A undertaking to deliver the enjoyable again to a dilapidated and forgotten play park has been launched.
Park Life! is a collaboration between RIG Arts and Roar - Connections for Life who've teamed as much as enhance play parks in Seedhill, with a deal with McKerrell Road play park.
The undertaking has been backed by £11,792 funding from the Scottish Authorities’s neighborhood psychological well being and wellbeing fund, distributed by Interact Renfrewshire.
Park Life! will work with residents utilizing inventive actions to see what enhancements they want to see within the parks in Seedhill.
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And they're going to have a specific deal with McKerrell Road after the parks chute was just lately eliminated, leaving a climbing body as the one usable piece of play tools.
Park Life! will embrace creative-led psychological well being help to result in bodily enhancements to McKerrell Road Play Park. Particularly, the areas that the undertaking will deal with are intergenerational well being walks, wellbeing-led inventive workshops and a neighborhood wellbeing occasion.
RIG Arts is already engaged on its Evolve undertaking in Seedhill, a £200,000 18-month undertaking which began in early 2021.
Rebecca Livesey-Wright, undertaking coordinator at RIG Arts stated: “We’re actually excited to be increasing our work in Seedhill, bringing extra funding for the local people and hopefully beginning a course of to get the play parks trying a bit higher.
“A lot wanted enhancements to the play parks are one thing we’ve heard from numerous individuals in Seedhill throughout our Evolve undertaking and we’re happy that this funding would possibly assist us to generate some concepts for what may very well be executed.”
So far, Evolve has held 5 profitable enjoyable days in McKerrell Road play park with undertaking companions Williamsburgh Housing Affiliation and One Ren, and occasions companion Roar, in addition to a long-term collection of workshops for a variety of ages, and additional inventive engagement delivered by its artists in residence.
Roar has labored alongside RIG Arts on its Evolve undertaking and attended lots of the enjoyable days which have been held in McKerrel Road play park.
Its CEO Cassie Forbes stated: “We're completely delighted to be working with our companions RIG Arts on this undertaking in Seedhill.
“We wish to assist a part of Seedhill flourish with this chance to reinforce the entire atmosphere and can deliver the neighborhood nearer collectively.”
The funding for Evolve Seedhill got here from Inventive Scotland’s Tradition Collective fund and RIG Arts is working with companions Williamsburgh Housing Affiliation and Renfrewshire Leisure.
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