We plan to submit our revised lottery application to the lottery on February 26th 2021 and should have a response about 2 months later which we sincerely hope this time will be positive as a lot of effort has gone into the application by a large group of people.

The balance of our funding of £194,000 required we hope to obtain from Mynydd Y Gwair, the Bernard Sunley Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Donations and Pledges and of course our Sponsors of which we already have 18 equating to £4500.

We carried out a usage survey in the park from our cars on Tuesday February 9th 2021 which showed that there were 392 visitors to the park that day of which 190 were walkers, 125 were dog walkers, 39 were children playing, 19 were cyclists, 5 were local authority workers, 4 were joggers and 10 were taking or collecting children from St Josephs RC School. There were also 116 dogs who came to the park that day.

All in all a very busy place.

The Friends Group is taking a stall at this event to raise the profile of the group and to get information and feedback from the local community at large.

We will have leaflet flyers explaining what we are about, drawings and pictures of the proposed new Community Club House, a book for people to sign and comment on the group whether positive or negative, a raffle with ten prizes and all proceeds for park improvements, a cake raffle with the cake made by our renowned baker Barry together with buckets for donations that people want to make.

HAVE A GO AT BOWLING !!??

Roll up at the green on any Monday in the season between May and August from 5.00 to 6.30 and you will be very welcome

TRY A CANOE TRIP ON THE CANAL

For a small fee have a trip on a Sunday from 11am until 3pm and in the school summer holidays on a Tuesday from 10am until 2pm.

VISIT THE HERITAGE CENTRE

Open every Saturday from 11am until 3pm and every Sunday from 12 until 3pm.