A community triumph in Kilcullen
More details are becoming available about the Grand Opening of the new Community Playground, scheduled for Saturday 18 June.
Original and current committee members, donors, representatives from local organisations, and some of the original Transition Year students who first mooted this project six years ago, will all take part. The ribbon cutting will take place at 2:30pm.
Entertainment will happen for all the family, with music, face painting, entertainers, and more. All are welcome.
The need for the playground was cited, in 2002 and 2010 town surveys, as one of the main improvements the people of Kilcullen wanted.
"This is a triumph for a community working together to enhance the life of all the families in the town and wider area," says a spokesperson for the project, for which a Committee worked since May 2005. "The Committee launched a fundraising drive in November 2009 to get the last €50,000 needed to bring the project to completion."
The group closed local fundraising in July 2010, having surpassed its target of €16,000 from fundraising events, collections tins, bag packing and donations. The Kildare Leader Partnership topped-up the funding to raise the rest of the €50,000. Kildare County Council budgeted the remaining €200,000 for the playground.
Scoil Bhríde provided land to the Council for the playground which has its entrance through the Community Centre car park. The project also includes improved road access onto the Newbridge Road and extra car parking in the area.
