Our latest news and blog posts

Locality feature Hardie Park as one of 6 to visit

  How exciting, we've been featured in Locality's blog as a place to visit this Spring. The Locality network is for organisations that believe in the power of local communities to build a fairer society, and bring local people together to meet local needs. They...

Let’s make our dream a reality

We've got a dream and we need help to realise it. Has anyone in the community got any great fundraising ideas to help purchase a slide similar to this one in St James Park in London? We've cleared the area and had plans drawn up but the final figure is a long way off....

The Crazy Travel Fundraising Challenge!

On Friday 9th March, Shane Ralph challenged Rob Groves to see who could get as far away from Hardie Park in 18 hours with just £20 funds in his pocket. The challenge was set for the following Friday, 16th March 2018. So at 6:00am Shane and Rob will be leaving Hardie...

A big thank you to Barbara!

What a lovely lady. Barbara, one of our customers pictured with her granddaughter Laura visited us recently and donated £100 to the park for a second time. Barbara enjoys spending time at the park and loves what we are trying to do for the community. We said we'd let...

Community five star cafe

Hardie Park received an impromptu visit from Thurrock Council’s food safety officer this week and we are proud to announce we have retained our 5 star rating. A big thank you goes to Nikki Pegrum our cafe supervisor and all of the volunteers who take food safety...