Plans to open up Bolehills Park Pavilion, Sheffield, outlined at Friends of Bolehills Park event

Plans to open up Bolehills Park Pavilion, Crookes, Sheffield, outlined at Friends of Bolehills Park event

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00:00Hidden away in Bullhills Park Sheffield is a pavilion and park users have a plan

00:05to open it up for the public to use it more often than it's currently used.

00:13So as part of getting the group restarted we thought we'd do what we call a work

00:17day but we've also called it a community day because the idea is that people come

00:21along and give a hand physically clearing stuff and kind of you know

00:26making paths more accessible but also we've got refreshments on sorry available

00:32so that people can just come along and have a chat. Would you like to see the

00:36pavilion used more and what can be done for that to happen? Yes it'd be amazing I

00:40mean the council you know although it's difficult to replace what was the old

00:44pavilion but we've done an amazing job in the facilities that we've now got so

00:48what we're trying to do is open up more regularly try to get people to see that

00:53we can hire it for all sorts of events there are more and more community groups

00:57using it already but Friends of the Bullhills ideally we'd like to have it

01:01open more regularly maybe you know weekend mornings to offer coffees, teas,

01:07biscuits, cakes that kind of thing but we can only do it if there are enough

01:11members of the group so we'd love to have more people getting involved.

01:19The new pavilion came after Sheffield Council and Bullhills Bowling Club obtained funding for it

01:25from Sports UK. The Bowling Club's been here for since I think 90 years probably the

01:36history of the club and during Covid just before Covid the pavilion got

01:41burnt down it was originally a wooden pavilion which then caused big problems

01:47as we couldn't play matches here. We then put in for a grant with Sports UK

01:55who funded the money together with the council and we were able to build the

02:00pavilion you can see over my shoulder. Volunteers from Friends of Bullhills are

02:06also getting involved in maintenance of the park as you can see here. Okay so we're

02:13trying to get the Friends of the Bullhills group up and running again

02:16partly to help with the environment of the park so for example behind me we're

02:21clearing a staircase that you can probably see which is a very historic

02:26staircase we aren't sure of the origin but it's a real thoroughfare from

02:30Bullhill Road up to the Bullhills and it gets very overgrown so we just want to

02:37make it more open so more people can access the park.