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Over the next couple of weeks Steve and Kerry from our team will be out in Dunwood Park in Oldham helping the Friends of group to interview visitors. As a follow up to the user survey we completed last winter, we are completing additional days during the summer to see if different types of people use the park, or for different reasons.
We are also collecting spotting data to see who is coming into the park, what they are doing, and how many people we see. Steve, our Research Team Leader, is out with volunteers from the Friends of Dunwood Park to mentor and support them as they embark on the interviewing.
As part of this work we have created a questionnaire and a spotting data form, and designed an information leaflet to give out to anyone we speak to.
In the winter of 2010 Pathways undertook a User Survey of Dunwood Park in Oldham. It was lovely to discover recently that a copy of the User Survey we wrote is on the Oldham Council website for people to download.
Our team interviewed over 200 people in and around the park, finding out what they did and didn’t like about it, and how they currently they use it.
Dunwood Park has a small children’s play area, a bowling green and Pavilion, facilities for playing tennis, and some lovely woodland. Oldham Parks and Countryside Service along with the Friends of Dunwood Park were awarded £1.09 million from the Big Lottery and Heritage Lottery Fund for the renovation of the park.
The Pathways team carried out interviews in Dunwood Park, on the streets nearby, going door-to-door, and at a local church fete. We also ran a mini Spaceshaper event in the snow to gather more in-depth interviews.
Have a read of the Dunwood Park User Survey that was designed by our friends at Countryscape.
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