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Back to playground for Ground Force's Charlie

Jun 14 2002

South London Press

FLAME-HAIRED TV gardener Charlie Dimmock re-opened a children's playground after it was transformed by a team of bankers.

The Ground Force presenter joined hardworking volunteers from Barclays Bank, who swapped paper-pushing for digging and building at Kennington's Charlie Chaplin playground on Monday afternoon.

The playground is one of six across London run by Kidsactive - an organisation that provides services for disabled and other children.

Kidsactive has recently raised £70,000 to improve buildings at the Bolton Crescent playground but desperately needed help to improve the grounds.

Barclays Bank sent 81 members of staff to transform the playground for more than 200 children who regularly use it.

In one afternoon, the determined volunteers cut down overgrown grass, built a swing, a stage for the children and planted a sensory garden.

The Charlie Chaplin playground runs playschemes through the holidays and is staffed by trained playworkers, child psychologists and teachers during the day and at weekends.

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