RELEASE DATE 30 November 2006
TITLE BIG LOTTERY IN ST ANNS
 

Money from the Big Lottery Fund is being spent locally at the St Anns adventure play centre. This is part of a nationwide fund that came from the ‘Peoples Millions’ public vote earlier this year in April.

On Thursday 30th November representatives from the Big lottery will be coming to view the project. ‘Its looking really good now’ said Chryse Tinsley, Groundwork Greater Nottingham's Landscape Architect, who is currently working on the project. Chryse Tinsley continued, "You can see the new playground from St Anns Well Road."

Children and staff at the centre have expressed their pleasure with the progress made on the project; for staff working at the centre, the downside being that they are now out of doors all the time as the children just want to play on the park. In addition to children who regularly use the centre, children from local schools and centres are also using the new park.

The main parts of the park are now complete but there are still further improvements planned. These include a seating area and additional planting. Plans have been made to make these improvements in the new year.

For more information, please contact Chryse Tinsley on 0115 9788212.
 
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Please note that all our projects involve people and communities and many have to be seen to be believed. They each have very different real life stories of transformation, they are very photogenic, and in order to continually improve our communities, we will be delighted to share more of these with you, including fielding interviews and making visits available to you

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

We are currently working on 55 live projects

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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