Two days of fun, laughter and hard work by teams from our village have given the Whitmoor Road playground (next to Lilliput/Curly Park Rangers) a makeover. Running over 16th and 17th April, the Big Spring Clean was masterminded by Sandra Polhill who is leading a team aiming to improve our playgrounds in Bagshot. The work was done in partnership with Park Ranger Steve Harris from Surrey Heath Borough Council who own the playground. (Some of Friday's team are in the photo)

The teams cleaned, swept, scraped, cut and painted to give the playground its new look and the effort was a real community one with help from individual and local businesses including AJH Painters & Decorators, Bagshot Post Office, Bagshot Sure Start Centre, Burley Landscapes, Co-operative Store, Creative Presentations, Curley Park Rangers FC, JC Fabrications, Nigel Jefferies Landscapes, Lilliput Children's Centre, Shelly Lindsell (Pampered Chef), Surrey Heath Borough Council, The Village Cafe, Tulip Publications, Windlesham Parish Council.

A huge well done and thank you to everyone involved.

For more information see the Shipwrecked Facebook page at www.wvyp.org.uk/shipwrecked.  If you're aged 14-18 and would like to get involved, have a band that would like to play or want to join a band, contact the team via Facebook or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Bagshot Infant School and the Sure Start Children's Centre had a very special day on Thursday when they had a visit from HRH The Countess of Wessex who had been invited to open 2 new classrooms and the Sure Start Children's Centre. She was entertained by the children singing and had a guided tour of this wonderful facility. The children were so excited and looked so spic and span in their uniforms.

The facilities provided by this school are very good, not least of which are the staff who have such pride and passion for the school in which they work. The children are their primary concern and it shows. The painted playgrounds, the climbing frames the plants and that's before you go inside the school!

After the Countess of Wessex left, there was an afternoon of fun for all the parents and children past and present. They were invited for afternoon tea and go karting, face painting, crafts, make your own smoothy etc. Lots of fun was had by all and every one went home tired and happy.

Congratulations to all the staff and their hard work.