Category: Friends of Pittville
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Cheltenham Town Wheelers in Pittville
If you’ve been walking in the far west of Pittville Park near the Prince of Wales Stadium on a Saturday afternoon, you may have come across the Cheltenham Town Wheelers. They run courses there for young cyclists who want to enjoy the thrills and spills of cyclo-cross and mountain biking. I went to find out…
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The front garden at Holst Victorian House
Last Autumn a team of Green Space Volunteers dug out the old garden in front of Holst Victorian House. Some weeks ago Chris Archibald spent a few sessions landscaping and replanting the garden, and now it really looks excellent. Thank you, Chris. Sally Thomas
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This year’s cygnets
It’s always a delight to see the new cygnets on the lake. Five were born this year and at the time of writing they are all alive and well. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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Green Flag and Green Heritage Site Accreditation
Pittville Park is judged biannually for these two internationally recognised awards and this took place on 1 May this year. The Green Flag Award Scheme recognises and rewards well-managed parks, setting a benchmark standard of recreational outdoor spaces. There are 27 criteria on which the park is judged. The Green Heritage Site Accreditation award is…
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April’s executive committee minutes available
Click here to read them
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Uncovering Wartime Memories
Pittville History Works group recently received a query from Mrs Pauline Paucker. At 95 years young, she is in the process of writing a memoir of the wartime evacuation to Cheltenham of her school, King Edward VII High School for Girls in Birmingham. She approached us to see if we could find any information on…
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Green Space Volunteers’ Tool Shed
FoP has applied to the Gold Cup 100 Community Fund for a grant towards purchasing and erecting a tool shed at the back of the aviaries. The tools needed by the Green Space Volunteers for their working parties, every first and third Thursday morning of the month, are brought to the park by the CBC…
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New Native Tree Habitat Board
Many of you will have seen the Wildflower and Lake Habitat boards in the west side of Pittville Park, which inform visitors about some of the biodiversity there. The same team of volunteers are working on a third board with the theme of ‘native trees’ that describes the benefits that this habitat provides. Native trees…
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A New Sensory Garden For Pittville
FoP have obtained a grant of £1000 from the Cheltenham Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Fund 2023, and are contributing a further £1500 from their own funds, to complete phase 1 of a project to turn the six brick planters between the main children’s play area and the aviaries into a sensory garden. The work of clearing…
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Message From The Chair | March 2023
Hello everyone, it is now March, and Christmas and New Year festivities are a distant memory and I am sure we are all starting to look forward to the spring. For those of us who regularly use Pittville Park, those harbingers of spring, crocuses and daffodils, made the most of an unseasonably warm February to…