Come Volunteer!
Would you like to help your neighbors keep Lafayette Park beautiful and a wonderful asset for our community?
The Friends of Lafayette Park (FOLP) - a neighborhood volunteer organization dedicated to preserving and improving the park - depends on neighbors volunteering to help with projects around the park. If you have a little time, just a few hours a couple of times a year, we have small projects for you. Or, if you would like to be a regular FOLP volunteer for the park, we have ongoing projects. Here are suggestions on how you and your family members can volunteer at the park. Email us at: volunteer@thefolp.org if you’d like more details.
Fall & Spring Clean-Up Days
The FOLP organizes two clean-up days a year in Lafayette Park. Neighborhood residents turn out to help rake leaves, 
clear brush, pick up litter, clean up the playground and tot lot, and do other light
miscellaneous projects to make the park, playgrounds and ball fields look neater and more beautiful. Each clean-up day is half a day, starting in the morning and ending around noon. We often have coffee and donuts, donated by local shops, to support the volunteers. Bring your work gloves…. come out for the morning, and bring the kids. They can help too!
Watch for announcements on our web site and at the park for when the clean-up day is scheduled. It is generally a Saturday morning in April/May and October/November.
Gardening Group
Have you noticed the beautiful gardens surrounding Lafayette Park – on the Broad Branch Road, Quesada Street and 33rd Street sides? They are the work of FOLP volunteers, not the city. The gardening group of FOLP is a dedicated group of volunteers who every year plant flowers and bushes, and then tend the gardens by watering, pulling weeds, pruning and other chores. Their work is admired by many in the community and enhances Lafayette Park.
Many of the flowers and plants have been donated by area residents, and FOLP purchases some plants to fill out the gardens. But nearly all the gardening work is done by volunteers.
The gardening group always needs more volunteers. Donating whatever time you have to help keep the gardens beautiful would be wonderful. If you love to garden and would like to become a volunteer, the gardening group would welcome you. You could either help with just a few small gardening projects, or, if you have the time, we need regular volunteers to help with the planting, watering, pruning, weeding and other tasks. You can do as much - or as little as you have time for.
We also have specific areas of the garden where volunteers can take “ownership” and be the person responsible for a small part of the garden. If you’d like to be the main volunteer for a particular area of the garden, let us know. We’d love to have you.
If you are interested in helping with the Lafayette Park gardens, please contact the gardening group at: gardening@thefolp.org.
Community Service Hours for Students
Do your kids need community service hours for school? How about a Boy Scout or Girl ScoutTroop? Why not let them volunteer at Lafayette Park through the Friends of Lafayette Park.
The FOLP has many miscellaneous projects it could use help with on an ad-hoc basis. Projects may include putting down new sand in the children’s play area, raking leaves, picking up trash around the playgrounds, watering some of the new trees and gardens, and other projects to enhance the park.
If you are interested in performing community service hours to benefit Lafayette Park, please contact us at:volunteer@thefolp.org for more information.
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