Friends of Parkwood Springs

Parkwood Springs Festival of the Outdoors (1)

Springing to action on upgrades

4th April 2022

Story by Robert Almond and Peter Bull. Photos by @sammcqueen.ig for Salt Street productions The Friends of Parkwood Springs and a number of other local groups have been working with the team set up by [Read more]

Supporting our community

13th December 2021

Story by the Sheffield City Council North-East Local Area Committee. Every year your Councillors fund activities across Burngreave Ward. This funding includes activities, like the magnificent light festival in Parkwood Springs. We also fund local [Read more]

Lantern Festival 2021

13th December 2021

Story and photos by Graham Jones On 16th October, Parkwood Springs football pitch was taken over by a range of creatures, both strange and familiar. Some of them had even taken to the trees! After [Read more]

Parkwood Springs Lantern Festival 2021

6th October 2021

The 2021 Parkwood Springs Lantern Festival will be on Saturday October 16th at 4.30pm and finishing at 7pm. Come early and enjoy a great family event! Because of Covid the event will be a little [Read more]

14th June 2021

Story and photo by Neill Schofield. The last few months have been a busy time on Parkwood Springs, with some great developments in prospect. Many people have recently got to know Parkwood Springs for the [Read more]

Forest Gardening session Saturday 15th May

12th May 2021

This coming weekend on Saturday 15th May, Friends of Parkwood Springs have their usual Forest Gardening session, meeting at 10am at the car park on Cooks Wood Road. [Read more]

Parkwood Springs during the pandemic

19th October 2020

Story by Neill Schofield | Photos by Friends of Parkwood Springs and Bernadette O’Callaghan The pandemic has had a big effect on both Parkwood Springs and the Friends Group. On the positive side, it has [Read more]

A summer of incredible growth

16th December 2019

Photo by Paul Antcliffe After a summer of incredible growth in the Parkwood Forest Garden, volunteers are continuing the late autumn tidy up. The team have been undertaking general maintenance tasks focussing on existing plants [Read more]

Keeping Parkwood open access

16th December 2019

Story by Neill Schofield, Joint Chair, the Friends of Parkwood Springs Progress towards the re-opening of the Ski Village on Parkwood Springs passed another milestone a few weeks ago, when the council signed an Agreement [Read more]

Wood mouse caught on Parkwood Springs October 2019.

A bank vole and lively wood mice

23rd October 2019

When sixteen live traps put out on the previous evening were opened, Friends of Parkwood Springs were delighted to find one bank vole and eleven very lively wood mice. [Read more]

Heron lantern overlooking the city. Photo by Jackie Jones.

It was another spectacular lantern procession for 2019

14th October 2019

Local artist Patrick Amber helped deliver another spectacular Beacons Lantern Procession. On Facebook he shared his account of the event. With photos by Patrick Amber and Jackie Jones. [Read more]

All ready for Beacons Lantern Procession Saturday 12th October

10th October 2019

For the last few weeks people have been busy making penguins, goldfinches, tortoises and spacecraft lanterns for the Beacons Lantern Procession on Saturday 12th October. Everyone is welcome to join as children and adults parade [Read more]