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 Day 12 July 2025
Heat Wave in the Park!
The extremely high temperatures on Saturday meant we had to be particularly careful with all our wonderful volunteers to make sure we stayed hydrated and well. We put in special measures so that everybody took a break after every 30 minutes and we had plenty of water on hand. Understandably many volunteers preferred not to be out in the heat. A small number of us managed to cover off some important jobs including, not surprisingly, doing some watering, particularly of those flowers in pots. We were only able to do a limited amount of weeding and tidying up, which will become increasingly important as the weeks go on. However we were able to litter pick as always, carry on our programme of treating benches and we made a little bit more progress with the new boules court surround.
