It’s that time of year again when the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council have the opportunity to show the (RHS) Anglia in Bloom judging team our beautiful town and borough. It is a Borough competition sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society and covers Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. This year the WHBC has entered […]
Awards
The Welwyn Festival Committee – An Amazing Award
On Tuesday 3rd September 24 a group of volunteers joined Sara and the Committee in celebration of the end of another successful year Managing and Maintaining the Fernery. The high point was without doubt the fantastic award of £1000 from the Welwyn Festival Committee which had been officially presented at their Grand Prize Giving Evening […]
Anglia in Bloom 2023 – A Gold Award
We have more success to announce. The Friends of Danesbury Fernery were Gold Award Winners in the Category Historic Parks and Gardens on 20th September at the 2023 Annual Anglia in Bloom (RHS) Presentation Awards Ceremony in Huntingdon. This is further recognition of all the work by many volunteers from Danesbury, Sherrardspark and Mardley Heath […]
Welwyn Festival – Award
The Welwyn Festival Committee has generously awarded a donation to the FODF as a result of our September Open Garden Evening which supported their 2021 Autumn Festival. Writing to the Friends of Danesbury Fernery, Catherine Farrell, Chair of the Welwyn Festival Committee says that: From the proceeds of Welwyn Festival and Welwyn 10k we are […]
Anglia in Bloom – the 2019 Awards
On Tuesday 10th September Harry and John joined other volunteer representatives, including the Sherrardspark Wood Wardens, at the Awards Ceremony at St Ives Cambridgeshire. The team from the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council included the Leader of the Council, the Chief Executive, and Ann MacDonald among others. Friends of Danesbury Fernery Mindful that last year we […]
Anglia in Bloom – Judging
The RHS judges visited the Fernery 12 months after their 2018 visit which resulted in the Friends of Danesbury Fernery winning the 2018 Anglia in Bloom Conservation Award.
Welwyn Festival Award
The Friends of Danesbury Fernery were privileged to have been included as one of the chosen local charities to benefit from the 2019 Welwyn Festival. I am sure you will all share the delight that Andrew and I felt last night when on behalf of the Friends of Danesbury Fernery we collected a cheque in […]
Anglia in Bloom 2019
We have been informed by the Borough Council that they have entered us once again in this prestigious Competition between Borough and District Councils. The Organising Body is the Royal Horticultural Society. (Click here) for details of the history of this Competition). In 2018 – our first entry in the Competition – Danesbury’s Victororian Fernery […]
Winners of the Conservation Award – Anglia in Bloom 2018
Congratulations all round to the Borough Council and the Danesbury Fernery volunteers in winning the 2018 Anglia in Bloom Conservation Award. The Borough Council are very happy to have received these awards as reported on their website. The Award was Presented by Mrs Chris James, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, Landscape & Ecology Officer to John […]
CPRE Commendation Award – 17th October 2017
At a special meeting held at County Hall Hertford on Tuesday evening the 17th October, the Friends of Danesbury Local Nature Reserve, represented by John Roper and Andrew Beattie, were awarded a Commendation in the Community category of the CPRE (Campaign to Protect Rural England) Rural Living Awards. The Award was presented on behalf of […]