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Daily Record
04-08-2025
- Health
- Daily Record
The Conservation Volunteers group in £9158 funding boost from North Lanarkshire's Grant Award Programme
Every Tuesday and Thursday, residents are invited to join Green Gym and Wild Ways Well sessions in the North Lanarkshire area of the Seven Lochs Wetland Park. Nearly £10,000 of funding will allow more people to "get active in a new programme that uses the power of nature to improve physical and mental wellbeing". Every Tuesday and Thursday, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) invite residents to join their Green Gym and Wild Ways Well sessions in the North Lanarkshire area of the Seven Lochs Wetland Park. These free, inclusive sessions offer a chance to improve your wellbeing while connecting with nature. Download the Lanarkshire Live app today The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now. Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7. The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you. Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android And thanks to £9158 of funding from North Lanarkshire's Grant Award Programme, the group is going from strength to strength. The sessions are designed to support both physical and mental health. Green Gym participants engage in light conservation work to stay active and learn new skills, while Wild Ways Well walks through nature offer a gentle, social way to reduce stress and boost confidence and include a chance for a hot drink and a chat. Existing volunteers and walkers are enthusiastic about the experience. "Being out here with the trees has made me feel so much better than I did yesterday,' says John from North Lanarkshire. "I feel so calm after coming out with the group." Elisabeth, one of the other volunteers, added: "I feel better because I know I am helping wildlife in my local area." Green Gym runs on Tuesdays from 11am to 1pm, with activities including path maintenance, access improvements, tree planting and orchard care. Wild Ways Well meets on Thursdays from 10am to 12pm for low-intensity walks, wildlife watching, and friendly conversation. No commitment is required - just come along when you can. And did you know Lanarkshire Live had its own app? Download yours for free here.
BBC News
13-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Volunteers want to restore York park to glory
Regular users of a vandalism-hit city park have said they want to return it to its former Friends of Hull Road Park in York have formed the group with the aim of gaining the international benchmark Green Flag status for the park after a period of of the group said money needed to be invested in the council-owned site, with the beck and children's play area of particular the Labour-run council has recommended that £500,000 should be spent on parks across the city, including Hull Road, in the next financial year. Andrew Mortimer, the chair of the Friends, said: 'We think there's a role here to use the Friends group as a liaison between the councillors, the owners of the park and the local community."There are areas of the park that we would like to see some money spent on."He said the children's playground had become "unusable" in muddy conditions and that path repairs and more benches were needed. Another group member, David Alexander, established a petition calling for improvements to the beck in the park last said: "Nobody likes what we've got."We had a good ecosystem here in the beck, with hundreds of ducks and swans, but there's practically nothing here now."It's upsetting. Everybody just wants the beck back to what it used to be."Members of The Conservation Volunteers (TVC) have been working in the park since 2017 and volunteer Rachel Earnshaw said the group had undertaken litter picks, gardening tasks and food growing projects."We've just got a National Lottery grant, and we're doing youth projects and activities to engage children, to make them feel like they belong here so they're less likely to vandalise the park."So all these little things that we try and do to improve the the space and help the community." Mr Mortimer said the Friends would work with TCV and the council to "promote and develop the park" and secure funding for projects not related to conservation, such as the play of York Council's executive member for safer communities, Michael Pavlovic, said: "There is a great deal of positive action taking place and the establishing of the Friends of Hull Road Park means that by working constructively with ward councillors and with the council, there is much more that can be achieved to help improve the park for local residents."Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
