Thurton Playground Project

10/10/2021

🐝🐝 Wasp Warning 🐝🐝

Just to let you all know that we have discovered a wasps nest under the back left wheel (as you look at it) of the train. The council will be contacted tomorrow to come and remove it for us, as with the warm weather they are still active.
In the mean time it will be fenced off tomorrow and we just ask you to be careful and to please be aware it is there.
Thank you

08/04/2021

We are really sad to once again be reporting vandalism to our lovely park...
The swings have again been thrown over the top of the bar and broken the plastic spikes, these have then been left on the grass.
This is the second time that it has happened over the Easter Holidays.
They are not only going to now need replacing but sharp plastic spikes laying around the playground could easily injure a child who might pick them up.
Please can we ask you to all be aware and speak to anyone that you may see doing this. The park is a wonderful community amenity and we are incredibly lucky to have it in our little villages. Let’s work together to keep it amazing for everyone xx

16/07/2020

Unfortunately for the last two nights there has been some vandalism at our park.
It is really sad to see this happen when so many people worked so hard to make this park possible.
Please don’t swing the swings around the top bars as it breaks the bird spikes above. These not only have to be replaced but they were left on the floor where they could easily be found by a young child (they are very sharp).
Last night it was the toddler swings and the night before was the hexagonal swings.
Thank you for all you help and we hope everyone is enjoying being able to use the park again!

04/07/2020

It’s been a long time since we’ve posted and we hope that everyone is happy and healthy during these times.

We have a good news story 🙂
Our new park sign is up!

The winner of the sign competition is Molly Stone who drew the lovely picture, complete with rainbow which, I’m sure you’ll agree, is very fitting at the moment! 🌈

24/09/2019

Limited number of tickets available. Please purchase direct from the George & Dragon.
It's going to be a good night!!!!! 🕺💃🌭🍔

Please support this fantastic local event arranged by the 'Thurton Big Dogs'. All profits will go towards our Playground Project. Thank you 'Thurton Big Dogs'!!!

23/09/2019

We would like to thank Jill Chadwick, her family and friends, who have kindly donated an additional, much needed picnic bench to our park in memory of Jill's late husband Ivan Chadwick.
It's a privilege to be able to honour Ivan's memory in this way. Ivan spent many years helping out at the village hall attending and supporting community events!!!

06/09/2019

Please support this fantastic local event arranged by the 'Thurton Big Dogs'. All profits will go towards our Playground Project. Thank you 'Thurton Big Dogs'!!!

04/06/2019

T E S C O T O KE N S

Don’t forget to carry on shopping in BECCLES Tesco and asking for the blue tokens.

The more tokens we have in our ‘pot’ the more likely we are to win the £4000 prize money to go towards our new bike path at the park.

Every token counts 😜

01/05/2019

TESCO BLUE TOKEN SCHEME

We will be one of three chosen charities in the BECCLES blue token scheme!!

Please if you shop in there, pop you’re token in for us. We are hoping to win the full award of £4,000 to go towards a bike track at the park.

Please share and spread the word 💙

08/04/2019

The moment......

08/04/2019

G R A N D O P E N I N G
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Thank you so so much to everyone who attended the parks opening, I hope you agree when we say it was the most wonderful community gathering and brought so many people from Thurton, Ashby and the surrounding areas together.

It has taken an awful lot of hard work (and fun!) to get to this point and we are so grateful and full of gratitude to absolutely everyone who played a part, big or small.

Please now play football, shoot some hoops, have picnics, hold on for dear life on the zip wire, balance on the trim trail and meet new people at the new park 😀🌷☀️⚽️🏀💚

Feel free to tag yourselves 🙂