Memorial Park

Climate Action & Me – A Community Workshop

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2024 Volunteer Christmas Celebration!

Celebrating the festive season and our volunteers!

On Tuesday 17th December, PROSPECTS held a volunteer celebration at Accrington Cricket Club. Any volunteers who helped out in 2024 were welcome to attend.

We celebrated with sausage rolls, chocolate, and mince pies! (All with vegan options available)

Our Outdoor Learning Officer Sonja worked hard to construct a PROSPECTS quiz for everyone to take part in. Our Brookside Restoration Officer Alice was our quizmaster, she got everyone involved and working together to figure out the tricky questions such as locating where snowy photos of Hyndburn were taken and estimating volunteer sessions statistics like “how many trees were planted in 2024?” (it was 4487!)

Thank you again to all the hard work our volunteers put in to improve our local green spaces and promote sustainability across Hyndburn, you inspire us everyday.

Here’s to another year of environmental action!

Volunteers also got free brews at the bar.
Our Treasurer getting in the festive spirit!
Quiz!
Our Volunteers at the bar!
Digging into the buffet!

Picnic in the Park 2024

On Sunday 18th August the extremely well received ‘Picnic in the Park 2024’ was held at Memorial Park, Great Harwood!

The event was a joint effort between The PROSPECTS Foundation, The Friends of Memorial Park (FOMP), Proffitts CIC, and Hyndburn Borough Council.

Attendees enjoyed a lovely afternoon’s picnic on the freshly mown grass, with food provided by Brie Mine, La Bella Mozzarella, Mrs Dowsons, and D.C. Coffee

While everyone tucked into their picnic, they also enjoyed a delightful performance from J.R. Frozen and a nostalgic tribute from Stacksteads Brass Band. Mary Speight also offered some artful face painting for festival goers to get into the mood!

It wasn’t all picnics and performances though! Attendees also explored the park, with FOMP setting up a family-fun treasure hunt with a special prize draw at the end, PROSPECTS set up a ‘taster forest school’ activity and a bug hunting session at Snowdrop Corner.

The weather held wonderfully all day for us, with there being only a few minutes of worrying rain, but afterwards it was sunshine all around!

Thank you to everyone who attended the event, your presence made the day as wonderful as it was!

Thank you to our partners who helped organise the event with us

 

First Memorial Park Session

On Wednesday 15th November we had the first Memorial Park volunteering session! Volunteers used hand tools to cut back and fell Rhododendron and Cherry Laurel shrubs to improve the biodiversity value of Roundwood! The team made a tremendous start! Around 6 shrubs were cleared with the arisings being moved closer to the road for later collection.

Now that the initial ‘break in’ has been completed more of the woodland has been opened up for future sessions, making it easier for more of the non-native shrubs to be removed.

Rhododendrons put a type of poison in the ground which eliminates other plants thereby reducing competition, promoting it’s own growth. Cherry Laurel produces a fruit which while toxic to humans, is edible for some birds, meaning they can spread easily around the neighbouring sites via seed dispersal.

PROSPECTS would like to thank everyone who attended the first session! Your work is greatly appreciated and we look forward to seeing you in future sessions, full details are available on our events calendar, or to find out more email brandon.cherry@prospectsfoundation.org.uk

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