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Newsletter 03 – Happy New Year – From Your Friendly Local Park !

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Kerry Hood

It’s nearly a year since the fateful and desperate day when we formed our campaign to save our park, and this park friends group to run it.   Thanks to all of you, we still have a park to use and for our children to play in.   It also means that we are holding our AGM shortly: please join us for a drink and to talk about our park, at 8pm, at the Chatterton Arms on Wednesday 24th February!
In this newsletter:

Future Events
Our Future work for our Park
What we did this year
Finally

Future Events

10:30am Saturday 12th March – litter picking

12noon Sunday 12th  June – OUR 2ND ANNUAL BIG LUNCH

12noon Saturday 10th September – Havelock Hoedown

But more will be arranged – keep an eye on your email or the notice board!

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We came and we planted!

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Kerry Hood

We are delighted to announce (for those of you who have not been on the brickfield recently) that we have finished planting both the Homesdale road entrance and the biodiversity hedge (along the chain link fence).

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Thanks to everyone who made it happen! Personally speaking, when I first read that we should plant the hedge on Dr Judy’s biodiversity report, I never imagined that a year later we would have actually planted ourselves a hedge! I wasn’t sure we’d even have our recreation ground to put it on either!

Lots of thanks to Stephen Tickner at the landscape group, who enabled it to happen (and helped us muddle though learning how to be a friends group). The heideas_for_park_hedgedge planting was done by a volunteer group that Stephen organised, called Pulse. They are committed to helping long term unemployed back into work.

Thanks also to Mandy, who had faith and organisation to bid for the whips from the Woodland Trust, and to Caroline who found the ones from OVO Energy’s I Dig Trees project.
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Above, the drawing of what the hedge might look like in a couple of years time, from our page for your input into our action plan, and our little mascot William, supervising the work on the entrance!

Unfortunately, as the brick pit was filled with crushed and compacted rubble (and other stuff, see our history page) it is hard work to dig the holes to plant, and it is great that people put in the effort for the community – thanks again!

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Posted in activities Events Media | Tagged asset big-skies biodiversity green-oasis wildlife

bird box making on Saturday!

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Kerry Hood

We had a great time painting bird boxes and making insect feeding stations and insect hotels!

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Even the weather smiled on us! Many thanks to Emma for organising the event, and Caroline and Sandy for helping her, especially as Sandy didn’t feel very well.  Sandy and Emma also worked out how to make insect hotels and feeding stations (I’d never heard of either!)

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Mark has very kindly collected suitable, untreated, wood for us from The Mayflower project (they are rebuilding the famous ship) in Harwich:

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“I’ve got the back of the car full of offcuts from The Mayflower in Harwich. Loads of nice untreated oak for bat, bird and bug boxes.” (FB post, 11th July)
Posted in activities Events scenic-n-wildlife | Tagged asset biodiversity children-activities green-oasis wildlife

Bulb Planting and Litter Picking

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Kerry Hood

Thanks to all those hardy souls who turned up to help us pick the litter and plant the last of our bulbs!

Tea, coffee and cake were served too, and we all worked hard to improve our park:

Here’s a group photo of some of us at towards the end of the morning:

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Litter picking at the Bourne End side,and bulb planting at the Havelock side:

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Posted in activities Events scenic-n-wildlife | Tagged biodiversity litter

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Local History, Photos & Reminisces

Browse our collection of remarkable local reminisces in our oral history pages look at the park's previous incarnation as a working brickpit or a summary of it all here.

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Early morning landscape by Jon Emmanuel
Landscape by Jon Emmanuel
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snowmen and snow forts in 2009
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The firemen parachuted in to raise money in 2005
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