Number of Questionnaires from Wolsingham Young People = 51

Total Male = 31 Total Female = 21

These are the results from the young people of Wolsingham. There are a number of very interesting comments from the questionnaires. To make these things happen for the future it is our recommendation that there is a young persons sub group formed that will take this information forward.

• More clubs and the school swimming pool open to the public again
• I want the pool to re-open to the public
• More stuff to do – like activities
• Need a skate park because there is no skate park for a three hour drive and there is a huge amount of skateboarders in the area
• Need more skate parks to keep us off the school site
• More holidays, nets on football posts, more shops, no school at all and football all day
• The recreation ground
• I would like to have more places to hang out to keep people out of trouble
• I would like a place where kids can hang out where they are not going to get into trouble
• More places for kids to hang out
• More parks and fast food restaurants, and a golf course
• A park in Ferndal where it used to be
• Have more places to visit and more activities to do
• Have a skate park
• A better youth club
• Sports complex, decent football pitch, more shops
• I don’t know
• A better youth club and more activities
• A bigger youth club, a park at Demesne Mill, picnic area, bike path
• More play areas or kids clubs
• More football tournaments
• Have more places to go – 2
• The teachers to be more fair with pupils
• More activities to do after school and at weekends
• More to do
• They should have a park, and more hang out places
• More things to do
• More places to hang out
• We want our park back
• A football pitch
• Better swimming pool, ice rink
• More stuff to do and more activities for us
• Clubs, discos and singing lessons
• More things to do – 2
• A bank you can get free money from
• Better transport and more stuff to do
• The park
• I would like more things for teenagers
• More shelters for young people
• More places to go where it is dry and inside – instead of walking around the streets
• Something to do
• I would like to see more places for us to hang around and have fun
• Cinema needed, new sports complex, Clarks Fun Fair every day
• Swimming pool reopened

Yes No Maybe

5 36 9

• Undercover place to hang out – for the bad weather
• Activity Center and club
• Keep the swimming pool, more activities for teenagers
• Skate parks – 7
• Cinema, shops, bigger youth club
• Cinema, food places, community centers, shopping centers etc..
• A sports center
• Discos/clubs
• More places for bikes to go
• A place where we can sit and chat and play games
• Sports activities
• A proper hang out - one for girls and one for boys
• A teenagers park
• Nightclubs!
• Sports center
• Better youth club
• A play area, football pitch
• Youth club
• Football Pitch
• More places to visit
• Nightclubs
• Teen cyber café, youth club
• Youth Club
• Nightclub for kids
• An inside place or a café or something
• Sports Hall, a shelter, football ground, more shops
• I would like a youth club at both sides of Wolsingham
• Cinema, new sports complex

Yes No Maybe

32 10 9

• Shows more often

• Football and activity day
• Market
• Festivals
• Pool reopened to the public
• There is a lot of events in summer but not in winter
• Sport
• More fairs and fun things
• Musical events
• More shows
• I would like to see more shows
• Fun day and more times with the shows
• More shows or fairs
• Skate park and disco
• I would like to see a big market where you can buy millions of things
• Talent contest/ nightclub for kids
• Disco
• Football and fairs
• A market
• Shows – 2
• Discos in the youth club and snow rides
• Discos
• Discos
• More shows
• More girl events
• More funfairs
• Anything for young people
• Sports events
• Football events, swimming events, running events
• The funfair more often
• Funfairs stuff like that
• Clarks fun fair every day
• Skate competitions
• Plays and fairs
• Shows more often

• They should have more bins
• More bins and more aware of problem it causes
• More bins
• Put a big fine on dropping litter
• Have more bins
• Have people who are bad in school should clean up the litter
• More litter bins, litter collectors
• More bins
• Put more bins around
• Yes more bins in more places
• Litter pickers from school taken into the village at lunch time
• By placing more litter bins around the village
• Put kid friendly bins in different shapes around Wolsingham
• By providing more bins
• More bins
• Hire more cleaners
• Put more bins around
• Giving a fine
• Get a £5.00 note for putting rubbish in the bin
• Get more bins and punish the litterers
• Put more bins around
• Put more bins around and encourage people to put litter in them
• Pick litter up
• By making more bins easily available and changing how people see dropping litter, trying to persuade people it’s not sad to put litter in a bin.
• Have more bins and people to pick up litter
• Get more bins
• More bins
• By using bins that you press lots of buttons to take the rubbish away
• More bins
• More bins
• More bins
• More bins
• Less wrappers
• You should be fined if anyone catches you
• More bins and make them look more attractive
• More bins
• More bins around
• More bins and fine people who drop litter
• More bins that are easy to find and use
• Put more bins around Wolsingham
• More bins but sort of in the shape of something like a frog
• Tell the locals of Wolsingham to stop throwing crap bags into the school field
• On the spot fine of £5.00
• More bins
• More bins

