Gordon Joins In With 'Fun Day' Spirit!
Gordon joined the mayor along with dozens of residents and agency representatives at Talbot and Brunswick’s recent Family Fun Day celebrating the expansion of the children’s play area between Gorton Street and Victory Road.
Gordon chatted to residents, volunteers from the parents’ forum and local community and parents involved with the local Sure Start and the primary schools nearby. ‘The effort and success that’s gone into this project in the last six months has been absolutely fantastic,’ he said.
The way people have worked together to transform the unused area into a community garden with a wonderful flower display in Blackpool FC colours and an array of marrows, beans, cabbages and other vegetables right into the heart of Blackpool is a testament to the way people can be brought together. Funding from the Brunswick Councillors Simon Blackburn and Gary Coleman helped provide young peoples’ activities at the Fun Day, the Parents Forum are working very hard to raise money for playground equipment, and the environmental charity Groundwork and our local Reassurance Plus project have co-ordinated the garden development which was put in for a prize at this year’s Blackpool in Bloom project.’
‘It is really important that both Reassurance Plus – which has already had redundancies through Government cuts in funding – and the PCSOs who play such a key role in central Blackpool – aren’t further hit by a second round of coalition cuts from the Treasury. I’m doing everything I can to emphasise both locally and nationally how vital that funding continues to be for us.'
