We had a great day amongst the budding daffodils in the entrance field on Sunday. In case you are wondering what we were doing/ what the 3 patches of dug over turf are for – we are planting wild flower beds to add more colour to the entrance area. Fingers crossed for a great display this summer.
Since forming, the Friends have been collecting historical 
information in order to produce a history booklet in 2018/19 to capture the fascinating story before it is lost in the mists of time. Whilst we are working on this booklet and seeking publication funding, Committee member Tony Cousins has produced a summary that we are pleased to say is now available on our Park Information webpage. If anyone has additional historical information or photographs from the period 1910 to 1950 we would love to hear from you during current production of the booklet.
The Friends have now installed all the labels on the special trees in the upper park. These labels were funded by a special grant from Cardiff Council.
Just when the weather was beginning to warm up, the recent double cold spells have confused the new flower shoots that had just started to protrude from the soil.
The park was full of people making the most of the snowfall, the top field from the Golf club area was very popular with kids on sledges.
Following a briefing from Cardiff Council we know have start dates for the Heritage lottery grant work:
Car park toilets & office work will start inn April 2018. The Main pond clean out & bank stabilization will start in the summer of 2018.
Upgrading of paths will start following the end of the bird nesting season in 2018.
We have had a brilliant start to 2018. The Friends have secured the following grants /donations:
This should certainly keep the Group busy in 2018 and any further volunteers to help would always be appreciated.
Volunteers were busy at our last Workday of 2017 planting over 600 British Bluebells, removing brambles, and coppicing over 100 ash tree samplings to let light into the area near the lower pond. We always have refreshments but seasonal mince pies and Christmas cake were the treat this time! We hope these native Bluebells will flourish and spread in the lower section of the Park.
During 2016 Cefn Onn was awarded a substantial lottery grant to make some significant improvements to facilities and access for all – see our noticeboard in the Park entrance for more detail. Work is planned to commence this Spring.
We have (carefully) spring cleaned the mural and the Formosan Cherry (a species of cherry native to Japan, Vietnam, China and Taiwan ) is one of our early bloomers.
Dear all. Sorry our Friends of Cefn Onn website has not been updated at all during 2016. This has been extremely frustrating. Despite us taking many precautions it was hacked and this prevented us from being able to access it in any way. The host company could not fix it but luckily for us a relatively new Friends member, who is a website operator has come to our rescue! Over Xmas and New Year he has managed to sort it out, recover all of our data, and get us up and running again. I have updated the 2017 Workdays dates immediately and will do so with other pages and News items as time allows over the next month. Many thanks indeed to our new member and Happy New Year to all Friends and Parc Cefn Onn visitors.
