Tennis in the Park.

Tennis Sessions are going well and will be carrying on every Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9.30am to 11pm.

Thanks to Geraint and Rhys for taking time out and teaching the kids a few tricks.

So far about 20 people have been turning up for each session so we are glad to see it so well supported.

Image by Christine Thomas.

We also have some other events coming up shortly.

Meeting/Holiday and Future Events

We are having our regular monthly meeting this Thursday 7.30 in the Cricket Club and the posters and flyers have gone up and out about the Tennis Activities for 5-10year olds which will be starting next Tuesday 30th July and then every Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9.30 to 11am  throughout all of August - there is a small cost of £1 per session and help would be appreciated from 9.30 till 10am each morning to take  the register and the money. 

The Pontarddulais Partnership will be having their Play Scheme in the Park for the first two weeks in August from 5th to 9th August and from 12th  to 16th August and we are joining in with them for National Play Day on Wednesday 7th August 1.30pm - 3.30 pm with Sarah Holden who will be leading a workshop on Green Masks and Butterfly/Moth Paper Puppets and Sarah will be back on Friday 16th August 1.30pm - 3.30pm doing Mini Sketch Books and Simple Willow Weaving.

On Saturday 7th September from 2pm - 4pm  there will be Building Bug Houses and Muddy Pond Dipping led by Dawn Thomas and Dawn will be leading a Bug House Inspection on Saturday September 28th from 2pm - 4pm.

Friday 6th September Familly Bat Walk in the Park with Detectors at 7.30pm led by Steve Lucus and on Sunday 6th October 10am -12 there will be identify the Fungi in the Park led by Teifion Davies.

From Friday 2nd August throughout all of August we will be having an exhibition in the Library about our activities in the Park and the future activities in the Autumn such as the creation of the seasonal ponds. 

Sunday 4th August we will be joining with the Pontarddulais Partnership and having a Stall at the Gower Show, they did a nice article in the Bont Bulletin about the Park and getting the QEII status.

Hope to see you on Thursday.

all the best

Chris 

Also this article appeared in the online Evening Post.

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Parks-important/story-19562427-detail/story.html

Tesco Staff Paint The Childrens Play Area

A big thank you to the  Pontardulais TESCO staff members who along with Christine and new FOCBP member Steph volunteered to help us paint the play area in the park today.

Every Little Helps......And this helps the community in a big way "Thank You" (Liam Chloe and Paul)

2013 Pontardduais and Hendy Carnival

For the third year running we had a stall at the Carnival.

A big thanks to everybody that helped out through out the day.
And thank you to Pontarddulais Partnership for allowing us to use part of their stand.

Pontarddulais Partnership Stall

A busy Carnival field

Young FOTP member Gethin hands us a picture of the park he has made

Gethin's Picture :-)

Wyndsor sorting the paperwork out (Or plotting world domination????)

The first few attempts at pin the tail on the Donkey did not go well

Our Blogger with the printed Blog

                     Filling out the questionnaire

A family letting us know what they would like to see more of in the park

Volunteering in Action Exhibition Swansea Waterfront Museum.

The exhibition, titled Volunteering in action, will take place at Swansea National Waterfront Museum from 15 June – 14 July, before moving to WCVA’s Eisteddfod stand in Denbigh from 3-10 August.
Our image (furthest left) in the exhibition.
There are some great images at this exhibit and I would go as far as to say that I would have hated to be on the judging panel as each image was great in it's own right.

If you are visiting the Waterfront Museum the exhibit is located easily if you walk in from the direction of the Vue cinema, Into the large foyer area take a left past the machinery exhibition up the stairs at the end of the hall way then turn right.

Images at the exhibition.

The original image taken from the 5th November 2011 post

The Painting has begun

On Monday 10th June we were able to start painting the children's play area in the park.
We have to give a big thank you to the three lads that also turned up to help us paint the slide/climbing frame.

So a Big thanks to John Tom And Ryan for their efforts and for making sure we did not miss a bit :-)

And as usual our mob of Cath/Christine/Gaynor/and Jane for making a mess.....Sorry for their superb painting efforts :-)

(Images taken by Christine Thomas)

Gaynor telling Cath to come down because it is the big kids slide not for little girls :-)

Tom John and Ryan showing us how it is done properly.

The finished article

And we have also had some signs placed at the entrance to to play area.

News

A big thank you to the City and County of Swansea for placing signs at Coed Bach road and near the King chippy pointing people towards the park.
A lot of people we talk to say that they did not know there was a park here in Pontarddulais....Now everyone will know :-)

Enjoy a walk and call back for a bite to eat or a pint

We also have news on a little event taking place later this month.
So come on get your running shoes on.