Recreation Survey August 2020

Longhope Parish Council are seeking to work with parishioners to ensure a successful future for the Recreation Ground and Pavilion. As part of that process, we would like to ask every household for their thoughts about recreation in Longhope, what facilities they value and what extra facilities they might like to use. Please would you involve all members of your household and join in this conversation by collectively responding to this survey by Friday 5th September 2020. Hard copies of the survey will be circulated shortly – Many thanks in advance for all your ideas and feedback

Reopening the play areas

We are pleased to announce that following our risk assessment and consultation with parents, we are nearly ready to open the 2 playgrounds on the recreation ground.

“Rules of the Playground” have been agreed, in consultation with local parents. Furthermore, Insurers have confirmed we are good to go. We have now received the routine Playground equipment inspection report which will be reviewed at a Recreation Ground meeting on Monday 10th August.

Papers for Recreation Ground meetings are currently posted on the Meetings page of this website.

Longhope Parish Council are now the sole corporate trustee of the Longhope Recreation Ground charity (Reg No. 301560), since the previous trustees relinquished their position on 12th March 2020. The paper below was prepared to inform the meeting on March 12th between the previous trustees and representatives of Longhope Parish Council, and there is also a statement from the Parish Council around the recent change.

New rules for the management of the Recreation Ground were agreed at a Trustee meeting on 20th April 2020.

Minutes of recent Trustee meetings are shown below:

The charity accounts for the past year are shown below:

Please see below a summary of Recreation Ground expenditure over the past five years by both the charity and the parish council