Keeping our park beautiful for everyone
On Sunday 4th July groups of children from the Little Friends of Roundhay Park planted herbs in the raised beds in the garden, completing the final stage of the new garden The interactive garden provides a fun and relaxed space in which children and adults visiting the park will be able to enjoy and to…
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Construction has started on the Children’s Sensory Garden outside Tropical World. The first stage is the erection of the willow tunnel shown in the picture The interactive garden will aim to provide a fun and relaxed space in which children and adults visiting the park will be able to enjoy and to encourage natural play…
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Sallyanne Corry was asked to come up with a creative plan to involve the community with Winter Rocks theme in the park as part of the festive trail as. this lovely event with FORPShe has created the tree and some painted stones and asks that you all join in and make this work! Just like the…
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Following the highly successful fundraising for the refurbishment of the Lakeside Playground the Little Friends of Roundhay Park turned their attention to the Upper Playground on Soldiers Field which caters for older children. Following another successful fundraising, with contributions from, amongst others, Leeds City Council, Councillor Jacob Goddard, the Coop and Veoila, the sum of…
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The Parks and Countryside Department and Leeds City Council plan to plant 5.8 million trees in the greater Leeds area over the next 25 years and you can help. The trees will be grown into saplings from seeds planted in the Parks and Countryside Arium nursery, the 200,000 sq ft glasshouse just off the A64,…
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Built into the walls surrounding Canal Gardens the shelter has been a feature of the area since the original construction. Last refurbished many years ago the shelter was looking very run down. Funded by FoRP a complete refurbishment of the roof, inside seating and the front panels and mouldings was completed in March this year.
For park lovers who are self isolating or are unable to visit the perk for any reason during the current lock down situation a local resident James Bishop has recorded aa number of videos taken when walking in the park with his dog. You can take a video tour of the park on YouTube. Just…
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On Friday 23rd January year 5 pupils from Gledhow and Talbot Primary Schools opened the trails by solving the clues on Section 1 of” The Secret of Roundhay Castle” trail set up for 6+ children. There is a seperate trail for pre school children “The Magic Fountains of Roundhay” Leaflets containing the clues and maps…
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Some time ago the Friends of Roundhay Park mounted large banners with the headline “Bread is Bad for Ducks” on both sides of Waterloo Lake. About three months ago the banner on the Lakeside Cafe fence was stolen. This was replaced with a new banner in late November. This second banner has now also been…
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