{"id":1000717,"date":"2026-06-02T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1000717\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:23:15","slug":"childen-helped-shape-new-play-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1000717\/","title":{"rendered":"Childen helped shape new \u2018play zone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ribbon ready to cut at Coram\u2019s Fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A NEW era of play has begun at Coram\u2019s Fields, where the new Junior Play Zone officially opened last Thursday \u2013 unveiling an inclusive space shaped by the children it was built for, writes Catlin Maskell.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening, chief executive Stuart Woods said: \u201cEvery single day we work with young people to shape everything we do and that is truly unique and ultimately it\u2019s not our park, this is the kids\u2019 park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe development of this play zone is just a perfect example of young people getting involved in everything we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades-old play equipment has been replaced in the Bloomsbury park with inclusive play equipment, designed with help from children at Coram\u2019s Fields and the Young People\u2019s Forum at Great Ormond Street Hospital \u2013 with accessibility and inclusivity at its forefront.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Fulbrook, a former councillor for Holborn and Covent Garden, added: \u201cThe essential thing is always the financing. \u201cIts a great spin-off that the community investment programme can be used for community benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you all to make sure in the future that Coram\u2019s Fields is for the children and the neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-acre charity space raised \u00a369,000 in funding as part of a \u00a3200,000 project.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring wards of King\u2019s Cross, Holborn and Covent Garden also gave donations from community budgets to make the playzone a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ribbon ready to cut at Coram\u2019s Fields A NEW era of play has begun at Coram\u2019s Fields,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[35742,748,108626,5554,393,4884,257,18394,16,15],"class_list":["post-1000717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-bloomsbury","tag-britain","tag-caitlin-maskell","tag-community","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-the-camden-new-journal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116681208991428550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}