Teenagers celebrate new youth club (From Daily Echo)
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Marchwood gets new £100,000 youth club after 20 years
11:33am Sunday 11th November 2012 in News
Teenagers celebrate new youth club
TEENAGERS in a Hampshire village are celebrating the opening of a new youth centre that was first suggested about 20 years ago.
The long-awaited facility, an extension to the pavilion at Lloyd Recreation Ground in Main Road, Marchwood, has been equipped with chairs, tables and a pool table.
The campaign for a youth centre began to gather pace at the start of the Millennium.
Councillor Ron Vango-Fisher, vicechairman of the parish council’s amenities committee, said: “It’s been a long time coming. We finally got permission to extend the pavilion but it took ten to 12 years to get the money together.”
Cllr Vango-Fisher said the new building cost more than £100,000, with New Forest District Council donating £85,000.
