!!STOP PRESS!!
Friends of Pecket Well Playground are holding a Pub Quiz at the Robin Hood Inn (Pecket Well) on Thursday 16th April 2026 at 9pm in aid of improving Pecket Well playground.
As part of the evening, there will be a raffle with some amazing prizes from local businesses, see the list below!
Money raised from the raffle will go to WACA, who are working with Friends of Pecket Well Playground to improve the playground.
Look at these astonohing prizes, donated by the people and businesses of Pecket Well and its surroundings…
- A £40 gift voucher from the highly popular Antonia’s Supper Club
- A delicious afternoon tea voucher from Buttercup Bakery
- A voucher for 2 spaces for a 60 minute session at the Paddock Wellness Club, Old Town
- A 4 class pass to Northern Power House Boxing (Hebden Bridge)
- 2 prints by local photographer William Lake
- A signed copy of local bestselling author Amanda Lees’ new book
- A gorgeous ‘Pecket Well’ set by local artist Lu Parker
- A copy of ‘A Greener Life’, Gardening Book of the Year 2022 (The Times & Sunday Times) by local author Jack Wallington
- A gift voucher for a hair cut and blow dry at Cathy Swan Hair
- ‘Mother and daughter’ pair of silver nugget heart pendants made by local jewellery designer Catherine Woodall
- …..and more!
Huge thanks to the generosity and support of our local people for making this raffle possible…. now we just need you to buy the tickets!
Raffle Details (the small print!)
The raffle will be held at Robin Hood Inn Pub Quiz evening on 16th April 2026 (starting at 9pm). One raffle ticket costs £1.
The raffle is in aid of Pecket Well playground. Funds raised will be donated to Wadsmworth Area Community Assets Limited (WACA) Community Benefit Society No 9476 2 Old Laithe, Wadsworth, Hebden Bridge. HX7 8TF. WACA is registered for small societies lotteries by Calderdale Council in order to adhere to the Gambling law.
Do you want to get involved?
We’ve got loads of ideas about how to make Pecket Well playground special. But we need more volunteers to help us turn them into reality. Could you help us out?
Fill in our volunteering form and we’ll be in touch soon.
Pecket Well Playground story
During Summer 2025 you may have seen the posters and survey about Pecket Well Playground – you can find out more by searching “Pecket Well Playground” on Facebook. A group of local people had contacted Wadsworth Parish Council and were told that there was no money to maintain this resource due to budget constraints.
WACA is now set up as a Community Benefit Society, and so is an accountable body that can apply for grants and receive funding. So, we agreed that we would like to support the Friends of Pecket Well Playground group. We meet with them regularly and continue to support their efforts.
We also attended the September and October meetings of the WPC in support of the Friends group, and we are very pleased to announce that the WPC has agreed to work in collaboration with us all to look at ways to maintain and improve the playground and equipment, and to encourage increased community use of the area. We have been making plans over the winter months and FoPWP have recently launched a consultation via their Facebook page. You can respond here if you would like to add your views. We will have more news for you on this soon.
You can read our December 2025 update here. Please join our mailing list on our Contact page if you would like regular updates like this.
Future Projects
If you’d like to get involved or have suggestions of projects for WACA to follow up please get in touch by email to info@WACAcoop.org.uk