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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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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Green Flag Award

August got off to the best possible start when Coed Bach Park was awarded a Community Green Flag Award.
It was presented by the Keep Wales Tidy Green Flag Award team this afternoon at Singleton Park Botanical Gardens.

Group founder member Christine Thomas also won another award for Volunteer of the Year.

Lewis Price from the Our Place team based at Canolfan y Bont proudly collected the Flag Award on the behalf of not only our group but the Pontarddulais Partnership and the Our Place team.

WELL DONE and a HUGE THANK YOU to everybody involved in helping us get this award.

You know who you all are and we share this award with you as your help over the last few years has been vital.

A Poem About Coed Bach Park by Lucia Crothall.

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We can all have a lark 

in Bont’s Coed Bach Park

Give the kids a good play,

Set them up for the day.

Hear them laugh, cry and shout, 

Leave yourself in no doubt

They will have so much fun

That when all’s said and done 

We can all have a lark

in Bont’s Coed Bach Park.

Go for a run 

Or just sit in the sun.

Take control of the ball - 

Drive that tackle - don’t fall!

Or look up to the leaves

On those old wizened trees - 

We can all have a lark

in Bont’s Coed Bach Park

Give the dog a good walk,

Take your friend for a talk.

Spend moments in thought

Get that baggage you brought

Out into fresh air.

Free yourself of all care – 

We can all have a lark

in Bont’s Coed Bach Park

Spot a bird, smell a flower

Feel a grass, find a bower

See a dragon fly poise

Far away from the noise

Of the traffic of town

And those fights for renown - 

We can all have a lark

in Bont’s Coed Bach Park

There are some tree maps in the park near the Coed Bach and Gwynfryn road entrances.

Take a look at them and have a walk through the park itself and see how many species you can find. And also keep an eye out for the wildlife that live in, and amongst the trees.

Volunteers and Our Place team members are clearing pathways of nettles throughout the woodland areas. This is making the pathways wider and easier to negotiate, and as usual woodchip top up programmes run throughout the year to keep the pathways in full working order.