At 8:30am this morning, the park looked stunning, especially with beautiful blue skies overhead. All was looking well until a park visitor kindly showed me a satellite weather forecast on her phone predicting a very heavy downpour round about 10am…

Despite a mixture of sunshine and showers today we still had a good turnout of 27 volunteers. Our numbers included 2 new volunteers Jude and Ian for the first time, as well as Spike returning for the second week running. We also welcomed Tony Melody from MCC to work with us on the pot-holed path.

I am delighted to report that after some fantastic work by Phil Birchenall, our Digital Manager, and by James Conibear, who has provided a lot of our new stunning photographs, we have now launched our new FoDP website.

As a result of it being a Bank Holiday today, some of our regular volunteers were missing this morning, but nevertheless we still had a great turnout of 26 volunteers who all worked really hard.

Out came the sun today and so also did a great number of volunteers - in fact 37 in total. Dario, plus sons Alexander and Sebastian, did a thorough litter pick in the park, as did Will who today also reported doing many hours of additional litter picking throughout the week. In addition it was great to see Laurent (our ex Duke of Edinburgh Awards volunteer) back with us once more - especially as he also brought along his Mum, Marie-Claude to volunteer too.

I am pleased to report that despite the 'yellow' weather warning of heavy rain this morning, we still had 19 brave volunteers who turned up ready to do the necessary work to keep the park looking great. We were especially pleased to see Grace returning after illness, and Laurent (one of our original Duke of Edinburgh Awards Volunteers) returning once again today.

Our dedicated volunteers, including people from NatWest, CGA, and Kellogg's, engaged in various park improvement tasks in Didsbury Park this week. From path cleaning and cricket wicket preparation to caring for our wild flower meadow and enhancing the park with plant donations, their enthusiasm never waned.

Despite a number of our regular volunteers being absent because of the Bank Holiday today we still had an amazing turnout of 38 volunteers working throughout a dry and mainly overcast morning in the park…

A busy day for the volunteers at Didsbury Park…