Revivify Manor Park! Phase 1

We have now had an amazing 165 pledges to the new playground project. 33 today alone! If any of you have been meaning to pledge but haven't got around to it- please do asap- The Mayor of London is reviewing all campaigns tomorrow so keep you fingers crossed for good news on that. www.spacehive.com/revivifymanorpark-ournewplayground

We have had such brilliant support for the new campaign 'Revivify Manor Park- Our New Playground' - 116 pledges in only 3 weeks! www.spacehive.com/revivifymanorpark-ournewplayground That's truly fantastic, but if you haven't yet pledged - please do. If you have, could you coax everyone in your circle of friends, family and colleagues to pledge too. The Mayor of London's Team will be reviewing all pitches this Monday 24th Feb so the more pledges we have from the community the better! THANK YOU

If you want to know more about the current crowdfund campaign for the new playground, or have ideas or questions about it- why not pop in to the Cottage Brew Cafe on Church road Thursday 13th Feb 6pm-8pm for a chat over a tea/coffee/prosecco. We now have over 90 pledges and almost £2,500 raised so please spread the word and pledge toward the new playground campaign if you haven't done so already; www.spacehive.com/revivifymanorpark-ournewplayground

You were a great help in enabling us to reach our target for Revivify Manor Park- Phase 1 last year. That phase, you may remember, was to design a plan for the future vision of how the park could be- and what a great plan it was. If you still haven't seen it or want to remind yourself, go to www.ourmanorpark.org.uk The purpose of this message is to ask for your help again. Tomorrow we go live to the public with Phase 2 of Revivify- 'Our New Playground'. We plan to build an amazing brand new playground with separate sections for younger and older children. You can view more info about it on the link below. If all 125 of you who pledged last time did so again, that would be brilliant and if each of you could coax just one new person to pledge- we'd hit 250 pledges with ease! Playgrounds are expensive we've discovered so our target is a hefty one- £195,000 but Kingston Council have pledged £140,000 already. £55k to find... Remember the Mayor of London and big backers need to see that the community is behind this project, so please go to www.spacehive.com/revivifymanorpark-ournewplayground and pledge now. Then spread the word and help make it happen! Thank you.

Big news everyone- Phase 2 of 'Revivify Manor Par' - Our New Playground', is just about to be launched. The new page has been constructed and costs/legal requirements are going through verification as we speak. It's a big target and we'll need your help. Watch out for the email!

Just a friendly reminder that tonight's the night to have your say about future plans for the park. Please come down and meet the FofMP committee and our landscape designers- Outerspace, to hear their thoughts and air your views. Shiraz Mirza Hall 7-9pm. See you there I hope.

Following applications and then interviews the Friends of Manor Park committee have chosen landscape architects 'Outerspace' to design the 'masterplan' which over the next 5 years, will Revivify Manor Park. As promised, there will be workshops and consultations with the community - the 1st of which will be held in the Shiraz Mirza Hall on May 14th 7pm-9pm. The evening will consist of a short presentation by Outerspace on their design analysis of the Park and then an informal and interactive workshop where you get to air your views and ideas. Armed with this information, along with feedback from consultations with the Park stakeholders, workshops with infant and secondary schools and questionnaires, they will create an initial plan. Please join us and make you views known so they get the best idea of what everyone wants. You were kind enough to pledge to get this plan done- so please take this opportunity to get involved in its design. Go to https://ourmanorpark.org.uk/about-our-work/revivify-manor-park/ to find out more and please go to the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/375524019720483/ and mark your interest plus invite friends in the community too. We look forward to seeing you there.

The brief as to what we want the 4 potential Landscape design companies to consider when pitching to us, will go out to them by Tuesday 12th March. We hope to have chosen one by 3rd April and then their workshops and consultations can begin. We will hopefully have a final design based on the community feedback by mid June. We're getting there!...