chuckieboy

Thanks to everyone who has registered on www.clix4kids.co.uk who are members of this forum. You may well have seen the article on Page 2 of the News Post Leader for Thursday 4th May which outlines the goals of the charity and what we hope to be able to provide for Bedlington and surrounding areas in the future. There are already a number of household named website links on the site such as Amazon, Argos and That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds with more to come in the near future - by making purchases or bids through our website, the community as a whole will benefit in the future - so if you already use these websites, go through our link instead as it doesn't cost you anymore. We already have the support of the majority of schools in our area so hopefully, the site will take off. So, if you have registered thanks, if you haven't - please do. Cheers

Thanks for your optimistic comments!! You're not one of the 'heed honchos' at Wansbeck Council by chance??

Get registering with us then Ewok - you know it makes sense!!

Hi, the plan WILL work because already we have had many, many people who are fully supportive of the idea (including you by the sounds of it). Let's be honest, by registering on the forum, it costs nothing. However, once our affiliated websites are up and running on the site, and more importantly people are looking at them and using them, finance will start to be raised. For too long now (probably going back longer than our lifetimes) the people of Bedlington have complained about the lack of sports and leisure facilities in the town, yet nothing has happened. We complain amongst each other that our kids have nothing, yet nothing has happened because we haven't stood up as A COMMUNITY and said to the powers that be that we demand action. Why should Blyth, Cramlington, Morpeth, Ashington, Newbiggin have it all?? It's time for change, we can do it together - tell everyone you know to register on the forum and MAKE IT HAPPEN. If we have one BIG voice rather than many small ones, it will happen. Cheers

Hi there to all fellow Bedlingtonians - I would like to take the opportunity, if I may, to let you all know about a new Charity website being launched by a few local people aimed at promoting awareness as to the lack of sports and leisure facilities in and around Wansbeck, but more so Bedlington. www.clix4kids.co.uk is a concept which has been borne out of the minds of a few disgruntled, disillusioned, annoyed, frustrated Bedlington people whose kids quite simply have no where local to participate in sports and leisure activities. Bedlington IS the poor relation - we pay our council taxes and in return, OUR KIDS GET NOTHING! Our Mission Statement, Aims and Objectives and Targets are posted on our website but, in a nutshell, we aim to: 1) Create a local awareness of the lack of sports and leisure facilities for the whole community in the Wansbeck Area 2) Promote the well-being of our local community by way of the provision of sports and leisure facilities 3) Develop a strategic plan with the overall objective of raising finance for the provision of sports and leisure facilities in Wansbeck We aim to raise finance by way of website affiliate marketing, local business advertising and sponsorship. The charity will be run BY LOCAL PEOPLE, FOR LOCAL PEOPLE and will be NON-FOR-PROFIT. We have already approached the local schools in the area with an opportunity to enter our competition to design our charity logo and hope to involve as many younsgsters and their families as possible. We would like as many people as possible to register on our site as soon as possible as this is vital to the future success of the charity. Only by PEOPLE PRESSURE will our friends at Wansbeck Council and Northumberland County Council sit up and take notice when we say we are SERIOUS in doing something about the future of OUR COMMUNITY, OUR KIDS. Registering for the site is easy - just as it is with your site www.bedlington.co.uk We hope that in the near future, our respective sites may have links to each others site as this can only be good for the community of Bedlington and Wansbeck as a whole. We hope that you people of Bedlington and Wansbeck will jump on board with us. Also, if you have any suggestions, ideas, comments, meassages of support etc etc. for us, get on our forum on the site. This is YOUR CHANCE, YOUR VOICE - we hope that you'll join us. Many thanks Phil (chuckieboy)