Opening Day

A big thanks to Mayor Councillor Ian Hazeldine and Councillor Isobel Hartley who came along and officially opened the Pensbury Street play area today Thurday 24th July.

Children and young people enjoyed a circus skills performance and workshops, Baloon Modelling and facepainting on the day as well as a tombola and name the teddy organised by the Pensbury Street Crew.

Central Community Partnership funded the day and Groundwork supported the young people organinig and on the day.

Pensbury Street park opening day

come along and enjoy the fun

Thursday 24th July 2008
2-4pm in the park

tombola
name the teddy bear
balloon modeling
face painting
circus skills workshops and performance

Pensbury Street Gardening Extraviganza

Come along on Saturday 5th July 11am till 1pm to make your self a free hanging basket to make the steet look great ready for the grand open day.

all the equipment and plants will be provided by the residnets group.

Pensbury Street Krew win 2 volunteer awards

Congratulations to the pensbury Street Krew for winning two Volunteering awards from Evolution.

The group have been meeting NOW for some time since the 1st art workshops back in 2006 they have worked hard to collect the views of local residents and young people and put them into the deign of the park.

They were nominated by Lisa from Groundwork for the 2008 Volunteer awards at Evolution and they won two categories, Partnership working and the young peoples award, for all the hard work they have put in to the Park project.

"The Pensbury Street group have come together and worked really hard for the park, sharing their ideas,listening to others in the street and I am really pleased that their efforts where recognised with the award"

"The Pensbury Street residents should be really proud of them and their achievements and all the hard work they have put into designing the entrance feature, by doing this they are setting a good example as young people and giving the street a voice"

Lisa Kwok
Project Officer
Groundwork

"When I heard our groups name called out at the awards ceremony I couldn't stop smiling, my hands where sticky and I was nervous, but excited to win"

Shantell Banyard
Pensbury Street Krew

Memories

We are happy that the new park is being done but we are also sad because of all our memories in the old park.

our diary

hi i am leighanne jones. I started this workshop some point last year. This workshop is so cool. Some girls called Lisa and Mez were asked by a bunch of adults from the street who said they want a lot of young kids to get involved. The kids that got involved are Emma, Clare, Andy, Shantelle, Toni, And the new girl who joined on 24/4/08 who is called Phoebe. What she said about the group is, It's relly relly cool and that we are all working as a big sucsses of a team.

Hi my name is phoebe i've lust stared this group and alredy i think its cool.My best friend has just gone crazy and still is.They are designing a park and i will come next week.

Residents Meeting

The next meeting to organise the grand opening event is Wednesday 30th April 2008 5.15pm at the Groundwork office 123 Victoria Road, all residents welcome please come along.

Things are really progessing now. The play equipment is in and the safety surface has been applied. Unfortunately we're having to wait for the hand rails to be manufactured but as you can all appreciate these are having to be made specially for us and these things take time. We're also waiting for the seating and bins but then its only the finishing touches so watch this space. The ball games space looks great and I'm really pleased at the amount of space that will be available for the kids to play football and basketball in. We still need resident input for the finished article so please don't be afraid to get involved. As you can see we've managed so much already but new ideas are always welcome. The Art workshops are very well attended and there are some brilliant ideas coming out of them.

play equipment goes in

Residents Meeting

the next Pensbury Street residents meeting is Wednesday 19th March 5.15pm at the groundwork office 123 Victoria Road. Come along and get involved in planning the grand opening event for the new park and find out about the progress of the development.

hope to see you there, Children are welcome too.

Joanne

official park opening ideas

We are looking for ideas of what activites could be held for the park's official opening. If you have any ideas please let us know by posting a blog entry!

one week to go until the workshops begin

as well as carving for 9 to 17 year olds, next thursday we will also be holding some arts and craft workshops for under 9 year olds this means that the workshops will be running up until the tenth of April instead of the 24th of April.

The Pensbury Street Art Group

We are a group of young people that meet up evey week, we got togther though an art workshop in March last year, which was part of the local park improvements. We wanted to get involved further and design an entrance feture that wouild fit in wiht the current project and have been working with Groundwork West Durham and Darlington on our ideas. In December 2007 we applied for some funding through the Dosh and were succesful. With this money we plan to hold a number of open workshops after school to produce flags and banners which will be used to create an entrance feture for Pensbury Street Park.

JOIN THE PARTY LET'S GET ARTY

JOIN THE PARTY LET'S GET ARTY



we are working with groundwork and we will be holding a series of free art workshop to design the pensbury street park entrance!!!!!!!!!!!!

the first session starts thursday 21st february 3:30pm-5:30pm at st cuthberts church center in the market place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To book your place pleaase contact lisa or mez at groundwork on 01325 353791!!!!!!!!!!:-)