NOVEMBER 17TH: "BREAKING NEWS"
TOWERING OAKS FROM SIMPLE SEEDS! (only 24 left out 30 of available)
'Seed money' is an expression used to describe the first funds for a new project. To encourage you to provide seed money to help us with our 'New Brockwood Gardens Campaign' we have 30 young oak trees ready to be planted on your behalf. If you donate (or have donated) £100, or more, to our campaign, we will plant an oak sapling on the grounds of Brockwood on your behalf. Those who have already given some may if they like add a little more to get to £100!
As a way to thank you for your gift, there will be the lasting gift of a new oak tree - bearing your name if you want (on a biodegradable label) or that of someone you love - gracing our grounds. These trees, which help offset the use of oak timber in the construction of the Pavilions, form part of our general effort at replanting and caring for the Brockwood parkland. With the assistance of students, Gary Primrose will plant the trees in March on a visit to Brockwood. Thank you so much!
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OCTOBER 10TH:
BEGINNING OF THE FIRST-EVER ONLINE BROCKWOOD CAMPAIGN
Thank you for taking the time to visit Brockwood Park School's JustGiving page! Please read about this exciting project below from both Co-principal Bill Taylor and former Head Gardener, current Trustee Gary Primrose. We hope you will be inspired to participate. Every donation, even small, will make a real difference! (This campaign must end mid-December 2011 regardless of progress. Make sure that if you want to donate you do so before)
Do you remember visiting the Grove on an early spring morning, the grass damp underfoot, the sky blue and full of promise, sunlight touching the tops of the sequoias and the fragrance of azaleas in the air? Do you remember digging for potatoes in the walled garden, or climbing for apples, or hunting strawberries and raspberries and only half of them made it back to the kitchen? Do you remember lying on your back on the South Lawn in the shade of the Cedar of Lebanon – or was it the Tulip tree – staring into the canopy and being filled with wonder?
Brockwood is surrounded by wondrous spaces that nourish us all and impress themselves on the minds and hearts of students, staff and visitors. Now we would like to create a beautiful new space, by landscaping the area between and around our seven Pavilions.
We are fortunate in having Gary Primrose, our former Head Gardener and current Trustee, prepare an attractive and effective design for this project. Here he explains the vision for the space. We hope you will like it as much as we do and assist us as best you can to make it happen.
Bill Taylor, Co-principal
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Design Brief for the Pavilion Courtyard, by Gary Primrose
The courtyard is a secluded, south facing space surrounded on three sides by the adjoining green roofed verandah that connects the seven Pavilions. It will be a popular, protected gathering and studying environment for students and staff. Approximately two thirds of the area will be lawn with a specimen tree and surrounding bench. This sheltered space will be held by sculpted yew hedges at the south end which will double as a stage set for school plays. Behind the hedges will be a 'hidden garden' - a rectangular pond bound by mostly native planting and accessed from both sides by a board walk. The entrance through the hedges to the pond will be on a central axis and directed to a focal point - a sculpture or tree behind the pond. A wooden deck adjoining the pond with built in benches will make this area attractive for studying and reflection. It will be hidden from the road by vertical oak stanchions, perennial grasses and shrub planting. The planting throughout the design will favour plants that attract bees, butterflies and birds, be of interest year round and be relatively low maintenance. The courtyard garden will have disabled access.
Gary Primrose, Trustee, former Brockwood Head Gardener
(Gary was born in Kenya in 1950 but grew up in Western Canada. He joined Brockwood as a staff member in 1977 and stayed until 1993 working in the kitchen, garden and teaching. From Brockwood he went to live and work in the English Lake District where he designs and maintains gardens. He completed an MA at Lancaster University in 2006 specializing in the history of the Lake District landscape. In 2010 he became a trustee of the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust.)
You may see more pictures of the pavilions being built on our blog here:
http://blog.brockwood.org.uk/2011/09/26/new-pavilions-go-up/
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they will never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they will send your money directly to this Brockwood project and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. It is a most efficient way to donate.
So please donate now, however small or big your donation, EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS! Thank you so much in advance for your generosity.
Lionel
Brockwood Park School
"Freedom and Order"***
Former Student: 1996-2000
Development & Alumni Officer
Bramdean
Hampshire
SO240LQ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1962 771 744
Fax: +44 (0) 1962 771 875
School Webpage: www.brockwood.org.uk
Founder Webpage: www.jkrishnamurti.org
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Limited Company registration no. 1055588 Registered Charity no. 312865
***"The school is concerned with freedom and order. Freedom is not the expression of one’s own desire, choice or self-interest. That inevitably leads to disorder. Freedom of choice is not freedom, though it may appear so; nor is order conformity or imitation. Order can only come with the insight that to choose is itself the denial of freedom. In school one learns the importance of relationship which is not based on attachment and possession. It is here one can learn about the movement of thought, love and death, for all this is our life." (Extract from "The Intent of the Krishnamurti Schools". © 1981 Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd. Brockwood Park, Bramdean, Hampshire SO24 0LQ England.)
