Friends of Garston Park

More pictures of our Tree Planting

2011-12-31T12:29:00.001Z

The Garston and District Historical Society has put some pictures from our Tree Planting day on its Flickr site.

Here is a link to the stream of pictures.

Tree planting

2011-12-08T13:36:00.003Z

The Friends of Garston Park were out today (Thursday) planting trees on the part of the park at the side of the leisure centre.

Joined by some very keen youngsters from Gilmour Juniors we planted some very young trees as well as some more mature ones and some shrubs.

It was rather wet and windy but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

Big thanks to the Woodland Trust and the Mersey Forest for the trees and also to the Mersey Forest for the practical help.

Today was the first of two tree planting sessions which are themselves just part of our work on protecting and improving our wonderful open space.

Wildflower meadow for Garston Park

2011-11-18T20:06:00.002Z

Tomorrow (19th November) local brownies will join the Friends of Garston Park to create a wildflower meadow near the swing park.

They'll be planting seeds and bulbs as one of the first of two planned wildflower areas.

The planting's due to happen at 1pm.

Art project meeting

2011-11-16T20:49:00.001Z

If you are interested in the Art Project mentioned in an earlier post (and you don't need to be an artist to get involved) come along to our first meeting on Thursday 24th November at 6pm in the Leisure Centre.

There'll be some follow up meetings in January.

Our next meeting

2011-11-16T20:47:00.001Z

Our next meeting of the Friends of Garston Park is Friday 18th November at 6 30 at Long Lane Church. It's open to anyone who wants to get involved or find out more so do come along. The Church is at the Woolton Road end of Long Lane, near the shops.

And on Friday 19th November we are having one of our regular "litter picks" on the park. We meet at 10 30 outside the leisure centre. Again do come along if you want to help out.

The Great Art Project - do join in!

2011-10-08T12:00:00.000+01:00

FOGP is working on a project to camouflage the screens around the outdoor pitches at the Leisure Centre. Some sides of the pitches will have shrubs planted around them, but the sides facing the car park will be painted.

The idea has 2 parts: (1) to paint a Garston skyline on boards along the top of the screens and (2) below and around it will be boards representing how people express health and well-being in Garston. School children and other young people will do (2).

The skyline
This work will be done by community groups in the area. Small groups will work with community artists, starting with taking digital photos and working up to designing the final skyline. You don’t have to have a digital camera to take part.

You do have to commit to a number of sessions for the work. There will be a preliminary meeting in November and work will start in January 2012, for completion in May.

If you are interested and have ideas about what should be included in the skyline, please contact Gwen White, gwen.white@wmail.freeserve.co.uk If you give your email or telephone details, you will be sent the date of the preliminary
meeting.

We really want your involvement and ideas. Please pass this information on to anyone else who might be interested.

Thanks!

2011-07-30T07:36:00.002+01:00

Thanks to everyone who supported out stall at the Garston Park Fun Day las month.

We raised money to reinvest in park improvements and we managed to meet lots of people and chat about our work.

The organisers of the Fun Day are already thinking about next year so hopefully we'll meet even more people in 2012!

Meanwhile the park plays host to another Fun Day, organised by the extended schools service, on 2nd August.

Our next meeting

2011-06-15T17:43:00.001+01:00

Our next meeting , of Friends of Garston Park, is this Friday (17th). We meet at 6 30 at Long Lane Church. Anyone who wants to get involved is welcome.

We'll also be out in the park on Saturday doing one of our regular litter picks.

Bakers wanted!

2011-06-15T17:40:00.002+01:00

Garston Park Fun Day is nearly here. Running from 11 till 2 on 25th June there should be loads to do for everyone.

The organisers are giving away free tea and cake. But they also want bakers.

If you are a keen baker and want to donate some cakes that would be great. Please drop them off between 9 and 10 on the day at the " tea tent".

Help needed for Fun Day

2011-06-04T13:30:00.003+01:00

25th June is the next Garston Park Fun Day.

We'll be there with our stall.