Yes No Maybe

22 12 17

• I do not know
• Do not let the kids go down the street
• The people need to stop complaining about everything
• The school being warmer
• They could put on events with Wear Valley at Wolsingham School
• Stop the people who sneak down the village on a lunch time
• Unsure
• They should stop nagging, and the school should invite them into school to see how it works
• Take trips out into Wolsingham for certain subjects eg RE to go into church to show them that we are responsible people
• They could visit each other and see what they do
• Invite community people around the school
• Do more stuff around the dale (projects)
• More events at Wolsingham school which Wolsingham Community are invited to join in with.
• Create more activities where people perform to the public
• Have open days for the community to come and visit the school
• Improve the litter problem
• Students to hold events open to the public
• There could be shows and parties
• Do a play together

Yes No Maybe

16 4 31

• By recycling instead of binning everything
• Don’t drop litter
• Anything
• If they build a skate park
• Help them design and build a project
• I will help them set up things if they need help
• Anyway I can, like help run stuff and raise money
• I will help in the council so that there won’t be as much litter and more things for children and more places to hang out
• Help others
• Help raise money to help improve the community
• Do sponsored events to raise money for the village
• Do everything

Question Eight

How do you rate the following facilities in Wolsingham?

Good Bad OK

Youth Club 7 23 21

Park 17 9 25

Football Pitch 15 16 20

Mountain Bike Jumps 15 17 19

The shops 17 14 20

Bowling Green 10 20 21

Shows (seasonal) 40 4 7

Library 17 13 21

Meeting Halls 5 22 24

• Burger King/Woolworth’s
• Revamp the pool and open it to the public
• Fit a new activity center for adults and children, running clubs such as rounders and rock climbing
• I would put a golf course and a theme park in Wolsingham
• The biggest roller coaster the world has ever seen with a 100m drop with 24 loops
• BMX track
• A club and football stadium
• Reopen the pool, and sports center and gym
• A sports center
• I would put a skate park and improve the facilities that are already available
• Nothing I’d keep it
• A big community center, and I would have one room for the youth club, one room for boys to hang out, one room for girls to hang out and one room for meetings
• A new skate park
• More facilities for skaters like a skate park
• More sporting facilities open to the public and an undercover area for people to relax in
• Heating for a school
• Have a disco hall, BMX park, more skating facilities in the rec
• I would have a skate park
• I would put a cinema and a fun fair instead of the rec
• More activities for school kids
• Maybe a skate park
• Keep the pool open
• A leisure complex, shopping mall (cinema, sports, shops, food places, bowling etc)
• I would put a skate park near the park instead of going to Crook
• I would make a few more meeting halls, a better youth club and more things to do
• Have an under 18’s night club
• More shops, more places to hang out, a better youth club, a park in Ferndal so there is not as much trouble in that area.
• I would put a sports complex, with a range of activities everyday
• Proper bike jumps, clubhouse
• A night club and shopping center
• I would have a massive swimming pool like Wetn’Wild
• A decent football pitch more shops and a sports complex
• A nightclub for kids
• Better bike jumps made properly and an under 18’s club
• Make a larger center with a pool and snooker room with bandits
• A swimming pool with diving boards and slides as the other one has closed down
• A giant play area
• Make school bigger
• One fast food place, some shops, maybe a cinema, community center, and a better funner play ground
• The shows more often, better facilities, more places for children to go, sports center, swimming pool and a good place to hang out.
• Clothes shops and under 18 club
• A skate park and facilities for young children, a better football pitch
• A huge theme park like universal studios and Island of adventure, and a mansion for myself
• Gym
• More things in the park
• Make roads safer, bike paths, play area
• Youth Club
• A football pitch