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A Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year from the positive newsforce in West and North Swindon
Youth initiatives get Royal backing Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal launched a package of proposals to improve services and facilities for young people in West Swindon on Thursday 23 November. In a keynote speech to business "West Swindon has a lot going leaders and community workers, for it; excellent schools and excellent facilities," said the Princess at the launch of the Crime ConRoyal. 'A community which incern Safe Swindon' project at BT vests in its young people is inheadquarters at North Star, the vesting in a safer area, and in the Princess Royal spoke of the need to develop crime prevention inifuture Safe Swindon' is being develtiatives. She also said that the oped following Crime Concern majority of young people are conresearch into youth needs in cerned about personal safety and want to stay out of trouble. Toothill and Freshbrook sponsored by Bland the Halifax BuildThe Princess Royal referred to the high number of young people ing Society. It showed that alliving in West Swindon and outthough the level of crime in West lined some of the projects envisSwindon is low, there is concern aged: a peer led drugs education about the level of nuisance, antiprogramme in schools and in the social behaviour and young peocommunity, more sports activiples worries of becoming victims ties, organising a youth festival of crime. and establishing a youth advice, Adrian Overson, BT Personnel information and resource centre Manager, announced that the at the Link Centre. company was committing a further £5,000 to Safe Swindon and would also be sponsoring a review of the project in the Spring. Crime Concern Chief Executive Nigel Whiskin, said he was delighted by the Safe Swindon event. "It was a very successful launch; we will be following up the support expressed by Swindon businesses. It's a wonderful Why wait until opportunity to create a safer enafter the seaso vironment; I'm particularly of good cheer pleased for Swindon's young peoand total excess? ple." Cut out the guilt • Come to the Safe Swindon by planning ahead with information and photo' display the Link magazine at the Link Centre in January. • Allied Dunbar staff charity is Get Fit in 96 by turning to make a grant towards a to pages 13 to 16. youth information centre to be based in the Link Centre. • MAD Youth: Arts festival set for May. Details on page 3. • Young People's Centre closes. HK97 are offering 15 set Volunteers running the youth meals in an easy building at Toothill Farm have competition on page 34. had to close it down because Forty people will enjoy meals of funding problems and lack worth £275 in total. of interest from young people.
The Princess Royalfinds out what it is like to grow up in West Swindon from Greendown School students,from left, Sophie Sheen, Gemma Abrams, Emily Knock and Denise Alexander
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