This year we want to include a tombola so we're appealing for anyone with a gift they'd like to donate as a prize to get in touch. We're after books to sell as well.

If you think you can help out, you can drop things off at 80 Long Lane or drop us an e mail and we will sort out picking things up. E mail Paula at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Join us to help keep our area clean - Garston Litter Pick

2011-05-04T07:33:00.003+01:00

A group of churches in Garston are organising another Litter Pick in our area later this month.

The Friends of Garston Park will be joining people from all over our area to help tidy up the park and some of the streets in Garston.

Organised by local churches, and starting from Long Lane Church, the Litter Pick is on Saturday 14th May. It kicks off with a breakfast from 9 at the church (which was very good last year - ed)

There's no obligation to stay all day and anyone who wants to join in is very welcome.

Litter picks, gloves, bags etc are all provided. We can't guarantee the weather but it was good last year!

Information is available from the Pastor at Long Lane Church - nick@longlane.org

New benches in!

2011-04-17T15:29:00.002+01:00

Our new benches are now installed on the Park. Some new places to sit in quieter parts of the space.

So we now have the new noticeboard and the new seats. Not bad for some spring improvements (although more are to come)

We raised money for these improvements by book sales and raffles, but also by applying to funds. We are very grateful to the Grassroots Fund, the Councillors Community Initiative Fund and to Liverpool City Council and Glendales for their help with installation.

Meeting.. and litter pick

2011-04-12T20:13:00.001+01:00

Our next General meeting is this Friday (15th April)

We meet at Long Lane Church at 6 30pm.

Some of us are committee members but anyone is welcome and we are keen to hear from and meet new people.

If you want a bit of exercise, why not join us on Saturday (16th April) for a Litter Pick on the park. We meet at 10 30 am outside the Leisure Centre.

Noticeboard here.. and benches coming

2011-04-12T20:08:00.003+01:00

Have you seen our new noticeboard? We raised money for it and it's great to see it there.

Not only does it mark one of the park entrances, it means we have a place to put up posters - not just about the Friends but about other community things.

Here's a picture (admitedly not very good as it was a bit sunny when we took it) but do go and have a look for yourself.

Meanwhile, the bases are in for the benches and wer're all impatiently waiting for the seats themselves.

Benches and new noticeboard due this week!

2011-03-21T15:30:00.001Z

If you see work going on on the park today, its Glendale getting ready to install our new park benches.

We expect our new noticeboard to be put up this week too.

As soon as we have some, we'll post some photographs

Garston Park Fun Day

2011-03-18T12:23:00.002Z

There's a planning meeting coming up next week for the next Garston Park Fun Day.

Last year's was brilliant and we met loads of people at our stall (we were the ones with the bird boxes and the books for sale)

A few of us are off to the planning meeting for the whole event so if you've got thoughts about it, or about what you'd like us to do, please do let us know.

You can post a comment or, drop an e mail to paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk (and she'll make sure other committee members get it too)

Meeting reminder

2011-03-17T09:03:00.000Z

Our next meeting is this Friday (18th March) at 6 30 pm at Long Lane Church.

Do come along if you are interested.

Next Friends Meeting- 18th March

2011-03-06T09:19:00.002Z

The Friends of Garston Park meets on the third Friday of every month at Long Lane Church. This is 18th March this month. Strictly speaking these alternate between Committee meetings and General meetings, but if you are interested in getting involved you are welcome to come to any. We meet at 6 30pm.

If you want to get involved, but can't make it to the next meeting, please give us your details by either posting on here or e mailing paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk.

New benches and noticeboard due this month

2011-03-06T09:16:00.002Z

Our long awaited new benches and the new noticeboard for the park entrance are due to arrive this month.

We're really excited about this.

Many people told us that they felt the park lacked places to sit in "quieter areas". They also felt that the park needed somewhere else to put up community notices and information.

We're not sure of the exact day these will be installed but do look out for them.

Liverpool City Council has also agreed to do a bit of work to make the existing benches down the middle of the park look a bit nicer.

AGM and Litter Pick - 18 and 19 Feb

2011-02-11T12:55:00.002Z

A reminder that the Friends of Garston Park is having its AGM, followed by a general meeting on Friday 18th February at 6 30 pm at Long Lane Church.

Do come along if you are interested.

We'll also be out doing one of our regular litter picks of the park the following day (19th Feb) Do join us for some light exercise which makes the park look even better. We meet outside the Leisure Centre at 10 30 am, but if you haven't been before, feel free to get in touch before the date and time to let ys know you are coming.

Happy New Year - lots to do!

2011-01-24T09:38:00.002Z

This is a big year for Friends of Garston Park.

We've got new benches to put in. We've got a new noticeboard to put up. We've got the wildflower meadow to plant. We've got repairs to sort out and argue for.

And later in the year there'll be another Garston Park Fun Day - and we'll be there.

The Friends of Garston park got together to ensure more local ownership of the park and to make sure it is protected, improved and loved.

Do join us.

Our next meeting, also our AGM, is on the 18th February. Details will be posted here nearer the time.

Meanwhile though if you want to get in touch now, please post your details on this blog or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Next meeting

2010-11-18T18:18:00.002Z

The Friends of Garston Park have a committee meeting every other month and a general meeting every other month. These are always on the third Friday of the month at 6 30 at Long Lane Church (although we did take a break for August)

That means there is a meeting tomorrow (19th November)

Whether you are on the committee or not, if you are interested in the park you are welcome to any of our meetings.

If you'd like more information, do please let us know by e mailing paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk or the Chair Alan Helsby at alanhelsby@blueyonder.co.uk

Friends of Garston Park - getting there!

2010-11-18T18:10:00.001Z

People living near the Park should start to see some more improvements soon.

We've raised some money to buy some more benches and are waiting for delivery so they can be installed.

We've raised some money to pay for a new noticeboard so there'll be one at both of the entrances and not just the one by Whithedge Road.

And we have a commitment to some cash to plant a wildflower meadow.

What's more the City Council is going to help us by getting the existing benches refurbed.

So, a lot to look forward to for our park.

Meeting and litter pick coming up!

2010-10-07T18:24:00.003+01:00

Our next General Meeting of the Friends of Garston Park is Friday 15th October at
6 30 at Long Lane Church. All welcome.

And we'll be out doing our regular "litter pick" the next day. Litter picking volunteers should meet at 10 30 outside the Garston Leisure Centre on Saturday 16th October.

Garston Park Litter Pick

2010-07-14T10:51:00.003+01:00

Join us for a litter pick in our park this Saturday (17th July)

We are meeting at 10 30 at the Leisure Centre. Litter picks, bags etc will be available.

The Friends of Garston Park have committed to organise a litter pick every two months to help keep our park looking good.

Next Meeting

2010-07-14T08:57:00.002+01:00

Our next meeting is this Friday (16th July). We meet at Long Lane Church at 6 30.

Anyone interested in the park is welcome to come along - local residents, local businesses, people who visit the park, people who play organised sports on the park.

If you can't come this time, but want to be kept informed of future meetings, do let us know. You can post your details on this website (use the comments) or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk and she will pass your details on.

You can also take part in our short survey. If you scroll down a bit on this site you'll find a post with a link to this. It won't take more than five minutes of your time and will help us in deciding what to focus on.

Fun Day

2010-06-28T09:16:00.002+01:00

The Fun Day at Garston Park on Saturday (26th) went really well. The Friends of Garston Park had a stall and we managed to make many more people aware of our work (and raised some money to boot). The bird box and insect box making went down particularly well. We took some pictures of the event which we'll try to post. Meanwhile here is one of our stall.

Survey about the Park

2010-06-24T16:16:00.004+01:00

Please help us by taking part in our (very) short survey about the Park.

The survey can be found Click here to take survey

Garston Park Fun Day coming up

2010-06-13T15:55:00.002+01:00

Saturday 26th June sees a Fun Day at the park.

From 11 till 3 there'll be all sorts of activities including face painting, birdbox making, football and other sports. There'll be stalls run by local organisations including Friends of Garston Park and some of the local churches. There'll be displays by organisations including the Fire Brigade.

