News
10th June 2009
Bollin Valley Partnership Countryside Taster Day
The Bollin Valley Partnership held its annual 'countryside taster day' for people with disabilities at Riverside Park Macclesfield. The event was as popular as ever, attracting over 500 people from all over the Bollin valley area. The day brightened up as the visitors started arriving. The mayor of Macclesfield attended the event and joined in the fun trying out circus skills and holding a tarantula!
Activities on offer included archery, pony and trap rides, pond dipping, badge making, crafts and face painting. It was a brilliant day with everyone enjoying themselves and some groups have even asked to be put on next year’s waiting list.
The day could not happen without the many volunteers who organise and run most of the activities. This year we had help from Beech Hall School, who ran a few activities including face painting and beat the goalie; New Century Bowmen ran archery sessions; Prospects ran a coconut shy, and Lower Moss Wood nature reserve brought along native birds and hedgehogs for the children to see and touch.
The event was sponsored by Bollington Insurance, the William Dean Trust, Costain, Macclesfield Lions and Cheshire East council.
We will run the event next year, sponsorship permitting, and any offers of help either to run an activity or to volunteer their time would be very gratefully received.
3 June 2009
Footpath Improvements at Macclesfield Riverside Park
With the help of twenty one volunteers from Manchester Airport an old flight of steps has been replaced and extended. The new steps greatly improve the accessibility to Sycamore Wood in Macclesfield Riverside Park.
The work would have been a large project for the rangers to have undertaken themselves but the extra hands made light work of the task. This has been the fourth year in a row that Manchester Airport has carried out one of its team building days working with Bollin Valley Partnership which shows the benefits to both organisations of such a day.
November 2008
Bollin Valley Way Revamp on Schedule.
Assisted by a £38,500 grant from the environmental body WREN earlier this year, the Bollin Valley Partnership is now close to completing phase one of the planned improvements to the Bollin Valley Way.
After negotiations with landowners along the stretch of the footpath between Riverside Park in Macclesfield and Wilmslow Park, all the stiles have been replaced with kissing gates making access to the route much easier for everyone, particularly families with small children and the less able bodied.
A school competition was held to find ideas for designs on the signposts for the route, and the 6 winning designs have been routed onto fingerposts which are now at every junction along the footpath.
Earthworks are near to completion, with resurfacing work at Bridge Green in Prestbury, and the Prestbury Sewage works area, making walking along the Bollin Valley Way even more enjoyable.
A launch event to mark the completion of the project is planned for early 2009.