Festival Projects

The Festival is conducting three main community projects in 2024.

Click on each for more information:

  1. Awning over Community Hall porch.
  2. New chairs in the Community Hall.
  3. War on Wasps – preventing new colonies.

Awning & Chairs Project

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Background information

Awning

The Blackheath Rhododendron Festival Committee is considering applying for a grant to build an awning over the entrance off the park to the Phillips Hall, and to replace the chairs currently in the hall.

The awning will provide additional protection for people waiting to enter hall for a concert, but also provide a roof over the entrance when it is being used as a stage for an outdoor concert.

Chairs

With the upgrade of the Community Centre now underway, the Blackheath Rhododendron Festival Committee is interested in your views on a more comfortable seating arrangement, which is more in harmony with the style and vintage of the hall and has a more efficient way of handling and storage.

The Committee is interested in a chair designed by David Rowland, a World War II bomber pilot who became a designer of furniture of excellence. His multi award winning masterpiece, the Howe 40/4 chair, is a revolution in design thinking, embodying the principles of ergonomic comfort, space efficiency and aesthetic versatility. The name 40/4 indicates that 40 chairs stack to a height of 4 feet. These chairs have been used in such places as Canterbury, Salisbury and St Paul’s Cathedrals and come highly recommended for comfort and durability.

320 of the current chairs require 40 stacks of 8 chairs, with one trolley.
320 of the proposed chairs require 8 stacks of 40 chairs, with each stack stored on its own trolley.

The survey

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Have your say on the proposed awning over the entrance to Phillips Hall

Have your say on the current Community Hall chairs

Proposal: To apply for funding to replace the current chairs with chairs that are more comfortable, more elegant and can be stored in a quarter of the space, on separate trolleys for each stack?

War on Wasps

This project is about taking action to prevent new colonies of European wasps from establishing, by capturing queens when they swarm in Spring. It’s not about eradicating established nests.

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