Do come along.

Results of our first planting

2010-04-27T07:21:00.002+01:00

Back in the colder weather, a group from Friends of Garston Park planted some crocuses in two parts of the park. Member Mark Helsby took these pictures earlier this year when the crocuses were in bloom. We hope soon to also plant some wildflowers and to organise planters with even more flowers at the entrance to the park.

Litter Pick in the Park

2010-04-25T12:43:00.002+01:00

There's a litter pick in the park on May 15th ( a Saturday). Long Lane Church is kindly providing breakfast at 9 am. It's part of a morning of litter picking involving two other local churches - the Bridge Chapel and All Souls. The event ends around 1pm at Bridge Chapel with a lunch. The organisers say everyone is welcome to help and in fact there were between 70 and 80 people last year. Litter picks, gloves and rubbish bags are provided by the Council.

Next meeting

2010-02-28T17:51:00.001Z

The next meeting of the Friends of Garston Park is on Friday March nineteenth (we always have the third Friday of the month).

We're meeting at 6 30 at Long Lane Church. Anyone who lives near the park, or uses the park, or who is interested in what we do, is welcome to come along.

If you can't make it but want to go on a mailing list to hear about future meetings, please either post your details in the comments section or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Garston Park Bird Watch

2010-02-28T17:47:00.002Z

How many species of bird are there in Garston Park?

The Friends want to get a list together detailing all the different types of birds spotted.

And we need your help.

If you are in the park and you spot a type of bird, please let us know.

You can drop a line to the Chairman Alan Helsby at 80 Long Lane, Garston, L19
or post in the comments section here.

We hope eventually to display lists for people in the park.

Our new logo

2010-01-12T16:23:00.001Z

Thanks to Tom Cleeland of Edge Hill University we now have a new logo for our group.

Here it is.

January's meeteing

2010-01-11T13:31:00.000Z

Our next meeting, open to anyone interested, is this Friday 15th January. It takes place at 6 30 at Long Lane Church.

Meeting update

2009-12-18T07:46:00.000Z

There is a Friends meeting tonight (18th December) at 6 30 at Long Lane Church. All welcome!

Picture from the planting

2009-12-18T07:43:00.002Z

Here is a picture from the bulb planting at Garston Park. This one shows Alan Helsby, Chair of the Friends Group, plus children from Garston C of E School. There were two planting days - the children's one on a Friday and a Saturday one for the rest of us!!

This picture is kindly provided by Mike Axworthy from the Garston News. The picture was printed with a story on the planting in a recent edition of the magazine,

Friends of Garston Park - next meeting

2009-11-09T18:48:00.000Z

Our next meeting is on 20th November at 6 30 pm at Long Lane Church. Do come along if you are interested. If you can't attend, but want to go on our mailing list, please also let us know. You can post your details in the comments section or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Thanks

2009-10-24T14:43:00.003+01:00

Thanks to everyone who helped with the bulb planting on Garston Park today. And thanks also to the children and staff from Garston C of E School who helped yesterday (Friday).

Between us all we planted £100 worth of crocus bulbs provided by the City Council.

It was our first Friends of Garston Park event and we hope that there'll be a lot more to come. These include a Chrismas do, fundraising and bigger activities in 2010.

Our next meeting, to which anyone interested is very welcome, is on 20th November at 6 30pm at Long Lane Church.

If you can't attend the meeting, but want to go on our mailing list, please get in touch. You can either post your details in the comments section here or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Help with planting at Garston Park - 24 Oct

2009-10-17T09:37:00.002+01:00

The Friends of Garston park invite you to join us for a "planting session" at the Park on Saturday 24th October. Were meeting at 11 am in the foyer of Garston Leisure Centre. We'll be planting crocus bulbs in part of the park and anyone interested in helping, or just finding out more about what we do, is welcome to come along. Some refreshments will be available. We'd be grateful if people could bring along a trowel or a fork from home if they have one as our supplies are limited.

