Goodbye 2025 and Hello to an Exciting 2026

Goodbye 2025 and Hello to an Exciting 2026

Well that’s it.

Another year under our belt, another year to come.

Time to reflect on what we’ve achieved, and what’s for the future.

This time we held our AGM down in the park.

Now anyone who works with committees knows it can sometimes be hard to get folk to come along to what sometimes can be a staid or tedious meeting, the legalities of which have to be maintained. So this year we through we’d try something different, the legal side moved through swiftly, we came to our visions for the future, and for once we were talking to a crowd!

In fact so many folk turned up we couldn’t fit them all in our large gazebo.

 

 

We started to run Pop up Plant Sales, the profits of which would go into a separate pot, enabling us to fund a good old fashioned Family Fun Day in summer 2026.

 

 

June was time for a Teddy Bears Picnic, run by Mumma Bee’s cafe with help from the Friends. With the Quangle Wangle Choir to entertain the adults, Teddies and their owners arrived in their droves,

 

 

Throughout the summer we ran a series of free creative taster sessions in the park and gardens,

 

 

thanks to the funding from Weymouth Town Council with their Town of Culture grant.

Folk could try their hand at making pinch pots,

 

 

drawing with charcoal, creating flowers from up cycled fabrics, creative writing.

July was our annual Brass Band in the Park, with Weymouth Concert Brass entertaining their audience with a selection of melodies.

 

 

The Pimms stand was very popular, what better way to spend a hot summer’s day?

October Mumma Bee’s cafe ran their spookily puzzling mystery trail, much loved by the families as they followed the clues around the park and sensory garden.

 

 

December was a busy month for us.

The Christmas market and Carols by Candlelight, which turned out to be a beautiful night, the sensory garden adorned with lights and candles, people of al ages came along to sing with the wonderful Waterfolk Singing Group.

 

 

And our final session of the year?

Jolly Rhyme Time in Mumma Bees cafe.

A new one for us. Would anyone come?

it was a bitterly cold morning.

But come they did, so much so we had to take over the whole deck!

 

 

But it was wonderful watching the little ones and adults enjoying sing songs and listening to Christmas stories.

Other snippets of ongoing jobs.

Weymouth Town Council awarded money to raise our path from the orchard to the cafe and car park, making it more accessible during the wet weather, so far, so good.

Volunteers have been busy sowing wild flower seeds and planting bulbs along it to brighten it during spring and summer and helping wildlife.

 

 

 

We planted a ‘grove’ of willow cuttings at the far end outside of the playpark. You might have noticed our little islands of wood chippings.

 

 

Hopefully in the spring they take off and provide more shelter for wildlife, help with the excess water problem, and provide us with willow to work with in the sensory garden, and who knows, maybe even some weaving classes.

Watch this space.

TADA!

As for 2026, what we have in store?

Loads!

Starting a with a Wassail .

Check out our website and FB page for further details.