Happy New Year!
Apart from the regular meetings, workdays and one-off events we're close to knowing
if we'll have the grant for the play regeneration scheme – will report more at the next meeting.
In addition, our application for the Green Flag Community Award goes in before the end of January. FoHP Meetings, 7.30pm, Royal Exchange, Ty Mawr Rd 11 January; 7 March; 4 April (AGM); 2 May; 11 July; 5 September; 7 November Workday days
The only event I have with a confirmed date yet is 15 January, Sunday Walk off Christmas (below). Voluntary help needed, Sunday 26 February 2012
Time: 1–4pm (meet up in car park @12.45–1pm)
All welcome (including members and non-members) but children must be accompanied by an adult. Voluntary workday. All welcome. Meet in car park 12.45-1pm. Work yet to be decided. Feel free to join in at anytime during the afternoon and you don’t need to stay for the whole time. Even if you can’t help out, come along, say hello anyway, and may be find out more about Friends of Hailey Park. Please come along - your help is much appreciated. Free tools and refreshments. Tel. Penny 07836 532258 or get in touch via our contact form. |
Previous events
Let’s Go Batty on Hailey Park
Event was a success. More info about bats can be found here. Also, why not download the 'Discover the Dark Side' booklet HERE from BBC Breathing Places.
The new gazebo
Friends of Hailey Park now have a new gazebo. We can now use this for events on the park and away from the park promoting our group.
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We now have a new interpretation board that will give people an idea of the range of wildlife we have on the park in certain areas.
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Previous Sunday Volunteer Activities
Below are photographs of
previous volunteer events. We tend to meet up in the car
park in Rady Road.
Free refreshments and all tools provided. You need to wear suitable clothing and sturdy shoes/boots.
Children are always welcome as long as they're accompanied by an adult. Tel. 07836 532258 for info about any voluntary work on Hailey Park.
Free refreshments and all tools provided. You need to wear suitable clothing and sturdy shoes/boots.
Children are always welcome as long as they're accompanied by an adult. Tel. 07836 532258 for info about any voluntary work on Hailey Park.
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May's volunteers painting and tidying up the underpass area near Bridge Road.
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Our regular volunteer days
 During the autumn, winter and early spring we do lots of scrub clearing. This is such an important task and something we that we always need lots of voluntary help for. By clearing invasive plants like the willow and hard cutting back of the buddleia more plants will grow thus increasing biodiversity - and its not just more plants but more insects like butterflies or bees.
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Tools and refreshments are provided (free). Everyone is welcome (children need to be accompanied by an adult) – we don't bite!
Our regular volunteer days are one Sunday afternoon a month – keep an eye out though on notice boards or this website for dates and times of these and some of the other ad hoc voluntary work events led by us or other groups on the park. |
Help make your locality a better place to live
 | Hailey Park Code of Conduct
Along most of the main paths in the park
you will now see posts with public notices on them - these highlight the
need to follow a code of conduct through this busy part of the park.
The full code of conduct can be found in Welsh and English on both
notice boards on the park and is found below in pdf form (Welsh and English).
The most important thing is to remember that the paths through Hailey Park are for everyone and this tends to make travel through the park slower than other parts of the Taff Trail. Please respect all users. 
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Recent Sunday voluntary events
Painting - in preparation for a Green Penant award we're hoping to win in the future so we need to make sure the entrance to the park off Ty Mawr Road is looking its best. Many thanks to those who came along to help - it was hard work but good fun as well, helped along by copious refreshments from Sylvia.
To find out all about the sort of voluntary work we do on the park CLICK HERE to go to 'Voluntary work on the park' - the two pictures below are also from other previous tasks.
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