THE Friends of Brunswick Park group are appealing for help after winning a bid for £4,000 from the “Your Pint Can” community fund scheme run by Carling and Wetherspoons.

The fund will pay for materials to replace the pathways on Brunswick Park, at the far end of Hazelwood Road. Organisers are now asking for Melksham residents to come and help with the labour needed to complete the works.

The work will start over the August Bank Holiday weekend with teams out working on Saturday and Monday August 26 and 28 between 11am and 3pm.

Work will then continue every weekend throughout September with the exception of Saturday and Sunday September 2 and 3 as that is the dates of the Melksham Food and River Festival. Refreshments will be provided for all those who help.

Tracy Haslam, Chair of the Friends of Brunswick Park group, said: “We are so pleased to have won this funding, but now we need local people to come and help us make it happen.

“We need people who can help with the manual labour required to dig the existing paths out ready for the new paths to be laid. We have 165 metres of path to dig out so we would really appreciate all the help we can get.”

Wiltshire Council and its contractor id verde will help with the laying of the new paths once the ground has been prepared.

Melksham South councillor Jon Hubbard said: “I am so impressed with Tracy and the whole team from Brunswick Park. They have adopted this park area and really want to help make a difference here.

“They have taken the initiative and gone out to make things happen themselves, not just wait to see what someone else does for them. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in and helping make this happen.”

Anyone wanting to offer help or who wants to know more can contact Tracy Haslam by email at tracyhaslam1@hotmail.co.uk