Want to volunteer in our New Community Cafe? Sign up today!
We are very excited to announce that the long-awaited Cafe at Hardie Park will be opening this month! Our project is entirely run by volunteers and we are looking for people who would like to offer some of their time to working in the cafe on a regular basis. You can...
Secured £8,000 funding for a new Trim Trail in park! You can help make it £12,000!
We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded £8,000 funding from Tesco! We are one of the three regional projects that has been supported. But you can help add 50% to this amount! Tesco has teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help initiative in...
Water, Plumbing, Cladding, Decking, Balustrade…it’s all happening
We've had a really productive couple of weeks with the water finally being connected, which meant that we could crack on with some plumbing. The decking is also nearing completion with the installation today of half of the decorative balustrade....it will need...
Jan 18th! We hear the sound of rushing water!? Well in a week 🙂
Simon, Shane and I managed to complete a bit more of the decking and as you can see it is looking rather splendid (even if we do say so ourselves)...the other big news is that Essex & Suffolk Water have begun to dig to lay the supply pipe in Hardie Road. We are...
Some amazing aerial photos of the park!
As we were working on the decking on Saturday (16th Jan) a friend of ours, Dave Edgley of Smartline Electrical was flying his new Christmas toy, a state of the art drone over the park and taking some photos and video. He sent them to us and we have to say we are...
Skatepark works scheduled for 4 weeks time!
Well, the day has finally arrived that we can announce the news that the NEW SKATEPARK IS GOING AHEAD IN 4 WEEKS! This project was conceived toward the end of 2011, with original designs and plans beggining in 2012, which just goes to prove, YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP...
2016 – Our biggest year yet…
Maybe you’ve heard it once or twice already but Happy New Year… We really do hope that 2016 is a great year for you. I know that for some 2015 has been both good and bad, life seems to have a way of lifting us high then throwing us down again, but hey, that’s life…as...
Blog update: Cooperation not Competition
A slightly meaningful slant on things tonight me thinks... Recently I have begun to notice a certain competition creeping into the language and practice of some very well meaning volunteers in our town and even in our own project. Â It seems strange to me that altruism...
Project Update 11th August 2015
Did you see what I did there? I dropped the daily bit! Well four straight days was pretty good going I reckon, but now I'm only going to write the blog when something significant has happened. (Mandie, aka Mrs G., never said 'daily' anyway she just said "You must...
Daily update 9th August 2015
Another scorcher of a day. Today we played host to a local church congregation called Fresh Hope Community who meet at Victoria Road Chapel. Â They met together for a barbecue, so we put up a few shelters, lit the barbie and had a splendid afternoon. It was great to...