Monday 17 December 2018

Our 2018 roundup, with special thanks to our volunteers, the support from City and County of Swansea Parks Department and Keep Wales Tidy organisation.

This year we have achieved:-

Installation of 2 picnic benches/tables and an interpretation Map panels installed this year through the Tesco Grant.

We planted 118 Lavender Plants to form a small hedge of Lavender as the years go on thanks to the Dwr Cymru grant.

We have added to the hedgeing plants that were planted by the Scouts at Coedbach Road entrance and have started to plant shrubs and bushes on the bank opposite the lower football field, this is ongoing.

We've also planted up 6 flower boxes with winter Violas with help from the Shine Cymru organisation volunteers and intend to plant up the other 3 boxes.

We have supported the Sustrans's initiative to get a cycle path to connect Pontarddulais to Grovesend cycle path.

We currently have exhibition in Library, thanks to Gaynor, for people who want to put messages on the tags that go on the "Friendship Tree" in the Park. Date tbc but usually week before Christmas for decoration of tree.

We have tried to clear some of the bulrushes from the Pond, thanks to Clive, Windsor and Vyv.

The Our Place Team have continued to top up the wood chip paths and regularly do litter picks in the park and we are grateful for this ongoing support.

We had the baccaularete pupils from the Dylan Thomas school maintaining the bmx track by topping it up with stone duff and chippings that we bought and they also painted the football container.

We were again awarded the Green Flag Community Parks award.

We couldn't do this without the support of the community. So please do visit the park, enjoy the facilities and if you see us working do say hello! We're always looking for new volunteers/projects/funding. Thank you.



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Friday 16 November 2018

The Friendship Tree tags are now available at Pontarddulais Library, ready to be hung in Coed Bach Park in December. 
Call in and pick a slice of the wood that is available, and then write in pencil your message. These will be burnt on by Gaynor Fuge who leads this project. 

Donations can be given to Friends of Coedbach park, at the library.






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Thursday 27 September 2018

Sustrans

Pontarddulais is on the map for the Sustrans bike path which we hope will come into Coed Bach Park.




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Sunday 5 August 2018

Proposed Cycling Track.

A message from Pontarddulais Mayor Kevin Griffiths.







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Wednesday 18 July 2018

Green Flag 2018


Excellent! We've been awarded The Keep Wales Tidy Green Flag Award for another year running! With thanks to everyone for all your efforts to help us maintain the park.







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Tuesday 5 June 2018

A short while ago members of the Our Place team met with Friends members to plant some lavender near the football field towards the Coed Bach road entrance, one of our members spotted a bee flying around the plants and stopped to take this image.




Below is the Map we have had done thanks to the grant from the Tesco Bags of Help Scheme.  We are hoping to get these installed by end of July one at each entrance.






UPDATE

The signs have now been put in place at the Coed Bach entrance, and next to the QE2 plaque at the Gwynfryn Rd entrance.




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Tennis for Free.

Tennis for free is back in Coed Bach Park every Friday evening from 5-6pm.

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Sunday 15 April 2018

Lavender planting.

Thanks to  the Our Place Team for the added help and to our members in picture Maureen,  Margaret, Lucia, Tom and Claire for getting the lavender hedges planted. And also to Dwr Cymru for making it possible to buy the lavenders to help our pollinators and improve the biodiversity of the park. 







Also we give thanks to the NEET Team for the planters and to the Glynhir WI for donation out of which we bought the Tulip bulbs which are flowering now alongside some fungi, well after all it is a natural park.






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Friday 12 January 2018

Tesco Park Benches.

A big thank you to the Tesco 'bags of help' grant and to the Parks Department of the City and County of Swansea for the 3 picnic benches which have now been installed in the park. Something we can all look forward to using when the weather improves!




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