Friends of Pepperell Recreation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving children and teenagers, ages 18 and younger, as well as people of all ages, still children at heart.

Establishing new relationships with an area business is in keeping with our objectives to collaborate with other area organizations for the betterment of the community.

Since the creation of Friends of Pepperell Recreation with have worked with Pepperell Fourth of July Committee coordinating the Bike Parade, Friends of the Library in donating items to their toy sale, Worcester Earn-A-Bike by donating unsold bicycles from our used bike sale fundraiser.

We are a young organization with a commitment to enjoyment, expansion and improvement of our town's recreational facilities that are mostly outdoors.In keeping with promoting health and safety of area residents, we are happy to embark on a commitment to sun safety within our organization as we apply for a shade structure grant.

We have several links on our website to sun safe sites, we are pursuing samples of sun screen products to distribute at Pepperell's summer playground program, summer band stand concerts and other outdoor events.It is our objective to promote sun safety through education and making sun safety a priority at Friends of Pepperell events.

Our short term goal is installation of new playground equipment on town field.This equipment has not been updated in over 30 years.

Following the installation of our playground equipment we hope we will work with the local garden club to plant shade trees to provide natural shade where needed to maximize safe hours of play on the town field.This natural shade will be in addition to our pursuit of funding for a permanent shade structure.

The installation of our new playground's phase I is expected in or before early summer. We would plan the construction of the shade structure, if selected to receive this grant, to coincide with the community build installation.

Members of our organization are involved in many community groups.Publicity and announcements would include school parent-teacher organizations, library, garden club as well as area newspapers.