In 2009, the Board awarded the Penguin Play Centre a grant to resurface their outdoor concrete play area to make it safer and meet registration requirements.
The Centre is the only not-for-profit play centre in Penguin. The Centre provides:
play centre sessions for children aged 3-5 years, to develop new skills prior to starting school. The sessions, run by a qualified play leader and assistant, are fun two mornings per week;
play group sessions for children 0-5 years to learn social skills and have fun on the equipment. These sessions are supervised by parents; and
the centre is also available for hire for children’s parties.
As a not-for-profit centre, the small income from fees goes to pay the wages of the play leader and assistant. Fundraising is needed for improvements to facilities and to purchase new equipment.
Children from the Centre express their appreciation to the Fund for the newly resurfaced play area
The resurfaced area can now be used safely. The centre has painted a bike track on the area so that the children can ride with ease and learn basic road safety. The centre used some local fundraising from a garage sale to purchase some paint, bikes and road signs to add to the grant.
As Fiona French from the Centre says ”The families have been thrilled by the transformation of the area. It has provided a huge lift to the area and children just love running around and riding their bikes. It has been a HUGE success and an absolute WIN! WIN! WIN! situation.”
