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.

Outdoor Exercise Equipment update: 14 October 2023

We are sure many of you will be wondering what's happening with our outdoor exercise equipment project. Installation should have been completed a couple of weeks ago but unfortunately the Mag Bells unit was installed incorrectly. Thankfully we spotted this before tarmacking and work was stopped for investigations. The Mag Bells unit has now been removed and gone off-site for refurbishment. We understand it is due to return soon and then the final stages of the works can be completed and everything will be ready to use.

Exercise Equipment Update 14 October 2023

Outdoor Exercise Equipment Project

We've been waiting a long time to unveil our Outdoor Exercise Equipment Project in Marple Memorial Park, and we've been raising money for a long time too.

We recently asked the community for their thoughts on our options and have taken everything onboard in choosing our final scheme.

We're pleased to advise that orders totalling almost £33,000 were placed on our behalf by the council!

COVID Flag Pole Memorial in Marple Memorial Park

In October 2023 Friends of Marple Memorial Park completed a COVID Commemoration Project with Stockport Council to create a permanent memorial in the park to remember those we have lost and to celebrate the way the Marple Community came together to help one another during the pandemic.

COVID Flag Pole Memorial

One of the things in the park we associate most with the pandemic is the flag pole where we flew the NHS flags to thank key workers. Our proposal developed from this and the fact that the flag-pole was nearing the end of its life. Our aim was to combine a new flag-pole with the integration of a small monument with commemorative plaque built in front of it.

We shared our plans and sought feedback on the idea from the local community throughout the project's development and were supported by the Marple Mutual Aid Group too.

Marple Community Hub Consultation

Response from Friends of Marple Memorial Park

This page presents the history of previous consultations and exchanges between Friends of the Park and the council on the Marple Community Hub scheme going back as far as January 2019. It also includes a brief update on recent developments followed by our full comments on the scheme as presented for consultation on 4 September 2023.

We finish with a round-up of suggestions of how you may wish to support us in your own personal responses to the consultation.

We hope you can take the time to read and understand everything we are saying but there are a couple of quick-link shortcuts for those of you with less time.

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Friends of Memorial Park's 50-50 Club latest Draw Winners

The latest draw of the Friends of Marple Memorial Park 50-50 Club has been made and the lucky winners announced.

To date £10,692 has been awarded in prizes and a similar amount allocated to Park Funds, so this is a great way to support the volunteers who look after our wonderful park.

Subscribe before the end of the month!

There is still time to subscribe before the next draw deadline at the end of the month, so please read more about how you can support the Friends of the Park and be in with a chance to win a cash prize each month too!

Friends of Marple Memorial Park