Heritage Fund

We were awarded a grant from the Torbay Local Heritage Fund to involve children and families in the local heritage of Torbay focussed around the Geopark and its significance. This was mainly done through playful activities at the Indigos Play & Ecology Centre in Brixham and involved:

A fantastic 25th Birthday Party event for Play Torbay On the 6th of July at Indigos Play & Ecology Centre.  Yes, that's 25 years of play in Torbay!!! The event was a huge success with over 200 people attending having lots of fun including making huge bubbles, balancing on Indigos new slacklines, bouncing on a bouncy castle, enjoying a very wet water slide and helping to create a new willow gateway in Indigos to celebrate Play - Torbay becoming a Torbay Global Geopark Associate.

We commissioned Emberlense to help us produce a film of 25 Years of Play in Torbay hearing different people’s, play memories over the years and additionally children’s dreams for the future. This involved filming at several locations over a few months recording children, parents and Play Torbay staff as well. The film was a great success and premiered at our Christmas Party this year at Beverley Park.

Delivering eight ‘Inquisitive about Indigos’ nature geo play sessions with Weird Sticks across the summer holiday to encourage children and families to come to play, whilst at the same time finding out about the Geopark and its significance.  Vik and Hannah worked with children and adults to create a very special entrance arch to the higher woodland area.  They used different coloured willow and hazel to represent the geological layers and the rock formation of Torbay and children created creatures to live there. They produced an amazing report that captured the realisation of archway over the course of the summer.