Kingsway Villagers

Interesting group of young people in the big park tonight, doing what I can only describe as "being Anti-Social". The group were using bad language and using trolleys on the ramps, making an horrendous noise and no doubt damaging the equipment in there by their acts.
Well done to the person who called the police, who then moved these young people on.

Having spent many years working with young people I wonder whether the Residents Association would consider having a sub-group for the young people of the Kingsway?

Involving the young people in decisions that are made and asking them to share their opinions about what’s going on in their community. The more you involve young people, the more they will take ownership of the place and potentially police the area themselves. They can develop Community Projects within the community and if set up correctly, apply for funding to support this.

An idea I have is that the young people could design a mural for the tunnel and work with local artists to develop a design and complete it. (Whether it’s feasible is another story)!

It’s all about young people becoming active within their community and the community supporting them to do so.

If we ignore the problem its not going to go away it will just be moved on and become someone else’s problem within the community.

Happy Days!

This post was submitted by Daisily.

In my post about the 2008 Summer Programme from Equals Youth Centre, I included a mention of a “Police Fun Day” at Waterwells, on Saturday August 30th…
In fact the event - sponsored by Prospect Training Services - is shaping up to be a:

Fabulous free day out for all the family:

Three Communities Fayre - Quedgeley, Hardwicke & Kingsway.

Saturday 30th August 10am-4pm - Waterwells Sports Centre (Football Pitch)
(Drive through Waterwells, past the Police HQ, left at the next roundabout - towards Naas Lane / Harescombe - and you’ll see the pitch on the left just before you leave the trading estate).

Arena Events:

• Circus Skills
• Bouncy Castle
• Pony Rides
• Vintage Police Cars
• Cycle and Property Marking
• Football Tournament
• Police Helicopter (weather and operations permitting)

…and much more.

And - if you’re interested in volunteering for the Police you can meet the recruitment team who will be located on the SCT stand.

Equals Youth Centre in Quedgeley, are running a summer programme for 2008, with events and activities in Quedgeley, Hardwicke and Kingsway.

The Youth Centre runs a regular programme of clubs for teenagers, young people and the disabled (as well as after school clubs and other events).

Their 2008 summer programme is packed with exciting events for young people from the entire Quedgeley Parish, including:

• Sports Days
• Rounders
• Football
• Laser Tag
• “Water Fun”
• Skate Park
• “Police Fun Day”
• Day Trip to Alton Towers

…with food and refreshments including Barbeques, Burger King and KFC.

Full details of all of the events, dates and times etc (plus details of their regular club sessions), are available on our (new) Equals Youth Centre Page.

With the summer holidays already upon us, I’m a little late adding this section… Better late than never though (as my Nan used to say), so here it is - KingsWay KidZ KorRner!

I know we have many younger readers ‘though none have posted yet (big suprise when all us old fogies fill the site with moans and groans about car parking and groups of kids causing problems etc etc)! So I wanted to create a section to publicise events and activities for the younger residents of Kingsway Village.

So - if you’re under 20 and you want to contribute, ask questions or keep in touch with your local friends, please feel free to register and say “Hi”.

If you’d like to use the site for anything in particular, please post your suggestions and requests (as comments) here, and I’ll do my best to help out.

In the meantime, I’m “scouting about” for various activities and events for young people in Kingsway, and will add them asap.

Editors Note: The Kingsway Kidz Korner (”KKK”) has no affiliation with those sad, old racist nutters from the USA
I just thought we would use the acronym for something more mature!