Event cancelled as Hilary has unfortunately broken her hip – we wish her the very best for a speedy recovery.
We are very pleased to announce that Hilary Dodson, Chair of the Northern Fruit Group, will be in Parkinson’s Park this Friday, 1st April, to show people how to prune the pear and apple trees we have in the Community Orchard. The trees were planted over a year ago, and now need work to ensure they grow in the best way to produce a strong framework and fruit. Continue reading
Children hang ribbons on the Guiseley Easter Tree
We are now into the last two weeks of Lent, with Easter approaching, and spring in the air. At the request of St Oswald’s Primary School, we have started an Easter Tree in Parkinson’s Park this year, to welcome the reawakening of nature, new life and hope for the future.
The Children of St Oswald’s have started the tree off this morning by tying ribbons on in spring colours, we would now invite anyone to add to it, with ribbons or easter egg decorations.
We then have the Chevin Cross up on the top of the hill, and the Easter Tree in the Park.
Children standing on one of the early medieval lynchets.
We welcomed 90 children from St Oswalds’s Cof E Primary School today, who came to hear about the history of the Park.
They heard the stories of what their parents, grandparents and great grandparents might have done in the Park – sledging, hay making, and attending bonfire night . Learnt that some of the features are very old; having been made by Angles before the Norman’s came to Britain. Viewed the landscape carved out by the great glaciers, and heard about the time the Park was a warm sea, south of the equator.
Hearing about the great glaciers
They also heard the story of Frank and Albert Parkinson, two local boys who built up an important manufacturing business, whilst looking after their staff and giving the Park to local people.
Some of their pottery finds
The idea that you could find lots of small artefacts around the Park relating to the past particularly caught their imagination, and they spent a good while running around on a treasure hunt – with some success.
We are luck to have been able to explore the history and landscape of the Park via a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and this year there will be information boards and leaflets to tell the story to all visitors.
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We are very pleased to announce that on 4th March 2016, the Friends of Parkionson’s Park were registered as a Community Interest Company and incorporated under the Companies Act 2006 (Registration Number 10044868) . A community interest company is a social enterprise and exists to carry out activities that benefit a local community; in our case the district of Aireborough. It has to be approved and registered in its purpose with the Community Interest Company Regulator, to whom we have to report annually.
The registered ‘community interest statement’ of the Friends of Parkinson’s Park CIC is :- Continue reading
Well, thanks to all those who voted for us, we have just heard we have received £300 from the GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund to go towards the 2016 Lantern Parade. We’d also like to thank Galaxy for the opportunity.
So, whilst we are starting to put together plans, we’ll start early to ask if anyone would like to be a volunteer drummer – you get a lesson, and a drum, and it is great fun.
We are also looking this year to raise money for a lantern making workshop, so that we can have more large lanterns.
Very well done to Nicola Denson for organizing today’s Clean for the Queen event – an anti-litter campaign, with a whimsical slogan, to get people out together, having some fun and exercise, whilst cleaning up their local area, or park.
We started off with a few
But as word got around on social media, more and more joined in, picking up the litter sticks , bag and gloves
Whilst others spent the morning on Twitter, deciding to scoff at other people’s efforts to tidy up for the sake of others – children, dogs, wildlife, and yes for the United Kingdom and Great Britain, headed by the Queen. How ditzy and mean spirited can some people get about a slogan??? Continue reading
…. that is the offer to Guiseley residents if they can help Friends of Parkinson’s Park win funding from Galaxy Hot Chocolate for this year’s Lantern Parade.
The Lantern Parade has run for the last three years and is a fantastic, festive, community event that brings together people from all over Guiseley to parade down the streets, lanterns lit, drums a drumming, to sing carols at Guiseley Cross, with a glass of mulled drink, and mince pie.
We are supported in the event by Guiseley Brass Band, St Oswald’s Choir and the local churches, but every year we need to find the funding to make sure the event can go ahead. If you’ve enjoyed the event in the past or like the sound of this year’s event, which will be held on Sunday 18th December, please take time to click on the below link and vote for us – you have until this Sunday 6th March. The link will ask you to confirm you are over 18, then you make a vote, give your email and verify it – job done.
With thanks from Friends of Parkinson’s Park.
Click here to help us win funding for the 2016 Lantern Parade
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