The friends of Ash Green School recently secured a £250 Illingworth & Mixenden ward forum grant to purchase outdoor weatherproof chess sets for an out of school chess club and as you can see from the photo’s this has proved really popular with the children.

Less fanciful than that played in ‘Alice through the looking glass’ and less dangerous than Wizard’s Chess in the Harry Potter books, these sets will challenge the children for years to come.