The City of Moncton, Tangerine as well as Bienenstock Playgrounds came together, along with 150 local volunteers at the Upper picnic area in Centennial Park in Moncton, New Brunswick on Thursday, and gave the park a complete makeover.
This was no ordinary playground makeover, they transformed the park into a natural playground for children. It helps foster a sense of community that will benefit families for many years to come.
About Tangerine
Tangerine (Previously ING Direct) is a direct bank that delivers simplified everyday banking to Canadians. With more than 1.9 million clients and close to $38 billion in total assets, they are Canada’s leading direct bank. Tangerine offers banking that is flexible and accessible, products and services that are innovative, fair fees, and award-winning client service.
On arrival, we were given a tour of the park. We were also invited to join a volunteer team to help with the build. Which we accepted, and my daughters wasted no time in getting involved in the project.
Volunteer workers have a little fun on the wiggle board, after spending all day working non-stop to complete the community project.
My daughters will bend over backward to help someone out, and they jumped at the chance to get their hands dirty and spend some time working alongside the volunteers.
The whole family had a lot of fun participating in this community project. This was a park my kids have enjoyed playing on over the past few years. The girls were excited when they heard that they were going to help with rebuilding a local park. It will be a memory the girls will carry around with them for years to come. Also, one that they can be proud of.
Since 1984, Bienenstock has been building better parks and playgrounds that celebrate nature. A weird mix of landscapers, artists, teachers, technicians, and facilitators, they look at logs, landforms, boulders, and trees as a perfect palette for play.
Bienenstock’s unique approach to community engagement, child development, and youth empowerment has earned them an international following. Their natural playgrounds consistently rank as the most popular in the communities where they work.
Special Thanks to Tangerine, the volunteers, Bienenstock as well as the City of Moncton for putting together this natural playground for the children in the area to enjoy.
Great post, I’m so happy Tangerine picked Moncton as a location for one of these, it looks great!
oh my gosh this is absolutely amazing!! we do not have anything like this !
This is amazing, I wish we had a nature park near us.
This is so great what Tangerine is doing, and it’s great that your girls wanted to jump right in
how wonderful! love a nature park in our town!
This is really great idea. Love nature walks.
these are so rewarding and fun to get involved with. well done.
This is a great story thanks for sharing
The big teeter totter made from logs is really awesome.
wow!! that’s so wonderful! I would absolutely love to have a natural park in our town, we’re one of the few heritage towns left in Ontario, this would fit right in for us.
I think it’s a great service to the kids because having a park to play in is a really great thing for kids to get exercise and interact with other kids
I wish we had a park nearby like this
I wish Iived closer,this is amazing!
What an amazing park thanks to Tangerine. I always enjoyed taking my kids to the park.
What a wonderful thing to be a part of.
What a wonderful thing for Tangerine to be involved in. It’s also great that there were so many volunteers ready and prepared to help. Participating in something like this is also great for kids, it instills in them immense pride and a readiness to help with another project again in the future.
What a wonderful project! It’s nice to see company getting involve!
I have been involved with a community playground project as well. I found it rewarding!
I love it! I love seeing people come together for the kids!
This is such an amazing thing. Would love to be apart of something like this
This is inspiring and awesome! People can really make a difference when they work together.
This looks like an amazing park!
Meaningful and very environmentally friendly. Good way to help the community.
Yes we do have a natural park here; it’s called Tom Campbell’s Hill Natural Park!
great story thanks
What a wonderful initiative! We love our local parks – they truly are a treasure.
We have several beautiful parks where I live and there are lots of groups that help maintain them. All the people that we meet really seem to appreciate the effort that goes into them.
A big job. Nice that you had so many volunteers to help set it up. Also good of Tangerine.
Such a lovely, forested setting; the park enhances its surroundings.
I think the company Tangerine is awesome, I’ve heard really good things about the company. I am fortunate to live in a town with a huge park despite that a tornado took down a lot of our trees.
This is such an awesome project. My kids would love to visit and check out this newest addition to the community.
Awesome story and love how people get involved in community projects, well done
What an amazing project! I love the community involvement, with even the kids being able to help out – fantastic!!