Wednesday 25 November 2009
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Fright Night
I went to the meeting with local police at 11 am today to talk about a youth project planned for halloween.
This is called Fright Night - a free event arranged for Halloween. Halloween is on 31st October, which in 2009 falls on a Saturday. This is going to be called Fright Night. The rationale behind it is that there is a big nuisance spike at Halloween, and in the past, some of the usual suspects have been taken off for a weekend away. Although this has given residents a measure of relief, it has led to people to feel angry and to suggest that that is tantamount to rewarding bad behaviour. What about an event for everyone, and especially families and those who do not misbehave? This year there will be a community event that everyone can go to - not just those kids who misbehave.
The venue will be King George V playing fields and it will be organised as a family event from 5 pm to 10 pm with a mini funfare. This will be a no-alcohol family style event. There will be a free shuttle mini bus to bring kids in from around other areas, including those from other wards and afterwards a drop-off will be arranged. - We are hoping to take kids back to the street where they live - not just a single drop off point.
Things that are planned are a funfair - with dancing, bands, on stage thriller dance. Organised with help from Oaklands College who have also picked out some of the best students, including those who were talent-spotted during the street dance project over the summer.
There will also be a mini-funfair.
Some of the events will be:
Ghost Train
Stage magic
Spooky bouncy castle
Local School bands
Free face painting - with the help of students from Oaklands college
Costume competition
Children's rides
Fire brigade
Smoke tent
WGC safer neighbourhooods team will be there
Oaklands college will send 15 - 20 marshalls, and stewards, these will be drawn from the public services course at Oaklands College.
There will be media present - Heartbeat FM, Anglia TV.
See you there - this is an event not to be missed!
This is called Fright Night - a free event arranged for Halloween. Halloween is on 31st October, which in 2009 falls on a Saturday. This is going to be called Fright Night. The rationale behind it is that there is a big nuisance spike at Halloween, and in the past, some of the usual suspects have been taken off for a weekend away. Although this has given residents a measure of relief, it has led to people to feel angry and to suggest that that is tantamount to rewarding bad behaviour. What about an event for everyone, and especially families and those who do not misbehave? This year there will be a community event that everyone can go to - not just those kids who misbehave.
The venue will be King George V playing fields and it will be organised as a family event from 5 pm to 10 pm with a mini funfare. This will be a no-alcohol family style event. There will be a free shuttle mini bus to bring kids in from around other areas, including those from other wards and afterwards a drop-off will be arranged. - We are hoping to take kids back to the street where they live - not just a single drop off point.
Things that are planned are a funfair - with dancing, bands, on stage thriller dance. Organised with help from Oaklands College who have also picked out some of the best students, including those who were talent-spotted during the street dance project over the summer.
There will also be a mini-funfair.
Some of the events will be:
Ghost Train
Stage magic
Spooky bouncy castle
Local School bands
Free face painting - with the help of students from Oaklands college
Costume competition
Children's rides
Fire brigade
Smoke tent
WGC safer neighbourhooods team will be there
Oaklands college will send 15 - 20 marshalls, and stewards, these will be drawn from the public services course at Oaklands College.
There will be media present - Heartbeat FM, Anglia TV.
See you there - this is an event not to be missed!
Sunday 27 September 2009
Underage Drinking now much improved
Some time ago I made a posting about under age drinking in Peartree - it was a real problem then. You may know that PC Alex Kettle came to join the PCSOs in Peartree. Those are the community police officers. Alex has had some success in Welham Green where there were a number of problems with young people, underage drinking and youth crime in the area. After tackling these problems, Alex was brought in to help locally with the problems in Peartree.
Things are so much better now that the police are moving from 'enforcement' to 'provision' - that is they are thinking about what can be offered to youngsters much more than just stopping them from doing harm. It is quite a fine line. In the beginning there were just too many problems and it was more imp0rtant just to get tough and stop things from going too pear-shaped, if you will excuse the pun.
So it's great to know how things have moved on and that the great bunch of Peartree kids are not getting a bad reputation just because of the actions of a few. With Halloween coming soon there is a treat planned for kids in Peartree. Hopes are that this will result in a win-win situation where kids have something to do, are happily occupied, and do not bother residents, and residents feel safe.
Things are so much better now that the police are moving from 'enforcement' to 'provision' - that is they are thinking about what can be offered to youngsters much more than just stopping them from doing harm. It is quite a fine line. In the beginning there were just too many problems and it was more imp0rtant just to get tough and stop things from going too pear-shaped, if you will excuse the pun.
So it's great to know how things have moved on and that the great bunch of Peartree kids are not getting a bad reputation just because of the actions of a few. With Halloween coming soon there is a treat planned for kids in Peartree. Hopes are that this will result in a win-win situation where kids have something to do, are happily occupied, and do not bother residents, and residents feel safe.
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