Flinders Founders

Who are we?
We are a group of volunteers aged between 11 to 19 year olds who have the aim of making Donington a better place for young people. We formed in 2006 and since then we have raised the profile of young people by creating a Teen Park in Donington.

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What have we done?

Since 2006 we have do much fund raising and applied for grants to help towards our aim. A selection of the things we have done are:

• Christmas Party
• Halloween Party
• Day of Dance
• Karaoke Night
• Family Film Night

And our biggest fund raisers would be our Party in the Park. This is our biggest fundraiser and an annual event. To create the Teen Park we had to apply for grants to fund our project because we needed £79,000 and this would have taken us many years to fundraise ourselves. We were successful in receiving the grant and now we have Teen Park. Since we received this grant we have applied for many more and the following things have changed:

• More skate equipment
• Frontage
• Signs
• More BMX ramps
• Flower beds
• A flowered ditch
• Logs
• Seating
• A shed for our gardening equipment
• Bins
• Graffiti Workshop

What we want to do
Flinders Founders are always trying to improve the Teen Park for the young people and we always involve them in finding out what they want to see in the Teen Park. In the near future we are working hard for funding for a half pipe which would be a very popular piece of equipment in the park. So fingers crossed this will happen soon.