Green Flag Award

The Chair of the Friends of Haw Park Wood was invited to accept the Green Flag on behalf of Wakefield MDC Countryside Service.

Phyllis accepts the flag

Flag unfurled

Countryside and Conservation Manager, Andy Nicholls, with Phyllis Baines from the Friends, hold out the Flag.

Andy and Phyllis

Visit to Roundhay

As part of the celebration, award winners were taken to a nearby Green Flag site, Roundhay Park in Leeds.

Jill, Andy & Phyllis

To the Woods

Bill Lawrey, Forestry Manager, and Phyllis Baines, Chair of Friends, take the Flag to the entrance of Haw Park Wood.

Bill and Phyllis

Friends of the Wood

Members of the Friends join with the Countryside Service for the Flag Raising Ceremony on September 25th.

Up She Goes

The Green Flag is raised up a lodge-pole pine flagpole, complete with bird boxes.

Andy and Bill

Blowing free

Alan Smith, Andy Nicholls and Bill Lawrey with Friends of Haw Park Wood.