Bricks piled high for first Lego club

OBAN’S first Lego club starts on Saturday for a month-long trial, after people from around Argyll donated Lego bricks.

The Master Builders – Lego and Creative Construction Club Facebook group now has 400 members and is still appealing for unused Lego. So far 15 people have donated six full tubs and six box sets of Lego bricks – enough to start building.

Mum-of-two Fiona Shaw will host three meetings at Oban’s Rockfield Centre between 10am-2pm on Saturdays March 31, April 14 and April 21. If it proves popular, and wins funding in a public vote, the club can continue into the summer.

‘I want to make this a regular event so we can get children along and make new friends. Parents will meet parents from other backgrounds. One lady said she felt awful because she does not have any Lego but she wanted to help so she lent her dishwasher to wash the pieces. Some of it is 50 years old and very dusty. We could be close to finding some of the original stuff.’

Fiona is seeking donations via a GoFundMe page and funding via the public vote in Argyll and Bute Council’s Supporting Communities Fund. She is also organising a table top sale at Oban’s Corran Halls from 10am to 1pm on Saturday April 7.