Youth Station celebrates its 10th birthday
Last updated 11:43, Friday, 08 August 2008
WIGTON’S young people gave their “youthie” a thumbs up last week at its 10th birthday party.
The Youth Station aims to support young people in the town and help keep them off the streets.
Members of its six-strong teenage steering group organised a day of fun last Friday with a barbecue, entertainment and a homemade cake to celebrate.
The club aims to equip young people with the skills they need to communicate with the community.
At the High Street club, group member Linzi McAvoy, 17, said: “There’s a group of us who are part of the management committee of the Youth Station. We help them with how the young people want the Youth Station to go because it’s us who use it,” Linzi said.
Apart from coming up with ideas for activities, the group also thinks of ways to keep the grant-reliant club afloat.
“We came up with the idea of making a meeting room that we can rent out.
“We’ve been going to the council meetings and Neighbourhood Forums and we went to a meeting with the police about anti-social behaviour too.”
Wigton was the first town in Cumbria to have a curfew for young people, which was introduced four years ago.
But Linzi and fellow steering group member, Leonie Parry, 15, think the answer lies in giving young people somewhere to go and something to do.
Leonie said: “People were complaining about windows being smashed, but it wasn’t us, it was the adults coming home from the pubs.”
Linzi added that her work on the Youth Station’s committee had given her direction.
“I’m in sixth-form now. I want to go to university and study criminology with youth studies or social work.”
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