Leconfield Playing Fields Association has been successful in obtaining £27,177 funding for new playground equipment from the national £30m Armed Forces Community Covenant Grant Scheme.
Moreover, in securing this funding, it allowed a further £16,523 to be secured via the East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Sport, Play and Arts Community Development Fund, together with the funds raised by the fundraising by the Leconfield Playing Association the play park is now complete.
Mike Wray the Chairman of Leconfield Playing Association, said “We only set the PFA up 2 years ago with a target of about £70,000 to refurbish the whole playground. We though it would take 10 years, but thanks to my hard working committee arranging many fund raising events and the generosity of our Parish Council and several grant awarding bodies such as the MOD’s Community Covenant, the Big Lottery and the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council, we have completed the job.”
“The Community Covenant supplied our biggest grant of which bought the recently installed slide, roundabout and activity net, for which we offer our grateful thanks. We are very pleased that many more children are now using the site.”
Staff from the Defence School of Transport have also played their part in assisting in the submission, Colonel Rob Peacock, Commandant of the Defence School of Transport, Leconfield said “I am really pleased to be associated with this project which was set in train before I arrived – it is a very good example at a very local level of the community covenant “in action”. It is so gratifying to see the obvious enjoyment children from the Leconfield and DST communities get from it.”
The grant was applied for through the East Riding Community Covenant which was signed by 23 representatives from the military and civilian communities on 1 July 2012 at the Beverley Armed Forces Day. The Covenant recognises the armed forces community in East Riding and the key aim is to redress the disadvantages that the Armed Forces community may face in comparison to other citizens and to recognise the sacrifices that they have made.
