2006 Funday is presently being planned Information to follow

Saturday 13 August 2005
Fun day in the
Playing field

We have had our new playground for over four months, and it is certainly getting used. The observant of you will have noticed that areas have yet to be finished, the teen shelter roof, the gardens, the bike track and the pathway from the main road. The only extra progress was the ramp from Hill Crescent to the path, much to the relief of some of the residents. The ramp went forward as it was financed by Oxfordshire County Council. The stone laid along the path was the residue from this work. The rest has to be financed by the village, and at present we are over budget by approximately £ 5,000.

Mike Peck is currently in negotiations with various funders to assist in making good some of the short fall, and we, as a village, need to raise some more money. In partnership with the Football Club, we intend to run a ‘Fun Day’. This will be on the lines of the successful football tournament that was run during last years festival, with a supporting car boot sale and fete type stalls and displays, culminating in a evening of live music and entertainment. Refreshments and Food will be served through the day. Our aim is to provide an infrastructure for an event that will be open to all of the village. Watch out for the posters and the village website for updates(www.finstock.org.uk).

So the programme for completion is as follows;

Saturday 13 August 2005:
Fun day in the Playing field,
activity all day ending in entertainment and refreshments.

24 August: Path Laying.
The OCC will be restoring the Church Path from the top of the playground to the Church. They are going to leave extra stone to enable us to complete the path and then re-landscape the sides to prevent vehicular access to the playground. A small band of willing volunteers are required in the evening to complete this task.

Teen shelter, planters and bike track: these will be finance as soon as the monies are available, with the teen shelter finished before autumn.

I hope everybody is enjoying the playground, and to continue with pleasure I would like to remind people (little and the not so little ones) that there are litter bins, please use them for what they are intended for and not as cricket wickets, etc. I would like the parents to remind their children against throwing stones in the playground. I have caught a couple of children throwing the crushed stone on to the ‘Cushy Flooring’. It has been remarked upon that some of these stones have ended up near the cars and bikes parked in the street.

As I am writing this, the Wychwood Project are in the process of rebuilding the dry stone wall, please can people refrain from using the wall as short cut in to the playground. The assistance of the Wychwood Project is invaluable to this village and I do not wish for us as a village to loose it.

I have had a recent enquiry of the wood treatment used on our timbers, our wood has been treated with non poisonous compounds and should not be confused with the older method such as such as Chromated copper arsenate (CCA). I hope that is the information that the concern party was looking for, and I thank them for their query.

Have a happy and enjoyable summer and I and the rest of the Finstock Jubilee Playground committee hope to see you on Saturday 13 August 05

WHAT A WEEK
Well Done
Everyone

We have done it!. Thank you to all who turned out to participate in the experience of seeing this project from
 start to finish.

We started the week with an empty space last Saturday and through an enormous amount of hard work have now a fantastic playground for the kids. We will publish a full thank you list later once all the names are collated. But just to amaze you Mike has put a few facts together.

7250 sq yards of playground
90 cubic yards of gravel
250 Cubic Meters of Kushyfall
32,150 Kg of wood and Trex
Just over 12,000 screws
10,000 nails
1275 sq mtrs of Terram matting

92 people signed in on Saturday
and over 100 on Sunday.

See the Pictures, Click here

PICKET FENCE

There is also the Picket Fence appeal, Why not remember your hard work by having your name engraved on a fence panel.
Click here for a form

Michael Peck - Tel: 868735

email

finstockplayarea@btinternet.com


The New Finstock Golden Jubilee Playground

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