Contact Person: Anna Bent (Chairman)
Address: George Street,
Area: Compstall
Town: Stockport
Postcode: SK6 5JD
Email:
Facebook: Friends of Etherow Country Park on Facebook
Welcome from the Friends of Etherow Country Park
‘Friends of Etherow Country Park’ were formed in 2000 and have enjoyed working around this beautiful Park ever since.
Aims of the Friends:
- Conserve the natural assets of the park.
- Create the right conditions for the enhancement of the flora and fauna.
- Encourage personal involvement and promote a friendly social group committed to protecting the local environment.
- Liase with other similar Stockport voluntary groups.
- Provide extra help to the Park Warden when required.
- Apply for available funding to be used solely for Park projects chosen by the group.
When and where we meet:
We meet up in the Etherow Country Park car park at 9.45am each Wednesday and work until 12 noon; drinks and biscuits are then served. There is no pressure to attend every week, we work when it suits us. Everyone over 18 is welcome. Come and join us!!
Agreed activities ‘The Friends of Etherow’ can undertake according to Stockport Council’s insurers:
- Use of non motorised power tools (Shovel, spade, rake, hoe, brush, wheel barrow) for general maintenance tasks
- Use of non motorised power pruning tools (loppers, secateurs, bow saw, shears)
- Litter picking (excluding handling of hypodermic needles)
- Cleaning of signage and other park furniture
- Notice board – maintaining displayed information
- Making bird boxes
- Painting where agreed and subject to COSHH assessment
- Graffiti removal subject to COSHH assessment
- Timber fence and furniture repair
- Minor wall repairs (e.g. dry stone wall) max height 4ft
- Manual digging / excavation to a max depth of 3ft
- Footpath repairs
- Planting (where agreed) of bulbs, shrubs, trees, forbs, etc
- Pruning below shoulder height
- Maintenance of horticultural features (rose beds, shrub beds, planters etc) such as weeding, mulching, feeding and stacking
- Clearing of invasive weeds subjects to agreement e.g. Himalayan Balsam
- Stream clearance subject to separate site specific risk assessment
- Pond maintenance – subject to specific risk assessment
- Working adjacent to any water course / pond within Greenspace
- Staffing of visitors centres, kiosks – subject to service level agreement and appropriate permissions
- Sports coaching subject to appropriate certification and child protection policy
- Volunteer guided nature and wildlife walks
Following Task Leader training and Power Tool training the use of the following power tools have been agreed by Greenspace and Council Insurers:
- Cordless drill, screw driver, disk and belt sander
- Blower, strimmer (nylon line only), Hedge trimmer (including pole)
- Pedestrian mowers (push, walk behind but not ride on)
- Generator (e.g. lighting)
Volunteers after their triumphant campaign to save the toilets at Etherow Country Park
The current contacts are:
Chairman: Anna Bent email:
Secretary: Linda Moore email:
