New play area at Trinity
The Veolia Environmental Trust have awarded Trinity Community Arts Ltd a grant of £23,000 towards the creation of a new, safe, play area within the centre’s garden. The play area will be used by the many existing users of the centre. It is hoped that it will also attract more local families by creating a natural, fun, safe play area within an inner-city urban environment, where currently there is nothing similar this side of the M32. The project has also been supported by a £2,000 Community First grant awarded by the Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management Team.
The Trinity Centre provides a range of much-needed services and facilities. It provides a space for the whole community, including those who may face barriers to participation such as young people who have been disengaged from mainstream services, refugee communities, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities and long-term unemployed and financially disadvantaged people.
The play area will use high quality, sustainable materials and will include environmentally-conscious features which will inspire and challenge children and young people. The project will form part of the wider Trinity Development Project funded by the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Buildings Fund, designed to improve and increase the centre’s overall provision to the community.
The Veolia Environmental Trust award grants to community and environmental projects through the Landfill Communities Fund. The grant was awarded by our Board at its recent quarterly meeting, where it awarded a total of £1.2m to 47 projects across the UK. Their projects team will now start the process of working with Trinity Community Arts to develop their final plans and get the project off the ground.
Centre Manager, Emma Harvey, said, “We are delighted that The Veolia Environmental Trust has awarded this grant and we are looking forward to the project getting underway. The centre’s garden is a rare green space in an inner-city locality and it is great that we can improve it to encourage wider use by the community.”
The Executive Director of The Veolia Environmental Trust, McNabb Laurie, added, “Projects like this one make a real difference to our communities and our Board awarded this grant on its merits. We will now start working with Trinity Community Arts to develop a project that will really benefit the community of Bristol.”
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