The Matheson Place Play Park group formed in 2021 with a vision to create a brand new accessible, play park facility in a derelict site at Matheson Place, Portree .

Residents Tiffany Maberley, Sarah Nisbit and Fiona Stoddart have formed a group under the umbrella of The Portree and Braes Community Trust and are receiving support from some other lovely ladies from The Highland Council Fort William headquarters to help drive the project forward. The site has been mostly cleared (by Gary Shinnie and Alex Latton and his team and Robert Macdonald) and good progress is being made overall! There are so many processes in a project like this it takes time to move through the stages however with a team of people bringing a whole range of different skills to the table we are hopeful that we will achieve our goal.

Weve so far had lots of meetings and managed to have a 3D plan of what the playpark will look like by Kompan, who also supplied Kyleakins new playpark in 2021. Now the fundraising begins! We plan to go to grant funders for most of the funds to create the playpark however we must show we are also fundraising as a community too. This helps us show in funding applications that we are serious about the project and are working hard to achieve it!

The objective is to have a new playpark in place before the end of 2022 and we would like to raise £5000 to help kick start this project. All funds raised will go directly towards the construction and maintenance of a new playpark and donations are hugely appreciated, large and small! If you would help to run your own fundraiser for the project we'd love to hear from you!

All who have worked on this so far have done so voluntarily and we could not have got this far without this team! So huge thanks to all involved.

Now the fundraising stage begins!

For further information search for O.A.G Matheson Place Playpark on Facebook or go to www.portreeandbraes.org/portree-activity-spaces