WELCOME

Welcome to the website of the Friends of Endcliffe Playground. We’re here to develop, improve and support Endcliffe Park Playground, through raising awareness, funds and practical help. We love our park and wanted to make the playground a better, safer place for children to play.

Where is Endcliffe Park? We’re located 2 miles south-west of Sheffield City Centre, in S11, and are one of the the Porter Valley Parks, a public ‘green corridor’ from the city out to the edge of the Peak National Park.

Friends of Endcliffe Playground wins an award!

Friends of Endcliffe Playground came Joint Winners at The Sheffield First Environment Community Awards and fought off some pretty stiff competition. Our winning framed certificate will be on display in the Endcliffe Café for all to see.Just so you know, the scheme aims to recognise the contribution of local community to the quality of Sheffield 's environment.  The awards showcase good practice across Sheffield and serve to inspire and encourage other people living in Sheffield to develop environmental projects within their local communities. 
Thank you all for your support!

iT's official - All the hard work is over and the playground opened on tuesday 4th november!

A big thank you to everyone who has helped this happen!

We celebrated our new playground!

Following it's £293,000 total refurbishment, Endcliffe Playground opened it's gates to the public on Tuesday 4 th November with an official opening ceremony which was held on Saturday 22 nd November. The Friends of Endcliffe Playground have worked tirelessly for three and half years to raise the funds and realise their ambitions for a visually pleasing and physically challenging playground that caters for children of all abilities. To reflect the playground's unique woodland setting and Sheffield 's heritage, the new playground is themed on stone and steel incorporating an environmental theme. It has been sympathetically landscaped to blend in with the natural environment and boasts a stunning artist designed wooden fence, whose ribbon form takes its inspiration from the flow of the Porter Brook, and a quiet artist designed ‘maze' garden area inside the playground allows for imaginative play and incorporates educational elements such as a brass rubbing trail of flora and fauna.

The play equipment in the playground was selected following an extensive consultation process in which 500 adults and children had their say. There is something to appeal to everyone from the very young to the old. Fun equipment to test balancing, rolling and swinging skills and plants and a nature trail to stimulate the senses. There are two challenging multi-modular climbing frames for the more able, an artificial climbing boulder for the adventurous, a smaller climbing frame for toddlers, a see-saw, swings and a roundabout but this time with a difference – it is big enough for a wheelchair. There are also specially designed swings with special needs children in mind. There is an amphitheatre for teaching and playing in and a large sundial (which is to be installed in the next couple of weeks).

Madeleine Thomas, Chair says ‘We very much appreciate everyone's patience whilst the work was being done and hope that they find the wait was worth it. We want this fantastic facility to be used by all of Sheffield 's children for many years to come. Sheffield City Council, with whom we have been working together on this project are committed to maintain the playground and some of the funds we've raised have been provided to the council for that purpose.' Funds for the playground were raised from a number of sources including the Big Lottery, Veoila Environmental Trust, Hallam FM Cash For Kids and Arts Council England.

For more information on the new playground please contact Madeleine Thomas Mob: 07986 578 651 or if you would like to donate please visit www.giftshare.com/Endcliffe
Thanks for your support!
All of us at Friends of Endcliffe Playground

We need your feedback

Would you like to tell us what YOU think of the new Endcliffe Park playground?  All the way through the project we have consulted with the public, groups and experts and now we'd like to hear from you, the users of the playground, to help us ascertain whether the original objectives have been met.  Feel free to forward this feedback form to your friends and colleagues – the more feedback we get the better.  There are only two proviso's 1) that you knew what the playground was like before work started and 2) that you have visited the playground since it's opening on 4 th November.  We will also be putting some forms in the café and hope to encourage more people to comment and decide. We hope to collate all this information and then send back to both our funders and Sheffield Council.  We hope the data will also be useful to other community groups when considering their priorities and projects.

All data will be dealt with in the strictest confidence and only the summary results will be passed on to these third parties. If you could return your completed form to Jo Clark by 14th December 2008, that would be great. Thanks again!

hoW YOU CAN HELP

  • Become a member of Friends of Endcliffe playground (download our membership form (166K Word doc)) and persuade 3 of your friends to join the group.
  • Donate at www.giftshare.com/Endcliffe
    We have set up a page on giftshare.com.  Why not send it out to your friends and family and see if they would like to donate a few pounds to the playground fund? 
  • Contribute to our newsletter
  • Help create and maintain the displays for our new notice board
  • Help raise community awareness and help with fund-raising events
  • Attend monthly meetings and share your thoughts, ideas and expertise

However small the contribution you think you could make, please be in touch.