Save Penwortham Youth Centre

There are currently 275 signatures for this petition:

1. Emily Coombe Preston

   16/02/2011 at 11:02 pm
2. Neill Donnelly Cullyhanna

   16/02/2011 at 11:23 pm
3. Nicole McLoughlin Preston

   17/02/2011 at 12:05 am
4. Leah Wainwright London

   17/02/2011 at 12:07 am

   The work undertaken at Penwortham Youth and Community Centre is of vital importance, not only to the local community but to each individual that walks through the door. I have been associated with the centre for a number of years and seen young people blossom into well rounded, mature and creative adults. A centre such as this focuses on the individual as well as the group as a result many young people have walked away with confidence, friendships and skills they could not have developed under other circumstances. To loose the centre would be a great disservice to the young people in attendance of the clubs and societies the building homes and a tragedy for the young people who are yet to discover the joys and fulfilment the centre can bring to them.

5. Alex Rowe Preston

   17/02/2011 at 9:18 am

   This is a regularly used, well run youth and community centre, that holds many fond memories. There is no justification in closing it.

6. Rachel Halleron Preston

   17/02/2011 at 10:27 am

   Really glad that people are wanting to try and make a difference

7. Joanna Gillespie Prestin

   17/02/2011 at 1:14 pm
8. Stuart Wilkinson Preston

   17/02/2011 at 1:15 pm
9. Joanna Gillespie Preston

   17/02/2011 at 1:25 pm

   I think it would be an utter disgrace to close the youth centre down. On a personal level it wasn't for the work Ron Blenkinship has done with the youth theatre I wouldn't be who I am today. When I joined as a child I was extremely shy and a bit uncommunicative and now I'm a drama teacher and a performer myself. I fully support the work of penwortham youth centre and question the prospects and opportunities available to young people in a world of mass unemployment. What is left for them to do- hang out on street corners? You reap what you sow…

10. Sue Baker preston

    17/02/2011 at 1:47 pm
11. Kirsty Hargreaves Preston

    17/02/2011 at 2:05 pm

    I think it would be such a shame for the youth centre to close,I used to go to a drama group here and dancing-giving me many opportunities to make friends and socialise with others!!

12. Lynn Quigley Penwortham

    17/02/2011 at 3:08 pm
13. Michael Farrow Preston

    17/02/2011 at 3:12 pm

    As a volunteer at the centre and a young person who once used the service I am outraged. With a whole host of frontline services to young people being cut in addition to their limited bleak future what will they have left? If a generation is just not resourced for how will they develop into the role model citizens that this country needs.\r\n\r\nThe centre has a recording studio which I help run, a youth theatre, St Johns Ambulance, Disabled groups, Dance groups, youth parliament, drop in clubs and more. This alone justifies the sheer importance of not just a building, but a community of workers and young people positively engaging.\r\n\r\nWhat will the young generation have left but to fill the negative stereotype which already shadows them.

14. Lyndsey Burke COLNE

    17/02/2011 at 3:12 pm
15. Paul Quigley Penwortham

    17/02/2011 at 3:22 pm
16. Eleanor Gould Preston

    17/02/2011 at 3:28 pm
17. Emily Keighley Newcastle

    17/02/2011 at 4:21 pm
18. David Molloy Warrington

    17/02/2011 at 4:22 pm
19. Gail Donnelly preston

    17/02/2011 at 4:27 pm
20. Peter Donnelly preston

    17/02/2011 at 4:31 pm