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Children's play: £67.5m in grants for play
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
2 January 2008
Play programmes are to benefit from £67.5m in grants from the Big Lottery Fund under the £124m Children's Play initiative.
More than 200 grants were awarded to local authorities this month, aimed at helping them provide safe, accessible and imaginative play. The largest award of £3.3m was made to Birmingham City Council, covering playworker projects in local open spaces, play centres and a youth cafe. Three new adventure playgrounds are also planned. Rose Jewkes, play development officer at Birmingham council, said, 'It's fantastic news for Birmingham, especially added to the money allocated in the Children's Plan, and it means all...
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