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By using electricity sparingly and making wise purchasing decisions, we safeguard both the municipality’s finances and our shared environment. The municipality of Tuusula is constantly refining its energy policy.

Tuusula’s new traffic park is being built based on the children’s own wishes. In workshops held in March, children had the chance to design the future park’s features using Lego, drawing and brainstorming. The results provide designers with valuable insight into what kind of environment best serves children.

Early years education in Tuusula is supported by a fantastic group of volunteers. Volunteers bring warmth, joy and meaningful interactions to everyday life in early years education. In nurseries, shared activities between children of different ages – from woolly-sock walks to forest granny outings and story times with reading grannies – build bridges between generations and strengthen children’s wellbeing, sense of belonging and connection with nature.

Skidiviikko takes over Tuusula with children's culture from 2 to 7 March. The week will feature a diverse and exciting programme of performing arts, with no fewer than 22 performances scheduled. Registration for the performances begins on Wednesday 11 February at 9 a.m. The week culminates in Children's Saturday on 7 March in Jokela.

A group of operators from the Central Uusimaa food aid network gathered in Hyvinkää in October for regional "meetings". The aim of the meeting was to network and discuss issues related to food aid – issues that affect an increasing number of residents in our region.

The drafting of the Tuusula Master Plan 2040 began back in 2009, and the council decided to approve the plan in November 2022. The processing of appeals in the courts took three years. Now the plan has finally become legally binding.

Work experience, or TET, has long been part of the primary school curriculum. Amanda, Matilda and Stella, who took part in the TET programme in Tuusula in the autumn, worked on participatory budgeting, among other things.

At Pertun Daycare Centre, we have been working with the children of Haltijat for quite some time on the Kaveripenkki project, and fittingly, now that it is Children's Rights Week, we have almost finished getting our project up and running.

Those planning to build their own home have plenty to choose from in Tuusula's wide selection of plots. There are currently well over 100 plots available in different parts of the municipality.

In recent years, Tuusula has invested in its service network, and several new properties have been built in the municipality. New buildings are subject to a wide range of accessibility regulations, starting with the access routes leading to the building.