Latest News from the Friends
Find out about news and upcoming events at the Friends of Kings Park. Highlights include our Lotterywest Festival Grant, Plant Sale information, Festival Address tickets on sale and the 2020 Friends Calendar has just been released. Not to mention our members-only nursery tour, a new Climate Watch walk and a full calendar of events for the rest of 2019!
Lotterywest Grant
Thank you to Lotterywest
A huge thank you to Lotterywest for their continuing support of the Friends of Kings Park!
We are very grateful to have recently received a $100,000 grant from Lotterywest for the 2019 Kings Park Festival.
The grant, presented on behalf of Lotterywest by Mr John Carey MLA, Member for Perth, marks more than 10 years of friendship between Lotterywest and the Friends of Kings Park. Mr Carey was pleased to present the grant and stated, “Without a doubt, Kings Park is the heart and soul of Perth.”
The grant will enable the Kings Park Festival to promote and celebrate Western Australia’s extraordinary wildflower season, with dozens of free and fabulous events and activities planned this September. The grant will also enable the Kings Park Festival to continue to help the community understand and appreciate how unique and precious the Western Australian environment is and encourage all Western Australians to play their part in protecting it.
This year’s Festival will include the biggest community art project the park has ever tackled as well as the return of popular walks, talks and seminars.
Mr Alan Barrett, Executive Director, Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority; Mr John Carey MLA, Member for Perth; Mrs Pippa Moodie, President, Friends of Kings Park and some of our enthusiastic volunteers!
Festival Community Art Project
Make your own woven wildflower and have it displayed in Kings Park this September. Photo: D. Blumer.
Help create the Festival’s biggest ever community art installation! The creative installation will be built from hundreds of ‘woven wildflowers’ and displayed in Kings Park this September. The circular ‘woven wildflowers’ will be a mix of sizes and can be woven or crocheted with yarn, fabric or even cellophane. So, get crafty!
Find out more about this project here
Festival Plant Sale
One of the highlights of the 2019 Festival will be the Festival Plant Sale!
Our Growing Friends have been busy in the nursery preparing for the Plant Sale, and we’d love your help in delivering our biggest Plant Sale for the year.
Saturday 14th September; 9am to 4pm
Sunday 15th September; 9am to 2pm
Please make sure you use our website form to sign up for the roster.
While we know that many of you will be doing the same task as previous plant sales we still need you to let us know you to fill in the form as we rely on it to fill the roster and make sure all tasks are covered.
- Please complete the form in full and ensure you click submit to send your entry in
- You will receive a notification on-screen and a confirmation email once your entry has been successfully submitted
- Please do not assume we know you are volunteering as we rely on form submissions to fill our rosters
If you are having any trouble submitting the form, please email Alex at [email protected] and we can manually add you.