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Lunchtime play at Brookburn Primary School, Chorlton won’t be the same again! Children now have an amazing natural playground to enjoy – there are great climbing trees, lots of natural building materials, a dry stream bed, edible hedge, willow tepees and a mud kitchen. The ‘Den’ was designed by May Molteno and built by a really hardworking team of parent volunteers who were led and trained by Andrew Sheridan. The Den is already loved by the kids and staff.
A wonderful festival to celebrate the parks 100th birthday and its official reopening after a major programme of restoration funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Oldham Council. The sun shone and over 2500 people packed the park to seek out gorillas and boggarts; be thrilled by tight rope walkers and puppeteers; go home with painted faces and wearing willow crowns and enjoy a one man band, a traditional brass band and the evening finale by Biggles Band!
Back during the winter of 2009 – 2010 the Pathways team led on the consultation as part of the Lakes to Dales Landscape Designation Project on behalf of Natural England. The project looked at whether certain areas between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks should be designated as National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
We worked with Countryscape to lead the consultation, which involved setting up and delivering a number of drop-in events across the counties. The photos you see here are taken at some of those meetings that we held, all in spite of the heavy snow the fell during this winter.
Recently it has been announced that officials from Natural England have approved extensions. If confirmed by the Secretary of State, it will see the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales National Park expand to encompass another 162 square miles.
This extension would see the inclusion of parts of the Orton Fells, the northern Howgill Fells, Wild Boar Fell and Mallerstang to the north, and to the west, Barbon, Middleton, Casterton and Leck Fells, the River Lune and part of Firbank Fell and other fells to the west of the river.
Two of our team – Steve and Becca – spent last Friday at Wicksteed Park, interviewing teachers who’d come with their students to celebrate Bastille Day. Here are a few photos from their day…
Steve and Becca were asking teachers about how often and why they their school comes to Wicksteed Park, and what activities they might like to do in the future. We were also keen to find out if there were any barriers to visiting.
This day was the final part of the consultation we’re doing at Wicksteed Park – back in June we went for a whole week, when we had a colourful stall.
We are currently in the process of typing up all the results from the questionnaires and analysing the data.
If you’d like to know more about the work we’re doing for Wicksteed Park on their HLF Activity Plan please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us.
Our lovely colleagues Steve and Becca recently spent a week at Wicksteed Park in Northamptonshire, interviewing people about what they’d like to see going on in the park.
Here are some photos Steve took of the stall, which was designed specifically for this piece of work. We used our new stripey sun tent, a blackboard sign, an easel displaying ideas for activities, and bunting made by printing images onto fabric.
Last week, Steve from our team spent the week at Wicksteed Park in Northamptonshire, speaking to people about what they would to see going on in the park.
We set up a colourful stall including yellow tablecloths, lots of images, blackboards and jars of chocolate eggs. It was completed with our lovely new striped sun shade.
Find out more about the work we’re doing for the Wicksteed Park Heritage Lottery Fund Activity Plan.
Our office is undergoing a bit of a Spring clean and tidy up, and in doing so we have been looking through some of the tools we’ve created for previous work.
We came across the giant jigsaw puzzle we created for the Great Wyre Jigsaw Project – we love it so much we’ve pinned it to our office wall! The jigsaw is made from cork and was designed to be taken out onto a stall as a tool to engage with people.
Members of the public could write their likes and dislikes on flags then stick them into it.
The Great Wyre Jigsaw Project was a consultation process that we designed and delivered for Wyre Borough Council. Our team gathered the views of 2,336 people, finding out what residents felt about living in Wyre and their ideas for improving the quality of life in the area.
It was one of the largest community consultations ever carried out in Wyre and the results were written up into six accessible reports designed by our colleagues at Countryscape.
If you’d like to find out more about our consultation or engagement work, or have a project you’d like to discuss, please email us at hello@pathwaysconsultancy.co.uk.
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