Kirkcudbright Skate Park

The aim of Kirkcudbright Skatepark is to provide a dedicated, safe, sociable and enjoyable outdoor facility for young people to play and exercise in the town of Kirkcudbright. The project encourages an active, outdoor lifestyle to benefit all ages from toddlers to teenagers in a rural community. The project aims to deliver this to the many skaters, bikers, scooters and boarders who already exist and skate around the streets in the centre of town (total population approx 3000, with 250 in primary school and 460 in secondary school, as well as visiting friends and family and tourists) providing a place which is suitable for their needs whilst encouraging more and more young people to become active and continue an active lifestyle all the way through their lives. With limited youth support in town (the local Youth Drop In has now closed) the skate park aims to create a social space where young people of all ages and from communities outwith the immediate town, can interact and feel supported. The space earmarked for the project (Gartshore Park) is already an extensive, designated recreational space for community purpose yet is under used with very few facilities and so this project would look to increase the potential of this space for a skate park in a great location which would be used by a significant number of local and neighbouring families as well as visiting families to the town.