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Low impact
Youth mag gets dance fitness
I. workout for
good reception 10 to 16s
Starts Friday
Youth wanted for 24 January,
5pm - 5.45pm. Tiwn u a aUo
drugs education Haydon Centre £1.75
"We were really pleased," said
Teresa Barclay. "We've had lots of residential
Four pages of last month's Link good comments from young peo- Safe Swindon Project launched by
was taken up by the YouthQuake ple, and also adults who found the Five youngsters from Upper Shaw the Princess Royal a year ago.
team, a group of young people information about drugs and con- Youth Club are setting up a drugs Run by Druglink and trainers
interested in communicating a traception helpful." education residential weekend in from Cascade peer education, the
youth message. YouthQuake will be published February to pass on information to training weekend impressed
With an exciting design created when the team raise the cash to other young people in the area. Andrew Davies from Freshbrook.
by students at the Swindon Col- pay for the next edition. To con- The teenagers took part in the "I wasn't sure about going, but I
lege art school, YouthQuake was a tribute to the 'Quake, leave a mes- training residential sponsored by learnt a lot. They took an open
success for the team. sage for Kerry or Teresa on 445529. BT in November, as part of the approach; they were not saying
In between The Link has started 'don't take drugs.' It was about the
LINK CENTRE Youthzone to keep the focus on dangers of what you could be get-
youth interest.
ting into and the precautions you
COMMUNITY SUITE should take."
AKE The group have to plan their
SWINDON FASHION SHOW own weekend and also raise some
of the cash to run it. But it's not all
family Friday 7 Februar work said Emma Skett.
"There will be 20 places and we
CHURCH Arts Studio, Link Centfl plan to have fun. We'll have drugs
education sessions and there's a
oor & bar 7pm Show Starts pool room, football, karaoke and
'SEEDS OF Tickets on sale mid-January fro video. It's a chance for young peo-
Link Centre reception ple to get away to work things out."
REVIVAL' Fashions for all ages, shapes To find out more, call Jane Kirk
sizes plus music & entertainme Five Spice Girl mad members of on 877983.
MEETING RAISE MONET 10 PUBUSH TOUIHQ Greendown Youth Club will be per- Local band Wasted play Upper Shaw Farm
youth club, Shaw Ridge. Tuesday 21
forming at the YouthQuake fashion
show on 8 February. January, 7pm. Cost £1.
Saturday 18 January, Freshbrook Spice Girls posers above, from left, Wasted also play Link Arts Studio with The
Confused. Saturday 8 February, 7.80pm.
7.3Opm Evangelic _________ Nicola Lynch, Claire Griffin, Claire £3.50 on door. Bar & light refreshments.
Garrett, Tanya Porter, Rachael King
"In these days of visitation Church - -
there is a reason Worsley Road
Safe youth place wanted
why He comes!"
Will give YOU a warm A group of young people want the Youth Unit office at the Link
NO CHARGE welcome Centre to be turned into a Drop In Centre and have been organising
FOR ADMISSION Sunday I Own Family Praise a petition to press their case.
• . .
At present the Youth Unit opens around creates a certain impres-
•• • with children's Covenanter on two evenings a week when sion. We want somewhere to go to
Movement & creche
SUNDAY MEETINGS I 630pm Evening Worship and young people can drop in for ad- be with our friends which doesn't
10.30am & 7.00pm Communion vice and information. But the cost, where we won't be moved on
For details of mid-week youngsters are calling for the of- by security, and where we can feel
Info: Call Brian meetings, house groups and fices located on the ground floor to safe."
849731 other activities, telephone the be opened every evening and at The youngsters say the Youth
Church Office, Tel: 873050 the weekends. Unit could have a pool table, TV,
The Link Centre has been an music and refreshments. They
attraction to teenagers ever since it think more people would use the
opened 11 years ago and there is information facilities which have
OCAL CHURCHES often tension between older users been developed.
trying to enter the building through
a throng of people hanging around
All Saints'Lydiard Millicent - 10:30am Revd Peter Knight outside. The Centre employs se-
772417 (for the Village and Roughmoor) curity staff to try and ensure there e Link Ctre Youth Unit
St Mary's Lydiard Tregoze - 9:00 & 10:30am Revd Rob Bu des is acceptable behaviour. vice & Information
870244 (for Freshbrook, Grange Park & Hook) There has never been a low cost provides info on Aids
Holy Trinity Shaw - 10:30am Re Andrew Hetherington 770568 \ place for young people to go. But Xclusion, Benefits
(the Church is at Shaw Village Centre) the takeover of ground floor of- :Unemployment and
Toothili Church - 10:45am Revd George Gibson 692620 \ fices by Wiltshire youth services st things in between.
has brought demands to open the
(meeting in the Community Centre during rebu i l ding) re people are needed to
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facilities for longer hours.
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Westlea Church - 10:00am Revd Peter Walker 872932 ke this information

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(this Church meets in Westlea School Hall, Langstone Way) AO Angela Baker, 15, said she had liable and to keep the
been a regular outside the Link op- open.
The Parish of West Swindon and the Lydiard' Centre for a couple of years. "It's 'Yyou can help, call Jo
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a central meeting place, but we
Ba.tist • Church of En land • Methodist • United Reformed Church Marchment on 445529.
know a lot of teenagers hanging