Foxhole National Play Day Wednesday 03 August:
Foxhole Playday was very special because it was our first play session on a scrap of land that has been ‘gifted’ by the school and ‘liberated’ by local people in the WILD FOX Community Development Project who are turning it into an adventure playground for their children. Local people had strimmed the land, local children had litter picked to clear the rubbish and local people young and older came together and played on the land.
Over the summer SKY Television came and built the most fantastic tree house with the Foxhole Community at WILD FOX as part of their GREAT TREE HOUSE CHALLENGE which will be shown after the Simpsons in November!! Everyone is very excited – there’s been a lot of talk about ‘what the children want’ for many years and now because of a very dynamic group of people – young and old – ACTION is the name of the game and FOXHOLE is getting some, As one lovely besuited man from Torbay’s Natural Environment Services said “It’s Foxholes turn!”
WILD FOX will grow into an adventure playground that will be free to ALL local children for, we hope, many years to come and this was our first play so Playday for us marks the beginning of WILD FOX Adventure Play (or Community Development Project when we’re writing funding bids!)
