Projects

Parks for Play

Completed: 2025
Location: Selly Oak
Region: West Midlands
Other local partners: Birmingham City Council (UKSPF)

About the project

What does this community space/venue do?
Parks for Play provide inclusive, affordable, age appropriate and high quality play and leisure sessions for children and young people with disabilities and additional needs. They also run a social club for younger adults.
Parks for Play is an exceptional charity created by families with disabled children, play and youth experts 20 years ago.
They pride themselves on never excluding a child or young person from our service, regardless of their disability, background, emotional needs, or challenging behaviour.
What is VIY doing?

VIY will be installing new kitchen cupboards including doors and corner units. We will be constructing 2 outdoor seating pods with a decked flooring, seating benches and drop down table.

Accessible benches will be installed in the garden area replacing the current rotten ones.

The existing soft play shed is currently leaking. We will replace the existing roof with a new one and enclose the porch area to make the shed larger with 2 double doors

What will be the impact of our project?

The kitchen space is much needed. There is very minimal storage. The new cupboards will mean users can store cutlery and kitchenware safer and more securely. It will also make the kitchen more accessible.

The outdoor seating pods will give users with Special Educational Needs (SEN) an area to go when the main centre can become too overwhelming. They will be filled with all thing sensory. The accessible benches will give disabled users a much safer experience of the garden. They are able to use the current benches so these will be much welcomed.