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  • Agenda item
  • Agenda item

    Summary of table discussions: Brief feedback from each of the tables on the priorities and issues identified

    Minutes:

    Table 1

    Identified the following needs for young people

    • Skateboard park
    • Use the woods for paintballing every couple of months or so and mountain biking
    • Track for motor cycling including training for on and off road. Possible use of farmer’s field.
    • Youth club – pool, games consoles etc
    • Tennis court
    • No where to go when it is raining
    • Facilities need to be close as it is difficult to travel and parents aren’t always around to ferry people about.

     

    General points raised

    • Youth club – who’s going to run it? Needs to be for primary and secondary ages need volunteers
    • Istead Rise Community Association needs to set up a young peoples sub committee. 
    • The community centre needs to be used more.
    • Need a footpath/cycle way from Meopham station to Istead Rise ( Kent Highways has this in their budget plans for 2010/11
    • The young people felt safe and Istead Rise is a friendly area, unlike Gravesend
    • Need more competitive sport. 5-a-side football tournaments that sort of thing
    • Youth club at the centre – need to find funds for a part time youth worker and volunteers – look at the successful youth clubs in other areas of Gravesham. How do they do it
    • Look at running buses from rural areas to the Woodville Halls for SNAP discos
    • Climbing frame for younger people
    • Access to and use of any facilities needs to be reasonably priced.
    • Lack of swimming pool, costs a lot to get to Northfleet

     

    Table 2

    • Would like to have a swimming pool for Istead rise (but it was explained that this very unlikely owing to cost)
    • Better transport to and from Gravesend/Bluewater is needed
    • Want a Multi-use games area (MUGA) here at Istead Rise
    • The youth club at Istead Rise closed down a while ago because of lack of helpers, would like another one. 
    • The old caretakers house next to Istead rise school would make a good youth club but it was also felt that more use should be made of the community centre.
    • 11-18 year olds are bored and need informal facility

     

    Table 3

    ·         Higham Youth club –relies on volunteers

    ·         Young people run own discos

    ·         Istead rise community association doesn’t do enough for young people

    ·         Ken jones- IRCA are considering extending terrace for play area

    ·         IRCA Need to set up sub committee for youth matters

    ·         Footpaths alongside the A227 to Meopham to make it safer to get to station.

    ·         KHS have this in the pipeline but it will be looked at in 2010-11

     

    Table 4

    • Istead rise very friendly, its ok to live here
    • Young people would like a MUGA
    • Would use the new A2 activity area as long as it is competitively priced
    • 5 a side football – inter Gravesham competition
    • Somewhere outside to shelter from rain
    • Facilities in the village rather than having to travel
    • Willing to contribute to costs –ie young people can pay a little
    • Roads too dangerous for younger children to cycle

     

    Table 5

    • Media project –would be really good if young people produce videos of their views on Istead rise (a bit like the young people did in Christian Fields)
    • Young people want something ideally every night. Need to make their own entertainment as well
    • Parishes to contribute to getting young people to SNAP disco
    • A lot of the money goes into the urban areas, not  the rural

     

    Table 6

    • Climbing frame
    • Better skate ramp
    • Movie nights
    • Archery, Cricket, Rounders
    • People don’t know what it available –need to have newsletter or something that tells people what is available.