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Ok, heres what i was thinking of doing.
Around my area there is absouloutly nothing for teens etc to do. I was thinking about writing to the local MP asking for them to build a skatepark or something near by (it was going to happen but somehow didnt a while back:( ). Anyway I was wondering if i would need to get as many signatures as i can on a particion (*sp) and whether to include about us getting our details taken by the police twice for doing nothing (could make us sound naughty lol).
Thanks in advance
Around my area there is absouloutly nothing for teens etc to do. I was thinking about writing to the local MP asking for them to build a skatepark or something near by (it was going to happen but somehow didnt a while back:( ). Anyway I was wondering if i would need to get as many signatures as i can on a particion (*sp) and whether to include about us getting our details taken by the police twice for doing nothing (could make us sound naughty lol).
Thanks in advance
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It attracts people from all over town, but in the winters those same people resort to go to sweden in order to skate. After having the skating associations head making awareness of the case, they have finally opened an indoor skatetrack for winters.
If you do enough about it, gather enough people, and present it in a mature manner then you're a lot more likely to be heard.
It could take years, but you could be creating a foundations for kids a bit younger than you. That's always something.
No, that's moronic.
In our area they basically set up a fund raising comittee. Lots of teenagers got involved and they contacted the local newspaper telling them that there was nothing for teenagers to do, they got local people backing and fighting for them. They contacted the local council who gave them money. I beleive they got a lottery grant (although not 100% sure). The teenagers did like a packing day at the supermarket and helped shoppers pack their bags,they had tubs on the counter and people put money in the buckets. The teenagers got really into trying to raise money and with the help of different sponsorships, grants and the fundraising they made enough money to have a skateboard park.
It can happen but the people involved need to be committed, its hard work but at the end of the day the teenagers got what they wanted which was somewhere to actually go on an evening
Good advice Becks.........
Cheers
If you go for the "money for nothing" route then people won't support you. If - as Becks suggests - you work for the money and raise funds towards the overall cost then people will support you and the council will find it hard not to help...