Author: carpstar

Last Saturday morning 25th April the group met for a Spring spruce up of the Sensory Garden. We had, prior to this, been approached by Jeanette Hindle representing a group of geocachers offering help and support on the day.

By 9.30 am we had 50 willing helpers who made short work of all the tasks we had set for ourselves, on top of this a great of litter was picked from a large area.

We would like to express our gratitude to Jeanette and all the group for their diligence and hard work and look forward to meeting again when we start our 2015 balsam bashing crusade.

We have arranged a fund raising event for the 6th of May at Chorley Cricket Club at 7.30 pm. Any funds raised,mainly, go towards the cost of our public liability insurance needed for our works within the Park

We have been lucky in persuading Elaine Taylor MA to come and talk to us on “Care of the Park” Elaine is a Garden Historian and has spoken to the group previously.

Tickets are £3.50 including tea and biscuits,all are welcome to come along to what promises to be a very informative and entertaining talk.

Please contact Keith Woan on k.woan192@btinternet.com

This booklet was published a few years ago due to the hard work and research conducted by Rosemary Boyd who has been a Friends committee member since our inception.There are many aspects and fascinating information which may be unknown even to regular visitors to the Park.We hope it is of interest.

I am sure you will join with us to thank Rosemary for producing this gem.

Please click on individual pages to expand for ease of reading.

Pauline Taylor has emailed this event,it is short notice but come along if you can,thanks.

Our next Members meeting and AGM will be held at the Town Hall on April 22nd at 6.30 pm

Details of pruning course on 28th February in the Walled Garden

Groundwork Lancashire West and Wigan in conjunction with Chorley Council and United Utilities have arranged river walks along the Chor in the Park.All are welcome to come along.For details please click the link below.

LOVE MY RIVER – THE CHOR

Great turnout for the river clearing this morning,thanks to all who came along.The weather was very kind to us and the signs of Spring were pleasing to see.Also very gratifying is the positive comments made by many walkers regarding our efforts.

The FoAP website has been somewhat neglected over the past two years,we are committed to add the relevant information required to bring visitors to the site up to date with the group’s activities and achievements during this time and to add details of up coming events and project developments.This will be completed over the next few weeks.