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NEW NATURAL PLAYGROUND
Our main news is that we are having a new playground in Chapeltown Park - work to be started 28th March 2011 for completion July 2011.
We are so pleased that Chapeltown children will be having a new playground after so many years without decent facilities. The old playground in the woodland area is at least 50 years old and now has only 3 rusty old bits of play equipment.
NEW BMX TRACK IN CHAPELTOWN WOOD
Sheffield Homes "You Choose" event at Niagara Sports Centre on 22nd March awarded us £9000 towards a new BMX track costing £14520. Ecclesfield school BMX riders and Tom Bell helped with the presentation and the work will start as soon as possible.
WILD FRUIT TREES DONATED BY THE WOODLAND TRUST - PLANTED 21.3.11 IN CHAPELTOWN PARK by Lound Infants School
NEW BENCH SPONSORED BY LOUND INFANTS SCHOOL FOR CHAPELTOWN PARK
The children from Lound Infants, Sherburn Gate,sitting on the bench they donated with the money from their Harvest Festival - just before they got all dirty planting lots of trees!
MASTERPLAN FOR CHAPELTOWN PARK
The other important news is that we have had a masterplan done for Chapeltown Park to see what people would like to see in the park so that we can use this to fundraise to get better facilities - e.g. a cafe? equipment for older people? a BMX track for youngsters?
Butterfly Glade in Chapeltown Woodland
The glade is situated at the bottom of Chapeltown Park near Blackburn Brook and we have cleared this to make an area for people to go stream dipping (with a special pond dipping pack available now at Chapeltown Library) - new plants, new log seating, a "hop scotch" stepping stone feature designed by children from "Chatterbooks", new interpretation panel and a woodland leaflet.
