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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!
On Saturday three of the Pathways team – Becca, Kerry and Steve – spent the day in Salford at the ‘Escape from the City’ event with our
consultation stall for the work we are doing on Dukes Drive Country Park.
They had a fantastic spot amongst the trees with a great view of the stage and interviewed over 60 people throughout the day. The event organisers were so friendly and helpful, providing them with a table and chairs and even assisting them with their bunting arranging!
They brought along some colourful flyers about the plans to turn the greenspace into a great Country Park, and of course our scarecrow Sam and some chocolates to thank the people who stopped to chat to us.
The sun had his hat on all day and they had lots of fun listening to the music, munching on chocolate and talking to people about what they would like to see in the area. A great day had by all!
This is how we like to celebrate as a team at Pathways – pick a stonkingly hot afternoon, set out some picnic rugs and parasols in May’s garden, chill some drinks, prepare juicy strawberries and lay out cupcakes from a fabulous local cafe.
We tied up bunting, set out the blankets and made up a few jam jars of flowers picked from the garden.
There were scrumptious cupcakes – including a special cherry bakewell cupcake – from And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon in Disbury, which Charlie set out on vintage plates and decorated with herbs and feverfew from the garden.
We were joined by current and past team members, caught up on what everybody had been up to and what our current projects were, ate cupcakes and strawberries, finished with a tiny glass of bubbly and some facepainting from Isla and Mimi.
If you’re looking for an alternative work party or celebration, or want to have a team meeting with a different, do get in contact with us at hello@pathwaysconsultancy.co.uk or on 0161 273 8235 and we’d be more than delighted to discuss it with you.
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.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of ours, Patrick, moved onto a new job. He had been the receptionist in our building and we were sad to see him go – so we threw him a small leaving tea party in May’s garden.
There were picnic blankets and chairs laid out…
Pots and jam jars of pretty spring flowers and branches of blossom…
Sophia hung bunting from the trees…
Strawberries and cream…
And chocolate cake…
With a mix of vintage plates to eat our strawberries and cake from…
Here’s Patrick digging into his chocolate cake – we are so going to miss him but wish him the best of luck in his new job!
We were also accompanied by two fairy princesses who were face painting those of us who were brave enough!
We are doing a lovely piece of consultation and market research on the Irwell Sculpture Trail.
Soon to be relaunched, the Sculpture Trail runs from Salford Quays up to Bacup – approximately 30 miles along the River Irwell dotted with sculptures.
For our first day we were set up outside Salford Museum and Art Gallery on an incredibly hot day. Our stall, which has been lovingly designed for this piece of consultation, features bunting, pots of spring flowers, and a map of the trail.
We also set up an Easter kids activity on some picnic blankets – making Easter nests from hay and filled with chocolate eggs and a yellow chick.
Over the next couple of weeks we will be out at various locations along the Sculpture Trail to speak to people about the sculptures and find out how people find out about places – especially whether people like the idea of new technologies such as downloadable audio tours and QR codes.
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