Roseburn Primary School’s bulb-planting efforts on 29 November will add to the ever increasing number of flowers in the park. Thanks to all the students involved, the school staff and headteacher, and also to John, John, Jan, Emma, Val, Hamish & Jane for digging the holes.
The Fun Day generated about £900 despite the high winds so thanks for everyone who came along and joined-in. Also, it takes LOTS of volunteers to put it on so special thanks to:
Michael, Gregor, Ann, Jennifer, Angela, Jackie, Jean, Alette, Diane, Andrew, Richard, Duncan, Georgia, May, Graham, Lorna, Don, Ivana, Martin, Carolanne, Stuart, Georgia, Denise, Marie, Aino, Ann-Marie, Anu, Emily, Julia, Patricia, John, Blair, Andy, Saskia, Kristi, Ruby, Emilia, Alix, Julie. (We are REALLY sorry if we missed you out – please tell us).
Member of FoRP? Please volunteer next time – it really needs this many people.
Thanks, too, to everyone who donated bric-a-brac and prizes, and to the business and organisations that are essential to making it happen:
FoRP thanks the Community Payback Team, the JASS pupils from Roseburn Primary School, and other volunteers for this great improvement to the park entrance.
Friends of Roseburn Park are proposing to seek funding for a clock in the park. Here is OneFootSquare’s latest feasibility study: 1043-FRP-Clock[1]
Artist’s impression of park clock
The Roseburn Park Fun Day is back. Tell everyone. Here is the flyer with all the amazing things that will be happening:
Following the AGM on 18 June 2013 the first post-AGM board meeting on 5 July 2013, FoRP has a new constitution, board members and office-bearers. These can be seen in the Management Info page.
Congratulations to Valerie Forbes on being elected our Chair. And we welcome Pete Gregson and Jim Gibb to the board, both major contributors to last year’s Fun Day.
The new ForP Board would like to extend thanks and best wishes to Jackie Szpera and Don Wilkie as they step down. Jackie has been, and continues to be, instrumental in the construction of a history of the park, and Don’s work produced major improvements including the well-used table-tennis table. He will continue to manage our major project to refurbish the community shelter in the park.
Pete Gregson writes:
See this film- two minutes in, as a mob of WW2 Wardens try to cross the Water of Leith at Riversdale on their bikes, to get their vital message to the Armoury:
http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=1396&search_term=Roseburn
.. and you can see the Wardens actually getting there, 17 minutes later in the film, as the reports arrive at the Armoury.
See within, the ladies behind hatches taking secret messages – in what I can only imagine is the wall near the Cricket Club’s tea urn.
Photographs: Philip Gregson
The FoRP accounts to be approved at the AGM on 18 June, for the financial year ending 30 June 2013, can be examined in the FoRP Management information pages of this website.
