October News

Our next monthly meeting will be held on the 29th October at 7.30pm in Pontarddulais Cricket Club.

Our winter work programmes have resumed and we are happy to welcome two new members. Dillwyn and Virginia. Who have put on their gloves stuck on their wellies and are getting stuck into the place :-)
You may have noticed that there are a few new bins around the top football pitch and we have some benches (which we have just painted) that will be placed around the place shortly.
As usual a big thank you to the City and County of Swansea for obtaining these for us.
And we have been busy around the rugby club hard standing area clearing the bushes and trees area to give you a better view of the seasonal pond. And our usual bit of adding chip bark to the pathways to keep things topped up.

New member Virginia (Left) and Christine. (Dillwyn is camera shy.....I Shall get him again :-)

On Sunday 19th Ocotber Teifion held a second Fungi Foray around the park, and once again the park gave up it's little secrets.

Everybody who attended learnt a lot and really enjoyed the event.

But sadly for the cooks among us we came across nothing edible.

 (click on the images to enlarge)

Fungi Foray.

This free event is taking place in the park next week.
It was well attended last year and everybody got to know an awful lot about the parks resident fungi.
So feel free to join us again this year.

Click on poster to enlarge.

Monthly Meeting

Our monthly meeting is at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club on Wednesday 24/9/14 at 7.30pm.

The Fungi Foray will take place on Sunday 19th October at the time of 10.30am-12.30.

And Joy Walker is holding her annual Macmillan Coffee morning this Friday 26th September at her home between 11am and 3pm.

.............................Macmillan Coffee Morning........................................

Joy Walker would like to thank all who supported her Macmillan Coffee Morning we raised a fantastic £600.

Well done Joy from all of us at the FOTP.

News

Monthly meeting on Wednesday 27th August at Pontarddulais Cricket Club as usual everybody is welcome.

You may have noticed that over the last week a plot of waste ground near the rugby club has been cleared to allow people extra space for their cars during times of busy park use.
A big thank you to all concerned with clearing this space.

And we are now an official Fields in trust site. You can find out more by clicking the link below.

http://www.fieldsintrust.org/

QE2 Plaque unveiling.

On Friday 1st of August we had the unveiling ceremony of our QE2 Plaque.

A big Thank You! to everybody that turned up and to Kevin Griffiths Pontarddulais Town Mayor for unveiling it for us, And Rhodri Edwards from the Fields In Trust who said a few words about the Deed of Dedication before the unveiling.

Images By Kyle and Martin Hanson

Meeting+News

We are holding our monthly meeting at Pontarddulais Cricket Club at the usual time of 7.30pm on Wednesday.
All welcome.

John Evans has found a willing volunteer to take over the Treasurer position and he will be introducing Steve to us at the meeting.  Windsor Kay and I have met Steve at the Pontarddulais Partnership meeting we attended and we look forward to working with him.

Joy Walker, our founding Friends Vice Chair is selling a flatbed trailer 36" x 68" with ramp, winch, tool box, jockey wheel and lights. It has two new tyres but the wheels have to be attached to it before it can be taken away. Joy is asking £100 for it - if you are interested or know anyone who might be please give her a ring on 01792 882266.

Adam Mason has sent this link through about the Grow Local courses that are running at Singleton Park Botanical Gardens in case anyone is interested you can book directly using this link.

http://www.growingthefuture.co.uk/en/courses/our-locations/singleton-park-botanical-gardens-

And finally I am so pleased to say that we also have had a donation of a lap top computer - thanks to Robert Morgan.  I will bring this to the meeting and then there can be no excuse for me not doing the notes straight away.

QE2 Award

You may have noticed a rather sculptured piece of wood by the Gwynfryn road entrance to the park.
This is going to be our little monument for the QE2 plaque which will be unveiled on August 2nd at 2pm.

What does this mean for the park? Click on the link below for more information.

http://www.qe2fields.com/

As usual we thank the boy's from the City and County of Swansea for helping us move this quite sizeable object to it's current location.

Images by Kay lloyd.

We hope to see you there on the day to celebrate with us.

Other News.

As you are aware we have a new playing surface on the Tennis courts and we are receiving very good reviews about the way the way it plays. At the same time an old chain fencing was taken down by the car park/bowls green and this has now been replaced with a more up to date fence.

Again thank's to everybody involved in constructing this as the area looks a lot nicer.