Volunteers get busy to tidy up community space
A VOLUNTEER group organised a ‘community day’ to clean-up their local green spaces.
Friends of Bamford went litter picking and gardening on Sunday, July 4, as part of a ‘community day’ to tidy up the area around Bamford Green, on Norden Road.
The area, opposite Bamford precinct, belongs to Rochdale Council but the group secured permission to create a woodland walk, community garden and wildflower meadow in the overgrown area in 2019.
Planting in the garden was planned for spring 2020, before the pandemic put the group’s plans on hold.
Volunteers have resumed their work this year to create a widely used community asset for Bamford, including adding fairy houses and ‘Jake the snake’ to the children’s area.
Children are invited to paint stones to add to the snake.
Chair of Friends of Bamford Sue Smith said the event on Sunday was abandoned after rain stopped play, but hopes to return next month.
She said: “We have entered Rochdale in Bloom in the ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ category, which will be judged in early August.
“We organised the community day to invite locals to get involved in garden maintenance and the litter pick but the weather was not brilliant and we had a reduced turnout.
“But we did get some maintenance done and collected some litter before a torrential downpour caused it to be abandoned.”
Sue added that the group plans to hold a community day on the first day of every month, with the next one on Sunday, August 1, 11am-1pm.