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.

Handcrafted Christmas Sales boosts Park Fund!

£954 in 2023 and £2,458 raised for the park so far...

Friends of Marple Memorial Park have to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to spend their money at the 2023 Handcrafted Christmas Sale in Hawk Green Reading Room on 26 November, or in our pre and after-sales. We can now reveal that an amazing final total of £954 was raised for the Park Fund, just pipping last year's total!

2022 Handcrafted Christmas Sale
A busy time at Friends of Marple Memorial Park's 2nd Handcrafted Christmas Sale on 27 November 2022: By Arthur Procter.

Marple Community Hub Consultation

Response from Friends of Marple Memorial Park

This page presents the history of previous consultations and exchanges between Friends of the Park and the council on the Marple Community Hub scheme going back as far as January 2019. It also includes a brief update on recent developments followed by our full comments on the scheme as presented for consultation on 4 September 2023.

We finish with a round-up of suggestions of how you may wish to support us in your own personal responses to the consultation.

We hope you can take the time to read and understand everything we are saying but there are a couple of quick-link shortcuts for those of you with less time.

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Friends of Memorial Park's 50-50 Club latest Draw Winners

The latest draw of the Friends of Marple Memorial Park 50-50 Club has been made and the lucky winners announced.

To date £10,934 has been awarded in prizes and a similar amount allocated to Park Funds, so this is a great way to support the volunteers who look after our wonderful park.

Subscribe before the end of the month!

There is still time to subscribe before the next draw deadline at the end of the month, so please read more about how you can support the Friends of the Park and be in with a chance to win a cash prize each month too!

Friends of Marple Memorial Park