Don’t forget to join us for our annual Plant Sale and Swap which will be held this Saturday 17th May 2025 from 10am-12pm at the Village Hall!
Bring along your spare plants and go home with new plants for your garden. The WI will be serving tea and cakes and hosting a tombola and produce stand.
Do come along to this popular village event, you never know what you may find, perennials, annuals, vegetables, salads, herbs, even sometimes shrubs to swap or buy. The WI will be providing refreshments, a produce stall and a tombola so come along, have a look, pause for a coffee and chat, see what else is arriving, a perfect way to spend a Saturday morning!
It is now less than 2 months to go until our biennial Open Gardens event on Sunday 22nd June 2025. If you are keen to find out more about opening your garden up, please contact FGA Chair, Steve Tongish.
A number of allotments have recently become available for anyone who is keen to start growing. Currently, two plots of varying sizes have been vacated in the last couple of weeks. Anyone in the village with enthusiasm and a bit of spare time is welcome. If you are interested and would like to have a look please contact Rachel Harrison, at 18 Hillfield, Foxton, or call/text 07484 325514. Rachel has also updated our general information about the Foxton allotments here.
Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM and especially to our guest speaker Judith Large from the Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital. A full report will be available here soon.
We now have a “Featured in Foxton“ section on the website where we will occasionally share news and stories related to projects and activities from the village. We are kicking off with details of the Remembrance period Poppy Project being organised by the Foxton ‘Craft & Create’ Group. If you would like to keep up to date with the latest news from the FGA, please enter your e-mail address in the Subscribe box to receive the latest news in your inbox!
Foxton’s ‘Craft & Create’ group are planning a poppy display to hang from the village sign during the Remembrance period in November this year. Volunteers are already busy knitting, crocheting, sewing and sticking hundreds of poppies of many different designs to go into the display. In support of this, Foxton Gardens Association plans to do some complementary planting in that area to accompany the poppies.
‘Craft & Create’ meets on the second Monday of every month in the pavilion at the village hall and is open to all who would like to attend. Everyone is welcome to contribute poppies to the display, whether attending the group or not. Foxton Parish Council has generously awarded £200 to ‘Craft & Create’ towards the cost of materials, so fabric and yarn are available free of charge for anyone who would like to contribute to the project.
If you would like to get involved, please contact Margaret Mead (margaret.mead7[at]hotmail.co.uk) or Linda Smith (linda[at]lindasmith.co.uk) to find out more.
Below are links to some of the patterns that are being used by volunteers, but you are very welcome to follow your own pattern and craft poppies in your own style! Amongst the many traditional red poppies being made to commemorate the sacrifices of those who died, you may also spot some purple poppies which commemorate animals, such as horses, dogs and pigeons, that also served in wartime.
Feel free to send links to helpful patterns and we can add them here.
Linda, Margaret & Rebecca
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You can find out more about these FGA events here.
There will be a short formal start to present the annual accounts, review last year’s activities, plans for this year and election for the committee. New members are always welcome so do come along and ask about what is involved. This year’s speaker is Judith Large from Shepreth Hedgehog Hospital who will speak about their work and how we can encourage hedgehogs in our gardens. Drinks and nibbles will be served so do come along.
This is always a great village event, plants in abundance, plus the WI serving refreshments, a produce stall and a tombola. Not to be missed!
This bi-annual event is always popular, it’s good to have a mix of big, medium and small gardens on show. If you are thinking of opening your garden please contact FGA Chair Steve Tongish on steve.tongish [at] hotmail.com for more details. All profits go to charity. Refreshments will be served at St Laurence’s Church.
Please check back here on the website for updates to the schedule. If you would like to keep up to date with the latest news from the FGA, please enter your details in the Subscribe box.
The FGA is delighted to have donated £1500 to Foxton Parish Council towards the cost of some new trees in the recently renovated children’s playground.
“The Parish Council would like to once again thank the FGA for their kind contribution towards the playground trees which are now planted and looking wonderful in the Foxton playground. Your contribution along with a biodiversity grant from the district council funded most of the cost of these trees. We look forward to watching these trees grow and flourish.”
-Annabel Wright, Foxton Parish Clerk
