Kingsland Youth Club

3:14pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

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THE youth club has been up running now for four years and in that time has grown rapidly to provide youngsters between the ages of 10 and 16 with a place to go in the evenings and holidays.

The club is more than just keeping the children off the streets and providing a safe and secure place for them to go. Kingspan Insulation Community Trust has provided Kingsland Youth Club with a grant of more than £850 enabling them to purchase a variety of sports equipment such as badminton posts, nets, racquets and shuttlecocks, footballs and tennis balls.

This has allowed the club to carry on encouraging the youngsters to not only work well together but improve their skills while keeping fit and healthy.

John Garbutt, chairman of the trust, said: “It is truly delightful that the Kingspan Insulation Community Trust has been able to provide funding for something that has benefited such a large number of children in the area, and especially for equipment that they can use over and over again.”

Based at Coronation Hall, Kingsland Youth Club currently has regular weekly attendance of between 25 and 40 young people coming from Mortimer’s Cross, Orleton, Shobdon and Kingsland.