Photo via BC Wildlife Park

The BC Wildlife Park is launching a new fundraising initiative as it continues to try and raise money for a new inclusive and accessible playground.

General Manager Glenn Grant says the new Legacy Bricks initiative is hoping to raise at least $25,000, while also giving visitors to the park something to look at for generations to come.

“You can get a 12 by 12 brick, an 8 by 8 brick, or a 4 by 8 brick, and you can have it etched and engraved and then we’ll be installing those in the playground area so that they’ll be there for years and years and years to come,” Grant said.

“There is no timeline on it. If we sell more bricks, we just make the pathway longer and wider. There is no limit to what we can install. It’ll be ongoing until we get the project finished.”

Grant says the BC Wildlife Park is hoping to begin construction on its nearly $1-million playground by spring of next year.

“We’ve done a lot of work in the past while of paving pathways and improving washrooms and things of that nature, but you can’t say you’re fully accessible if you’re only 90 per cent of the way there,” he said. “This is a project that will last for a couple of generations.”

Grant says people can find out more information about the Legacy Bricks fundraiser online or at the BC Wildlife Park itself.