Staff and pupils from Stepaside Community Playgroup are delighted to have received a donation from the Co-op Community Fund.

Stepaside Community Playgroup applied to be a local cause with the Co-op in Kilgetty. Every Co-op member can log in to their account and select a local cause to support. Every time members shop at Co-op, one per cent of what they spend on selected own-branded products and services goes to help fund community projects where they live.

Therefore the Co-op Local Community Fund helps pay for local projects that their members care about. Co-op also give all money raised from shopping bag sales to their causes, to help even more.

The project in which the school applied for support was to relay a soft play area in our playgroup playground. It was becoming unsafe and in urgent need of attention.

“We were so surprised to receive the notification that we had been awarded such a substantial donation from the Co-op Community Fund. We could never have imagined this amount and we are very grateful to all of the members of the Co-op who selected us as their cause and to the Co-op for their donation from bag sales,” said Mr. Paul Harries, registered person for Stepaside Community Playgroup.

“Both of these funding schemes are very welcome and essential to help groups such as ours complete projects that, in our case, will benefit the children in our care for many years to come,” added Mrs. Kate Chandler-Hall, assistant headteacher at Stepaside CP School.

Pictured are Mr Paul Harries, headteacher of Stepaside CP School where the playgroup is based, pupil Sophie Allen and her mum Kim and staff from the Co-op , Kilgetty.