Always on
This project successfully funded on 21st August 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Connected by Play: Glencorse Centre Park Appeal
Penicuik, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Aim
To reopening our playpark to create a safe, inclusive space where children play and our community connects, grows, and thrives together.
🌱 A Small Charity with a Big Heart
At the Glencorse Centre, we’re more than a building, we are a lifeline. As the only local community hub within walking distance for many families in Auchendinny, we offer a welcoming, inclusive space where children can play and parents can connect. But right now, our outdoor playpark is closed due to disrepair, leaving our youngest children without a safe place to play.
🛑 Our Park is Closed – And Our Community Feels It
Our current park is outdated, unsafe, and not suitable for all abilities. It's heart-breaking to see families walk past a locked gate, knowing there's nowhere else nearby for pre-schoolers to play safely. With a new 400-home development underway and 250 local people signing a petition to reopen the park, the message is clear: our community needs this.
🌈 Our Vision: A Playpark for All
We want to rebuild the park from the ground up, creating a safe, inclusive, and engaging space where children of all abilities can play freely, and families can connect outdoors. It will complement our existing early years programmes, like:
Kiddie Connections toddler group
Baby nurture groups and our weekly Breastfeeding Cafe
Football and dance tots sessions
Community Cafe and Garden
Plots 4 Tots gardening club
Together, these groups help reduce isolation, build friendships, and support early development but they need a safe, outdoor space to truly thrive.
💬 What Our Community Says
“I walk past the park with my daughter every day. She asks why she can’t go in like she used to - it’s so sad. We don’t drive, and there’s nowhere else to go nearby. This park would mean everything to us.”
— Local Auchendinny parent
💖 How You Can Help
Your donation will go directly towards rebuilding the Glencorse playpark, with modern, inclusive equipment designed for all ages and abilities. Every pound gets us closer to bringing play back to the heart of our village.
Please share, support, and help us build something special - for today’s children, and for generations to come.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made