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In this issue... Welcome...................................................... 2 John Pye...................................................... 3 Park update / forest fun............................. 4 Advisory Group........................................... 5 Bridges / Knight cover story....................... 6 Linkage café and charity shop................. 7 Linkage College.......................................... 8 Bandstand.................................................... 10 City of Lincoln Council............................... 12 Volunteers in the park................................ 14 Fundraising / events................................... 16 Children’s page.......................................... 17 Heritage story.............................................. 18 Rob’s retirement................................... 19 Working hard on transforming the park at ground level are: Claire Eldred Project Manager Caroline Wallis Community Development Worker caroline.wallis@linkage.org.uk 07436 539936 Neville Coupland Project Assistant neville.coupland@linkage.org.uk 07834 335669 Barbara Moulson Fundraising Manager fundraising@linkage.org.uk 01790 752499 boulthampark.co.uk twitter.com/BoulthamPark facebook.com/BoulthamPark Super Special Volunteer Shout Out A huge thank you goes out to Trudi Hayes. Trudi was the designer of the Beacon 3, while she was working for Linkage, which was heralded as a swish success by all. She generously volunteered to offer her design services to the park cause and created this 4th edition. Trudi also set her skills onto the park’s new welcome boards which will be installed later this year. She always gives fine attention to detail which makes a fantastic end product. www.trudihayes.co.uk. Caroline’s Community Corner H ello, everyone! I’m Caroline, your new Community Development Worker. I joined the Project in December and can’t believe six months have gone by already! My first event was the Big Tidy Up litter pick in January and I was overwhelmed by the support it received from local residents. What struck me most about spending time in and around the park is what a strong, positive community Boultham is and how much the park is used and valued. It’s an absolute pleasure to be helping Linkage and the City of Lincoln Council, the project’s partners, to restore and revive this historic community space and I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming months. In this bumper issue, we’ll be focusing on the restoration and return of the bandstand. I was fortunate enough to visit the Lost Art workshops in Wigan and meet the talented craftsmen behind its transformation. More about that on the centrefold. We’ll also be speaking to colleagues from Linkage and the City of Lincoln Council about their aspirations for the park now that the building works are nearing completion. Plus, as always, we have information about our fundraising efforts, our upcoming events, news from our volunteers, and some fun for the kids towards the back. We’d also love to hear from you if you have any comments on how to improve the Beacon or ideas for future stories. Wishing you all a safe and sunny summer! 2 www.boulthampark.co.uk
Changes and permanencies Some things change, and some things never change. So, in this column, I will be looking at the changes that I’ve seen and felt since the last Boultham Park Beacon came out. From what was felt as disharmony and disquiet has now evolved into harmony. There was a long time of apparently nothing happening, much talking and the publicity of intentions for the Park. Well, you can’t say that nothing’s happening any more, can you? Massive changes have happened already, now that Casey and their machines are all over the place working. Some things are coming down and some things going up. It’s a well-known fact that people don’t like change. So the partnership of the City of Lincoln Council and Linkage made available their intended plans through public meetings and promotions. Everything that is now happening is the actualisation of those plans, as the people that actually attended the meetings well know. As always, when thoughts are turned into actions it can be a bit of a shock, which I can’t deny I felt, also. However, what I believe to be most important is that the ‘Spirit of Boultham Park’ remains - that is the permanency. That is what many people do not notice, not necessarily through their own fault, but with the speed and stress of living in the so called modern world and the modern way of living. www.boulthampark.co.uk I’m past my sell by date and those who know me know that I prefer the old ways which are much more relaxed, slower and less complicated. So it’s relatively easy for me to switch off and be wrapped in the spirit of Boultham Park and know that in fact all is well. The spirit of Boultham Park is alive and well. If in doubt? Try just sitting quietly when not many are about or by the lake, especially on a moon and star-lit night. Close your eyes and relax your racing mind and become still, both inwardly and outwardly, and you will feel it. Maybe only fleeting glimpses at first, but subtly, almost indiscernibly. If you do it often you will become part of it and it part of you. The spirit of Boultham Park is alive and well as it has always been. Beats paying money for the various relaxation and stress release classes that seem to be thriving with an ever-increasing demand. The best things in life are free. John Pye Chair of the Boultham Park Advisory Group 3
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