During this quiet time of the year news of major Park activities becomes a little quiet.

But like all good groups we are constantly out and about in the Park keeping ourselves busy with the little things in life.

You can follow our exploits on our FaceBook page at:-

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Or our Twitter feed which gives you a snapshot of what is happening within the Park itself, and a glimpse of other organisations we work alongside.

https://twitter.com/FOCBP

You do not need to sign in to a Facebook or Twitter account to follow the news.

Keep Wales Tidy recently visited the Park to inspect the 2nd woods area to see if we have retained our Green Flag Award which we won in 2016.
Members of the FOCBP and Our Place team took the judge (Zoe) around the park and pointed out work that was being carried out, and what our future plans were with regards to the area.
We will let you know the result when we have it.

After the success of last years 5K Carnival Fun Run which was held in the park, another one will take place this year on Saturday 17th June.

If you want to take part please contact Andrew on 07866 622877

Due to the continued vandalism attacks on the Wigwam we will no longer be reporting the issues on our Social Media sites as we believe whoever is doing it is gaining their own kudos by knowing they are causing a public outrage.

However the Our Place team will not give up and every time the work is destroyed they will return to rebuild it.

Also worth noting that even when the vandalism occurs, the local kids come back and help us rebuild it.
Whoever you are you wont stop the younger kids or anyone else from having fun in our park!

Photo Jessica James.

If you witness any incidents in the park, do not hesitate to ring 101 if it is a non emergency, or 999 if you are in danger. Never approach anyone for your own safety. If you don't have a phone on you please still report any incidents you see at your earliest convenience, don't use our FB page to report issues it is your responsibility as you are the witness.

Other work projects are continuing around the park these include.

Tree Planting.
Planting of shrubs.
Pond clearance.
Removal of invasive plant species (In accordance to environmental plans)
Clearing car parks of stones which are damaging tennis courts.
Pathways.
Bmx track.

We also hope to have some news on Tennis sessions throughout the Summer holidays, we shall keep you posted.




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December 2016

It is nearly the end of another year and as usual around about this time the FOCBP have placed tags with personal messages on the Friendship Tree in the heart of the second woods.
As usual we thank our resident artist Gaynor Fuge for her efforts in creating these tags as group members know it is time consuming, and Gaynor has a lot of her own projects to work on so I am sure you would also like to join with us and say a huge 'THANK YOU GAYNOR' for all your efforts to bring so much comfort and happiness to people at this time of year.

2016 has been a huge year for the park and with so much we could say, I fear that I could be writing this blog for several more days!!!

So instead I have taken the easy way out and posted images from our other Social Media sites showing how wonderful Coed Bach has become in 2016.

A photo review of what made Coed Bach Park so special in 2016

(A big Thank You to everybody that have shared their images with us over the last year.)

Our dogs are the real friends of the park.

Education.

Volunteers.

Recognition.

New BMX track.

Events.

The biggest award we have won.

The park regulars.

The wildlife.

Fund raising.

Plenty of fun to be had in the play area.

The walks.

The fun of exploring.

The Our Place team are continually in the park.

The Pcso's Community support.

Thank you all for your continuing support.

You all know who you are and without your help and support none of this would be possible.

Members of the FOCBP would like to wish all park users a Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year.

See you all in 2017!

In the meantime you can click the tabs at the top of this blog to take you to our Facebook and Twitter feeds to keep up with the news.

June Roundup

The beginning of the month saw an incident in the park where youths were using a scrambling bike in the area. They then decided to use the football pitch as a scrambling course, but they were spotted by members of the Safer Swansea volunteers and after a short search by thr police and some great detective work by members of the public in the town the youths were identified and given an official warning about off roading in illegal places.
Just remember the park is always being watched!
We at FOCBP thank everybody that took time to phone the 101 non emergency number.

Sports and Activities

This month was Carnival month and things kicked off in the park with the inter school sports evening over the park.

This year the pupils of Ysgol Gymraeg Bryniago took the top honours.

Well done to everybody that took park and we hope you had fun.

Swansea CC also installed a new swing in the Playarea and this has proved to be very popular with everyone (including adults :-)

As usual a big THANK YOU to all as Swansea Council for all your work and effort in installing this for us.

And this year the pre carnival funrun returned to the park this was another well attended event for the community.

And a Basketball hoop was installed near the far end of the football pitch by the roundabout in the road.

Hopefully this will provide anyone with a ball a good challenge to pop a hoop.

Winners of the inter school sport Bryniago.

Our new swing.

Basket Ball hoop.

Some of the Pontarddulais Scouts (4th Lliw Valley) ready for the funrun.





4th Lliw Valley Scouts

4th Lliw Valley Scouts clearing the park before Sports day.

After carnival day (very wet)

The 4th Lliw Valley Scouts have been very busy in the park this month helping to clear the park of any rubbish before and after the Carnival.

Again thank you guys and girls.

You can find out more about them below.

http://4thpontarddulais.scoutsites.org.uk/

Volunteers

Volunteers have aso been active in the park picking up other peoples rubbish.

It is not up to us to clear up after you it is your responsibility.

Please Bin It!

Dog poo bags are no longer being distributed by the council due to cutbacks. We are looking into an alternative way of having bags in the dispenser in the park.

So we ask for you to bring your own with you (they cost a few pence from Tesco or other places.)

FOCBP and other park users have noticed that some people are refusing to pick up their dog's mess and we want to avoid having to call in dog wardens to deal with such people.

The majority of people do clear up but sadly it is a minority that just don't bother and give everybody a bad name.

Carnival Day

After our exploits on the float last year we returned to our traditional stall on the Carnival field.

On hand were volunteers armed with clipboards talking to the public and finding out more about facilities in the park and we have had a lot of positive feedback from this event.

Also Gaynor and Tarra spent several hours facepainting to raise funds for the FOCBP group, again this was very popular with everybody.

Thank's to everybody that volunteered their time and gave us feedback.

Wildlife

As we are in the summer months you may have noticed the grass is a little long and overgrown in some areas.

This is simply to support the summer wildlife that uses the park woodland areas, and to be able to provide habitats for any breeding or nesting species.

Clearing programmes will again resume in the winter months for next year.

Also by the Coed Bach entrance we have a display of Wildflowers growing.

This year is a bumper crop so pop over for a look.

Wildflowers.

Other Events.

The Bowls club that use the park will be running free taster sessions throughout the summer. So if you fancy a go feel free to pop over to the bowling green by the Gwynfryn rd entrance.

Just bring flat bottom trainers or shoes.

The sessions will start at 10am.

As usual Thank You to everybody that has contributed images to our Facebook page and Twitter site.

We hope to see more from you soon.

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