Community Projects



The park ranger service participate in community projects -

Blooming Marvellous, Sunshine Centre digs deep

The Princess Diana Memorial Garden will be flowering in the spring thanks to some special little helpers.  Working alonside Banbury Town Council Park Rangers, Street Wardens and Police Community Support Officers children from the Sunshine Centre, Edmunds Road, braved the weather with a morning of bulb planting that will brighten the entrance to Princess Diana Park.   With their wellington boots firmly on and trowels at the ready the children, all under 5 years of age, dug and planted a succession of daffodil, tulip and hyacinth bulbs in readiness to watch them grow over the coming months.   

This was a wonderful project for the smaller children, they especially enjoyed the digging, but more so the worms!   The children will now wait for the plants to grow.   it is so rewarding when a group such as the Sunshine Centre take ownership of an area that is on their doorstep.  This will be a fantastic explosion of colour when you enter the park.

 

 

School Projects 

 

Hillview School - The rangers visit once a week to help with the running of the after school gardening club - this is an ongoing project and there have been raised planters made for herb beds, raised log edges to all flower borders and also the day to day planting of vegetables, sunflowers and herbs.

 

School Outreach Programs - The rangers attend local schools 1 hour per week over a 3-4 week period to discuss the dangers in the park, what to do and what not to do, and making children aware of the Park Ranger role within the parks.  A visit to the local park is organised to discuss equipment and play, and to encourage the children to design their own park, what they would like to see.  Certificates and prizes are awarded for the most imaginative park!

 

 

Bulb Planting at St Mary's Church


Banbury Town Council’s Park Ranger Service helped parishioners from St Mary’s Church to plant up the churchyard with five hundred bulbs. The planting took place on Sunday 6th December 2009. The bulbs planted included tulips as well some daffodils.

Councillor Colin Clarke, Chairman of the General Services Committee, “We are really pleased to be doing this with St Mary’s Church. It came about because we had some bulbs left over after all of the flower beds in People’s Park had been planted. We decided to ask the Church if they would like to have them planted in the churchyard. The Church were really enthusiastic about this and even wrote to the Banbury Guardian to encourage people to come forward “

St Mary’s churchyard is on one of the main pedestrian and vehicular routes both into and across the town so it is seen by a considerable number of residents and visitors alike. Over the past couple of years the Town Council has been gradually improving the grounds.

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