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Tradesmen to the rescue at local playgroup
By Susie Cho
A playgroup in Bicester that was facing closure has been rescued after a tradesman, a qualified plumber and others stepped in to help.
Rainbow Playgroup had been given a list of urgent repairs to its 30-year-old building by Oxfordshire County Council and was afraid that it could be closed down before the work would be done.
However, help was on hand when local tradesman Ted Owen offered to do the work for free, together with a qualified plumber, a gutter specialist and builders' merchant Travis Perkins.
Work included rebuilding ramps, repairing the building's toilet and replacing guttering, which would normally have cost the playgroup some £2,000 for the labour alone.
The playgroup will now be able to open in September as it had previously planned to, while it is now searching for funding to open a new building.
Oxfordshire County Council is currently offering a funding package worth £378,000 for projects including refurbishments, new kitchen facilities and the creation of new outdoor play areas in the county's nurseries and pre-schools.
