Grim news for the project arrived within days of the Youth Bank grant application going in.

Government cuts have now been revealed has left the 2010/11 Youth Capital fund empty. The Youth Capital fund was a five year project, 2010/11 being its last year. This leaves the young peoples skatepark project in limbo until a grant fund can be found which can fund this type of project.

It will be a massive blow to the young people who have worked so hard, so far, to get their project up and running.

The meeting on 8 June was very well attended and successful at gathering information from the young enthusiastic Euxton Skate Park Group members to complete some grant application forms.

Following the granting of planning permission for the Skatepark project on Southport Road, Euxton a further meeting has been called for young people to get involved with gathering information to complete Grant Application to the Lancashire Youth Bank.

This fund can only be applied to by young people and it is the Skateparks ‘BEST CHANCE’ of obtaining a substantial sum towards the building of the full skatepark design.

The meeting has been arranged for 6.30 pm on Tuesday, 8 June 2010 Euxton PC Community Centre, Wigan Road, Euxton

The event is being attended by LCC Young Peoples Service who can advise the young people on completing the application.

Planning permission was granted at the Chorley Development Control Meeting.

The Planning Application has been submitted to the Borough Planning Authority and will be considered at its Development Control Meeting on Tuesday, 30 March 2010.

Public consultation for the Skate Park in Euxton - see poster for details.

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Members of the core group met with Marc Churchill of Gravity on Thursday night to have a first view of their initial design ideas. Following a few tweaks, Marc will submit the design so they can be viewed, along with Mavericks design which is to be presented next week, to the whole ESP (Euxton Skate Park group).

There have been some logos designed for the ESP by one of its members Thom and one of these will hopefully be chosen at the meeting next week to accompany all of ESPs work.

Maverick and Gravity have now completed initial designs which they will be presented to the Core Group soon. When they have been tweaked, if needed, then the designs will be shown to the whole group and interested parties. In the meantime, an initial design can be used to submit planning permission and begin planning submission of some grant applications.

On Thursday 21 May Russ Holbert from Maverick came up for a drop-in with the skaters/BMX/inliners to gather further design ideas and later visited the site to get a clearer idea of the shape and space around the site.

This was a short-notice visit but still attracted 15 of the group to drop-in and help with ideas for the skatepark.

Trips to visit Wakefield Gravity site and skate with Marc Churchill and the new Nottingham or Scarborough Maverick sites to skate with Russ Holbert are now being arranged with the assistance of Lancashire County Council Youth Service workers and these should be in June and July.

Russ skating Dorchester

It was a successful meeting with Gravity on the 22 April which had a good attendance of interested skaters/BMX/inliners.

The dimensions of the land are attached here.

At the meeting a Group name was chosen EUXTON SKATE PARK (ESP) and a core group of people to work on grant applications volunteered.

There were many fund raising ideas supplied by the group and these will be worked on by the core group.

When designs have been submitted by Maverick and Gravity a core group meeting will be arranged.

Gravity are coming to Euxton

Gravity Skatepark designers and designer Marc Churchill will be coming to Euxton on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 at 6pm to hold a consultation workshop with skaters/BMX/Inliners.

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Skatepark Workshop meeting - Wednesday 18 March 2009 6pm

Over 40 young skaters and BMX'ers attended a workshop, run by Maverick and hosted by Euxton Parish Council in the Euxton PC Community Centre.

Many ideas and suggestions were put forward towards the design of a custom built skatepark for Euxton.

A forum has been created (in its infancy) to bring together the young skaters/bikers to assist them to create a Group to enable them to have a clear voice and exact input into this project and, to assist the Council in applying for grants towards the skatepark.

Location: off Southport Road, adjacent to the Yarrow Valley walk car park.

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