The trust formerly known as….
07/04/2026
By Admin2
Trustees and staff at Parc yr Esgob (Bishop’s Park) will be using the name “Parc yr Esgob Trust” as the public working name for the charity from April 2026, although The Tywi Gateway Trust remains our legally constituted title. Betsan Caldwell, Trust chair explained “We wanted to improve name recognition of Parc yr Esgob and the …
Posted: 15/02/2022 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: February 2022
15th February 2022 2-3.30pm. With Caroline, Suzie, Huw, Max, Ruth, and Malcolm Another grey day for our February session – but what a joy to have so many expert naturalists on board for the 1.5 hours in the Park today! We were joined by local wildlife enthusiast Huw, also a garden volunteer – and Ruth …
Posted: 15/02/2022 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch – Jan 2022
25th January 2-3.30pm – With Caroline, Suzie, Max and Penny Well its always a huge bonus when an ornithological expert turns up to your monthly wildlife watch! Local residents Max and Penny saw the publicity for January’s walk on Facebook and decided to come along – and how glad we were that they did! We spotted …
Posted: 27/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Poetry Inspiration: Waiting for the Garden
We are blessed with some wonderful volunteers at Bishop’s Park. Lockdown last year was challenging for so many of us, and we were particularly sad to have to close the Park to our regular team of committed volunteers. We weren’t alone, and one of our garden volunteers felt so inspired at the closure, he put …
Posted: 11/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Kickstart Opportunity – Assistant Gardener!
Unemployed aged 16-24? Come and join our friendly supportive team! Amazing Kickstart opportunity at Bishops Park working with head gardener Piers Lunt, 25 hours a week as our brand new ‘Assistant Gardener’. Learn all about horticulture, gardening, woodland and meadow management in a beautiful setting, with mature trees, walled garden and historic parkland. 6 month …
Posted: 04/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
15 Minute Heritage Grant!
We are thrilled to announce we’ve been awarded #15MinuteHeritage funding to train and support young people to create bilingual films and digital gaming apps of Bishops Park and Carmarthenshire Museums! The project, called – ‘Parc yr Esgob Hanes a Chof: Capturing, Digitising and Sharing our Stories’, will deliver much-needed young people-centred interpretation on site and …
Posted: 01/01/2022 by Caroline Welch
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all our supporters! And what a transformational year it’s been for Bishop’s Park… We’ve now planted more than 4,000 new flowers, shrubs, trees and bulbs, installed 5 picnic benches, 20 bird boxes, 10 bat boxes as well as restoring 700 metres of the park’s historic paths and 12 new park benches. We …
Posted: 22/12/2021 by Caroline Welch
Wildlife Watch: December 2021
Louise, Ffiona and ? on 20/12/21 It was a cold, dull day at the end of December. We noticed bulbs beginning to break through the soil in the Jenkinson Garden – a welcome sign of the Spring to come. Today a climbing rose had just been planted against pergola – the planting of the Jenkinson …
Posted: 23/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Nov 2021: Our 1st Wildlife Watch
Today we began our first ever Monthly Wildlife Watch – observing the flora and fauna and noticing the seasonal changes in the Park.
Posted: 09/11/2021 by Caroline Welch
Exciting Discoveries in the Walled Garden!
Some weeks ago, while fencing off the foundations of the old greenhouses in the walled garden, our landscape contractors ‘lost’ a fence post in the surrounding ground. As they knocked it in, it disappeared in a void underneath.
Posted: 17/08/2021 by Caroline Welch
Bishop’s Park Show
Have you got remarkable runner beans? Do you make scrumptious scones? Are your photos fantastic? If so, bring them along to our Horticultural Show on the 4th of September at the Bishop’s Park, Abergwili.