A great local and cheap day out with the kids! Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
Hardie Park is a wonderful local park with an abundance of space and newly installed play equipment. Situated at the end of Hardie Road, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. SS17 0PB with parking for approximately 20 cars (plus unrestricted on-street parking within 100 yards) -...
Latest aerial photos of the new Skatepark
The latest aerial photos of the new skatepark, 5 weeks into the building phase, have arrived from our friend, Dave Edgley of Smartline Electrical and they certainly do it justice! The expcted completion date is Late May/Early June, what will you be doing this...
Excitement – you can taste it! (and smell it)
For the third time in as many nights I am up in the small hours of the morning, working on some of the practicalities of running a Cafe in the park...Do you know what woke me up this time? The smell of fresh coffee! I'm not kidding, I must have been dreaming of making...
Never too much…
Our Easter Event on Friday was an amazing day in so many ways and I thought I'd put a few thoughts together by way of a record...Inspired by an awesome "record" by Luther Vandross. You can have... Never too much sunshine - the weather made all the difference! The...
Thames Gateway Rotary Club visit Hardie Park and donate £250!
We were delighted to welcome our friends at The Rotary Club Thames Gateway today who donated £250 to us towards the purchase of tables for the cafe, which is due to open in less than 2 weeks! Stephanie Lakin and Frank Clayton from the club visited the building for the...
THANK YOU FOR VOTING! We have been awarded £10,000! We came 2nd in recent Tesco vote!!
We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded £10,000 funding from Tesco! You all went out and voted for us in-store and we came 2nd out of the 3 projects - SO A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL! We send out congratulations to the other two projects 🙂 Tesco has teamed up...
Skatepark construction – Week 3
The guys from Maverick Industries are cracking on with building the skatepark, other than the first couple of days, the weather has been kind.
Want to volunteer in our New Community Cafe? Sign up today!
We are very excited to announce that the long-awaited Cafe at Hardie Park will be opening this month! Our project is entirely run by volunteers and we are looking for people who would like to offer some of their time to working in the cafe on a regular basis. You can...
Secured £8,000 funding for a new Trim Trail in park! You can help make it £12,000!
We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded £8,000 funding from Tesco! We are one of the three regional projects that has been supported. But you can help add 50% to this amount! Tesco has teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help initiative in...
Water, Plumbing, Cladding, Decking, Balustrade…it’s all happening
We've had a really productive couple of weeks with the water finally being connected, which meant that we could crack on with some plumbing. The decking is also nearing completion with the installation today of half of the decorative balustrade....it will need...