Fundraising ideas are being sought for local youngsters trying to raise funds to improve their skate park facility.

A ‘table top sale’ is taking place at the De Valence on Saturday, October 20, between 10 am and 4 pm, to help raise funds, but Deputy Mayor. Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown said that the children were on the look out for more ideas.

She explained that The Tenby Jubilee Play and Skate Park Association, working with the Town Council to redesign and extend the skate park, had put forward for different grant funding to help raise some of the projected £150,000 costs for the project.

“A further meeting of the Association took place on Monday, so if anybody has any more fundraising ideas then please do give them to us, as the kids are keen to do something,” Clr. Mrs. Brown told her colleagues.

She also said that one person’s comments on Facebook suggesting that money raised would be better used teaching those that use the skate park how to use a bin, as the area had been littered with plastic bottles and glass, had ‘upset’ the youngsters who use the facility.

“I was so upset by that comment and so were the kids. The skate park is well used by the youngsters of the town so why stops something that benefits them,” continued Clr. Mrs. Brown.

“If the person who wrote has children of their own then they ought to think about that.

“The skate park is cleared everyday by the handyman, and four to five youngsters who use the facility also go up there every Saturday morning to sweep glass and litter up.

“We know some of the youths responsible for this litter, and we will go to the police with names,” she added.