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By The Lympne Playing Field and Village Hall
Help us to build a 400m track in Lympne playing field to encourage accessible exercise, activity and wellbeing for the whole village!
We have a lovely spacious grass playing field that is inaccessible to many especially during the winter. We want to install an all weather safe accessible 400m walking/running track to utilise the field for exercise all year round. The track will be made of self-binding gravel, and circles around the outside of the field. This is part of a bigger project to redevelop the playing field into a park; with play and exercise equipment, benches, and landscaping. These areas will be linked by this path. We consulted with local residents and found overwhelming support for the project. So far we have organised volunteers to plant 40 trees on the field, formed volunteer groups to water them and to maintain our existing play equipment, and have had a fantastic response to our local fundraising appeal. This path forms the backbone of our redevelopment plan. It also provide a car free route to visit Lympne Conservation area and access a number of footpaths from the main part of the village.
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Why it's a great idea:
We are creating a public space for the village, to socialise and exercise. The track will provide a safe place for children to ride bikes and play, enable wheelchair users to use the park, and people of all ages to walk and run. 4 laps of the track will mean people have competed the daily mile, and the track will also link the play areas and areas of planting. Benches spaced along the path will provide opportunities for people to meet and talk, and for people with reduced mobility to rest. Lympne's identity as a village is about to change significantly as a new town is built on our border. We want to create a focal centre for the village, for events, formal and informal sports and for leisure. The parks and public spaces of the new town are located at a distance from Lympne, and our current play facilities are lacking. Our new park will be a space where people can relax, exercise, play meet, learn about our village's history, volunteer in community gardening and join activity groups.
Steps to get it done:
We have run an 'adopt a bench scheme' and fundraised the cost of the benches from residents in the village, raised almost £2000 in cash donations from local people and been granted approximately £4500 in total from Kent Community Foundation and The Cooperative Community Fund towards the costs of the works. A local landscaping firm has provisionally offered to donate labour and discounted plant hire to build the track, and we are in the process of discussing this offer with them.
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Works have commenced to install our accessible track around our playing field this week. We’re hugely grateful to a small team of volunteers that have put in the hours in all weather to set out, turf cut and put in some real hard graft shifting over 800 meters of turf! It is no easy feat and has saved a huge amount of set out time, ready for official contractors to start on site Monday morning. Turfs and spoil will be left to settle and will soon form our new undulating bike circuit for the village.
Congratulations and many thanks to all those who pledged towards this exciting project, we smashed our 26k target with KCC contributing £9,064 in match funding and £2,000 coming from KCC Covid Fund but the rest was raised from our brilliant community's hard work fundraising and pockets, through plants sold from stalls, garage safari and our Welcome Back Event! Well done everyone, thank-you so much for your support and pledges!
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Whoop, 60 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Total £26,091
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