Fundraising for the Jubilee Park received a boost this week with two local businesses agreeing to donate their proceeds of the Welsh Government's carrier bag charge to the project.

Last year, Pembrokeshire County Council removed children's play equipment at Tenby's Jubilee Park on health and safety grounds.

With no county council funding available for replacement equipment, a group of concerned parents, grandparents and youth workers set-up the Friends of the Jubilee Park to raise money to reinstate the play facilities.

There have been calls for a skate facility in Tenby for many years and the removal of the equipment at the Jubilee meant that there was now land available to create a small park.

The Friends, along with Tenby Town Council devised a scheme which combines a range of play equipment for five to 11-year-olds with a skate park on the site.

The project, which costs £85,000, has been part funded by grants from Tenby Town Council (£38,500), Pembrokeshire County Council (£20,000) and Dyfed-Powys Police Proceeds of Crime (£5000); donations from local organisations like Tenby Guides and Brownies, Tenby Civic Society, Tenby Soroptimists and Tenby Chamber of Trade and Tourism and fundraising initiatives by The Friends.

This week the Friends were delighted to learn that Clarice Toys, in Upper Frog Street, and Suburban, in St. Julian Street, had chosen them as recipients of the 5p charge they now have to levy on the sale of carrier bags following legislation brought in by the Welsh Government in October of last year.

"We delighted that these local businesses have thought of us to receive the money they raise from this charge," said Friends of the Jubilee Park treasurer Mrs. Christine Brown.

"All the various fundraising initiatives are chipping away at the total we need and this is a welcome boost to our coffers.

"If any other local business would like to give consideration to contributing their carrier bag charge towards the fund, we'd love to hear from them."