Fantastic…All the Planets Aligned. Radipole Sensory Garden April 2025
Radipole Sensory Garden We knew it would be a big day for Radipole Park & Gardens. Judgement day for whether we'd all done enough to achieve a Green Flag for our beautiful green space, one of the objectives of our Lottery award. Tom, Weymouth Town Council's resident gardener, and his colleagues, had worked so hard to reach this stage. We'd mustered the FORPAG troops, put in our order for nice weather, it was a case of fingers and toes crossed. Not knowing who, when, how many judges would arrive, every passerby was eyed with possible interest. Finally a man with a clip board wandered into the sensory garden, taking great...
Exciting News…Finally!…Our Grand Opening Day Arrives; Saturday 10th August 2024
Nearly nine years in the making. Just about every curve ball imaginable thrown at us. Despite all these hurdles, the roller coaster ride from hell, and horrendous weather that plagued and flooded us out which broke all records, we've made it....
Finally!…Elated for Our Grand Celebration Event; August Radipole Park 2024
Grand Celebration Event August 2024 What can we say. Throughout this project weather, or rather bad weather, has played a major role Site flooded, or mud swamped at times. Unable to start sensory garden due to water sitting in excavated and waiting beds. First celebration event cancelled due to high winds and torrential rain. Final Lottery site visit undertaken in horrendous rain. Well here we are again, Celebratory event rearranged, order put in for good weather, we're ready to rock and roll. Saturday 10th August between 11am and 2pm you'll find us busy showing people around, pointing them in various directions of activities, the usual speeches and ribbon cutting. Lots for families to...
Monumental start…Up and Running for Business.
It was a soft opening that Friday morning, people had been told the fencing was down, so we waited with bated breath to see if anyone showed up, and boy did they!...
New Play Area and Kiosk; Excited…Nearing Completion! February 2024
There’s lots to update everyone on at Radipole Park and Gardens! The Kiosk building and decking area is now really taking shape and is due for completion at the end of February, this will include a catering kiosk, selling snacks and drinks with a raised decking and seating area as well as three permanent toilets....
Exciting Times; Rising from the Ground; November 2023 Lottery Updates
Have to say our Lottery project in Radipole Park & Gardens has been a real test of patience and optimism. We have battled, covid, price hikes, value engineering, resubmission to Lottery panel...
Satisfying…Community Working Together…Radipole Park Update August 2023
Community Working Together. Nothing like getting out there and getting your hands dirty first thing in the morning to make you feel alive. We met at nine to give our Radipole community orchard trees a bit of a spruce up....
Exciting Moment…A Tour of the Site; Radipole Play Park August 2023
It is quite fascinating to watch and be a part of this process as part of the Lottery Submission, our journey through to achieving the award, and of course, somewhat turbulent path towards the project's completion....
Gone But not Forgotten… Memories and Music. July 2023
Memories and music. What does that have to do with our weekly park project updates? Well, during the musical interval, so many folk visited our Heritage tent and spoke to us of their own memories of the park....
Sadness; The End of an Era…But…New Exciting Times to Look Forwards To. 2023
As my old mum would say, you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. Such is the case now....
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