These grants include the first awards from the 124m Children'sPlay Programme, with the money shared across 32 local authorities.
Successful projects include Brent Children's Play Service, which wantsto create a first-class adventure play centre with adapted equipment forchildren with disabilities. It also plans to set up a mobile playproject and a specialist play centre for children with special needs. Itsecured 741,336 of funding.
Bath and North East Somerset Council received 296,875 to spend onsetting up mobile play schemes for children in isolated, ruralareas.
The Big Lottery Fund also announced grants worth 1.46m for nineinnovative play projects as part of the Playful Ideas Programme.
Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change project received 234,980 tospend on play containers and equipment for local estates. The playequipment will be swapped with the different estates on a regular basisthrough local "swap shops".
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