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VPAG Newsletter – Sept 2026
🎪VPAG Summer Festival is almost here! The annual VPAG festival will take place on Saturday 19th September from 12 until 6pm. There will be live performances, our famous dog show (starting at 11am) children’s entertainment and the return of the silent disco.
There’s also a 5K Fun Run challenge from 12.00 with registration at 11.30. To register, email vp5kchallenge@gmail.com
To add even more to the fun, Victoria Park tennis club are running free tennis coaching sessions from 12.00 – 3.00. No booking is required, just turn up and play.
If you would like to help with setting up (8.30 start) or taking down the festival (from 5.30), please get in touch via hello@vpag.org for more details.
We look forward to seeing you on the big day!
🐝Wildlife News – Although things may have been quiet over the summer, we are now resuming our Thursday drop-in wildlife sessions. So far we have been continuing with the dead hedge around the swampy area and are hoping to install a gate in the fence soon. Look out too for information boards appearing in the park this autumn to explain the work the volunteers have been doing for wildlife.
We are hoping to build a further section of dead hedge in the area overlooking the skate park on a Saturday so more people and families can get involved. Once a date has been arranged, we’ll post it on the wildlife volunteer WhatsApp group which can be accessed here.
🛝Playground resurfacing – Much needed repairs will be taking place in the playground on 1st and 2nd October. The affected area will be fenced off to allow the works to be carried out safely and the remainder of the play area will remain open and available for use.
🌳Help us look after our beautiful park – sometimes our park just gets a bit messy and isn’t as pleasant a place as it deserves to be. Here are some useful links to council services to help us all keep this park looking and feeling its best.
Report an overflowing dog waste bin or dog mess here
Report graffiti and tagging here
Thanks for your help!
📆Dates for your diary
Saturday 12th September – Windmill Hill City Farm 50th Anniversary Fayre
Saturday 12th September – Get Growing Trail, a food trail which includes Totterdown Orchard
Thursday 5th November – VPAG Bonfire
Date TBA – Carols in the Park
The next VPAG meeting will take place on Monday 5th October at 7.30 Victoria Park Bowls club. All welcome.
*You can make contact via this link: https://vpag.org.uk/contact-us/