Italian Market on its way

A little slice of Italy is coming to Crawley.

Italia In Piazza’s Real Italian Food Market will arrive in Queens Square on Thursday March 25, as part of Crawley Town Centre Partnership’s desire to bring more vibrancy and diversity to the shopping area.

Authentic Italian food will be on sale from 9am-4pm, including cheeses, cured meats, herbs, pasta, olives, breads, biscuits, cakes and oils.

Ready-to-eat hot food will also be on offer, from pizza to sausages and stuffed rice balls.

Broadfield Boxing Club (final name undecided)

Working with the Outreach team from WSCC it was made clear that a provision of a Boxing Club would meet a lot of the aims for this area.

Broadfield alone has approx 5200 residents aged 25 yrs or below. This ward along with others has many ethnic backgrounds and cultures. To combine this with Bewbush and neighbouring areas on the South West of the Town it is a very young and diverse area.

Crawley has 2 long established Boxing Clubs in Crawley Keystone ABC in west green and Crawley ABC in three bridges. These are well respected and well used. The West of Crawley has access to these Clubs and facilities but speaking to people in Broadfield and Bewbush, they cannot always get access to travel to these clubs or are just not interested in travelling to the other side of town.

The proposal is to set up a Boxing Club in Broadfield, covering Bewbush, Gossops Green, Tilgate area to provide a facility which will draw in diverse people from the area, hard to reach people who may not mix with each other. This would be a great opportunity to work with community cohesion and bring together youngsters with possible extremist views on politics and religion, to work together in sport.

We would only be starting out small and probably over subscribed so any overflow we could encourage to attend the other more experienced clubs with the possibility of transport (Crawley Community Transport).

We have the support of WSCC, CBC, Crawley Police, Crawley ABC and Keystone ABC. A planning meeting is being arranged involving the above and local community leaders to get this project off the ground and something hopefully started for the Summer 2010.

Please contact me for any further information or any suggestions you may have Cllr Lee Gilroy 07593141806 or lee.gilroy@crawley.gov.uk

Broadfield Youth Drop in Centre

This is being sent up by Lee Gilroy (Local Councillor), Adam Brown (Local Councillor), Louise Weekes (Resident) and Stephen Pearson (WSCC Youth Services). In conjunction with a group of Local youngsters who provide input into what the drop in centre can do for them.

Broadfield has approx 5200 residents aged 25 yrs or below. This neighbourhood has many ethnic backgrounds and cultures, being probably the youngest and most diverse area in Crawley.

This centre has had a grant from WSCC and will have two dedicated Youth Workers from WSCC for the initial start up period. From then on it will be run by us and other Volunteers who are coming on board who will be trained by WSCC.

This will be a first of its kind and what could be the First Independent Youth Centre in West Sussex. It is aimed at a attracting Young people who would not normally go to a youth club and provides them an opportunity to go somewhere other than hanging about on the streets. Somewhere safe and somewhere where they won’t be asked anything just left to drop in and go as they please. We are hoping to have this for free entrance and reach an age group from 11 to 21 but the youth will determine really the age group, from who turns up.

The Youth have been meeting on a regular basis planning the future of the club and the basis is set. This looks like a really positive move for Broadfield and all will be welcome.

Please contact me for any further information or any suggestions you may have Cllr Lee Gilroy 07593141806 or lee.gilroy@crawley.gov.uk