Nursery World - Open for business a monthly round-up of new launches (2)

* Haringey Play Association has opened a new adventure playground in Northumberland Park, north London. Somerfield Grove Adventure Playground is situated in a deprived, ethnically diverse area and has been developed in consultation with local children. It offers swings, climbing platforms, a pond and stream. Somerfield Grove will host a regular playgroup for under-fives, an after-school club and a holiday play scheme. It will also run free open-access play sessions after school and in school holidays for children up to the age of 15. * Work has started on a new children's centre in North End in the London Borough of Bexley. The centre, which is due to open in the autumn, will provide a 70-place day nursery, play area, training facilities and meeting rooms.

* Work has started on a new children's centre in North End in the London Borough of Bexley. The centre, which is due to open in the autumn, will provide a 70-place day nursery, play area, training facilities and meeting rooms.

* More than 400 local families gathered in Nelson, east Lancashire, on 17 July to celebrate the opening of the new 1m Sure Start Bradley and Whitefield Children's Centre. The centre has been transformed from a Victorian church school room into a community facility that houses a 40-place neighbourhood nursery, chapel and community room for the local parish. The centre has been funded by the Sure Start Unit, Lancashire County Council's Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative and the local church.

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