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• Lottery windfall gives boost to playtime

• Date:

  18th March 2008

• Contact:

  Sarah Egerton

• Organisation:

  The Civic Trust

A brand new play area, designed with disabled users in mind, is to be installed at Green Flag Award-winning Beacon Country Park in West Lancashire following a lottery cash boost.

The Big Lottery Fund awarded West Lancashire District Council £267,509 to improve access to play in West Lancashire for those harder to reach groups.

It will be spent on improving opportunities for children across the district in three key identified categories: those who live in rural communities; older age groups between 11 and 17 years; and for young people with disabilities.

In addition to the new play area at Beacon Country Park, the money will be used to build a multi-use games area within the rural community. Three new posts have also been funded within the Council’s Sports Development Team to provide informal play opportunities, which will start during the summertime. They will cover both rural areas and Skelmersdale and will use a mixture of Council facilities, parish halls, schools and other venues to provide the activities.

The idea is that the children can come along and just enjoy themselves in a safe environment to meet with friends and take part in friendly leisure sessions, which could be anything from street games to sports. The difference is that it’s a relaxed setting without the children having to sign up to become members of clubs, but at the same time they will get a flavour of the kind of new hobbies they could enjoy.