Friends of Marple Memorial Park Task Days
The Friends hold regular task days in the park on the last Saturday of each month in the winter and the middle and last Saturday from March to November. Everyone is welcome to join in for as long or as short they wish during the specified times. Please note that children and young people under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
If you are interested becoming a volunteer with us please get in touch and we will add you to our Task Day notifications.
We like to keep a record of what we get up and here are details of past task days.
We started early and finished early with no tea and cake break today so that we could all head off to the Marple Food and Drink Festival for lunch. Before departing we did a big litter-pick, planted a new privet in the hedge around the bowling green, did some heavy pruning in the Hollins House flowerbeds and more maintenance of the park flowerbeds too. A lone volunteer from the Allotment Team was also found grafting on their bed.
Yesterday we also managed to complete treatment of the last of the benches for 2017.
As usual, park users showed their appreciation of our efforts by popping just over £13 in our donations bucket.
Glorious weather and a great turn-out for a Bank Holiday weekend! It was lovely to see the Breathing Places Reading Circle we created 10 years ago, and still maintain, being used by young families with children enjoying a sing-song. There was lots of hard work in flowerbeds and shrub beds and the Allotment Association were out in force too. There was also lots of hard work on park benches as we've been catching up now that the weather has improved.
Lots of litter-picking too, with our chief litter-picker bringing a couple of apprentices with him to train-up.
Plenty of generous park users were out and about as well, with almost £24 placed in our donations bucket.
Another quite but productive task day with work done on main flowerbeds, Jubilee bed in front of the library, woodland area behind the library and the shrub bed near to the bandroom. Park users donated just over £11 in our bucket too!
The holiday season made for a low turn-out but very productive task day tackling litter, flowerbeds, benches, the bandroom garden, the Infants Play area, the cinema bed and the back of the toilet block. Park users were out in force though, and placed just over £49 in our donations bucket.
Mixed weather didn't stop our volunteers turning out in force today and getting stuck into the Sensory Garden, trimming of borders, maintenance of shrub beds, litter picking, and work to the Bandroom garden. We rounded the day off with a visit to The Samuel Oldknow Bar on Market Street to help them celebration winning the High Peak Camra Pub of the Season award. Tough work but somebody has to do it!
Plenty of generous park users out too, with almost £20 placed in our donations bucket.
A much quieter turnout than usual saw lots of planting in the flowerbeds and shrub beds and lots of watering in of new plants. We also completed the refurbishment of three park benches sponsored by local families and erected some temporary protection for a commemorative plaque where a tree was recently lost.
The park itself was quieter too but we still had just over £10 donated by park users during the day.
