An extremely busy weekend for Friends of the Park volunteers, with a task day on Saturday, Skatepark Music Festival on Saturday night and then Hawk Green Maypole event raising funds for the park on Sunday. In the park we started our programme of bench treatment to keep them all in tip-top condition, weeded flowebeds, weeded and planted seeds in the woodland wildlife area and had a good tidy up of the beds close to the council offices. We replaced the worn commemorative flags with new ones and litter-picked the park too.
Sadly, we also found that the tree sculpture "Midnight" has rotted from inside quite badly and is now starting to loose the outer surface too. We did some experimental repairs to see if we can hold back the effects of this for a bit longer but they weren't very successful and currently look messy. We'll have another look at this but despite consolidating the base with resin a couple of years ago it now looks like the sculpture has started a rapid decline. We will try to extend its life for as long as we can but at some point in the not too distant future it will need to be removed.
Once again visitors to the park showed their support for what we do by donating over £21 in our collection bucket.
