Below is how I described the Grove Kind CIC upon setting up the company in Jun 2023. I hope you like it.

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The company’s activities will provide benefit to the site users, skateboarders and their friends, mainly teenagers and young adults in the local area.

By installing and maintaining sporting facilities, the young people in the area will have their own space to be active and socialise, this will positively affect their physical and mental wellbeing as well as enhancing their creativity and sense of belonging. Frequent maintenance will discourage the wrong kind of people from taking roots, so that the site will remain safer to the local population.

This would be achieved by:

Continual site inspection and fix wear & tear of any existing skateboarding obstacles made of both concrete and wooden panel, keep the surface of the site largely free of debris by regular sweeping, manually draining large puddles after heavy rain, picking and disposing of litters on a regular basis, provide seating furniture, routinely trim vegetation inside and outer perimeter of the site to maintain clearance, organise free community skateboarding events, install ad-hoc sporting facility such as a basket hoop as an alternative offering when the weather is unsuitable for skateboarding, keep an inviting outlook of the site by topping up fresh colours on obstacles and outer fence, build new skateboarding obstacles, sign posting the facility, set up small grants scheme for the community to have some financial freedom, providing any maintenance consumables and equipment such as: cement filler, paints/ paint brushes / bins / bin liners, buckets or brooms, and providing portable floodlights facility during winter months – all free of charge.

By default CIC member will remain hands-off while they are on-site for maintenance work, but they will always keep an eye on the overall site users – mentally register who is here, known and new, and lookout for potential high risk behaviours and intervene when necessary to prevent escalation.

CIC member is expected to remain neutral and distanced most of the time and only intervene when absolutely necessary and expected to back off as soon as the minimum need is met.

It is CIC’s intention to act as a low-key observer, quiet deterrence and peacekeeper additional to carrying out generic maintenance work. Our high frequent presence in the site will offer continuation and stability to the site.

CIC will offer and constantly monitor an anonymous reporting form for the community to alert any wrong doings and concerns. Reported incidents will be assessed to remove obvious pranks but the majority will be anonymised and the summary will be fed back to the community to raise awareness of any potential danger.

CIC personnel are required to take a formal safeguarding training course from an accredited organisation such as (but not limited to) skateboard GB.

Teenage site users may be dealing with extra challenges in their lives outside the site be it domestic, mental, financial or physical, and the site should offer them a respite and give them a place to hang around with their friends under a quiet and distanced but continuous support of our watchful CIC personnel.

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