Spruce-up for 'safer' Aldwick kids' play area

A project to replace the surfacing in an Aldwick play area is another sign of progress made by a volunteers' group.

The scheme to swop the hard asphalt surface below the play equipment in West Park with a more resilient, softer-style covering completes the first year of activity of the Friends.

The desire to improve the safety of the young park users emerged soon after the Friends were formed last March.

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It is the latest in a series of activities with which the Friends, more than 20 of whom attended the first annual meeting, have been involved.

Dee Christensen, Arun District Council's senior community parks officer, told them they were acting very well as a pressure group for getting things done in the park, a sounding board for new ideas, a practical projects working party and for fundraising.

She outlined the projects which the council and the Friends had carried out during the past year. They included cycle racks, an extension of the play area, the installation of three benches, new bird and bat boxes and planting 60 shrubs.

The final Friends' logo design was shown to the Friends by member Kat Hutchinson. An appeal for ideas produced more than 60 submissions from which the best five were selected.

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These were combined into the final logo which will be launched at a forthcoming children's day at the park.

Friends' chairman Gwenneth Dennison, stand-in treasurer Fran Holt and secretary Iain Fraser presented their reports.

All the officers were unanimously re-elected before the finale of the evening saw West Sussex County Council ranger John Knight, who is also the Friends' green consultant, give a talk about attracting wildlife into gardens.

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