Can you imagine waiting 64 years for a playground to be built? Well that’s what Cridling Stubbs Playground Community Group had to do!
To read the full story and view a detailed timeline of the playground since 1946, then please follow this link: http://www.community-spaces.org.uk/module/news/display/newsdisplay.aspx?news=76
Community Spaces funding of just under £49k has allowed the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust, in Sharrow, to light up the Cemetery with lanterns in a celebratory opening event.
Until this year the Cemetery paths were in too poor a condition for the lantern procession to pass through. The Community Spaces funding has made the restoration and widening of the Cemetery paths possible. Futher funding and support was provided by Groundwork Sheffield, the Rotary Club, and Section 106 monies. Access has been much improved for all users, especially for people with walking difficulties, those in wheelchairs as well as pushchair users.
The opening of the new route was celebrated on Sunday 11th April and specially made lanterns, by children from Sharrow Sure Start, lit up the pathways and led the procession, ending in a jazz lounge style musical celebration.
Sounds like a fantastic celebration. More details and photographs can be found at: http://www.creativeaction.net/view.php?id=15
Groundwork UK has today announced nine projects that will be benefiting from upto £450k each, through the lottery-funded Community Spaces programme.
The nine successful projects have been developing since Summer 2008, when the limited flagship grant awards were announced. The following projects will benefit from the funding:
The Dean & Chapter of Exeter Cathedral will be using the grant award to realise their Vision of the Green – they will be transforming the area around the cathedral into an accessible green space, which will nurture wildlife.
Saltash Waterfront Resident’s Association in Cornwall will be using funding to open up access to the Elwell Woodlands; the project will also see the installation of an iconic 20 metre Celtic Cross.
Paignton Town Community Partnership will be using just under £450k from Community Spaces to transform a former green space on the Paignton sea front into a state of the art natural play park.
All Saints Community Development Company will be using the funds to create an open village square off a busy High Street in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
Dudley Canal Trust will be revitalising and opening up access to the Dudley No.2 Canal Corridor, which is a 4-mile stretch of canal between Dudley and Sandwell.
Friends of Tees Heritage Park in Cleveland will be improving accessibility to the park and installing a trail around the site using digital and Bluetooth technology.
The Byker Centre in Newcastle has secured funding to create a community garden, which will include an amphitheatre, play facilities as well as more spaces for recreation.
Halton Community Association will be creating a Heart of Halton using £450k from Community Spaces. The project will open up a green space for all ages, the facilities will include a toddler and teenager play area, a multi-use games area, a skate park as well as a wildlife area.
Heeley Development Trust has planned to use the funds to create the Heeley Millenium Park in Sheffield. The local community hope to take more control of the existing local park and introduce better play facilities, BMX trails and community orchards.
Rosie Winterton MP & Yorkshire & Humber Minister at Friends of Sandall Park
The Friends of Sandall Park in Doncaster will be ‘showing-off’ their Community Spaces funded outdoor gym project to the Minister for Yorkshire & Humber and MP for Doncaster, Rosie Winterton, later today.
Sandra Crabtree, Chair of the Friends group and other representatives will be on-hand to show the Minister how the £20k grant from Community Spaces has helped them ‘design-out-crime’ in the park.
Sandra, Chair of the group, said, “The golf course project has opened up a massive area of the park that was previously unusable due to anti-social behaviour. The area is now a safe area for everyone to use and usable greenspace has been increased at very little cost.We are delighted to show this project off to a government minister.”
See the main website for this news story about a project in Yorkshire & the Humber:
http://community-spaces.org.uk/module/news/display/newsdisplay.aspx?news=62
Charlton Brook Dam - Sheffield, before the work on site began.
A couple of months ago we posted a blog piece about the Friends of Charlton Brook, in Sheffield, who secured £48k from Community Spaces to restore an old dam.
Michelle Tilney, from the Friends group, recently posted a progress update on their original story and also sent us some photographs of the work on site - follow this link to get an update on progress and see the photographs.
Thanks for the update Michelle, looks like you guys have been working really hard!
The Friends of Charlton Brook in Sheffield have received £48k from the Community Spaces fund to restore a dam to attract more anglers, walkers, and wildlife watchers.
The accumulation of silt in the dam has shrunk it to half its original size! The dam will be de-silted to improve ecology and encourage more people to visit the area.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/greennews/Work-to-start-on-dam.5625788.jp
Local TV star Carolyn Hodgson officially launches the project
The launch event for Friends of Sandall Park went off with a bang! over 300 runners were taking part in a race as part of the event and local TV star, Carolyn Hodgson, officially launched the Community Spaces funded project.
More pictures and a full account of the day can be found here.
Well done to the Friends of Sandall Park for successfully completing and launching their project. We’d also like to congratulate the group on keeping people so well informed about developments in the park via their website.
The groups website is constantly updated with latest information – enabling local people, funders and sponsors to stay up to date with activities and see the difference being made locally! More from the Friends of Sandall Park can be found at: www.sandallpark.org.uk
After two years of campaigning to ‘design out crime’ the Friends of Sandall Park have installed a new outdoor gym with funding from the Community Spaces programme.
The project is part of the wider development of the former golf course in a bid to stamp out anti-social behaviour and encourage a healthier environment.
Visitors to Sandall Park in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, will be fighting fit as the outdoor green gym makes up part of the fitness trail already being used by enthusiasts.
See more photos and futher information about this project at http://www.sandallpark.org.uk/2009/06/fitness-equipment-installed/
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