Jailey Field Play Park launched in Armley

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The New Wortley Community Association have proudly launched new play facilities at Oak Road Recreation Ground, also known as the Jailey Field, just beside HMP Prison Leeds in Armley.

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00:00Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Edwards, I'm the Chief Executive Officer at New Worley Community

00:05Centre and we are here today on our local green space which is Jayley Field, otherwise

00:10known as Oak Road Rec Ground and we're here for the opening of the play park.

00:14It's been an incredible long journey actually, it's involved lots and lots of different partners

00:19so we've worked very closely with the Safer Stronger Communities team at Leeds City Council

00:23who supported our recent application to Viola Environmental who has had the faith in us

00:30to actually fund this park but really the hard work began a long time ago.

00:35We have a youth board in New Worley that are based at the New Worley Community Centre and

00:39they are really the youth of the children and young people living in this area and throughout

00:43their constant consultation over the past few years the recurring theme has always been

00:48we want a safe inclusive place for our children to play and so they gathered all the evidence

00:53that we needed to put this bid in today and we're just so pleased that the whole community

00:59are just going to come together and hopefully have a wonderful day.

01:01It was more run down and a bit tattered so we wanted to make a change with it and so

01:09I joined the youth club to make a change and I'm really proud and glad that we've made

01:15it safer for people to go and just give the younger part of the community something to do.

01:22We have lots of high-rise accommodation in the local area in New Worley and finding somewhere

01:27to play is so important to those families. It provides a space for families to come together

01:31and interact. We do lots of events on the field around the festival and children's

01:36picnics and things so yeah there's a great legacy here and we hope that the play park

01:41really is a bit of a catalyst for other investment. We'd really like to get the path that goes

01:46around the edge of the park done so that we've got a really good cycle track and walking

01:50track. There's so much really that can be done with this space so this really, the play

01:55park, is a really important step but we feel it's just the first step.

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