Activities
2023- a New Year at the Three Sisters.
7th February 2023. This is the time of year when we start to prune the 50 fruit trees we have planted around the site. Three Friends work around the fruit trees on the site. Each tree is pruned to remove any diseased or crossing branches. Then any overhanging branches...
2020 – September – Vandals damage bench in Bird feeding Station.
2020 - September - Vandals destroy benches in Bird Feeding Station. We were very disappointed to find that the benches in the Bird Feeding station had been removed. This is a very popular place for visitors to sit and watch the birds and squirrels feeding. The Friends...
2020 – September -Print Shop Garden.
PRINT SHOP GARDEN There are some borders in front of the Print Shop and these are full of weeds. The Garden Gang has decided to try to make these more interesting. A wall surrounds this area so it may be difficult to get things to grow but if we do not try we will...
COVID Lock down ends and the site reopens.
The lock downs may be over but Covid is still about. People are allowed into the site but are asked to abide by certain rules to help stop the spread of Covid. The Friends of Three Sisters return to their gardening. We are out in the fresh air and are keeping well...
2020 – March – COVID 19 pandemic closes down the site.
The arrival of the Covid virus into the UK has meant that at the end of March 2020 the government put the country into lock down. people were instructed to "Stay at Home" unless they were vital workers. The council closed the car parks at the Three Sisters. The...
2020 – 25th February – Memorial bench & trees.
Peter Brown had been the Treasurer for the Friends of Three Sisters since we became constituted. Sadly he died last year and The Friends and his family decided to place a memorial bench by the edge of the lake. Anyone sitting on this bench would be able to look at...
2019 – 22nd. October – Collecting the Autumn Leaves.
22nd October 2019 Autumn is here and the trees are dropping their leaves. The Friends are clearing them from the Car Park so that the grids will not be blocked. We are saving these leaves in a compost area so they will make leaf mould . Next year we will add this to...
2019 – 2nd. September – ASDA Green Token Cheque.
We were pleased to be chosen as one of the local groups for the Asda Green Token Scheme and although we did not get the most tokens we still were given £200. Thank you to everyone who popped their green tokens in our box and a HUGE Thank you to ASDA for this money...
2019 – 8th July – Another group of volunteers work in our garden.
8th July 2019 We are lucky that another group of volunteers has chosen to spend their work volunteering day helping us at the Three Sisters. Here they are working in the Wildlife Garden --- AND taking photos to prove they were here! THANK YOU for your hard work.
2019 – 11th June – Sainsbury Workers Volunteer Day.
This year it is Sainsbury’s 150th birthday. Their workers are being encouraged to do something for their local community and we were contacted by a group who work in Sainsbury’s distribution centre in Haydock. They were having a meeting with some colleagues...
2019 – 20th. May – Volunteers from the Town Hall.
Once again a group of workers from the Town Hall used one of their volunteer days to come and help us at the Three Sisters. As part of The Deal, the Council give all their workers two days when they can do voluntary work in the borough. We are very pleased that...
2019 – 18th April – Easter Egg Trail.
We had an Easter Egg Trail on the 18th April. We set a Trail around the site for the children to follow and there was Egg Rolling part way round the trail. Over 300 children enjoyed this activity. Asda's Community Champion came to help us and Lancashire Wildlife Trust...