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Coordinates: 51°35′22″N 0°05′28″W / 51.58944°N 0.09111°W / 51.58944; -0.09111
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51°35′22″N 0°05′28″W / 51.58944°N 0.09111°W / 51.58944; -0.09111

Downhills Park

Downhills Park is a 12 hectare park in the West Green area of Haringey.

It comprises an open recreation space and a managed garden area that includes a rose garden, tennis courts and basket-ball courts. The parks once had a bowling-green but this is no longer maintained or serviceable.

In 2006 and 2007, it won Green Flag awards for maintaining excellent standards for public parks[1].

There is also a Sunday League football team named after the park (Downhills Park FC [1]) who play in the Edmonton & District Sunday Football League.


The Friends of Downhills Park The park has an active citizen's-group, The Friends of Downhills Park which was established in 1999, developing out of the Parks Sub-Group of the West Green Residents' Association. Membership is open to any interested member of the public over 18.

"Recognizing the importance of Downhills Park, The Friends of Downhills Park. Lordship and Belmont recreation grounds to the quality of life in West Green ward, the Friends aimed to promote the public benefit and enjoyment of these open spaces by involving local people in planning and decision-making affecting these areas and encouraging more local people to use the parks and take an active interest in their future. "[2]


Downhills Park Community Café Downhills Park Community Café is a social enterprise that supports adults with a learning disability into employment[3]. The café was opened in Downhills Park in 2011 by the Haringey Association for Independent Living (HAIL)[4] thanks to support from and long term campaign from Friends of Downhills Park (above). The café is run by volunteers, both those with learning disabilities looking to gain new skills and members of the community who are supporting them and the project. The cafe also embodies other ideological elements in e.g. how it makes the food it serves and tries to source ingredients ethically (e.g. seasonal, free-range eggs). The Downhills Park Cafe is one of several social enterprises run by HAIL[5].

References

  1. ^ Haringey Council - Downhills Park leaflet(accessed 30 January 2008)
  2. ^ http://www.ccurrie.me.uk/downhills/main#FRIENDS_HISTORY
  3. ^ http://www.hailltd.org/downshills-park-cafe
  4. ^ http://www.hailltd.org/hail-history
  5. ^ http://www.hailltd.org/enterprise


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