Spalding’s Black Swan pub is throwing its weight behind our campaign to reopen the children’s play area at Glen Park, Surfleet.
Landlady Terri Mason is holding fundraising events – a live band, table top sale and car wash – on Saturday, July 27 and regulars are coming up with other ideas to raise money.
Bosses at Glen Park had to shut the playground on safety grounds and are around £4,000 short of the cash they need to carry out urgent repairs at one the area’s most popular adventure style playgrounds.
Mum of two Terri says her boys Liam (10) and Shane (9) often play there with their pals.
She said: “They absolutely love it and they think the zip wire is amazing. They are just really upset that it its closed.”
The table top sale and car wash have a 12pm start and the live band, Skullduggery, will take to the stage at 3pm.
Terri says Skullduggery perform acoustic covers from the likes of Oasis, The Beatles, Beautiful South and Adele, appealing to a wide range of tastes in music.
The Lincolnshire Free Press has already pledged £500 to the appeal from our children’s fund to reopen the play area at Glen Park. We are appealing for you to donate by sending cheques to us, made out to The Lincolnshire Free Press Children’s Fund, writing the words “play area” on the reverse.
Every penny given will go to Glen Park so the area can be repaired and reopened. Please send your cheques to us at Priory House, The Crescent, Spalding PE11 1AB.
• Rylatt Ford has donated £1,000 and is asking other businesses to do the same.