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Movie magic! A mobile cinema screen designed to bring the big screen experience to rural areas has been introduced in the district The Council has teamed up with Big Country Rural Cinema Network to produce a project which is hoped will be a ‘reel’ attraction for movie lovers. Gainsborough councillor and Trinity Arts supporter, Cllr Gillian Bardsley, said: “We are delighted to be able to offer this fantastic scheme to residents of West Lindsey. “Centre Screen is a scheme that uses portable cinema equipment to provide film screenings in alternative venues, particularly in areas where cinema might not otherwise be available, such as rural locations. “We hope volunteer promoters will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to turn their local venue into a temporary cinema, so that local people can enjoy films old and new at a friendly nearby venue. The benefits Gainsborough has will now be shared out across the district.” Volunteers within the community select the film, book the venue and set the price for the tickets and then sell them. Centre Screen West Lindsey, based at the Trinity Arts Centre in Gainsborough, provides a technician and the equipment to run the screening. The screenings cost £90 and the money returned to the scheme will help to maintain the equipment and keep the costs down. “We hope volunteer promoters take advantage of this opportunity so that local people can enjoy films Cllr Gillian Bardsley Any money groups make from organising raffles or selling refreshments they get to keep. Centre Screen comes with support from the technical staff at Trinity Arts Centre, a venue with 25 years’ experience in cinema and live events. Kevin Dunbar, co-ordinator for Centre Screen, West Lindsey said: “This is a new and exciting venture and it is a great way to bring the community together. “Centre Screen works with voluntary promoters based at venues as diverse as village halls, libraries, community centres, schools and colleges – anywhere that is a meeting point for local people and can provide some very basic facilities.” The scheme is a partnership with Big Country Rural Cinema Network and funded by E.M Media but it is managed by Centre Screen West Lindsey. Similar schemes based at Phoenix Arts in Leicester currently operate within Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. For more detailed information please visit: www.centrescreen.net > To join the scheme or to find out more information contact: Kevin Dunbar, Centre Screen Co-ordinator, Trinity Arts Centre, Trinity Street, Gainsborough, DN21 2AL, (01427) 675137 alternatively email: kevin. dunbar@west-lindsey.gov.uk Pictured above left: Kevin Dunbar who will soon be producing scenes like this (centre) at a village hall near you. 14 West Lindsey News
Thanks for keeping us off the streets Teenagers grateful for youth café Teenagers have thanked the council for helping to keep their youth café open. The Arena Café in Market Rasen provides a safe place for young people to meet up instead of hanging around on the streets. Figures released by Lincolnshire Police show the café has helped to halve the number of anti-social behaviour incidents in the town since January 2010 – down from 32 to just 17. The Community Safety Unit at the council has awarded the café a £15,000 grant to ensure its good work can carry on. Leader of West Lindsey District Council and a ward member for Market Rasen, Cllr Burt Keimach said: “We are delighted to award this grant to the youth café, which has had a significant impact in Market Rasen – and not only on the anti-social behaviour figures. “It has also made a big difference to the area and gives the young people a safe place to go on a Friday evening in the town. “The council is working closely with CG Partnerships, which manages the café, to look at making its future more sustainable.” Jack Rook, 14, has been going to the café, also known as the Friday Night Project, since it opened. He said: “It is somewhere to go rather than loitering around on the streets. “It is not fun for people to see lots of kids on the street as it can be intimidating, when they walk past big groups. “I am pleased the council has paid to keep the café open. The fact they are putting money into the café at all because of the budget cuts is really good.” Mason Dawson, 13, meets up with his friends in the café. He is also a member of the Market Rasen Youth Council. He said: “Before the café opened there was a lot of vandalism in the town caused by people Sam Rea, Youth worker for the Friday Night Project, chats with young people at the Arena Café Graffiti artist Luke Brisbane produced his design with help from James Mayle at the Friday Night Project’s Urban Extravanganza because they had nothing else to do.” “If I was not at the café I would be hanging around on the streets with my friends. “Now I help out in the tuck shop, play on the Wii and use the computers. I am so pleased the council have given the café a grant to keep open.” Young people can use all the facilities available and youth workers are on hand to talk to. CG Partnership Project Worker, Sam Rea, said the café regularly has between 20 and 30 young people attending on a Friday night. She said: “This grant is fantastic news. This café really has given young people an opportunity to say no to going out drinking with their friends and has given them an alternative place to go. “Last year we engaged with 137 people and almost 80 of them returned four or more times, which exceeded our expectations. “I have definitely noticed a positive change in behaviour and attitude with the young people we have at the café on a Friday night. “One young person recently opened up to me and said ‘you and the Friday Night Project have made a difference in my life’.” West Lindsey News 15
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