FAMILY OWNED SINCE 1960'S
PROUDLY SERVING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS FOR OVER 60 YEARS
Bayliss Garages began sponsoring Warley Woods Community Trust Santa in the Woods and Party in the Park events in 2023 in memory of John Bayliss, the previous owner of our family run business.
"Santa doing the right thing and getting his sleigh checked out at Bayliss Garages Ltd. Thank you for looking after him and for sponsoring Santa in the Woods on Sunday in memory of John Bayliss."
Picnic In The Park
Warley Woods
Warley Woods
Warley Woods is a 100 acre community park which is a mix of woodland, open meadow and a golf course. It was saved from being developed for housing by public subscription and was opened as public park in 1906, and became known as “The People’s Park”.
The Trust
Warley Woods Community Trust was set up in 1997 to restore and manage Warley Woods Park as an asset for the local community. It was the idea of local residents to manage the site themselves and this remains core to the Trust's ethos today with volunteers playing a central role in everything that goes on, supported by a small core group of staff, essential to a complex site open 365 days a year.
Its first projects were to restore the essential elements expected of a modern park through a Heritage Lottery Funded project, provide a play area through a Big Lottery grant and restore the Edwardian Drinking Fountain using monies from landfill tax grants. Once these were completed the Trust has worked on many other development and activity projects winning public thanks and national recognition. It remains one of the very few charities in the UK managing an urban park of any size. Community management with decisions made by local residents (volunteers) remains a core principle of its success.
