Welcome from Friends of Marple Memorial Park
"Friends of Memorial Park" are a group of local people whose aim is to provide opportunities for community members to improve and promote the use, awareness and care of facilities within Marple Memorial Park in order to make the park a welcoming, safe and enjoyable environment for all. To better understand our aims and objectives take a look at our Constitution. To discover more about our recent activities browse our minutes of meetings and Task Day galleries and to learn more about our projects and successes, use the links at the top of this page. If you'd like to get involved and support our efforts in any way please come along to one of our task days or meetings, or get in touch using the contact details on this site.
Task Days 1 & 2 August 2025
Boules Court Refurbishment
During recent task days we've been refurbishing the boules court on the park. The wooden boundaries have been rotting away and although some of the top layers were in good condition, when we dug down we found the layers underneath were pretty much all in need of replacement. We have been making some good progress on ordinary task days but we decided to make a bigger effort to finish it all off. Four of us worked on both a Friday and a Saturday recently to complete the job. Thanks especially to these volunteers and to those who helped in the earlier sessions during task days. We’ll now work in consultation with the boules players to make the surface within the boards best for playing – and let’s hope for more summer weather to come, to allow boule/petanque to be played!
