Love your park in North East Lincolnshire

Love Parks Week takes place between Saturday, July 23, and Sunday, July 31, which coincides with the first week of the summer holidays.

Celebrating Love Parks Week’s fifth year, the organisers, GreenSpace, want to double their numbers by gathering one million people into parks and green spaces across the country. The aim is to showcase the benefits that are obtainable from parks which are free, local resources to encourage further promotion and reinvestment into these valuable and often forgotten assets.

Activities taking place in North East Lincolnshire include:

Saturday, July 23, 12 noon to 7pm

Family Sports Fun Day

Meridian Park, Kings Road, Cleethorpes, DN35 0LP

North East Lincolnshire Council’ssports development team

(01472) 323379

 

Saturday, July 23, 12noon to 7pm

GreenSTAT promotion – Tell us what you think about your park!

Meridian Park,Kings Road,Cleethorpes, DN35 OLP

North East Lincolnshire Council’s environmental improvement team

(01472) 325812

 

Saturday, July 23, 2pm to 7pm

Summer Festival with activities and side stalls

Butt Lane Play Area, Butt Lane, Laceby

Residents Association of Aylesby, Laceby and Irby

 

Sunday, July 24, 10.30am to 11.30am

Forces Fit – taster outdoor exercise session

Weelsby Woods Park, Weelsby Road, Grimsby, DN32 8PL

Neil Wicks, Forces Fit Outdoor Military Fitness

www.forcesfit.co.uk

 

Monday, July 25, 12noon to 4pm

Promotional trailer for GreenSTAT

People’s Park,Park Drive,Grimsby,DN32 0EH

North East Lincolnshire Council’s environmental improvement team

(01472) 325812

 

Tuesday, July 26, 12noon to 4pm

Promotional trailer for GreenSTAT

Cleethorpes Country Park, Park Lane,Cleethorpes,DN35 0UG

North East Lincolnshire Council’s environmental improvement team

(01472) 325812

 

Wednesday, July 27, 12noon to 4pm

Promotional trailer for GreenSTAT

Haverstoe Park, Aldrich Road,Cleethorpes,DN35 0DP

North East Lincolnshire Council’s environmental improvement team

(01472) 325812

 

Thursday, July 28, 12noon to 4pm

Promotional trailer for GreenSTAT

Weelsby Woods Park, Weelsby Road,Grimsby,DN32 8PL

North East Lincolnshire Council’s environmental improvement team

(01472) 325812

 

Saturday, July 30, 10am to 3.30pm

Cadet Sailing Training – closed session. Spectators welcome.

Cleethorpes Country Park, Park Lane,Cleethorpes,DN35 0UG

Humber Mouth Yacht Club

 

Sunday, July 31, 2pm to 7pm

Fun Day- activities and side stalls

Homestead Park, Washdyke Lane, Immingham

North East Lincolnshire Council’s youth team

(01469) 516035

 

Sunday, July 31, from 1.30pm

Model Boat Show

Sidney Park, Brereton Avenue,Cleethorpes,DN35 7RL

Grimsby and Cleethorpes Model Boat Club

 

Sunday, July 31, from 2pm

Merlin’s Keep celtic folk-rock band supported by Jabiru. The Earthbound Misfits will also be performing.

People’s Park, Park Drive, Grimsby, DN32 0EH

Come and visit the roadshows and tell us what you think about your open space. Enter a GreenSTAT survey with us and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £25 Freshney Place Shopping Centre voucher!

So, come and see the benefits of our green spaces by visiting a park in North East Lincolnshire.

Thanks for looking

Chris

Lincolnshire Fine Food and Wine Show, Cleethorpes April 24th-25th 2010

As part of my job at North East Lincolnshire Council I have been working this weekend at the Lincolnshire Fine Food and Wine Show, Meridian Park (Cleethorpes). This has been to promote the national ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign which encourages for better use of leftover food, organisation in the kitchen and plenty of new recipe ideas. The message the campaign brings really does show that a lot of food does not need to be wasted, as it can be extremely versatile. Take milk that is going a bit smelly for example. This is not rancid milk, just ‘about to turn’ – I learned today from acclaimed chef Nigel Brown, who gave us a Love Food Hate Waste cookery demonstrations throughout the weekend, that such milk can be used effectively for making scones. It does not need to be newly bought milk – simple as that.

Also did you know that in the UK we waste approximately (every year):

• 770,000 tonnes of potatoes
• 660,000 tonnes of bread
• 310,000 tonnes of bananas
• 300,000 tonnes of chicken
• 260,000 tonnes of apples
• even 42,000 tonnes of pasta

Plus many more – combined we waste 5.3 million tonnes of food per year, and that is hard to swallow. Love Food hate waste encourages more creativity, financial savvyness (after all the average family loses £50 per week through food wastage  and fun in the kitchen, and the possibilities are extended so much more from your usual week of the same old meals.

Details of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign including handy recipes and advice can be found at www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

For the North East Lincolnshire Council press release, please go to http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/news/2010/apr/love-food-hate-waste/