Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Local community charity campaigning for the conservation of the Crystal Palace Dinosaur statues.
Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs works with Bromley council to make sure the Dinosaur statues in Crystal Palace Park are conserved and the area around them well-maintained. We also do public engagement work to help the public connect with the statues, and understand their place in the history of science, local area history, and palaeontology. We are currently crowdfunding a permanent bridge over to Dinosaur Island in the CP Park lake (where most of the statues are found) which will enable us to run more tours, and to carry out conservation work on the statues and gardening on the island.

13 GoodGymers have supported Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with 4 tasks.


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CatMark GilyeadHannah
Angela

Spread the dino word? You bet Jurass(we)can

Thursday 31st August 2023

Written by Cat

Five volunteers spread the word about Heritage England’s Dinosaur Days event on 9 and 10 September by delivering flyers to houses around Crystal Palace Park. TaskForce members Hannah, Nick, Mark and Cat were joined by Angela, who was completing her second GG mission. Welcome Angela :) Between the five of us we delivered almost 500 flyers in just over an hour and made some furry friends along the way. We also spotted a lost dino toy at one of our flyering locations which felt like fate and spurred us on. T-rexcellent work team!

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Mark GilyeadOliveKat
Ian Moore

Frequent Flyerer

Tuesday 10th January 2023

Written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)

5 phenomenal flyerers turned up to pop some info about an exciting Crystal Palace Dinosaur/Museum event through some letterboxes in Penge this evening!

Nick and Ian blitzed a fun a Art Deco building whilst the rest of us went round the houses nearby.

We got through all the leaflets in 45 minutes and called it a day.

Easy peasy! Nice one team!

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Sam LefevreCat

Flyerannosaurus Rex

Tuesday 3rd January 2023

Written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)

Five fabulous humans met last night, for a night of fiercesome fun - flyering for the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs!

It was great to catch up after the Christmas break and everyone was discussing their running goals for the year. After a last minute change of plan (saving all the treecycling for next week!) we'd been asked by the friends of the dinosaurs for some help spreading the word about their 'Saturday at the Museum' event on 14th Jan.

It sounds really excellent; VR, art, an indoor history trail, and lovely to see the Museum, friends of the park and dinosaurs all joining together for some family fun! 🦕

Our plan was to visit all the houses on the roads around the park, and pop flyers through their letterboxes. We split into two groups. Clare and Sam took the long route, heading up the east side of the park before continuing round it to meet me, Stephen and Cat who were taking on the roads along the south side.

We nearly finished all the houses before it was time to call it a day, but look out for a little bonus session next week.

500 flyers down, 300 to go.


Next week it's all change at GG Bromley as we switch up our sessions to Monday evenings instead! Sign up for the session here!

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Olivia WallerIan MooreHannah

Legosaurus

Tuesday 6th September 2022

Written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)

After many a splatter throughout the day, we just about dodged the rain on tonight's Group Run! I'm not sure our flyers would have got on well with the water...

Tonight we were joined by a couple of new faces - Sophie who came to her very first GG activity, and Olivia who made the trek down from Greenwich! Great to have you both join :)

After a quick chat about desert island foods and a quick warm up in the park we split into two groups to distribute our pile of 500 flyers!

The Friends of Crystal Palace Dinos help promote the beasts' bizarre history and raise awareness and support for their restoration. They have occasional heritage days for the public to learn more, and that was what our flyers were advertising.

We did roads right by the park so we were done in no time and got a good run/walk between doors! 500 flyers gone in a jiffy - Nice one gang!

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