Montrose Community Adventure Playground

The Montrose Community Adventure Playground is a community project designed to unite and strengthen the community of Montrose. It is a project that will bring together volunteers from within the community to work together to build a playground. It is to be built in the Montrose Recreation Reserve where the current playground is situated and funding has now been granted.

This project is based on a similar project that was undertaken in Bacchus Marsh about 4 years ago. The Bacchus Marsh playground was built by over 2,500 volunteers from within the community over a 5 day period. They ran 3 shifts everyday from 8am - 9pm with each shift being fully catered. They offered free childcare including children's activities. Volunteers were both skilled and unskilled and came from many sectors of the community. They even had a separate site especially for children to participate in the building of their playground.

The community will be involved in every aspect of planning and building of the playground. A committee of about 12 will be formed with each member being responsible for a section of the project. Each committee member will work with a subcommittee to achieve their goals and will be required to report monthly to the co-ordinators of the project. The community, especially the children, will be directly involved in the design of the project. There will be a design phase of the project that will allow the children an opportunity to express their ideas directly to the designers.

Fundraising will also play a major role in this project. The playground will be partly enclosed by a picket fence. The pickets for the fence will be available for sale for $50 per picket. You can download an order form from this site. People will be able to have their name engraved on the picket which will be a special reminder of their involvement in the playground. There will also be an opportunity to sponsor a specific piece of playground equipment that will be recognised by a plaque. Donations or discounts of material will also be sought.

Construction:
Coates Hire Lilydale
Kennards Bayswater
Lilydale SES
Dean Mason from Electrosafe
Lifestyle Innovations
PACH Excavations
Royal Wolf for the shipping container
J&L Towing
Tymaline Building Services
Mark Clark from Colorsteel Fencing
Paul Landman
Fortress Site Fencing

Food:
Montrose Meats
Hummingbird Café
IGA Supermarket
Montrose Bakery
Montrose Fish n Chippery
Montrose Charcoal Chicken
The Basil Leaf
Get Fresh Boronia
Victorian Fine Foods
Bakers Delight Croydon
Ace Party Hire
Johnny Boys Pizza Bayswater
Confoil Containers

Equipment Sponsorship:
Montrose and District Rotary
Lions Club of Montrose and District
Sarah Court Preschool
Montrose Financial Planning Services
The Landman Family
Mont Rose Maison
Curves Kilsyth
Yarra Valley Cabinet Makers
Montrose CFA
Montrose Community Craft Market
L & I Electrical
Apex Club of Montrose and Kilsyth
Churchill Bass
The Doupe Family
Rehability
Montrose Guides and Brownies
Tanya Clarke

Design:
Australian Brushware Corporation
The Paint Factory Bayswater
Haymes Paints
Brett Greenwood for the anti graffiti coating on all the artwork

Misc:
Marlin Signs
Brett Tyley of Jiva Workshop
Johl from JD Digital Photography

Montrose Community Playground Committee:

General Coordinator:

Finance Coordinator:

Volunteers Coordinator:

Food Coordinator:

Design Coordinator:

Promotions Coordinator:

Tools Coordinator:

Materials Coordinator:

Construction Captain Coordinator:

Julie McDonald

Ken Dowling

Stacey Barker

Natasha Wilkinson

Janet Wilson

Jacquie Diepgrond

Phill Peat

Trevor Ahale

Sacha Sullivan

Volunteers Team:
Tara Jordan Marg Fennell	Tanya Clarke Kathy Beimers	Helen Hegedus
Food Team:
Danny Lamb Chris Dowling Jo Stacey	Beverley Isbel Sandra Hogg Amanda Bell	Michelle Barker Nic Shean
Design Team:
Artists- Flaminia Grubacki Janice Anne Sue Anderson Justine Indigo-Rose Jacinta Welsh Faletoese Chloe Cunningham Richard Fennell Rig Bell Katrina Pedder	Ros Hunter Anne Bortolussi Karen Robinson Melissa Windley Mavis Davine Ray Lilley The Hoxley family Doupe family Webb Oates family Pembroke Secondary College students	Other children from the community Builders- Mike Foster Michael May Robert Barker Martyn Heffernan Boyd Ewing
Promotions Team:
Andrea Steele Kim Burton Bronwyn Dwight	Monika Brown Tamara Mika Tania Warden	Sasha O’Neil Lyndall Parsons
Tools Team: Robert Brown
Materials Team:
Matt Dowling	Steven Van Wagensveld
Construction Captains:
Rick Koralewsky Matt Dowling Adam Wilkinson Glenn Jean	Ian Parsons Luke Prescott Andrew Tait Ken Carlile	Trevor Gardoll Mike Foster