Playground Fundraising Update

Staveley Village Association and it’s supporters have continued the campaign of playground fundraising, which has now reached £100k (of the £120k required) including successful grant applications to Cumbria County Council and The National Lottery.

The planning team at the Lake District National Park Authority has been consulted about our plans to renew the playground equipment and having taken advice, we have submitted a formal planning application. We await planning approval.

A programme of removing obsolete & worn out equipment from the playground has started and we will shortly start to remove the worn out and damaged cushioned flooring and old concrete foundations before preparing the groundwork for the new equipment and new cushioned flooring.

Staveley Village Association has placed confirmed orders with both Playdale (for Phase One, costing £90k) and Shap Quarry. A deposit of £7.5k has been paid to Playdale. Installation is scheduled to begin in early April and be complete before 1st May. We plan to hold an official opening ceremony and will fix a date for this once installation dates are confirmed.

The fundraising team are now focussed on Phase Two and have so far secured £10k of the £30k required. If the balance of £20k can be secured quickly, we will seek to pull forward our Phase Two plans to minimise installation disruption and secure some cost efficiencies.

We are hopeful of securing a further £5k of grant funding towards Phase Two, which would leave a balance of £15k to raise from community fundraising events & donations. All support & donations are welcome. Please email secretary@theSVA.org or visit www.thesva.org for further information.