{"id":14146,"date":"2020-08-15T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efltrust.com\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2020-08-15T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:45:33","slug":"young-people-help-community-facility-open-for-local-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efltrust.com\/young-people-help-community-facility-open-for-local-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People Help Community Facility Open For Local Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"
Teenagers taking part National Citizen Service (NCS) \u2018Keep Doing Good\u2019 with Bristol City Robins Foundation are implementing their very own social action project to benefit people of all ages in the community.<\/p>\n
The group of young people, who were previously strangers to one another until the start of the programme and hail from all over Bristol, identified the Leisure Village South Bristol (formally South Bristol Sports Centre) as the focus of their social action project. The facility, which has acted as a community hub for people across the city, has been closed for more than two years as a result of a serious fire which caused catastrophic damage to the facility.<\/p>\n
The group of young people identified the Leisure Village as a hub of the local community and were keen to help the facility get back up and running as soon as possible to enable it to serve the community once more.<\/p>\n
Following a meeting with facility Director Ben Ferris to identify the areas most in need of help, the youngsters set to work on their mission to rejuvenate the facility.<\/p>\n
On their first day of volunteering the group of teenagers cleared away more than 50 sacks worth of rubbish from the centre\u2019s outdoor 4G football pitch \u2013 an area which has been subject to significant trespassing during the lockdown period.<\/p>\n