Jaxon Ryan, one of the original Joomunjie Land designers, accepts the donation from SuperCool’s Fran Moser
The SuperCool team has a connection to the not-for-profit charity the Australian Institute of Play (AIP) whose purpose is to promote, enable and protect the rights Australian children have to play.
Opportunities for children to play in real life are in steep decline and the research shows this is directly linked to the increase of childhood health and well-being illnesses and challenges such as social anxiety, depression, loneliness, obesity, school refusal, poor fine and motor skills, decrease in bone health and language delays.
One of the core activities the AIP has created with children is a loose parts adventure playground at Eagleby State School – a community that just happens to be 10km down the road from SuperCool’s head office in Ormeau.
The AIP worked with the students at the school to design and manage the ongoing operation of ‘Joomunjie Land’ (the name the children came up with). This program has been running for 2 years and is open at lunchtimes and several afternoons a week after school, as well as school holidays.
The space has become a community backyard that is loved and supported by the school and the wider community. Joomunjie is also regularly visited by families who venture from as far as North Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Northern Rivers as it is such a rare and wild play space.
Back in July, Joomunjie Land won two national awards at the Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Innovation Awards for Best Playground Design and the Overall Award.
Despite being up against multi-million dollar playground designers and local councils, Joomunjie Land won – a space designed and built by children that cost nothing, made from curbside collection junk.
A core team of 35 children were the first designers, but Joomunjie Land is a living and breathing space that is constantly evolving with daily play – hundreds of children are part of making this space.
Whilst Eagleby State School holds the official trophies, the SuperCool team wanted to acknowledge all the children involved with a donation to celebrate their creativity and teamwork.
Fran Moser, SuperCool’s Administration Manager and partner of AIP CEO Hyanho Moser, presented the donation cheque to the Joomunjie Land kids at their school assembly on behalf of SuperCool Group.
How it’s spent will be up to the kids of Joomunjie Land – some ideas already thrown around by them are paint to decorate cubby houses, digger hire to make more dirt mounds for jumps, or a massive treasure hunt!
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