Volunteers Urgently Needed

We have an urgent need for volunteers as follows:

Committee Members (approx 7 meetings per year plus help at festival).
Leaflet delivery (can you deliver 2 leaflets a year to your street).
Festival Stewards (no training required).

If you can help contact chair @ friendsofsellyoakpark.org.uk

Selly Oak Festival - Saturday, 30 June 2012

The Selly Oak Festival

will be held in Selly Oak Park on

Saturday 30 June 2012

10.00 am - 3.00 pm

As well as the usual array of festival stalls there will be

***** a new stage*****

made available to us by

Robert Wilkinson's Fair

which will also be open on the day.

There will be an opportunity for budding artistes to show their skills and entertain visitors at the Festival.  If you, individually, or in a group, are interested in performing then why not contact us now to discuss this opportunity.  Similarly if you want to hold a stall then reserve your space now.

Contact us at:

festival@friendsofsellyoakpark.org.uk

Put the date in your diary.

Don't miss a great fun day and a great opportunity.

Also appearing:
Scooby Sue and Friends
Bloco Louco (Samba Band)
Fireworks Cheerleading Squad
The Falconry Centre Team
Circus characters
Knights Bouncy Castle

The New Work is looking well!

Development work in the park is drawing to a close.

The new paths are complete:

            

Compare these views with earlier ones (click this link). 

A new bench has been installed:

Gates have been hung at the entrance by the Lodge in Gibbins Road:

New bollards have been fitted at the Harborne Lane entrance:

The trip rails along Gibbins Road are nearing completion.
We are waiting for new notice boards and an interpretation board for the Oak stump.

Thanks to the Park keeper and the maintenance staff, the park is looking fine:

Birmingham Heritage Forum

The Friends of Selly Oak Park have joined the Birmingham Heritage Forum. 

See:  www.birminghamheritage.org.uk/sellyoakpark.html

The Forum is a consortium of prestigious heritage sites in and around Birmingham and it has kindly accepted the Park on the grounds of its historical interest - being i) the first park in the area of the former Kings Norton and Northfield Urban District Council opened in 1899, and ii) the last resting place of the stump of the famous Selly Oak oak tree, and having iii) a Nature, Art and Heritage Trail, and iv) a detailed account of its history.

Beside all of that, the park is an attractive place in a busy part of the city to while away an hour in an open, airy green space - a lunch hour or a relaxing hour after work.

What a difference a year makes!

    

 February 2011            February 2012

It may cost £500 to repair this damage!

Please if you see such acts of vandalism taking place phone 454 7810 immediately.

Work has started

Despite the frosty and snowy weather work has started on the creation of new paths in the Park.  Additions are being made to the footpath network so that eventually there will be a circular walk right round the park.  Some of the old (1899) pathways which are little used now, and have fallen into disrepair, are to be filled in and grass seeded.

     

      

There will be other developments in the Park in the next few weeks - watch this space for further reports ......................

PS   Spring is on the way - honest! - the crocusses are pushing their way through the ground and just beginning to show their colour.

Paganel School Visit The Park

A group of Year 6 children from Paganel School visited the park recently to follow the Nature Trail and complete the quiz. They were inspired to come after listening to a local history talk which included mention of the Old Oak Tree whose stump now resides in the park (part of the trail). They were also looking for inspritation for their own Nature Trail at school. You can read all about their trip here.

ps. Our own version of the quiz is now up to date.