September Meeting

Please note the Monthly meeting of the Friends of Coed Bach Park will be at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club  this Thursday 26th September 2013 starting 7.30pm All welcome.

Also this Sunday Children's tennis sessions are starting at 3pm-4pm £2 per session at Coed Bach 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

Minutes of the last meeting/This week

The minutes of the last meeting have been sent via email if you did not receive a copy you can request a copy by sending us an email to:- friendsofcoedbach@gmail.com and a reminder that we have our monthly meeting on Thursday  7.30 in the Pontarddulais Cricket Club where we will have our usual lively discussion on the following items.

 

Park Survey - Vyv Chair will report back on the meeting with Helen Grey Countryside Connections Officer Nature Conservation Team, City & Cunty of Swansea and Gareth Davies Community Development Officer Keep Wales Tidy/Environment Wales.

 

Discuss having a stall at the Buck Inn Pontlliw Easter Craft Fayre on Wednesday March 28th from 5pm till 9pm.

 

Discuss having a stall at Pontarddulais Carnival to be held on the last Saturday in June the theme  60 Glorious Years to mark the Diamond Jubilee. 

 

Discuss the Free Training Opportunities

1) Events in the Park Training Day 5th March 9.30 - 4.00pm 

2) Emergency First Aid on 26th March

3) Lantra Hedge Laying 30th March

4) Strimmer Training on 21st April

 

Updates on Chat and Chop Sessions in the Park, which are all reported on the Blog thanks to Martin..

 

All this is advance notice of our first Annual General Meeting which we will need to hold in April and perhaps a celebration of the group having been going for one whole year. 

 

How quick the time has past!

 

all the best

 

Chris

Friday 27th January News

Today Gareth Davies a Community Development Officer  and Helen Grey a Countryside Connections Officer came to the park to meet us and to discuss us putting in for a grant  for the Ecology Survey which needs to be done before we can start work tidying up the old Boating Lake.
Five members of FOTP turned up to meet them and to guide them around the park.


As FOTP members we showed them the lie of the land and what our long term plans for the park and woodland areas were. And we are pleased to say that we have their support and will be working very closely with them in the future, as there is a lot of GRANT money out there and they can help guide us in the right direction to obtain some.

                              WILDLIFE NEWS


While on our walk around the park we noticed that 2 mallard ducks have made the lake their home which is great news and we also observed that a blue tit was using one of the newly installed bird boxes by the swings. Unfortunately we could not obtain any images of these events as my camera lens was not long enough for me to keep a good distance from them and not disturb the birds. 

Pointing out the park boundaries.

Win (left) Gareth (middle) Viv (right)

Viv explaining to Gareth that the car park was once part of the lake.

Helen joins in the discussion.

Another bright glorious morning around the 2nd woods.

Standing at the lake edge. (NOT HAVING A PEE!)

The lake.

November Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 24th November at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club.
Remember the start time is at 7.30.
Hope to see you all there.

Tree Planting 19/11/2011

The Friends have now received a pack of 105 All Year Round Colour Bare Root Tree tock from the Woodland Trust as part of the Trust's Jubile Woods Project. We will be planting them in the Park this weekend, starting on Saturday morning at 10.30. The Location is just below the football field. We hope that by creating a boundary hedge between the Park and the Old Railway Line we can help to minimise the environmental impact should the Pontarddulais By Pass Road be given the 'go ahead' in the next few years. All are welcome to join in the planting session.For more details please contact Chris the Secretary on 07890416892.

Update

We have some good news, the gorse is cleared and the lads have rotervated the soil so we can now go ahead and plant the Bee Friendly Plants we had from the Keep Wales Tidy Grant money.   So if anyone is free Saturday morning from 10.30, weather permiiting of course, we can go ahead and get these plants in.   

 

Our next monthly meeting is going to be in two weeks time on Thursday 24th November ! doesn't time fly.

 

Hope to see you Saturday and even if you can't make it but know someone who is interested in what we are doing tell them to come along and make themselves known because our next project is planting the 105 hedging trees that arrived today from the Woodland Trust including one "Royal Jubilee Oak Tree" from Her Majesty's forest. 

 

So all volunteers will be most welcome.

5th November Chat and Chop

Seeing as we have had a nice couple of weekends to get some work done. The Friends took the opportunity to spend a few hours in the park on saturday 5th november  clearing away some more of the nettles.

The gang have a few moments of fun showing off some of our new litter pickers.

We do stop (only for a few moments) for a cuppa but then we carry on

We also managed to plant a few flowers in the traffic island (Thanks to a donation from maragret)  but there was also a football match going on so the pics will follow later.