WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

Weavers Adventure Playground Turns 50!

This year marks 50 years since Weavers Adventure Playground first opened it’s doors. We are asking our loyal supporters to help us raise £50,000, so we can continue making a difference.
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Story

Weavers Adventure Playground started life 50 years ago, in April 1974, in response to community concern about the lack of safe outdoor playing spaces. Local parents came together and enlisted the help of Oxford House, a nearby community centre, raising £64,000 for the building and securing a lease from Tower Hamlets Council.

Ever since then, we have been providing a fun, safe and welcoming space for children and young people across the borough to play, explore, learn new skills and build a sense of community, helping to broaden horizons and create well-rounded adults. Everyone is welcome at Weavers.

We don’t just support children, but are also an essential part of the local community, providing a wide range of services including a twice weekly food bank, a weekly pensioners bingo club and a Bangladeshi women’s group, as well as workshops on anti-social behaviour and knife crime.

Weavers Adventure Playground holds immense significance for the local community.

Over the last 15 years, keeping our doors open has been a challenge. We now rely heavily on the kindness of local volunteers to sustain our service, including play workers, youth workers, parents and trustees – everyone mucks in. As funding becomes harder to secure, we increasingly rely on the efforts and generosity of our corporate and community supporters.

Tower Hamlets now faces the highest child poverty rate in the UK, with 56% of children living in poverty - more than double the rate seen in other London areas. Weavers Adventure Playground has never been needed more.

After 50 years of serving the residents of Bethnal Green and the wider Tower Hamlets community, we are asking our loyal supporters to help us to raise £50,000, so we can continue to make a difference to local families, children and individuals.

Our mission is to continue our work for another 50 years and beyond, but we can’t do it without you.

About the charity

WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

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Weavers Adventure Playground aims to provide a welcoming safe and friendly environment for all 8 – 16 year olds, five days a week, where children come first. We aim to provide a range of play opportunities to suit individual needs. Play workers work to the play principles, where children lead their own play and where they are encouraged to be involved in making choices on how they would like the playground. We aim to be all inclusive and meet the developmental needs of all our users. We intend to support inclusion by meeting the specific requirements of each individual child to enable them to build on their talents, interests, abilities and extend their experiences. Our members of staff are committed to building professional and supportive relationships with our users in order to enable play to happen. Children under 8 are welcome if accompanied by a parent / carer at all times.

Donation summary

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£70.00
+ £17.50 Gift Aid
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£70.00
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Direct donations
£70.00
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