If you want to find out more please either post a message here or e mail Paula Keaveney at
paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

The bulbs have been donated by Liverpool City Council

Next meeting

2009-10-14T08:46:00.002+01:00

Our next meeting of the Friends of Garston Park is this Friday (16th October) at 6 30 pm at Long Lane Church (which is at the Woolton Road end of Long Lane). Do come along if you are interested. If you haven't been before and want information, do post your question here or e mail Paula Keaveney at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Last nights meeting

2009-09-19T09:22:00.002+01:00

We had a good meeting last night of the Friends of Garston Park. We elected a chair for the group - Alan Helsby. We also talked about plans for a planting event hopefully in October and some things we might be able to raise money for. We'll post details of the next meetings on this website shortly. Meanwhile if you are interested but haven't been able to get along to any meetings, please either post a message (with your contact details) on this site or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk and we will add you to the list we use to contact people about meetings etc.

Next meeting

2009-08-12T11:50:00.000+01:00

The next meeting of our group will be on the 18th September at 6 30pm at Long Lane Church (which for those who don't know it is at the Woolton Road end of Long Lane). More details will be posted nearer the time. Meanwhile, if you are interested and want to be kept in touch but haven't been in touch before, please drop me an e mail at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Next meeting

2009-07-28T12:54:00.001+01:00

Our next meeting is this coming Friday - 31st July - at 6 pm at Long Lane Church. This Church is at the Woolton Road end of Long Lane and is next to number 14. If you are interested in getting involved do come along. If you can't attend but want to be kept informed, please let us know. You can either leave your details here by posting a comment or you can e mail Paula at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

If you haven't been in touch before but do plan to come to the meeting it would help if you let us know so we can make sure we know how many people to expect.

Stall success

2009-07-28T12:53:00.000+01:00

Thanks to everyone who helped with our Friends of Garston Park stall on Friday last. We collected some more names of people potentially interested in getting involved.

Come and meet us

2009-07-20T13:18:00.000+01:00

The Friends of Garston Park will be at the "Putting Cressington First" event this Friday (24th) from 6pm to 7 30 at Garston Leisure Centre, Long Lane, Garston. (If the weather is good we are outside, if not we are inside in the auxiliary hall)

Do come and meet us and let us know if you want to get involved.

Our next meeting

2009-07-02T08:18:00.000+01:00

Our next meeting, for people interested in getting involved in the Friends Group will be Friday 31st July at 6pm at Long Lane Church (by kind permission of the Pastor).

This will be a chance to start planning some activities for the early Autumn and will follow on from our presence at an event outside the Leisure Centre the previous week.

We need to get a rough idea of who is likely to come to the meeting. So if you have not been in touch so far but know you want to attend the meeting, can you please let us know. You can either post a comment on this blog or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk.

If you can't attend the meeting, but would like to be on a mailing list, please also let us know.

Friends Exhibition

2009-06-29T15:36:00.000+01:00

We are hoping to take part in an event on 24th July near (or in if the weather forces us) the Garston Leisure Centre. It's an "engagement event" with stalls for sections of the City Council as well as other agencies. We are hoping to have a Friends of Garston Park stall so that people can come along, find out more, and hopefully join us. When all the details are finalised we will post them here. Meanwhile if you have any questions about the Friends of Garston Park please either post them here or e mail Paula Keaveney (one of the Cressington ward councillors) at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk

Meeting - Tuesday 23rd June

2009-06-22T14:03:00.000+01:00

Our next meeting for people interested in playing a part in getting the Friends Group going is this Tuesday (23rd June). It's at 7pm at the Garston Leisure Centre. If you want to come along but this is the first information you have had please let us know so we can make sure we are not in the wrong size room. You can e mail Paula at paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk or call her on 07815 769413.

Welcome to Our Site

2009-06-19T07:53:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the Friends of Garston Park Website. This is set up by local residents and representatives to help support our Park. We are currently looking for people who want to become involved. If you want us to add your e mail to our mailing list, please either post a comment or e mail paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk.

We'll be posting details of meetings and events shortly.