About Friends of Eaton Park

Friends of Eaton Park, formed in 2005, is non-profit-making. It works with local residents, user groups, Norwich City Council, and other groups to protect and enhance the environment of Eaton Park, to promote use of the park, and help make it accessible to everyone. Our events include walks (10 am on Fridays for 45 minutes - meet top car park), conservation and planting days, open meetings and other occasional events (apart from those organised by Norwich City Council or other groups of course). Meetings are held on the last Thursday of the month. Minutes of meetings are here. The Annual General Meeting is in November. All are welcome but only members can vote.

How you can help:
You can join Friends of Eaton Park by completing this form or contact us by ringing 01603 451015 or by email. Your annual subscription will support our work, helping this wonderful Norwich park to thrive so that it can continue to give pleasure for generations to come. You can attend meetings and will hear about events before they are publicised more widely.

What we have done so far …
The Friends liaise with Norwich City Council on many projects which are not mentioned here because they were initiated or carried out by the Council (e.g. tree planting)

Open Day and 80th anniversary celebration, 15 June 2008:
· visit of Lord Mayor and Whifflers and Snap the official dragon plus Klang, the alternative dragon
· come-and-try sessions for croquet, bowls and tennis
· paper-boat making and sailing on boating pond
· Norwich Model Boating Club show of boats and all-day railway rides with Norwich & District Society of Model Engineers
· bug hunt with Norwich Fringe Project
· line dancing displays
· five-a-side football
· band (Norwich City Council) and African drummers on bandstand
· fire engine and police vehicle
· tombola and information stand
· gathering people's memories of Eaton Park on flip-chart paper
· Dr Bike stall

Wildlife and conservation work:
· working with Norwich Fringe Project to thin, and remove debris from, two woodland areas and plant with different native species (autumn 2007 and spring 2008)
· arrange for a report from David North of Norfolk Wildlife Trust through Breathing Spaces initiative
· moth hunt (June 2009), with Peter Walton, local naturalist
· plug planting to create wildflower meadow along northern side of park (spring 2009)
· planting of crocus and daffodil bulbs along bank opposite pitch-and-putt and planting around rotunda
· put file in café for visitors to record wildlife sightings
· initiate a tree identification plan

Fund-raising:
· sale of cards and bookmarks
· Norwich City Council Community Participation Fund (£400)
· Norwich City Council (£1000)
· Breathing Spaces/Norfolk Wildlife Trust (£300)
· Waitrose (Eaton store) collection (£231)

Other:
· public meetings: the history of the park; the history and activities of the Model Boating Club; Norwich in Bloom; the history and activities of the Norwich & District Society of Model Engineers (miniature railway)
· arranging for four sets of Sheffield bicycle stands in the park
· health walks every Friday for about 45 minutes
· litter picks
· running a park users' survey - results here

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