Schools playground project
Trinity breathes new life into children’s playground!
Friday 26th May 2006, Coventry
Trinity is working with Business in the Community and its Coventry Cares programme to undertake a team challenge to breathe new life into the playground at Grangehurst Primary School.
The Challenge
Grangehurst Primary, located in the north of Coventry, is one of the city’s largest primary schools with over 400 pupils. The school has a large tarmac playground bounding three sides of the school. Ball games are not permitted on the playground due to the many windows, so children can only play ball games on the field, weather permitting.
The children are encouraged to play games which require imagination and interaction and playground markings are seen as an important stimulus. Staff at the school feel that restoration of some existing markings plus other fresh ideas will bring new life to the playground.
Dave Hughes, Regional Operations Manager, Coventry Cares commented “Trinity’s staff enthusiastically took on the challenge of improving the playground and everyone at Grangehurst was very excited about the idea. The day was a huge success and everyone was very pleased with the results, hopefully the children will see the benefits especially over the coming summer months!”
Chris Drinan from Trinity who has organised the event has said “The day was great fun for everyone involved, it gave them satisfaction that they could give something to the children at Grangehurst Primary and also gave them the chance to pretend to be a kid again!”
About Business in the Community
Business in the Community is a unique movement in the UK of 800 member companies. Its purpose is to inspire, challenge, engage and support business in continually improving its positive impact on society. Together its member companies employ over 15.7 million people across 200 countries. In the UK, our members employ over 1 in 5 of the private sector workforce.
Cares is Business in the Community's national employee volunteering programme. It connects employees with their communities through a range of volunteering opportunities, designed to make employee volunteering easier and more effective for all those involved, including companies, employees and communities.
Cares designs and manages programmes that meet the needs of businesses, employees & local communities, in a way, which is effectively managed and easy to access. Cares is a cost effective and highly successful means of introducing and managing employee volunteering.
For more information please visit www.bitc.org.uk.
About Trinity Expert Systems plc
Trinity Expert Systems is a leading provider of IT-led business solutions, dedicated to serving the local government and health, legal, utilities, financial services, consumer retail, primary manufacturing and media sectors. Trinity’s services address every stage of the IT life cycle, from consultancy through system design and development, deployment and integration to application support. Its core services are underpinned by analysis, design, support, user training and project management. For more information, visit www.tesl.com.