Hi there
For those of you who haven’t been to Slaithwaite station today or yesterday there is now a metal bench on the Huddersfield facing side. We – we being the South Pennines Rail Partnership – have been running a young people’s project with funding from the Colne Valley Area Committee. The project has involved meeting with some local young people over a few months, taking them on some visits to stations with artwork and the bench has been designed with them and made by local firm, Steel Dreams.
We had a good little launch event yesterday with a lot of people there including six of the young people who had participated in the project. Thanks very much to all of you who came along. There’ll be an article and picture in the Examiner.
It’s quite likely that graffiti and/or damage will happen – we all need to keep an eye on it so if you notice any damage etc please can you ring Steel Dreams – they’ve got an anti-graffiti kit now and have kindly said they will sort it out – their number is 841642 – so do ring them. They live up at Hill Top and have their workshop on the canal so go past the station regularly.
Do continue to ring the police about any illegal activities/anti-social behaviour etc at or near the station.
BTP free number 0800 40 50 40
Local neighbourhood police – 436855
There is more funding that Kirklees Community Safety Officer, Helen Simpson, successfully applied for and which is going to go towards making planters so we plan to involve the young people at the new youth centre – The Basement – when it opens – due in March.
Thanks a lot and I’ll send out a couple of pics from today as soon as I get some.
Hope you like the bench!
Cheers
Jean
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