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The Friends of Heaton Moor Park are thrilled to announce there is now a defibrillator in the park. Fund-raising at the Easter Egg Hunt was followed by some electrical engineering by the council over the summer and then the actual ...

Park notes and news September 2025 FOHMP - Gardening in the Park Report - Saturday 20th September 2025 A very productive day……..The netball and long flower beds had a good weedingSigns were straightened and cleaned, including the main sign at ...

Halloween will come to the Park, on Saturday 25th October 2025, 10am-12noon. Games, Spooky Trail, Tombola, Witches Brews and Cakes in the Pavilion! There may be a mummy on the loose... Halloween costumes welcome! See you there! ...

On 22/8/2025, the Knitting Friends in the park celebrated fourteen years of excellent knitting, crochet, sewing. discussion, lunching and hilarity in the park Pavilion. The group meets every Friday, 10.30am, to knit and exchange expertise on their crafts. All are ...

Park notes and news…..August 2025 The stars of the park this month have to be the black eyed Susan……springing up everywhere…..Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan and yellow coneflower, is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It ...

Notes and news June 2025 Parks Festivals in parks "Oasis Heaton Park community funding slammed as ‘pocket money’" The debate about the use of parks for commercial activities rumbles on. Oasis "gigs" will take place on July 11, 12, 16, ...

Yesterday - longest, and possibly the hottest - day of the summer saw the Friends of Heaton Moor Park out in force to tidy up some key areas of the park. Weather was warm and sultry but the group managed ...

Brockwell Park in Lambeth is a large and lovely park set within a hilly landscape, and containing a network of ponds, trees (including ancient oaks), a walled 'Old English' flower garden and wide, open fields.It was originally the private residence ...

Why not visit Heaton Moor Park during the half term break (1st week only for primary children) and participate in the Heatons and Reddish Bee Trail, organised by the Stockport Community Newspaper. The Trail provides a great half-term activity for ...

The wildflower area around two sides of the tennis court now sports an array of bee boxes. These bee boxes will help attract pollinators. They will also serve to protect the metre-wide wildflower area from accidentally being mowed. Although the ...

At the 'Garden in the Park Day' on 17th May, the football field at Heaton Moor Park had a lovely morning of being showered with two tonnes of top dressing! This addition of top dressing is part of the Friends ...

A recent blog provided updated news of national measures against fly-tipping and littering. Some action can be taken locally though! It was delightful to see a large group of Heaton Chapel Brownies litter-picking on a recent sunny evening in the ...