A blog of Friends of Wollaton Park volunteering activities in Wollaton Hall.
Walled Garden Donation
Read more: Walled Garden DonationThe Walled garden team would like to thank the Wollaton Rotary Club for their incredible £700 donation. This will go towards the new sensory garden, which we will be developing over the next year.
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Walled Garden Open Days
Read more: Walled Garden Open DaysWalled garden Open Weekend Sat 30 Sept. and Sunday 1 Oct.There will be tours on both days every half hour between 11 am and 3.30 pm.Tours will be £5.00 and will start by the 508 flagpole where we will have a gazebo.Tours will end at the Cucumber House where there will be a shop in…
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Roof Repairs
Read more: Roof RepairsThe city council has now secured £469,992 from Arts Council England’s Museum, Estate and Repair Fund for a programme of repairs on Wollaton Hall.
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AGM
Read more: AGMThe AGM of Friends of Wollaton Park will be on 12th September.
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Lilian Greenwood MP Visits Wollaton Park
Read more: Lilian Greenwood MP Visits Wollaton ParkThe Rt. Hon. Lilian Greenwood, MP for Nottingham South, paid a visit to Wollaton Park to meet with the Friends of Wollaton Park and the Park staff. Lilian took a look around the formal garden and learnt about how it is maintained as a collaboration between Friends of Wollaton Park, Volunteers and Park employees. As…
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Sandpiper
Read more: SandpiperA rare sighting of a Sandpiper in the lake.
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Wellbeing Wildlife Walk
Read more: Wellbeing Wildlife WalkJoin a Park Ranger on 25th August for a Wellbeing Wildlife Walk around Wollaton Hall and Deer Park to get active and spot the signs of summer.
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Natural History Museum Revamp
Read more: Natural History Museum RevampThe Natural History Museum will be refurbished…
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10th Anniversary
Read more: 10th AnniversaryIn July Friends of Wollaton Park hosted a reception for members in the Camellia House to celebrate the 10th Anniversary since FoWP started.
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Formal Garden Flower Beds
Read more: Formal Garden Flower BedsThe Formal Garden flower beds are looking spectacular this year. Mostly planted by volunteers under the guidance of Wollaton Park Staff. A least we’ve not had to worry about watering this year! The formal garden is laid out in a symmetrical pattern, with geometric-shaped flower beds, lawns, a rockery, statuary, and topiary. There is also…
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Green Flag Award
Read more: Green Flag AwardWollaton Park receives the 2023 Green Flag Award and Green Heritage Accreditation. This national award by Keep Britain Tidy recognises & rewards the best parks & green spaces in the country. A full list of winners can be found on the Keep Britain Tidy website. The story is reported in the local press:
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Orienteering News
Read more: Orienteering NewsThe Orienteering Course in Wollaton Park was found to be in disrepair. Friends of Wollaton Park teamed up with 124th Nottingham Scouts to survey the markers, identify the missing ones, and asses markers in need of repair. Nine markers have now been replaced, and several others repaired. If you use the course, and find markers…
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Summer Volunteer Sessions
Read more: Summer Volunteer SessionsWork alongside the park rangers to help improve Wollaton Hall and Park, by helping out with the following tasks.
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Dead Hedge
Read more: Dead HedgeA part of Digby Woods is used by the park staff as a compost pile, collecting brash from around the park as part of general maintenance. Once fully rotted, the compost is used in places such as the Long Border in the Formal Garden and the Walled Garden. To prevent the compost pile from spreading…
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Many Hands…
Read more: Many Hands…A fantastic turnout for this Wednesday’s gardening session, with over 40 volunteers to prepare the formal flower beds for the summer. The regular volunteers were joined by corporate teams from Experian, Capital One and Freeths. Tasks included clearing the winter bedding plants, ready for summer bedding, preparing the flower beds, and starting the summer planting…
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“We couldn’t believe the fun we had for free at Wollaton Hall”
Read more: “We couldn’t believe the fun we had for free at Wollaton Hall”Read the Nottingham Post Article on Wollaton Park: With the cost of living on the rise, many people are looking for great ways to entertain their kids without breaking the bank – and one Nottingham venue seems to be offering just that. Wollaton Halland Deer Park attracts visitors from not only across Nottingham – but the…
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Green Blobs
Read more: Green BlobsHave you seen the green, pebble-like blobs in the lake? Kitty, a Volunteer Park Ranger describes it as “Ophrydium versatile”, a colonial freshwater organism. To form the balls they group together and live in symbiotic association with “chlorella” (green algae), where they both benefit from the interaction. The algae photosynthesise and share some of the…
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Wollaton Arts Festival
Read more: Wollaton Arts FestivalThe Wollaton Arts Festival comes to Wollaton Park on Sunday, July 9th. See the Wollaton Arts Festival website for more details.
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Top Picnic Spot
Read more: Top Picnic SpotWollaton Park ranked 4th in the UK’s list of top Picnic spots by You Magazine. These are the UK’s most popular picnic spots.
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Dead Fence
Read more: Dead FenceA new conservation task has been scheduled for Saturday, June 24.We plan to create a “Dead Fence” to partition the area on Digby Avenue used by park staff to put brash to rot down into compost for the gardens. Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can have sufficient tools available.
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Dawn Chorus
Read more: Dawn ChorusWollaton Park opened at 4:30 m on Sunday May 7th, for the RSPB International Dawn Chorus Day A sample of the sounds (credit Colin Robbins): Local resident Wendy McDonald reported hearing the following birds – all before breakfast in the cafe at 7am. Many thanks to the Park staff for rising early to open up…
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Leave Wollaton Park Deer Alone
Read more: Leave Wollaton Park Deer AloneA concerned Nottinghamshire Live reader has voiced fears about people getting too close to deer at Wollaton Park.
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Scheduled Conservation Tasks
Read more: Scheduled Conservation TasksThere are no scheduled dates for Saturday conservation tasks during the summer. The programme should recommence in the autumn. We may run ad-hoc tasks if the opportunity arises, they will be announced here and on Facebook. Thank you to everyone that has supported us thus far, and look forward to reconvening in the autumn.
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The Old Rose Garden
Read more: The Old Rose GardenThere are old photographs of the formal garden showing an area to the side of the Camellia house full of roses. As the trees grew the area became unsuitable for roses, and the plants slowly deteriorated and most were removed many years ago. Friends of Wollaton Park planted the box hedges several years ago, and…
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