'In 1972 Park Mead our local Primary School was fundraising for an outside swimming pool, which was the spur to the opening of Beatons Wood for a single weekend for parents and friends. The response from those first visitors who saw the profusion of bluebells, was so overwhelming, that we had to open the following year and so it continued year on year ... From 1972 - 2014 we calculated that over £335,000 has been raised by 60 different local charities, converted to present day values, this is over £763,000!'