Pupils from Montagu and Cowgate Primary Schools are to get free entry into many of facilities in the proposed new 5 million community and sports complex on Cowgate.
| Young people on Cowgate can access the Centre whenever they need to, whenever they want to, free of charge. |
The Centre, plans for which were revealed in the last edition of the North West Post, will offer most of it activities for free to pupils from those schools.
Cowgate Leisure Centre manager, Su Cumming, said pupils would be given membership cards which would allow them free entry to 90% of activities.
"We've done this deliberately", she said, "so that young people on Cowgate can access the Centre whenever they need to, whenever they want to, free of charge. That is a promise".
Plans for the new complex have been submitted to the Sports Lottery board, which will make the decision on whether to fund the proposal.
About the team
This article was produced by editor Philip Lockyer, 16, and reporters Emma Dixon, 11; Lyndsey Smeaton, 10; Emma Allison, 10; and Ashleigh Rainey, 9. It was published in the North West Post in Newcastle upon Tyne.
