Friends of St George's Park Meeting 7pm Friday 2nd October at the Youth House Bromsgrove St, Kidderminster DY10 1PF all welcome
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Friends of St George's Park Meeting 7pm Friday 2nd October at the Youth House Bromsgrove St, Kidderminster DY10 1PF all welcome
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When approaching Kidderminster by road you will become aware of brown road signs with an elephant image emblazoned upon them pointing the way the fabulous West Midlands Safari Park near the bottom of Bewdley Hill. Your journey may well take you on the town's inner ring road past St George's Park and on toward a strange landscape of exotic beasts and steam trains to the west of the town. In size our own park is a mere fraction of the Safari Park but we do have a diversity of fauna and flora living on the very edge of the town centre. St George's Park is part of a wildlife corridor that has brought foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, common shrews, song thrushes, kestrels, bullfinches plus many other birds and animals as described in our wildlife officer Gehardt's reports on our Park Wildlife pages above. The LEAP team had a work party in the park earlier which gave an opportunity to show off our chutney on the one hand and our plastic menagerie on the other. Obviously most travellers continue a couple of miles up the road to the real West Midlands Safari Park - and who could blame them http://www.wmsp.co.uk However, in St George's Park work parties occasionally discover plastic animals under hedges and in other unexpected locations and are collecting them, although we have recently rehomed a clown fish. Click on pictures to enlarge Whilst we are not suggesting that you ask the coach driver to divert to St George's Park, we're just not sure whether you'll get any chutney at the Safari Park - and you would be ill advised to attempt to pick your own soft fruit there. Not so St George's Park where the LEAP team continue to work to provide the locality with free food which is our exclusive offer. There is also a chance to meditate while walking the labyrinth at absolutely no cost at all. The picture to the left is of LEAP team members sharing an early evening picnic with members of Kidderminster Transition Town Food Group in the park yesterday. The Transition group have a growing project on the other side of Kidderminster and also organise gleaning and sometimes foraging as part of Kidderminster Free Food Network. http://transitionkidderminster.org.uk More about the Three Sisters Bed and other developments in the Let's Eat the Park project will be appearing on the LEAP Blog next week. Look out for the updates and photos on the blog. In the meantime here a few images taken in the park today at the beginning of Autumn:- TOOLS AND GLOVES LOANED - FREE REFRESHMENTS - MEET AT SHELTER 10 AM - ALL WELCOME!
The Friends group have divided into two parts this weekend. In St George's Park there will be a LEAP work party as normal beginning at 10am on Saturday morning with all of the usual facilities including gloves, tools, hi-viz vests and refreshments available. For good company and a great sense of satisfaction at making the park more edible, more attractive and more of a local resource - you are formally invited to join our growing group of volunteers for community gardening and participation. The other event on Saturday is the Green Fair at the Boar's Head Worcester Street Kidderminster (as shown above). Come and visit the Friends of St George's Park stall and catch up with all the exciting developments in LEAP now and in the future. There will be samples of chutney made by LEAP teamster Nicky from fruits gathered by her and Spike from the chutney hedge (see picture below) which has now reached maturity. The chutney hedge planted in collaboration with children from St George's School in November 2011 was the first step in making St George's Park more edible. Another chutney hedge was planted by the children in 2012 and Friends of Baxter Gardens Park our sister LEAP site park. From that early initiative we have developed Let's Eat the Park encompassing all available public green spaces in Horsefair and which has recently had further funding from the Health Lottery, Peoples Health Trust and local CCG plus several generous donations from both County and District councillors for which the Friends Group are most grateful. We are also gratified that our work has been recognised and rewarded in this way both nationally and locally. The harvest includes Elder, Dog Rose, Hazel, Crab Apple and Blackthorn all edible and provided by The Woodland Trust. Come along to the Green Fair and see for yourself what the LEAP team have been doing to address food stress in the locality. There will also be a damson conserve, again one of the species of trees planted in the Park as part of LEAP Let's Eat the Park and which will increasingly become available FREE as the new trees mature and fruit.
So there's two dates for your diary tomorrow - 10am meet at the shelter for a LEAP work party in St George's Park 12 noon - the Green Fair at the Boar's Head - hope to see you at one or both of these events. Join us to make a difference in the Horsefair/Greenhill areas of Kidderminster, volunteer and get a bit of wellbeing at your own pace. Like everything we do all is FREE so you can leave your purse at home, you won't need it at any LEAP event. LEAP - community engagement money really can't buy! Friends of St George's Park will be holding our monthly meeting this Friday 4th of September from 7pm. Venue is the Talbot Room at Kidderminster Youth House in Bromsgrove Street DY10 1PF - access from side door in the car park off Lion St.
We are grateful for their support and invite you to find out more about the work they do via their website : http://kdyt.org.uk/ See the new video on the LEAP page here https://youtu.be/g6Y72a0leyU
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