QPCC’s Summer In Queen’s Park WILL go ahead again this year!

Queen’s Park Community Council’s (QPCC) Summer In Queen’s Park programme will be going ahead again this year, offering free activities for local young people and their families.

QPCC initiated the programme last year to help families keep children and young people active, engaged and learning over the school holidays. With the rising cost of living, the Council recognised that many families would struggle to provide necessary developmental opportunities for children and young people and set out to help bridge the gap in partnership with various local and national organisations. 

The ideas for the activities came directly from children, young people and their families through the more than 300 responses to the Community Council Children and Young People Survey (Winter 2021)

Fifteen activities were held across July and August, ranging from cooking classes held here in Queen’s Park to many trips taking families as far as Littlehampton on the Seaside trip attended by more than 90 residents. The Community Council also funded other activities facilitated by local organisations such as Affirm Arts, Creative Future, Treasure Box Boxing Club and others. 

The Summer in Queen’s Park Programme will run again this year, starting on 26th July with an Indoor Climbing event. Residents must register to participate in the programme, so keep an eye on the Community Council’s social media and website and look out for your copy of the Queen’s Park Voice in the post for more information about how to register. You can also sign up for the Community Council’s monthly e-bulletin to receive email notifications when the programme launches in mid-July.

Last year, one of the most popular events was the Outdoor Cinema, which brought more than 700 residents to Queen’s Park Gardens for the screening of Encanto, Spiderman: no way home and Ghostbuster: Afterlife. Residents also enjoyed popcorn, sweets and other refreshments for a small donation.

The Outdoor Cinema is back again for this year’s Summer in Queen’s Park; even better, you get a chance to help us decide what films are shown! (Deadline 10th July) 

Please complete the form below to help us decide; we’ll announce the finalist on our Social Media and in our July e-bulletin, so remember to sign up!

Films aimed at children aged 0 - 8

• Turning Red: Mei Lee, a 13-year-old suddenly poofs into a giant red panda when she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS).
• Elemental: In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they actually have in common.
• The Bad Guys: Based on the New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet - becoming model citizens.

Films aimed at children aged 9 - 12 *

• Little Mermaid: The beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton's daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea.
• The Super Mario Bros (Movie): From Nintendo and Illumination comes a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros.
• Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse: Miles Morales returns for an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People.

Films aimed at young people aged 13+ and Adults

• Batman (2022): When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
• Rye Lane: From breakout director Raine Allen-Miller, 'Rye Lane' is a romantic comedy that stars Vivian Oparah (Class, The Rebel) and David Jonsson (Industry, Deep State), as Yas and Dom, two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups.
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts: The film will take audiences on a '90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer - the Maximals - to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

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