The New Wortley Community Association have proudly launched new play facilities at Oak Road Recreation Ground, also known as the Jailey Field, just beside HMP Prison Leeds in Armley.
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00:00Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Edwards, I'm the Chief Executive Officer at New Worley Community
00:05Centre and we are here today on our local green space which is Jayley Field, otherwise
00:10known as Oak Road Rec Ground and we're here for the opening of the play park.
00:14It's been an incredible long journey actually, it's involved lots and lots of different partners
00:19so we've worked very closely with the Safer Stronger Communities team at Leeds City Council
00:23who supported our recent application to Viola Environmental who has had the faith in us
00:30to actually fund this park but really the hard work began a long time ago.
00:35We have a youth board in New Worley that are based at the New Worley Community Centre and
00:39they are really the youth of the children and young people living in this area and throughout
00:43their constant consultation over the past few years the recurring theme has always been
00:48we want a safe inclusive place for our children to play and so they gathered all the evidence
00:53that we needed to put this bid in today and we're just so pleased that the whole community
00:59are just going to come together and hopefully have a wonderful day.
01:01It was more run down and a bit tattered so we wanted to make a change with it and so
01:09I joined the youth club to make a change and I'm really proud and glad that we've made
01:15it safer for people to go and just give the younger part of the community something to do.
01:22We have lots of high-rise accommodation in the local area in New Worley and finding somewhere
01:27to play is so important to those families. It provides a space for families to come together
01:31and interact. We do lots of events on the field around the festival and children's
01:36picnics and things so yeah there's a great legacy here and we hope that the play park
01:41really is a bit of a catalyst for other investment. We'd really like to get the path that goes
01:46around the edge of the park done so that we've got a really good cycle track and walking
01:50track. There's so much really that can be done with this space so this really, the play
01:55park, is a really important step but we feel it's just the first step.