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.
Task Day 31 January 2026
Back to work in 2026!
For our first task day of the year we were blessed with good winter weather, and ground conditions perfect for removing self-seeded saplings which were drowning out other species. We did a huge clear up of the beds where snowdrops are in full flower and other bulbs are starting to push through. We also cut back a lot of dead shoots, tidied up the pampas grass and cut back the cat mint on the round bed to allow other plants to thrive later in the year. There's also always lots of other things to do like cleaning graffiti off bins, and removing some rubbish like supermarket trolleys!
