PURE Community Projects
Park Wardens
The Park Wardens project began in November 2001 in partnership with Stockport Council's Community Services.
Pure’s Park Wardens are service users who have volunteered to work in the parks. They attend a number of parks, and are assigned tasks by the Park Rangers and work closely with the council’s Parks and Recreation teams, undertaking tasks including cultivating land, hoeing, weeding and pruning, clearing litter, painting, laying paths, park upkeep and reporting any incidents to the Park Rangers.
We currently work in three parks in Stockport on a weekly basis – Vernon, Bruntwood and Etherow Country Park, one of the most popular parks in Europe attracting over 300,000 visitors a year and Queen’s Park in Middleton. This particular project together with the café we manage were instrumental in Etherow Country Park receiving the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM) Open Space Management Award within the first year of operation.
At each of the parks, they contributed to the work undertaken to achieve Green Flag Award status. The Green Flag Award is the national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales and is a means of recognising and rewarding the best green spaces in the country.
