Community

Many individuals, groups and organisations have been and are still involved with Valentines Mansion and Valentines Park.

There are three locally-based groups who are, or have been, associated with Valentines Mansion and Park. They are:

• The Friends of Valentines Mansion - The Friends support and assist in the preservation and improvement of the Mansion and the surrounding parkland.
• The Mansion Trust.
• Valentines Park Conservationists - The Valentines Park Conservationists worked with the Friends and the London Borough of Redbridge on the park's restoration and wound-up in September 2009 when this work was finished. Recognising the need for a group to work with the council on the park's development and maintenance, the Friends established a Parks sub-group in October 2009.

Contact details for the Friends and the Mansion Trust are available on the Contacts page.

Other organisations with connections to Valentines include:

• the owners, the London Borough of Redbridge. They have created a website about Valentines - it can be found at http://www.valentinesmansion.com
• English Heritage
  • Images of England - Valentines Mansion is just one of 21 buildings in Redbridge listed by English Heritage. Photographs of all these buildings can be found on Images of England.
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• Ilford Chapel.

In addition, we would like to thank the following people and organisations for their help in building this website:

• Cincinnati Art Museum who gave us permission to reproduce Southwark Fair
  
• Landuse Consultants for permission to use the maps of Valentines Park
• Local Studies and Museum Services (London Borough of Redbridge) for assistance and permission to reproduce photographs of Valentines Mansion
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland for permission to use the picture of Sir Charles Raymond
• Michael Balfour for permission to quote from Ellen Buxton's diaries.