We’ve been discussing setting up an initiative to aid people experiencing period poverty. Period poverty occurs when young teenage girls can’t afford to purchase sanitary products, and subsequently often results in girls missing out on education because they can’t attend school. We believe that we must do as much as possible to provide free sanitary products to girls and women in Easingwold. Hopefully soon ‘Red Boxes’ containing such free products will be distributed around the public places within Easingwold.
We are going to put forward a proposal to the council for sports equipment for Easingwold. Ideas have included an outdoor table tennis table or gym equipment, a set of basketball nets, and introduction of bike racks to encourage cycling. Such ideas will be beneficial to the environment, and hopefully will reduce illness through the encouragement of exercise. This idea (if approved) may hopefully encourage people to be more sociable and improve the social atmosphere in Easingwold. We believe that local businesses will benefit from this, by being able to sell sports accessories and equipment, hopefully encouraging a positive cycle of health and fitness. Other ideas we have been working on include, sports events to promote physical and psychological fitness, music and drama production spaces so that young people can engage in their hobbies with other like-minded individuals, and possibly introducing fast charging points to encourage the use of electric vehicles around Easingwold.
Written by James Forsdyke on behalf of the Easingwold Youth Council, a North Yorkshire Youth member club.