A BRADFORD voluntary group that helps look after the city’s oldest public park is celebrating the seventh anniversary of its community cafe with a visit from the Lord Mayor.

Peelers’ Cafe opened in 2016 after the local Friends of Peel Park group took over a vacant building at the heart of the park.

It has since been transformed into a cafe, volunteer hub, and a base for numerous activities that have since thrived in the historic park.

Friends of Peel Park are now inviting people from the local community, and further afield, to join them at Peelers’ Cafe this Saturday and Sunday (December 2 and 3) where the group will be celebrating its seven-year milestone during the 10am to 2pm opening hours.

To mark the occasion, the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Cllr Gerry Barker, will visit Peelers’ Cafe on Saturday to meet volunteers and plant a commemorative tree as part of National Tree Week.

Within the last seven years, Friends of Peel Park has used proceeds from the cafe and other donations to make a number of improvements to the park including the installation of the totem trail, bird boxes, hedgehog homes, looking after the park’s resident swans, the play trail, a new tennis net, a basketball hoop, preventing the closure of the lower play, additions to the refurbished upper play area, table tennis tables, the recently-installed cricket pitch, and a new wild boar statue.