"Supreme effort" helped secure playground's future

MERIDEN Adventure Playground has been “humbled and amazed” by the support it has received from the local community.
In its annual report, the facility spoke about the extraordinary effort to remain open following the loss of local authority funding.
“This time a year ago, we were thinking the playground may have to close,” said the document.
“We had a crazy summer doing everything we could to raise funds – fun days, headshaves, quizzes, discos, second hand clothes sales, car washes, begging raffle prizes from local businesses...
“And lots of local mums and dads got involved and came up with new ideas and made a supreme effort helping in both the café and throughout the summer playscheme.”
As was recently revealed by Other Side of Solihull, the playground has now secured sufficient funding for salaries to last until March 2021.
While it still needs to find ways to meet other costs, such as utility bills and paying holiday workers, it said that “the hardest obstacles had been overcome”.