Youth project progressing well
Young councillors in South Holland have completed the first phase of a youth garden in Whaplode St Catherine.
South Holland Youth Council was inspired by a Lincolnshire Free Press story where young people were appealing for help to create facilities for them in the village.
The councillors had been on an exchange visit to Hungary and had seen successful examples of youth gardens there and, with the permission of Whaplode St Catherine residents, set to work applying that blueprint here – revitalising a patch of land in Cranesgate.
Youth councillor Paula Horrell put together an application to obtain around 5,000 from the Youth Opportunities Fund and the police offered 200 to buy new goalposts.
They have fenced the land off, put in new concrete paths and started to put plants into a garden area, which they hope young people will help to develop further.
An event was held with councillors, police officers and residents to mark the progress so far and members of the Hungarian Youth Parliament went along to present their South Holland counterparts with a sword-shaped wood carving to commemorate the links between the groups.
Graham Scorthorne, acting strategic partnerships manager at South Holland District Council, said: "It is absolutely superb to see it come together.
"The concrete paths mean people with skateboards and roller skates have got somewhere to skate away from the road and the garden is only just started.
"I think the council is determined to get more people to take an active interest in that and help take it on.
"It is rather good to be able to show something positive that young people have done, rather than something negative."
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