Stanwix Online, Carlisle community website and forum

A very brief post as I don't have a lot of spare time to work the website at the moment.  I'm hearing tales from Kendal that one of our own Stanwix youths has been having some success at a recent international judo competition.

After surprisingly poor ticket sales, the SCA committee decided tonight to post pone the Auction of Promises, due to be held on Saturday 5th December.  Clearly, there are already too many things on people's plates in the run up to Christmas for this to be viable.

The long awaited Youth Club at the Community Hut on Church Street, drew an eager crowd on Friday night.  According to Ruth Younger herself, there were 46 youngsters who landed on the doorstep.   it is great to see this facility back on track, giving local youngsters the opportunity for some socialising off the streets, but still in their own space away from parents.  Aah, that slippery road to independence!

Roll up!  Roll up! Roll up!

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According to "The Place" a newsletter for property professionals, Carlisle is still the hottest regional capital by house price.  That can mean only one thing to my warped brain.   It's still a grand place to live. And places don't come much pleasanter than Stanwix - do they?

If we get the Community Centre rebuilt then it'll be even better - won't it!

The project to rebuild the community huts in Stanwix' Church Street is gathering pace.  Following last week's meeting of the Stanwix Community Association (SCA), several small working groups have been gathering information and planting "seeds". We are beginning to develop an ambitious package of grant applications and social events for the next year to meet our target: of raising a fund of up to £145,000. 

But here's the rub, this needs to be a community wide effort ... not just another case of "let the usual suspects do it all".

The project is ambitious. The project is vital: to retaining pre-school and after school care within the heart of Stanwix.  

As one of the "seeds" for the SCA's project, I have recently emailed everybody in my personal address book, to drum up awareness.  I will also be starting up a Stanwix.info based mailing list that I would ask everybody, with an interest in Stanwix as a community, to sign up to so that we can get word, news, updates and "the craik" out quickly and efficiently.