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Crafternoons
Transition Heathrow invite you to our free Arts and Crafts workshop running every Tuesday afternoon from 2-5pm at the Grow Heathrow community site – Vineries Close, Sipson, UB7 0JG The next 3 weeks...
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Celebrating Spring in Sipson
This blog is a bit late but here goes. The rain held out and joining plenty of other stalls, including dance classes, giant jenga, gnome painting and the Com.Cafe puppet show, Transition Heathrow had...
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Grow Heathrow Mid-Summer Fest!
It’s time to celebrate the season! Come and join us at Grow Heathrow for an open day of seasonal delights on Sunday 24th of June from 12 onwards. It’s a great opportunity for a first visit if you’ve...
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Grow Heathrow lettuce in Sipson shop
We have a huge harvest of lettuce at Grow Heathrow and so today we took some to the local shop in Sipson, with tomato plants. We’re very excited- you can now ‘pay what you can’ for a Sipson lettuce...
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Grow Heathrow ‘Community Open Day’
This Saturday, the 8th September, from 11am-6pm Grow Heathrow is opening its gates to the public for a third open day since the project began back in March 2010. With our appeal against eviction...
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Pics from Open Day
The open day on Saturday saw over 100 people flooding through the gates at Grow Heathrow to enjoy the community space in the hot sunshine. Local residents, families and visitors from London came to...
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Reshuffle has “u-turn” written all over it
Like the steady roar of planes coming in to land over West London, the aviation industry keeps droning on about expanding London’s airports. Last week’s reshuffle shows Cameron and Osborne are...
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Be a friend of Cranford Park
The fantastic Friends of Cranford Park are running some awesome events. Grow Heathrow (currently known as Snow Heathrow) will be be going to the winter tree identification walk at 11am, Sunday 16th...
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Some seasonal outreach
Last month while Heathrow villagers were gearing up for their winter holidays Grow Heathrow pounced on the opportunity to spread some environmental gospel. Free wreath making and a restocked free shop...
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Come along to HASRA’s AGM
The AGM of HASRA’(Harmondsworth and Sipson Residents Association) is coming up. Come along to discuss the future of the Heathrow villages. John Mcdonnell MP and John Stewart (HACAN chair) will be in...
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The fight goes on…
Update on the Court of Appeal verdict: The judges failed to reach a unanimous decision on the case but by majority, our appeal was dismissed and permission was granted for the owners to seek a warrant...
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Sun 15 Sep: Harvest Festival & Community Food Growers’ Network Jamboree
The Community Food Growers’ Network summer harvest jamboree is coming up on Sunday the 15th September at Grow Heathrow. Full information is copied in below so tell your friends and come along for an...
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Heathrow Villages awarded £7000 to create a Neighbourhood Plan
A group of residents from Harmondsworth, Sipson and Harlington have successfully bid for a £7000 grant to give villagers a greater say in future development and planning issues. The money has come...
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We fought the Law!
After all these years Grow Heathrow have finally come to the end of our legal battle!! We were not able to take the appeal to the supreme court, as the case was not awarded legal aid, by a body that...
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4 Years and Counting
Credits to Community Food Growers Network for this report and photos Grow Heathrow, the squatted community garden by Heathrow airport, celebrated it’s 4th Birthday on Saturday the 1st of March....
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Grow Heathrows Herbs in the Post Office
Parsley, Sage and Chives, fresh from the Grow Heathrow meadow, given in away in the local post office on a donations basis. Move to Heathrow?
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Elderflower cordial: Fri 13, 1-3pm
Yep, it’s that time of year again. The field by the old garden centre is full of red clover, and the rotting greenhouse frames are burping up sprays of elderflowers. We’re gonna make some elderflower...
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Eviction notice: 8am, Friday 15 Aug
On Friday 15th August at 8am, bailiffs will make their first attempt to evict Grow Heathrow. Four and a half years after the abandoned greenhouses in the middle of Heathrow Airport’s proposed third...
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Bottled blackberries: Fri 22 Aug, 1-4pm
The highlight of our foraging year. If Grow Heathrow hasn’t been evicted, we’re going to bottle loads of blackberries. Bring clean empty jars and you will earn respect, win honour and know true...
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We’re Still Here! But more to come…
WE DID IT, TOGETHER WE RESISTED AN EVICTION TODAY! THANK YOU everyone who helped resist the eviction at Grow Heathrow, the chefs, live band, bike powered smoothie makers, seed sewers, climbers, people...
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