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[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Yes I do. I think Penrith would benefit hugely from a Community Bank.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
I’m already a member of the Credit Union for Eden Study Group
so in that respect I will do my little bit to make sure that it happens.
[INTERVIEWER] What is a Credit Union?
It’s a community bank, it’s somewhere for everyone to save, young and old
and as you save you also have an opportunity to borrow if you need to.
[INTERVIEWER] Thank you for your help.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Well I think you have to start from the place it's a pretty good place anyway
and I think what would improve it most to get more and more people involved
and have people feeling that they own the place
and that they have a say in what happens that would be a really good way of improving the town as it is.
[INTERVIEWER] Thank you
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
I think I spend most of my time trying to implement that idea actually
through the work we do at the church and through events like this
So, yeh there is always more we can do. Very, very willing to see that vision come out.
[INTERVIEWER] Brilliant, thank you for your time.
Okay, thank you
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Yes I do. Penrith should have an Amateur Boxing Association Centre of Excellence.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
Yes we will be able to help implement the idea through the amateur boxing association.
Currently we're in talks with the senior directors of the amateur boxing association they're very keen to see Cumbria develop.
We set up the Cumbria amateur boxing training committee and that’s getting looked at by Cumbria Sport with Eddie Edge and partnership director
so everything’s coming on good and we need to get some support, a bit of a location now with Eden District Council
put our heads together and move this idea forward which could help circa 60-120 youngsters in the county.
[INTERVIEWER] Brilliant, thank you for your help.
Thank you.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Yes, I think they should hopefully get the Southend Road car-park sorted out
supermarket done if that’s what they’re going to do
and make Penrith a bit more inviting for other people.
[INTERVIEWER] Thank you.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
Well, I wish I could but I actually work out of town.
I run two brownie packs
things like that so I’m not sure really.
[INTERVIEWER] Thank you for your help.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Improving Penrith, well there should be more facilities for children
because there’s not a lot is there really apart from the swimming baths and the leisure centre.
[INTERVIEWER] Yeh.
Not a lot there for you actually.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
Implement it, well the only way you could do that is put it in the papers things like that isn’t it.
Get people, as you are doing yourself now, interviewing people and getting their views on things.
[INTERVIEWER] Okay, thank you.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
Yes.
[INTERVIEWER] Please continue
Ok you could have, like more sort of small independent shops so rather than closing, we get more of them.
and less of the idea of new supermarkets and things.
More events, like cultural events maybe supporting local artists. Thats like art all kinds of arts, drama and music and things.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea and if so how?
Yeh. I’m a musician and I do put on concerts locally sometimes.
I’ve just done one at bluebell bookshop recently which was really successful
and I would quite like to that a bit more regularly but also put on music inviting other guests from different places in slightly bigger venues.
[INTERVIEWER] Okay. Thank you very much.
[INTERVIEWER] Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
As far as I can see Penrith at the present moment is unattractive to any visitors.
When you come into town from all directions there’s no flower beds or floral displays.
In the towns there’s a lack of seating for people just to have a rest,
or lack of litter bins, a lack of flower arrangements above the shops etc
The untidiness, very untidy as far as litter goes.
We have a road sweeper which does very little work - he works 4 hours a day so he can’t clean the streets.
I think more money should be spent out of this supposedly 200,000 grant on seating and making the town more attractive money.
[INTERVIEWER] Hello. Do you have any ideas for improving Penrith?
No, I think what Penrith is lacking is a community area as such
and I’ve been at this conference today with Derek from Bluebell Bookshop
and we both agree that something should be a greater effort spent on trying to create something that the community can enjoy together
and that’s not a business venture but something that the community.
I think the only area we really have is the churchyard
but we used to have an area which has been lost to this building site
and it’s been a couple of years now and nothing’s been done about it
and I think that area if only we had the money should be turned into a community park
or to slight degree something that can be enjoyed by everyone.
[INTERVIEWER] Will you be able to help implement your idea, do something positive to make that happen and if so how?
Well, I’m always around in Penrith trying to do music on the streets and stuff to try
just to try and make what we have more colourful and exciting
but to be honest it’s been taken off our hands which is a shame
because but it shouldn’t be taken off our hands, because it used to be ours and it’s just been lost really
really to commercialism and capitalism - which is a pity.
and I think what would improve it most to get more and more people involved