FUNDRAISERS took to Hereford's Aylestone Park at the weekend in a bid to raise funds to refurbish the park's Healthy Hearts Trail.

Runners, walkers, and joggers took on a five kilometre challenge to help raise money for the trail, which was installed many years ago and is in desperate need of refurbishing.

Aylestone Park Association wants to reinstate the missing exercise posts, renew the instruction plaques, upgrade or reinstate the exercise equipment and generally make the trail more user friendly. Any surplus funds will be used on their forthcoming project to repair the badly eroded stone pathways.

The popular park on the northern boundary of Hereford city and extends to some 47 acres of public open space with 300 meters of canal running along the northeast edge, and has three distinct areas with the upper area of the park dedicated to conservation, the recreation area and orchard on the hillsides and the mostly flat sports area.

The whole area is maintained, almost exclusively, by volunteers. These volunteers constructed over five km of stoned footpaths on the park, two view-points and a number of picnic areas during the past 18 years.

To donate go to their JustGiving website www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/aylestonepark