Events

Monthly gardening sessions

The Friends of Furnivall Gardens help care for the gardens by monthly sessions of planting, weeding and tidying up. First Saturday of the month at 10am (except bank holidays).

Meet at 10am by the flower beds near the Dove pub. We have luminous Friends of Furnivall Gardens vests so are easy to spot!

Tools and gloves can be provided.

Goes ahead in most weathers but check here in the morning just in case.

Dates for 2026

  • 7 February

  • 7 March

  • 11 April

  • 9 May

  • 6 June

  • 4 July

  • 1 August

  • 5 September

  • 3 October

  • 7 November

  • 5 December

Dates subject to change depending on volunteer availability. For details or to confirm dates of sessions please email furnivallgardens@hotmail.co.uk.

PROJECTS

The Friends are pursuing a project to improve the screen of planting along the north side of Furnivall Gardens (alongside the A4).

IMPROVed planting alongside the a4

Created in the early 1960s, the Hammersmith A4 was driven through historical residential areas in a way which would never be allowed today. The road obliterated everything in its path, including much of the churchyard of St. Paul’s Church, where it destroyed an old wall and many grave markers. And it drove through the green space of Homefield Recreation Ground, dividing it into two. It was designed not as an urban street, but as a quasi-motorway with six lanes of traffic and no surface pedestrian crossings. It damages the community through which it passes in four ways: visual intrusion, noise, pollution, and severance.

Our planting project addresses the first three of these impacts. Its primary purpose is to eliminate the visual intrusion of the A4 by achieving dense, continous, and high planting along the full length of the northern boundary of Furnivally Gardens. At present there are substantial gaps in the planting. The first phase of the project, which was undertaken in February 2025, concentrated on the eastern section of the boundary. Through the generosity of a local resident and with a contribution from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, 100 hollies and yews were planted. A section of the new planting is shown below.