Fundraising in action
Two schools share their fundraising journeys to create innovative spaces for playing and learning
can use before and after school, as well as during the holidays. It will be a physical reminder of the fact that all children have a right to play, and it will act as a memorial to all the community and family members who lost their lives due to Covid. The plan is to create something dramatic and engaging that encourages imaginative play. Using natural materials and located in our wooded area, the space will provide a totally different experience to the concrete and plastic of a typical urban playground. Part of our funding will cover the cost of staffing the play space after school. The company we’re working with,
‘We’re raising £50,000 for a
community play space’ garden or outside space. This really impacted on the mental and physical health of our community during lockdown, plus we’ve also seen a rapid decline in the number of children attending local play spaces over the past five years, due to parental concerns about rising knife and drug crime, anti-social behaviour and traffic congestion. Our answer is to build a £50,000 play space that our community
Netley Primary is a vibrant and diverse community school in Euston, with a range of provision for children aged between two and 11. Our campus also encompasses the Woodlands Centre for Autism (with 24 children), and Robson House PRU. A total of 29 different languages are spoken at Netley, and we’ve recently taken in 34 Afghan ‘settled status’ children. The majority of our families live in high-rise flats, with no access to a
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Made From Scratch, ran activities to identify what our pupils would like – and they surprised us by asking for much more adventurous things than were initially proposed. The reworked design features tree houses built around the trees so children can explore the canopy and texture of a tree trunk while playing, as well as ‘birds nest’ platforms where they can look out over the local area. There will also be adventure climbing and hanging bars, a slide and a pond dipping area. While our community is
disadvantaged (63% of pupils are eligible for free school meals), our parents have high aspirations for their children and are keen to have somewhere safe where they can play outside. However, we can’t keep asking the community for money, so we’ve launched a year-
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