Author: scoutroadpark

  • Autumn Maintenance Day

    We’re planning our next park maintenance day on the afternoon of Sunday 16th November 2025. As well as some general tidying, we’re hoping to get some more bulbs in under the trees next to the playground area, and build a little path through them. Come along and lend a hand, and maybe pick up a…

  • Bin Design Competition!

    We set the children at Scout Road Academy a challenge – to create a design for the bins at the park so we can give them a bit of a facelift with a fresh lick of paint. We had loads of entries, from across the year groups, and put them to the vote! The top…

  • Apple Day 4 October 2025

    Fingers crossed for Storm Amy being gentle with us, but we are hoping to run an ‘apple day’ on Saturday 4th October from 11am – 2pm. Drop in and help harvest the apples. We’ll have an apple press and be doing some juicing, so bring a bottle!

  • End of Summer Tidy-up

    We had a really productive session at the end of August and cleared out all the weeds under the fruit bushes at the north of the site. We also finished off the path out behind the pond – should be ready for the season of rain and mud now!

  • First Maintenance Day

    It’d been a while, so we summoned the troops and got an awful lot done! The site of the old pavilion was cleared… We planted bulbs under the trees by the entrance on the south side: The end of the wall was cleared, and repairs started: The biggest change was the path round the pond…