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Plant Your Playground
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:32
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Invitation to childrem, young people, parents, carers to join us in planting Thornham Walks playground with a variety of vegetation and natural play features.
£250 locality grant awarded to tmcos
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 11:38
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The Thornham Walks Community Play project has been awarded a grant of £250 towards the £335 cost of a planning application by Councillor Charles Michell from the Locality Grant fund.
The Thornham Settled Estate has generously made available additional land to be used as a picnic and recreational area for the public, as the existing recreational area was taken up by the new playground equipment.
http://planningpages.midsuffolk.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_MSUFF_DCAPR_88087
Thornham Magna Community Open Spaces would like to thank Councillor Charles Michell (1st person on the left hand side below), who has consistently supported the play project. Cllr Michell was also a conduit for making available additional second-hand play equipment which was recycled and incorporated into the project plan.
We are grateful for his continued support and assistance, the latest of which is the award of a £250 grant from the locality fund to help pay towards the planning application. We are looking to raise the remaining £85 - if anyone has ideas on how this could be funded, we welcome suggestions.
At a time when open spaces are under threat due to economic pressures, it is refreshing to know that support such as this exists and which shows the positive effect of councillors such as Charles Michell working at a grass roots level to meet the needs of the general public.
PLAYGROUND OPENING in THORNHAM MAGNA
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:48
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Playground officially launched!
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- Published on Monday, 08 August 2011 15:52
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More than 100 excited children turned up on Wednesday 3rd August, National Playday, to join in celebrating the opening of the new playground in Thornham. Amy and Maisie, whose names were 'drawn from a hat' by Walks manager Helen Sibley, cut the ribbon to officially open the play area, after a few words were said by Cllr Tim Passmore, Mid Suffolk DC; Mr John Cousins, Thornham Settled Estate; and Ms Marya Parker, The Big Lottery.
The play area also received much positive enthusiasm from parents and carers who were able to join in the celebrations as they ate strawberries and cream.
A few pictures of the event are shown here, but more can be seen on Thornham Walks Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=179767328721430
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- Published on Friday, 03 June 2011 11:39
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Those of you familiar with Facebook, and who perhaps yourselves have a profile, may be delighted to know that you can watch the progress of the Thornham Walks Community Play Area as it is being built.
In your search engine, just type in ‘Thornham Walks Facebook’ and this will take you to the Facebook link. Then just click on photos.
Alternatively if you have a Facebook log-in, why not make yourself a friend, and you can be automatically updated every time new photographs are posted to the site.
