00:00Yeah it's perfect, so if you could just introduce yourself and your position with the Friends of
00:05Revel Park in Blackpool. Hi I'm Beverly Peacock, I'm chairperson of the Friends of Revel Park group
00:12in Blackpool and we've been going since about April. Yeah yeah perfect, what was the initial
00:22inspiration behind starting the group and your connection to the park? I'm a local person,
00:29I only live around the corner so I fetch my grandchildren and minded children down to the
00:35park. My issues were mainly dog fouling, litter, broken bottles which were a main concern in the
00:47play area. I used to have to go in every day with a carrier bag and pick it up and put it in the
00:53bins and I complained to the council a lot about it and decided that instead of keep complaining
01:00and not a lot getting done, I have to take action which is why I started to set up the Friends group.
01:09Yeah, what are the main things that the Friends group want to address in the park?
01:15Litter, the play equipment needs, looking at and fixing, we want to open up the community garden
01:25more and get that more friendly for people to come in and get involved in growing their own
01:35vegetables and helping tidy it up really. Yeah, you talked about the community hut
01:45where you have your meetings for the group, how often do you have the meetings and what
01:49are you hoping to accomplish with the hut? We've just held a meeting in the community hut,
01:55we've only just got the keys for it so it was a quick go in and brush off all the cobwebs and
02:01hold the meeting that day. The first one was last Friday I think it was,
02:08our next meeting is the 21st of November. It was a place for us, we want to open it up and
02:17serve refreshments in the park, get coffees and teas for people that are coming,
02:24a place that people can sit and meet and talk and perhaps find out the information that they
02:30may need to know. That's not going to happen straight away obviously because we need to do
02:37the hut up. So where can people find the group? We have a Facebook page, Revel Park Friends Group
02:50and Friends of Revel Park. The Revel Park Friends Group is the open page, the other one
02:57unfortunately I made private and which is a bit harder to find I think.
03:05So you've got you know what you want to do with the park and the group and stuff like that,
03:11what do you need in terms of groups to join the group and funding and stuff?
03:16We need support from the local community, more people to become involved in volunteering,
03:28doesn't have to be a lot of volunteering, an hour a week, an hour a month, anything that can help
03:37and painters, decorators to help do the hut up. Ideas of what people want in the park,
03:47what they want to see, what they want out in the bigger park. I don't know what else.
04:00So you said you were hoping to do some stuff for the school?
04:04Yes, I want to get the school, there's a couple of local nurseries as well around here,
04:11there's one at the football ground and one a little bit further down that I would like to
04:16get involved. Get them going in the community garden and have their own little plots so they
04:25can grow vegetables or plants or whatever you want to. So you want it to be like a community?
04:33It is a community garden and it's a lovely park that can be made much better if everybody got
04:44involved. Yeah, I think that's good. Brilliant. Good, because I'm sorry, I talk a lot with...
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