LEGO donates 20,000 bricks to transform London alley into playground

The LEGO Group is donating 20,000 bricks to a charity turning a London alleyway into a brick-built playground for children.

The LEGO Group has donated 20,000 LEGO bricks to a Stratford-based charity, Discover Children’s Story Centre, in aid of a new initiative called Story Street. The goal is to turn a disused alley into a LEGO-filled playground for the summer months, offering a place for children in east London’s Newham to play.

With the aim of opening throughout August, Story Street won’t just be filled with the thousands of LEGO bricks, but also paint, fancy dress, cardboard, and other tools for creativity. The Discover Children’s Story Centre has the approval of the local council, but there was a stipulation that the LEGO bricks can’t stay outside overnight, so they need to be tidied up each night, as reported by the Times.

“It will all get rolled away at the end of every day and rolled out again in the morning,” Helen Tovey, interim CEO of the Discover Children’s Story Centre told the paper. “It’s a really quiet backstreet that was unloved and unused. This felt like an amazing opportunity to create a space that inspires play and imagination.”

Story Street is included in tickets to the centre, which start from £5 and can be found here.

Featured image: Story Street

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