WELCOME

The friends have spent many hours putting together this website so please take the time to browse the site. The web site tries through photos to show the true beauty, history and complexity of the Park There are also links to other sites. If you have any comments please e mail.

On the left hand menu there are sub menus which are revealed when you hold and click your mouse arrow over them.

NEWS

Just added new page showing pictures of tree clearing

Meeting dates for 2012;

28 January, 17th March,28th April,May 7^th; June 25^th; Sept 10^th; Oct22nd; Dec 3^rd. All will take place  at 11.00 Holloway Hall Northfield B31 1TT.

Tree felling

The friends had avery sucessful tree felling. 

^{Litter pick planned for march 2012. meet 0900 ley hill car park.}

Contractors finish the new works on the old lake see the picture pages on this site

Litter Pick Nov 12 th was a  great success. 1/2 a tonne removed. well done everyone.

BULB planting 4,000 planted nov 2010. including help from ley hill school yr 4.

Nest box building. 14 nest boxes put up in 2011.

At the bottom the Park near the Meadowbrook there is now a  cycle pathway. We can now see the Brook for the first time in years.
At the top of the Park Graham Jones the woodcarver has carved a wonderful head and animals into 120-year-old fallen down cedar tree. The true beauty of the carving has to be seen to be believed. What a talented guy Graham is. If you have the opportunity to be in the Park when Graham is carving please go and talk to him he is such an interesting guy and welcomes the opportunity to explain his work.

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This spring and summer the friends have planned, thanks to the help of local councillors who have raised funds for us:
The purchase and  planting of  native English hedgerow species.
Putting a number of nesting boxes into trees.
Cutting back over vigourous undergrowth.
Then in the autumn we will be planting bulbs, and hopefully involving local schoolchildren.

There have been many very sucessful litter picks.Usually two a year.These have been  a great success the whole park, is scavenged including the brook. Well done to all those that turned out.

The first two litter picks in 2007 only covered a 1/4 of the park in 4 hrs and completely filled the lorry. There was so much rubbish to remove. Now we can cover the whole park in 2hrs.

In recent times it was great to see a class of Ley Hilll School children helping us with the litter picks and bulb plantings. Well done to you all.

Over 50 bags of rubbish are removed on each pick.

The first formal  meeting of the Friends took place at the Holloway Hall, November 29th 2008 at 11.00.