FRODSHAM’S Green Gates Community Project has received a major boost with an award of almost £40,000 from the Marshes Community Benefit Fund.
The money will go towards the rejuvenation of the Ship Street Play Area – known locally as Green Gates Park, or “The Backki”, as a multi-generational recreation area.
Originally gifted to the children of Frodsham, the land has been the focus of a three-year campaign by the Green Gates Community Project, to save the land from being re-developed for housing.
The Project has created a stepped plan, culminating with the park becoming a multi-generational recreation area, attractive to families with children under 11, and local older residents.
Last year, the landowner Frodsham Town Council, agreed to uphold the wishes of residents to reinstate the land as a park and commit to maintaining it, alongside the other parks and green spaces in the town.
Now the scheme has received a major boost with an award of almost £40,000 from the Marshes Community Benefit Fund towards building a new equipped play area on the land, including accessible play apparatus.
Green Gates Community Project chairman Diane McNamara said: “We are absolutely delighted with the grant, and are very grateful to the Marshes Community Benefit Fund for seeing the potential for this land. With their help, we are a step closer to realising our vision for a park that will really contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of the local community
”The Project continues to bid for community funding to achieve their goals, which include seating areas and a wildflower meadow. Following a request from GreenGates Community Project, Frodsham Town Council as landowners are applying to protect this covenanted park through Fields In Trust to ensure the land is protected into the future.”
To find out more about Green Gates Park and Green Gates Community Project, visit
www.yourgreengates.com
Ship Street is in Frodsham’s Waterside Ward – one of the most deprived areas of Cheshire West and Chester.