Chiefs bid for play cash.CHILDREN'S play areas in South Tyneside South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear in North East England. It is bordered by four other boroughs - Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, and North Tyneside to the north. are set for a revamp as council chiefs bid for more than pounds 300,000 funding. The Big Lottery Fund The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) is a grant-making organisation in the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland) created by the Government to administer the funding of good causes following the creation of the National Lottery. announced in March last year that it was allocating pounds 155m to support children's play initiatives. South Tyneside Council was handed a provisional pounds 457,000, and a list of projects has now been drawn up, based on areas of greatest need. New play areas are earmarked for Horsley Hill, South Shields South Shields, city (1991 pop. 86,488), South Tyneside, NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River. It is a significant port. Shipbuilding and marine engineering are the main industries; chemicals and paints are manufactured. , and Hedworth, Jarrow, at a cost of pounds 200,000. The bid also includes pounds 100,000 for a new community park in Boldon Colliery, where residents and ward councillors have been trying for years to improve facilities. A proposal for a new park recently received planning permission planning permission Noun formal permission granted by a local authority for the construction, alteration, or change of use of a building planning permission n → licencia de obras and includes provision for a new children's play area. The council's mobile play team will be extended across the borough,. If the bid is successful, money will also be spent on setting up an Easter programme of activities for children with special needs, at Greenfields School Greenfields School is a private school on eleven wooded acres on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England. It is unique as being the only Study Tech-based private school of its kind in the area. in Hebburn. |
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