Members of the local BMX, SK8 and Inline project didn’t hesitate when they heard that a group in Lincoln were having difficulty finding a site for their Skate Park worth thousands of pounds and were offering to give it free to a worthy cause.

Margaret Codling – chair of the group - takes up the story.
“When I heard the news on the “Look North” TV programme I got straight in touch with Mike McDonald, our town’s new development manager, who had seen the item too and already contacted the organisers in Lincoln.
Time was tight as we only had 7 days in which to take action.
He wrote our bid for the park, sent it in and kept in touch with Rosemary from the group over there.
In the meantime, our new Mayor, Tony Howard was using all his contacts to find some temporary storage with ELDC and other organisations, Helen Matthews the chair of the Tourism Forum was looking for a permanent site and Shelagh Price at Linkage Green was searching for transport”.

Margaret herself then contacted lots of local business people to try and get some help to load and unload it onto lorries.

Mike McDonald comments –
“The response from everyone in the town we contacted has been really amazing – not one single person or organisation turned us down – and no-one wanted payment for the help or facilities which they freely offered when we explained what we needed. Everyone knows how few facilities we have for young people here in Mablethorpe, and this was a chance that we couldn’t let slip through our fingers”

On Friday morning the news came through that the Skate Park had been donated to the group, who now only have a week in which to collect and house it, prior to finding it a permanent home.

Tony Howard, the Mayor said
“It just shows what this town can do when the chips are down and we need to get things done – now the town’s young people will have a large professional skate park worth many thousands of pounds which would have taken us years to raise in the normal way.
I’d like to thank everyone who offered to help out – in particular Lloyd Sylvester from Grange Leisure Park for providing temporary covered storage and Rob Manning from the funfair for the offer of transport and a permanent site”