FriendsOfDunvantPark

🦋Nature walk and butterfly count with Wild about Swansea (Aug 4th only) 🎮@EvolveSwansea youth service bus (Sept 1st only) 🥤Free drinks and ice pops 🍰Cakes, temporary tattoos on sale Keep an eye on our social media for more details ✅

🤹‍♀️Circus Skills with @CircusEruption 🏀 Basketball & Dodgeball with Sport and Health Swansea 🎳 Skipping ropes, balls, giant connect 4, space hoppers, giant chess, bowling and more to play with ⚫️Have a go at bowls with Dunvant Bowls Club

Roll up roll up… for our fabulous series of “Free Play Fridays” 10-1 on August 4th, August 18th and September 1st in the Park Including:

After Saturday’s wash out a few volunteers made the most of the sunny evening to put some woodchip around the orchard trees, to help suppress the grass and weeds, and keep in moisture. Nice to see some apples and pears coming too! @ProjectOrchard

** With the strong gusts and heavy showers we have decided to cancel the volunteer session today unfortunately. Hope to reschedule shortly, watch this space **

🌦️ We are hoping rain will ease in morning so WILL go ahead with volunteer day, but keep eye out for messages. 🌳Please join us 10am (meet top of Park) to help mulch the orchard trees with wood chip. Bring shovel/gardenbags/wheelbarrow if you have one. Many hands make light work!

A big thank you to Evie at Swansea Council nature team for organising, and to parks department for helping with the “cut and collect” management of the meadow. We have a picnic and species ID session coming up soon to find out more, watch this space and join us then

🌸 We are excited to announce that we counted a massive 2842 orchids in the park yesterday! And other species coming through too such as yellow rattle, clover, butter cups, ox eye daisy and more.

Tomorrow at 1pm, come on down in the sunshine and join us to count the beautiful orchids in the meadow area with @SwanseaNature

Watering team out this morning in the sunshine ☀️ Each tree in the community orchard has had a good drink but if you can take a bottle to the park when you’re out and about and give a tree a quick water it would be really helpful. @ProjectOrchard

🌈Thank you to Bright Ideas for helping us add a bit more colour and fun to the park.🌈 Grateful to @moto_services and @poblgroup for the funding

Join us and @SwanseaNature to count the orchids in our beautiful meadow, Tuesday 6th June 1pm

💧As the weather has been so dry, we need a bit of help watering the community orchard. It has been done a couple of times but if anyone is available with a watering can at 9am tomorrow morning (Saturday 3rd June) please meet at the Community Orchard at the top of the park 👍

We’ve put some animal homes around the park today including: 🦔 Hedgehog houses 🐸 Toad abodes 🐝 Bee hotels If you see them please leave them undisturbed. Purchased thanks to our grant from @PettiforTrust.

A big thank you to @WWFCymru for funding our new litter pickers and hoops from @Keep_Wales_Tidy as part of our #EarthHour grant to get more volunteers active in improving the park. More litter picking was one of the requests made by participants at our Pizza in the park event

Apparently it’s #WorldBeeDay ! Here’s a lovely one enjoying a plant in our pollinator area we have put in the park.

Join us at our next meeting 🗓️ Monday 15th May, ⏰7-8pm 📍Gospel Hall, Dunvant Rd

@SwanseaNature @SwanseaCouncil

Thanks also to John and Russel from @RSPBCymru who came along to help us identify suitable positions for our new bird boxes, purchased thanks to a generous grant from local animal charity @PettiforTrust .

What a wonderful morning celebrating #OrchardBlossomDay and joining in with the #CityNatureChallenge2023!