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The Foreshore is the northern shore of the Derwentwater close to Keswick. It boats stunning scenery and unrivalled views of the lake and surrounding mountains. A £1.25 million Heritage Lottery funded project to revive the Foreshore began in 2009. Our evaluation in late 2012 included a literature review, stakeholder interviews, a visitor survey to gather the views of 100 visitors and a stakeholder workshop to assess the quality of the site on completion.
Kerry and Sophia from our team have been out interviewing at Dukes Drives, Salford’s newest country park. Recently we had a stall at the Escape to the City event, now we’re busy speaking to people about what they’d like to see in the area.
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.
Recently two of our team – Becca and Kerry – spent a day at Manchester Art Gallery with our consultation stall for the work we’re doing on the Irwell Sculpture Trail. They had a fantastic spot in the main atrium at the gallery and interviewed over 50 people throughout the day.
The staff at the Manchester Art Gallery were so lovely and helpful – they’d already set up a table and chairs for us, and let us in early to set up ready for the doors to open at 10am.
We brought along the giant map of the Irwell Sculpture Trail and stuck in images of some of the sculptures. And of course, a jar of chocolate eggs always helps and is a nice way to thank people who stop to talk to us.
Find out more about the work we’re doing on the Irwell Sculpture Trail.
We are still carrying out our consultation work for Fix the Fells and have received some more great photos from our team Kate and Ellie who have been climbing the peaks to interview hikers.
Last Friday 24th June they were up Stickle Tarn – that’s 1,500 feet up and pretty chilly! Lots of friendly and cheerful interviewees, which made for a successful day.
On Saturday they headed back up Catbells in drizzle and later drove to Seathwaite Farm in Borrowdale, where they’d been the week before.
And yesterday they went into Coniston and drove up the Old Man track and set up the stall at Miner’s Bridge, interviewing people as they passed. We hear the weather was much nicer than the rain from Saturday, and even the sun came out briefly.
For the last week our fab team – Kate and Ellie – have been up mountains in the Lake District interviewing people for our Fix the Fells work. They have also been in Keswick speaking to people in the town, and have been sending us updates and great photos of what they’ve been up to.
This is undoubtedly our highest consultation ever! And check out the beautiful banner Ellie made for the consultation…
We thought it would be nice to include a few of the reports from Kate and Ellie:
Thursday 16th June 2011
We were heading for the top of Helvellyn this morning but it was pouring with rain, so we headed to the Moot Hall in Keswick. We enjoyed a trickled of interviewees there, but as soon as it brightened up we headed back out up to Catbells where we had a steady flow of people who all thought it was a good idea us being up there. Let’s hope the weather is better than forecast tomorrow! Best wishes, Kate
Saturday 18th June 2011
The cloud was down and the rain light though persistent, but many a hardy walker passed our little base at the entrance to Seathwaite Farm. Nearly all we stopped were happy to chat, despite either being keen to get on with their five-hour hikes or absolutely exhausted after returning from such exertions!
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.
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