Welcome from Friends of Marple Memorial Park
"Friends of Memorial Park" are a group of local people whose aim is to provide opportunities for community members to improve and promote the use, awareness and care of facilities within Marple Memorial Park in order to make the park a welcoming, safe and enjoyable environment for all. To better understand our aims and objectives take a look at our Constitution. To discover more about our recent activities browse our minutes of meetings and Task Day galleries and to learn more about our projects and successes, use the links at the top of this page. If you'd like to get involved and support our efforts in any way please come along to one of our task days or meetings, or get in touch using the contact details on this site.
It was good to be out in the welcome sunshine on Saturday!
Quite a few of our volunteers are away at this time of year but we still had a good turnout and got through a lot of work. We weeded and tidied up the flower beds which are looking nicely colourful now. We also did some watering! In April!
This is a good time of year to sow grass seed so we have seeded the two large bare patches in the old football pitch - we filed them up with soil last year. The areas are covered by tape at present mainly to keep off the birds. We also did some tidying up at the Band Room. Always a litter pick too! We went round all the older planted trees which are outgrowing their supports, replacing the ties where necessary and getting rid of the stakes where they are no longer helping support. Yesterday was also the start of our annual Little Growers event where we give our younger (or young at heart!) gardeners a pot and seed to start growing a flower at home, and eventually bring it back to us for planting in the beds.
People might like to note that a dozen trees have been planted temporarily in the corner between the Bowling Green and the football pitch. These will eventually be replanted around the new Hub building but can't be put in yet due to the construction work.
Lastly, a huge thanks for the donations placed in our collection bucket. These contributions are really appreciated and people were especially generous this time - thanks so much!
