Several customers have voted for us to be nominated for the BEST Coffee/Tea Shop award in the
As we are only a small café, we need every vote!
If you enjoy your experience at the North Lodge Park Tea Rooms, our delicious crepes & cakes and the unique atmosphere of our community café then go online to norfolkfada.co.uk by 30th June and vote for
Friends of North Lodge Park Café, Cromer
Thank you!
At our AGM on April 24th, we launched a public appeal to raise money to enable us to complete the funding for the Playful Connection. Through your generosity and a substantiation contribution from Cromer Town Council we have half the £219,000 needed, We are also looking for grant funding, and by showing your support in the Plank Appeal this will help our application to grant funders.
From the Rusts Shelter and the two model yacht ponds to benches, plants, and equipment, North Lodge Park has benefited from donations since it opened in 1929. This appeal continues that tradition and gives you the opportunity to become part of the story of North Lodge Park.
You can donate any amount, and all donations of £90 and over will entitle the donor to a message etched onto a plaque on one of the planks. We’re hoping everyone will support the campaign – individuals, businesses, groups, families – let’s make it a real community project. Get together with your friends and colleagues, with your neighbours or with fellow volunteer groups.
You can donate online at NorthLodgePark.org.uk or pick up a form from the Park Cafe.
If you want more information or would like to support the project in other ways get in touch via email.
If you have already sponsored a plank – and many of you have – THANK-YOU
For those of you not able to attend this year’s AGM, here is a copy of the presentation
If you would like to sponsor a plank on the new bridge, you can complete an online form, download a form, or pick up a form in the park cafe.
The community hall is still out of action, so we have booked the PARISH HALL for this year’s AGM. As usual it’s not a traditional AGM, more a review of the year, a chance to get together to discuss the Park and to look ahead. The meeting will be on:
We look forward to seeing you.
Our planning permission application for the playful connection project was approved in February, with a couple of conditions to be resolved and we have agreed outline terms for a 10 year lease on the land from NNDC. We are finalising some of the details of the project and are ready to share these with you at the AGM.
The are still lots of actions needed to pull the project together before we can start building – not least making sure we have all the money in place.
Through your commitment to the Park, and a significant contribution from Cromer Town Council, we already have over half the money in place, and will be looking for grants to cover much of the shortfall.
At the AGM we will be launching a public appeal to give the community the opportunity to sponsor the project and become part of the story of North Lodge Park.
Through the Easter School holidays families can explore North Lodge Park in rhymeThis Easter, families can explore North Lodge Park with the help of a special Treasure Hunt. Carefully prepared by a trainee Bard, the rhyming couplets will encourage children to look around them and find the answers to the simple clues around the Park. On completion of the Treasure Hunt, the use of the magic word in the cafe will release an Easter Egg for successful children. Come and see what wonders there are in North Lodge Park.
The treasure hunt (and Easter Eggs!) will be available during cafe hours (10am-4pm Tuesday to Sunday)
Nominal Entry cost: £1 each (with Easter Egg for all who complete it)
Thanks to Kinnerton for their support.
To celebrate the 60’s weekend in Cromer there will be a day of music in North Lodge Park. The event will take place near the cafe and boating pond on Saturday 30th March. Local band Tom, Dick and Harry will start performing from 10.00 am, followed by The Walker Brothers of Norfolk who will play throughout the day. Come and enjoy all the fantastic hits from this eclectic decade.
You’ll get
The Friends of North Lodge Park have been selected by Waitrose North Walsham to be one of their charities for March, which means we will get a share of this month’s £1000, based on the ‘votes’ made with their token scheme. I don’t need to tell you that the more tokens in our box the bigger our share of the cake, and we all like big portions of cake.
A huge thank-you to all the volunteers who stepped up to help out at this year’s skating event in the Park. For 5 days the park was full of happy families taking advantage of the synthetic ice rink provided by Wonder Ice.
This wouldn’t have been possible without the exceptional support from the community, both joining in the fun, and their ongoing support for the cafe – it’s the profits from the cafe that underwrite such big cost events and make them happen – and North Norfolk District Council.
