DESPERATE attempts are being made to find an indoor facility for Guernsey’s skate park for the winter. More than 100 youngsters turned out for the first weekend of the temporary skate and BMX park at the Grammar School. The ramps were originally constructed for the LibJam event on Liberation Day.

‘The success of this weekend,’ said Guernsey Xtreme Sports Association chairman Deputy Mike O’Hara, ‘proves that we must find an indoor facility in the future.

‘We are in active pursuit of that and in talks with CI Traders to see if we can use the old Bucktrouts building on Glategny Esplanade.

‘But they are pretty busy at the moment and we should know more about it in the next two or three weeks,’ he said.

He said the association had been extremely pleased with the turnout at the weekend. ‘It was, as expected, very popular on the first day, with at least 100 people using the ramps,’ said Deputy O’Hara.

He added that the number of users was expected to increase during the next few weeks until the end of the school holiday.

‘It’s great to see – especially as we weren’t quite ready, with the bad weather slowing us down – but it was good to see a lot of youngsters out there.’

Deputy O’Hara said that at just £2 a day for the use of the facilities, it was a bargain. ‘We have to charge because there are costs involved, but a major part was kindly sponsored by Guernsey Electricity.’

He expected that the ramps would be used most often between 5 and 9pm on weekdays and all day at the weekends.