Yelvertoft Village Hall

28/03/2025

🎉 Ready to support a great cause?
We’re looking for prizes for a raffle we are holding at the last Saturday cafe in April! Whether it’s a product, service or experience, or even an unwanted gift you’ve had sitting in the house for too long —every donation makes a difference. Please message or drop a comment if you’re interested in being part of our raffle prize lineup! Let’s make our village play area refurbishment happen! 🙌✨

A massive thank you to all of the amazing businesses and people who have already offered prizes! 🫶🏼👏🏼

27/03/2025

🚨 Exciting news Yelvertoft! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce that plans are well underway to do full refurbishment of our village’s children’s play area! 🛠️🎉
This project is vital for our community, and we can’t wait to start fundraising and spreading the word. Check out an example of what the refurbished play area could look like below! 👇
Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks — we’ll need your support to make this happen! 💪

26/02/2025

In the Pocket Park we're building a dead hedge from the prunings of the fruit trees in the community orchard and invading blackthorn. If you've any spare time please join us, it's sociable, outdoors and great for the environment - message Roger Griffiths and get started!

22/02/2025

It was great to see a yellow brimstone butterfly today which appeared in the sunshine. A harbinger of warmer weather perhaps? If you're able to help us look after the Pocket Park we're carrying out a number of tasks which are gratifying, helps our local environment and it's healthy work. We've set up a WhatsApp group so you can contact anyone in the group to go and help us when it suits you. Please get in touch with Roger Griffiths if you can spare any time. Thank you.

25/01/2025

Play area refurbishment
Here's an example of the two kinds of bound rubber surfaces we hope to install. One is a fine grain finish and the other looks like a bound bark mulch. They allow access in all weather, are sustainable as they are mostly made from recycled rubber and being colourful, they look good. Let's hope we can raise the funds.

15/01/2025

Here's another important insight into the proposed play area. Especially for youngsters with learning and mobility impairment there will be a specialist roundabout and picnic table accessible to wheelchairs. This inclusive equipment will help physical development – motor skills and general health, social development – interaction and forming friendships, and empathy to appreciate diversity and value others, and cognitive development – sensory stimulation, speech and language skills. This is really needed to update our play area for anyone in our community. Please support us!!

08/01/2025

Play area project
This is what we hope to install if we can raise the funds - and this is just one piece of exciting equipment to suit 5 to 13 year old children. Wouldn't this be great!

07/01/2025

Our play area refurbishment project is so important for a child's development and the NHS clearly backs this up:
"Playing is very important for your child’s development and wellbeing. Playing can be a great way for your child to exercise but playing also helps children learn. They learn how to interact with their surroundings, find their interests and learn about the world around them. It’s also a great way to build a relationship with your child and create memories together."
Please like and share if you agree.
So let's hope we can raise the funds!

07/01/2025

Our project to replace and upgrade the play area has reached an important stage. We now have pledges for a third of the cost and have just submitted a grant application for the rest. Please "like" this post and comment if you agree with the many others in the community that this is a valuable proposal to support. We need all the help we can get!
In the next Village News in February look out for a more detailed report on progress.

26/12/2024

Anyone's support for our project to replace most of the play equipment will be really important for our grant applications. Please contact us if you could write us a headed letter in support of our proposal to update the play area. Your help in this way could be crucial. Thank you!!!

Following the survey sent around the village a few months ago we are now fund raising to replace a lot of the play equipment. Further progress to come soon!

12/12/2024

Following the survey sent around the village a few months ago we are now fund raising to replace a lot of the play equipment. Further progress to come soon!