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Positive news for Felix Road Adventure Playground
Felix Road Adventure Playground is ending 2020 on a positive note, after a difficult year for all charities.
The Easton playground has opened its new community building and has announced it will be investing £70,000 into the site during 2021.
The community building is the result of three years work by staff and trustees. Made out of timber, powered by solar energy and with an air source heat pump, it also has an outdoor area, veranda and covered storage space.
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“We had always thought it would be a great addition to the organisation to provide an early years’ service on site,” say the team at Eastside Community Trust, the new charity formed of Up Our Street, Easton Community Centre and Felix Road Adventure Playground.
“We invited Raised in Bristol to open a nursery (Raised in Felix Road) in our building, paying us rent but also a share of its profits to help secure the future of the playground as a free resource for local families.”
Raised in Felix Road has been open since August and is open five days week, with up to 60 children using the nursery each day.
Felix Road Adventure Playground’s new community building. Photo: Eastside Community Trust
The trust has also announced that £70,000 of funding from Garfield Weston, Bristol City Council and the Clothmakers Guild has been granted to the playground.
Working with adventure playground experts Woodland Tribe, from January 2021 they will be working with children and parents to design and build on the current playground.
During a summer consultation with children who use the playground, the young people chose for a sensory garden, children’s allotment, outdoor classroom, new walkways and towers, a new swing, a new mural and a rebuild of the main play structure to be built.
Covered space in the playground will also be increased so that the playground’s kitchen can reopen while being Covid-safe and the pavement outside the site will also be widened, to stop pavement parking and improve access to the nursery and playground, making it safer for everyone.
Main photo: Eastside Community Trust
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