Task Day in Memorial Park [Last Saturday each month]

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Task Day 26 March 2022

A really busy and productive day saw our volunteers cleaning under the former Bowling Pavilion canopy ready for painting before we install our centenary artwork later in the year. We also chopped up a huge tree branch that had been brought down by high winds earlier in the year and created a small wildlife haven from the arisings. Many other volunteers got stuck into flowerbed maintenance behind the library, in the Jubilee bed in front of the library, the toilet block bed, and of course the main flowerbeds and memorial beds. We also got started on annual maintenance such as painting the edges of the steps at the Bowling Green the exact same colour as the fabulous display of daffodils throughout the park.

Read more about our task days this year here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2022.html
 

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Task Day 26 February 2022

During yesterday's task day most of our volunteers focused on a good tidy-up of the Reading Circle behind the library, including planting-up of the trough in our new Canal Frog Rose. We hope that visitors will enjoy this new addition to the park but please refrain from climbing on it and trampling the plants. Other activities included a big clear-up of broken branches and twigs from recent storms, extensive litter-picking and glass clearing thanks to our overnight park visitors, a tidy-up of the annoying mud puddle at the park entrance and installation of the boards for our new Pavilion Art Project Phase II - look out for more on that soon.

Great support from the community

A very big thank you to the lady who donated £100 to Friends of the Park and the kind gentleman who presented us with a cake from Archer's for our tea break. It was very nice indeed!

Read more about our task days this year here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2022.html
 

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Task Day 29 January 2022

It was great to get our Friends of Marple Memorial park volunteers back into the park for the first time this year yesterday, despite nearly getting blown away by high winds.

Efforts were focused on a general tidy of of the main flowerbeds. We spread some new top soil on the Sensory Garden opposite the Scout Hut as part of our tidy-up there and replanted Danny Winter's pots too. We also spread some top soil along the top edge of the skatepark to fill the gap between the concrete and grass that had been developing.

Read more about our task days this year here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2022.html
 

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Installation of Nativity Sculptures on Market Street

It's become a traditional way for Friends of Marple Memorial Park to end the year and it's now an annual task for us to install and remove the Nativity Sculptures in the Town Centre.

We took over the task of storing and managing the sculptures from Churches Together, who were having trouble handling them when stored at All Saints' Church. It's much easier for us to keep them at the park and we can transport them to Market Street without vehicles, so much greener too!

It was great fun to supervise our team of volunteers as they did their community service this morning!

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Task Day 23 October 2021

Today the Marple Poppy Appeal Team will launch this year's campaign by commemorating the 100th year of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

They are doing this with a Ride of Remembrance from Compstall to Memorial Park featuring 100 motorbikes each carrying a large poppy to be added to the Wall of Remembrance in the park.

This promises to be a great spectacle and Friends of the Park spent yesterday's task day tidying the flowerbeds and war memorial area in preparation for today's event. We also planted the last of the shrubs donated to us by a local resident, which led to a great photo of our father and daughter volunteer team, who have done a wonderful job for us over the last year.

Visitors to the park kindly donated over £15 in our collection bucket, thank you! However, to the lady who came up and told one of our volunteers that you had put £1 in the bucket but you would give more if Friends of the Park disassociated ourselves with the skatepark, we will be passing your money onto the Poppy Appeal. The park is for everyone and we are very proud of our success in building this great facility for the young people of Marple.

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Task Day 9 October 2021

Great to get back into our refurbished Mess Room during our task day yesterday!

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Town Centre Benches all caught up in time for Food and Drink Festival

We were delighted the weather held yesterday, allowing us to complete re-treatment of the last two benches on Market Street this year. That means we have caught-up with the lost year due to the Covid19 pandemic and all 17 Town Centre Benches have been re-treated by Friends of the Park in time for the 2021 Food and Drink Festival.

Next year we would still like to clean up and repaint the metalwork too and it would be easier if we had access to an outside tap. Is there an owner of a business premises or residence in the Market Street area that could help us with this please?

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Town Centre Benches on the Hollins completed for 2021

The last two benches on the Hollins were sanded and treated on Monday and we've nearly caught up after Covid delays in 2020.

Just two benches left on Market Street, which we hope to manage before the Food and Drink Festival on Saturday if the weather and other commitments allow.

One nice coincidence we learned is that it was the late Marshall Shaw's birthday on the same day we treated his bench.

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Task Day 18 September 2021

Lovely to see so many families enjoying a glorious day in the park during our Friends of Marple Memorial Park task day yesterday!

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Task Day 28 August 2021

A beautiful day to be working in the sunshine yesterday saw Friends of Marple Memorial Park focus on hedges and shrubs, with work around Hollins House, the war memorial beds and the Bandroom garden. Other jobs tackled included cleaning display boards, touch-up painting of the railings in front of the house, much needed watering of Danny Winter's pots and the endless task of keeping the flowerbeds at their best.

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Task Day 7 August 2021

The forecast August downpours were fairly kind to Friends of Marple Memorial Park volunteers yesterday, allowing us a couple of hours grace before a good soaking. This enabled us to make good progress on a tidy-up of the main flowerbeds and the war memorial beds. Other tasks included litter-picking, mowing of the band room garden and the 5-a-side goals and treatment of a couple of benches.

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Task Day 17 July 2021

A shortened task day today due to the heat but our volunteers still managed a long list of tasks by midday including: litter-picking; grass-cutting in the bandroom garden; tidying of the Scout Hut bed; planting in the Sensory Garden; edging of flowerbeds; sanding and treating benches; strimming around the 5-a-side goalposts and planting foxgloves in the woodland areas, where we at least found some shade. The allotment team were also in action keeping on top of weeds and edging their plot.

Read more about our task days here: https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021.html

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Task Day 26 June 2021

Friends of Marple Memorial Park made an early start in the park yesterday for the installation of the Pavilion Art Project boards. This had been waiting for council approval of our special task day to install the roundels with Art Stop CIC, which was approved last week. Look out for more exciting news on this brilliant project very soon!

later we were joined by regular volunteers for another busy day in the park:

https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021/task-day-26-june-2021.html

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Task Day 19 June 2021

Yesterday Friends of Marple Memorial Park gave the self-seeded Dock in the new wildflower meadow a good bashing and sowed more wildflower seed too.

The seed sown in autumn 2020 has been slow to take hold but the meadow is now showing signs of promise:

https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021/task-day-19-june-2021.html

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Friends of Memorial Park need access to an outside / accessible tap on Market Street or Derby Way please! Can you help?

Friends of the Park are working our way through retreating of the timber slats on the town centre benches but we'd also like to clean and paint the metal ends too. Ideally for this we would need access to an outside tap so we could wash and rinse the ends before painting. Does your premises or residence have a suitable tap we can use please?

https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/task-days/task-days-2021/task-day-15-june-2021.html