The Heybourne Park marketing team invited BBC broadcaster and naturalist, Mike Dilger, to run a wildlife workshop with Colindale Primary school this spring to showcase the importance of biodiversity in urban environments.
Year two students visited our Heybourne Park development, which is currently being transformed as part of our 15-year regeneration project in north London, to learn about nature in their own back yards.
Pupils visited the Heybourne Park Cultivate Colindale project to investigate creepy crawlies lurking in the urban garden, which was set up as a meanwhile use space on the edge of the park, and hunt for newts and dragonflies in the parks ornamental ponds.
Biodiversity is more than a target at Heybourne Park, it’s part of our community’s wellbeing. With many London residents living in apartments without gardens of their own, the community gardens at the heart of new developments can be a city sanctuary for our residents and urban wildlife alike.
Incredible community garden projects like Cultivate Colindale, established with support and funding from Notting Hill Genesis, allow our residents to have access to garden spaces, allotments and connect with nature on their doorsteps.
With summer approaching and the Cultivate Colindale garden project now fully open, our sales and regeneration teams have more exciting plans in the works including an exciting partnership with Chelsea Flower show.
Watch the video below to see what year two students found in their own back yard.
