Dates for your Diary – events in Holland Park

The events listed below are either organised by The Friends (F), or organized by the Ecology Service (ES), most of which are sponsored by The Friends.

Guided tours of Holland Park – the history of the buildings, people, sculptures, statues, art and the gardens.  

Expert Blue Badge Guides will entertain you with fascinating stories about the long history of Holland Park and what went on there, scandals and all. 

Sat. 8 March. 2.30pm-4pm. History of Holland House and the people who lived there.  Guide Leila Sukiur  

Sun. 6 April. 2.30pm-4pm. The stories of the statues, sculptures and decorative art. Guide Rowan Freeland. 

Sat 17 May. 2.30-4pm. History of the Holland Park gardens and grounds.  Guide Leila Sukiur.

The Ecology Service (ES) events can be booked on Eventbrite.  

The Friends’ (F) Blue Badge tours can be booked online HERE or by contacting Jennie Kettlewell on 020 7243 0804/jennie.kettlewell@thefriendsofhollandpark.org.  Unless otherwise instructed when you book, meet by The Friends’ notice board in the Café Yard.

Holland Park Conservation Volunteers (adults) meet on the third Saturday of each month from 10.30am to 3.30 pm. Tasks focus on practical conservation that helps deliver the Ecology Service management plan and might include dead-hedging, scything, pond clearing and maintaining the paths in the Wildlife Enclosure. If you want to join, or find out more, please email Gerry Kelsey, idverde’s Training and Community Manager, at Gerald.Kelsey@idverde.co.uk. 

(November 2024)