Friends of Pollok Country Park
A friends group for Glasgow's largest park
The next work party will be on Monday 10th February meeting at 1.30 at Knowehead Cottage ( next to the Burrell Gallery ). We will be meeting up with the Hedgehog officer of The Conservation Volunteers and we will be planting hedges that hedgehogs like.
Please come and join us and don’t forget to bring work gloves and wear old clothes.
All over 18s welcome
The meeting which will be hosted by Glasgow Life will include a presentation lasting up to 45 minutes followed by up to 30 minutes for questions.
If you’re unable to attend but would like to find out more, please email Glasgow Life at PollokCountryParkTransformation@glasgowlife.org.uk.
The next Friends’ work party will be on Monday 3rd February meeting at 1.30pm at Knowehead Lodge just next to the Burrell gallery. We will be planting trees continuing with our efforts to build a hedge to shelter hedgehogs along the edges of the woods. We will also be doing a litter pick in the woods near the Burrell car park. Please join us and don’t forget to bring work gloves. All over 18s welcome !
Tree planting is on the agenda for our work party on Monday 27th January. Meeting place is Knowehead Lodge just beside the Burrell Gallery at 1.30pm. All over 18s are welcome to join us. Please wear old clothes and bring work gloves. Hope you can make it !
The next work party will be on Monday 20th January meeting at 1.30pm at Knowehead Lodge just next to the Burrell Gallery. Tree planting is on the agenda so please wear old clothes and bring work gloves. Hope to see some new faces then !
The Transforming Pollok Country Park project team have today written to previous consultation attendees about a further consultation event, ahead of the start of the formal planning process.
We thought it’d be helpful to share the details we received. We’ve also setup this Facebook event if you’d like reminders.
Email received reads:
Following previous consultation events, Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life would like to invite you to a public meeting on the access proposals being developed for Pollok Country Park, as part of the Transforming Pollok Country Park project.
The purpose of this meeting is to share the proposals, summarise recent changes in response to feedback from previous consultations, and outline current progress ahead of a formal planning submission later in February 2020.
Transforming Pollok Country Park Public Meeting
Tuesday 4 February, 6.30–7.45pm at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, Pollokshaws Road, G43 1NE
The meeting will include a presentation lasting up to 45 minutes followed by up to 30 minutes for questions.
We hope you can join us. If you’re unable to attend but would like to find out more, please email us at PollokCountryParkTransformation@glasgowlife.org.uk.
Kind regards,
The Transforming Pollok Country Park Project Team
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Please note:
We’re pleased to let you know that the first edition of a Friends of Pollok Country park newsletter is available for download here.
It covers details about benches, stands we’ve been at, the work parties in the park, and the various other activities and work we’ve been involved with in the park.
Many thanks to Alan Melville and everybody who contributed to this first edition!
Got a New Year resolution to do good things? Well we have the answer. Our Friends’ work party restarts on Monday coming 13th January. Meet at the Wildlife garden- near the crane yard and public toilets at the Stable Block- at 1.30pm. Please wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and bring gardening gloves. Look forward to seeing you then!
Please note that the AGM of the Friends of Pollok Country Park will take place on Wednesday 15th January 2020 @6.30 pm in the back bar of the Ivory Hotel at 2 Camphill Ave. near the Battlefield monument. Agenda as below. All welcome.
(please buy a drink when you arrive as we do not pay for the room hire)
Annual General Meeting – Wednesday 15th January 2020
AGENDA
1 ) Welcome /Introductions
2 ) Membership
3 ) Fundraising
4) Accounts
5 ) Annual Report
6 ) Update on Stable Block
7 ) Update on the Renaissance of the Burrell
8 ) Election of Office bearers
9 ) AOCB
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to everyone who loves Pollok park.
Also please keep the date of 15January 2020 free. Our AGM will be held then Wednesday 15th January at 6.30 in the bar of the Ivory Hotel 2Battlefield Ave. We hope to see you there and hear what you have to say. The agenda will be posted nearer the time.