FPFA bags £1,000 from Tesco’s Stronger Starts scheme
The Fishbourne Playing Field Association has received £1,000 towards its ‘Let’s All Play’ playground upgrade project to help make our community playground accessible to all, with wheelchair and pram friendly pathways throughout, a wheelchair accessible roundabout and trampoline, and a lovely wooden toddler play unit which has a ramp and double width slide, along with a sensory garden and pathway.
Lead organiser and Trustee, Dave Craddock said: “For a charity like ours, this grant goes a long way to helping more children and adults access our playground and achieve the related health and well-being benefits that doing so provides.”
To boost funds for extra food and activity equipment, Tesco is introducing a £5m grant programme, in partnership with Groundwork UK, to give children across the UK a stronger start in life. The grants will help schools and children’s groups provide nutritious food and healthy activities that support young people’s physical health and mental wellbeing, such as breakfast clubs or snacks, and equipment for healthy activities.
Tesco’s Stronger Starts – previously Tesco Bags of Help and Tesco Community Grants – has already provided over £110 million to more than 60,000 projects across Britain.
Claire de Silva, Tesco UK Head of Communities and Local Media, said: “Helping schools and children’s groups access the food and resources they need is vitally important in getting children a stronger start in life. Children with enough food have more energy, better concentration, and ultimately achieve more too.”
Graham Duxbury, Groundwork’s UK Chief Executive, said: “As a community charity, we have seen first-hand how schools and other groups supporting young people have been playing a much bigger role in ensuring children are getting a healthy start to the day and getting access to spaces and services to support physical activity and mental health. Family budgets are tight and school budgets are tight, but it’s so important that children stay fed, fit and focused, so we’re delighted to be able to prioritise these activities alongside Tesco with the Stronger Starts programme.”
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