. Drinks (including Pimms) and homemade food available to buy on the day. Parking space is limited, so please purchase one car parking ticket per car in addition to your admission. This will help us make sure there is space for you! Taxis at local station available. Closest stations are Laindon/ Stanford Le Hope No dogs allowed. There will be a festival flag at the road to help you find us :) Information Source: John Little | eventbrite

Benevolent Fund Charity Golf Day Come join us for a day of swinging clubs and raising funds at the Langdon Hills Golf Country Club & Hotel ! Get ready to tee off for a good cause and enjoy a sunny day on the green. Help us make a difference while having a blast on the course. Included in the price is Coffee and Bacon Roll on arrival, 18 holes of Stableford Golf and Ham Egg and Chips after your round. There will be nearest the Pin Competition running! Prize for overall winner and nearest the Pin winner! Don't miss out on this opportunity to give back and have fun! Information Source: Essex Police Benevolent Fund | eventbrite

Understanding urban policy, Biodiversity Net Gain, habitat creation & establishing community growing projects. The amazing Peter Masinni will be sharing thoughts and ideas around Biodiversity Net Gain. This planning condition has been in place for a year now and we will explore how it might affect gardeners and the care of green space. Most importantly we will look at how we think it might be improved. Does it work well in an urban context? Should the metric used be changed to reflect recent science and research into greenspace design that adds to the habitat potential of the space and doesn’t just mimic what is already there? Along side Peter we have the cool Greig Robertson from Edible estates. An early pioneer in improving greenspace within social housing and understanding of what people want and need the greenspace around them. Working in Edinburgh, he will talk about fund raising and the do's and don’ts of setting up communal food growing and community spaces. John Little will be with Peter and Greig to add his own thoughts on BNG and his experience looking after social housing green space for 18 years. It will be a day of frank discussion and practical advice around these fascinating and important tools to improve urban space for people and biodiversity with plenty of time to look round the garden and enjoy the wildlife. The day willl start at 10 am (tea and coffee will be available from 9.30) and end at 4.00. Most importantly Fiona’s famous lunch will be served at 1pm :) Peter Massini is an experienced green infrastructure strategist, policy-maker and practitioner. Following a 30-year career working for environmental NGOs, government agencies and London government he established his own practice - Future Nature Consulting - in 2021. He advises both public and private sector clients on the policy and practice of green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, urban greening and biodiversity conservation in the urban environment. Peter was the green infrastructure policy lead at the Greater London Authority between 2008 and 2020. He successfully embedded a policy framework (including the first citywide Urban Greening Factor) in the London Plan and ensured green infrastructure objectives were incorporated into other Mayoral policy frameworks and programmes. This has resulted in widespread implementation of nature-based solutions across London to address climate change, public health, biodiversity conservation and other sustainable development objectives. Greig Robertson is the founder of Edible Estates, an Edinburgh based social enterprise which promotes and delivers community gardening/greenspace projects across the city’s council estates. Greig has been developing community gardens for 20 years. He is not a skilled gardener, his role more that of designer, developer, fundraiser, organiser etc. Edible Estates uses community gardening as a tool for individual and community wellbeing in disadvantaged communities. Our gardens are built through a combination of community self-build and the Growing Youth programme which creates opportunities for young people to gains skills and experience in construction and landscaping. We also have a School Farm service which puts community gardeners into local primary schools. More information here - www.edibleestates.scot (the website is being redeveloped and is in pretty poor shape just now!) Greig is also, part-time chief executive of Wester Hailes Growing Communities, www.westerhailesgrowing.org . Information Source: John Little | eventbrite

All profits raised will go towards to our CIC - carenotcapital.org Tickets are available for morning or afternoon slots. Guided tour times: Morning 11am / Afternoon 3pm . Garden closes at 6pm. Drinks (including Pimms) and homemade food available to buy on the day. Parking space is limited, so please purchase one car parking ticket per car in addition to your admission. This will help us make sure there is space for you! Taxis at local station available. Closest stations are Laindon/ Stanford Le Hope No dogs allowed. There will be a festival flag at the road to help you find us :) Information Source: John Little | eventbrite

A day at Hilldrop in Essex learning about creative maintenance and habitat creation, focussing on topography, waste substrates, dead material and structure (natural and human-created), without losing the joy of the garden. This day aims to help you understand that human disturbance is not only useful but often essential in driving biodiversity, if done with some basic principles and a respect for the existing ecology. We will be using Hilldrop, Eden Nature Garden, and the Poppy Estate in Hackney as case studies to illustrate the things that worked well in looking after greenspace. You can expect lots of in-depth discussion around using structure, soils, waste substrates, topography and dead material to create the complicated mosaic of habitat and micro climates that drive biodiversity but are all too often are missed from the design of our greenspace. Benny will also be running around with his net to catch and share the fascinating invertebrates that justify the landscape changes that have been made at Hilldrop. Most importantly Fiona’s famous lunch will be served at 1pm:) Information Source: John Little | eventbrite