BECIP hopes city will help fund natural play space
Administrators of the Battlefords Early Childhood Intervention Program (BECIP) hope North Battleford city hall will find room in the budget for a children’s outdoor play space.
The group is asking for the city to provide $50,000, to help cover the design and development of the project planned for Centennial Park.
In turn, BECIP’s board announced it will match a grant up to $50,000 for the project, to celebrate the program’s 35th anniversary.
“It offers a wide range of open-ended play for children,” BECIP executive director Colleen Sabraw said in her presentation at council’s last meeting. “It has significant benefits to children being out in the outdoors and being able to play in a natural environment space.”