Trust appeals for donations to help revamp play equipment

It's to celebrate the park's 20th birthday

Author: Henry WinterPublished 30th Jan 2023

Bythams Woodland Trust is trying to raise £150,000 to replace and upgrade play equipment at the Spinney.

It's to celebrate the park's 20th birthday - with plans to fix features including swings, a zip-wire and the wibbly-wobbly bridge.

But the trust needs people's help to fund the revamp.

Bythams Woodland Trust said: "Over the years, the play equipment has suffered wear and tear through constant use and it is coming up to its ‘use-by date’."

"Many will know that we had to take the zip-wire out because the main platform posts had rotted through. It could no longer be used and it was not economical to repair.

"So, we are proposing to carry out a major refurbishment of the pieces of equipment which really need to be replaced. In summary we are proposing to: Re-design the under 5s area, put in a new higher space net, install two new sets of swings, replace the wibbly-wobbly bridge, repair the boardwalk walkway, turn the look-out tower into a split level castle, replace the spiders net with new climbing equipment"

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