New project is kick-started to bring fun back to forgotten Paisley play parks

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A project to bring the fun back to a dilapidated and forgotten play park has been launched.Park Life! is a collaboration between RIG Arts and Roar - Connections for Life who have teamed up to improve play parks in Seedhill, with a focus on McKerrell Street play park.The project has been backed by £11,792 funding from the Scottish Government’s community mental health and wellbeing fund, distributed by Engage Renfrewshire.Park Life!

will work with residents using creative activities to see what improvements they would like to see in the parks in Seedhill.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here.And they will have a particular focus on McKerrell Street after the parks chute was recently removed, leaving a climbing frame as the only usable piece of play equipment.Park Life!

will include creative-led mental health support to bring about physical improvements to McKerrell Street Play Park. Specifically, the areas that the project will focus on are intergenerational health walks, wellbeing-led creative workshops and a community wellbeing event.RIG Arts is already working on its Evolve project in Seedhill, a £200,000 18-month project which started in early 2021.Rebecca Livesey-Wright, project coordinator at RIG Arts said: “We’re really excited to be expanding our work in Seedhill, bringing more investment for the local community and hopefully starting a process to get the play parks looking a bit better.“Much needed improvements to the play parks are something we’ve heard from lots of people in Seedhill during our Evolve project and we’re pleased that this funding might help us to generate some ideas for what could be done.”To date, Evolve has held five successful fun days in