Wednesday 1 September 2010

The quest has ended but the playgrounds will go on!

The 40 playgrounds quest has ended but the fundraising continues till the end of September. If you would like to donate please use www.supportunicef.org.uk/40playgrounds. 100% of our online fundraising goes to the Unicef Emergency Fund, which helps in situations like the current crisis in Pakistan following the recent floods.

Although the 40 days quest has ended we will probably continue to update the blog when we visit a playground that hasn't yet been included in the blog. We know of lots of playgrounds we haven't visited in the 40 days.

Thanks for your interest.

Thomas, Anna, Anne-Marie and Simon

More Playground 40


Couldn't resist adding this photo of Anna and two friends, with moustaches made from foil left from the picnic. Moustaches Hercule Poirot would be proud of!

More Playground 40





We were really pleased quite a few friends came to join Thomas and Anna for their last playground. Some of them are in this photo. Thanks everyone for coming!

Playground 40 - The end of the Quest!

They've done it! Thomas and Anna have visited 40 playgrounds in 40 days, raising over £400 for Unicef so far. Playground 40 was Page Park, visited for 3 1/2 hours on Wednesday 1st September. Thomas and Anna are posing for an Evening Post photographer in this photo, hopefully an article on Thursday or Friday may raise some more money for Unicef.

Playground 39


Playground 39 was at Cattle Country, visited on Tuesday 31st August. The playground area included a fantastic "Childrens' Berkeley Castle" shown in this photo, also a tunnel slide that went under the ground and another outdoor slide, large balancing see-saw things, zipwire and more. As well as the outdoor play Thomas and Anna liked the 2 soft play barns, the large inflatable jumping pillow (I had to go on with Anna and believe me staying upright was hard work), the train ride to the animals and the lunch, which came with surprise cow figures in the kids' lunches.