Windsor Community Poppy Project

Windsor Community Poppy Project The Windsor Community Poppy Project is a large-scale remembrance installation bringing our town together in 2026.

Thousands of handmade poppies will form a powerful act of collective remembrance. Schools, groups and residents are all invited to take part.

01/09/2026

🌺 10,000 POPPIES… AND COUNTING! 🌺

We’ve reached our original target. The sewing and assembly of the Windsor Community Poppy Project installation has begun… but please don’t stop making!

We’ve set ourselves a new stretch target of 13,500 handmade poppies and every single one genuinely helps.

Whether it’s three beautiful poppies from Amelia, aged 9, or nearly 700 from Bou, one of our incredible extreme makers, they will all become part of Windsor’s collective act of remembrance.

So if you’ve still got poppies on your needles or hooks, half-finished ones in your craft bag, or a bundle you’ve been meaning to drop off, keep them coming!

🌺 Original target: 10,000 ✓
🌺 New stretch target: 13,500
🌺 Every poppy counts.

We’re sewing now, but there’s still room for yours.

Keep making. Keep dropping off. Let’s see how far Windsor can take this.

29/08/2026

Here are a few of the lovely volunteers that took part in our 'communi-stitch' session on Friday, hosted courtesy of . Key stitchers shown here included Sue, Sarah, Sonia, Kay, Charlie and Hannah, with Jenny, Anne and Michelle from Craft Coop. More dates on Craft Coop's events webpage - please join in

And ‘sew’ it begins… the mass sewing project to attach 10,000 poppies ready for display
28/08/2026

And ‘sew’ it begins… the mass sewing project to attach 10,000 poppies ready for display

🧱 Have you got any old LEGO looking for a new purpose?We’re collecting pre-loved LEGO - especially pieces in red, black ...
26/08/2026

🧱 Have you got any old LEGO looking for a new purpose?

We’re collecting pre-loved LEGO - especially pieces in red, black and green -for some special “Build to Remember” half-term fun at Craft Coop Windsor. Together, young creators will use the donated bricks to build poppy-inspired creations centred on remembrance.

We’re already incredibly grateful to Windsor Auctions for their generous support. If anyone else can donate a handful, a box or even a whole forgotten collection, we’d really appreciate it!

Please message us if you can help. ❤️🖤💚

🌺 WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🌺As we enter the final months of the poppy project, we need volunteers to help us attach 10,000 pop...
21/08/2026

🌺 WE NEED YOUR HELP! 🌺

As we enter the final months of the poppy project, we need volunteers to help us attach 10,000 poppies to the installation that will flow down the church.

No special skills are needed- we’ll be sitting together at tables, attaching the poppies to the design. Drinks, biscuits and chat will be provided! ☕🍰

📍 SLOUGH TRADING ESTATE

Friday 28 August: 9am–4pm
Friday 4 September: 10am–2pm
Friday 11 September: 10am–2pm
Friday 18 September: 9am–4pm
Friday 2 October: 9am–4pm

📍 MAIDENHEAD COMMUNITY CENTRE

Wednesday 26 August: from 7pm
Wednesday 16 September: from 7pm

You can also join one of our regular Communi-crafter sessions:

🌺 OUR MAIDENHEAD COMMUNI-CRAFTERS
Maidenhead Community Centre
Tuesdays: 7–9pm
Thursdays: 2–4pm

🌺 OUR WINDSOR COMMUNI-CRAFTERS
Craft Coop Windsor, Windsor Yards
Alternate Wednesdays: 10.30am–12.30pm

Come for an hour, half a session, a full session—or all of them! We’re incredibly grateful for whatever time you can give. ❤️

Please message us for further details and information about finding the Slough venue.

🌺 Fun Fact Friday 🌺You don’t have to live in Windsor to be part of the WCPP community!A huge thank you to the John Lewis...
14/08/2026

🌺 Fun Fact Friday 🌺

You don’t have to live in Windsor to be part of the WCPP community!

A huge thank you to the John Lewis Partners and the Knit and Natter group in Welwyn, who have generously donated an incredible 745 handmade poppies to our project.

Their Wellbeing Champion, Karl, learned about the poppy project while visiting Windsor to enjoy Trunks Across the Thames - the fantastic elephant art trail supporting Thames Hospice - and chatted with our lovely Cooper Dianne.

It’s a wonderful reminder that when communities connect, kindness travels, creativity flourishes and something truly special grows - far beyond geographical boundaries. ❤️

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