AFTER years of campaigning for better facilities for young people in Broadway, work on the new BMX track is now under way.

Young people from the village turned out on Saturday to help start work on the track, which is part of a project on the recreation ground which will include a skateboard park, football pitch and youth shelters.

Broadway Youth Centre chairman Betty Phillips said: "This has been a long time coming. We've been trying to organise this for five years and people have now started to realise we are serious. Unfortunately the young people who campaigned for so long for this are now getting older but they're still involved."

Ben Horsburgh, one of the young people who first asked for the track, is now chairman of a group of older teenagers involved in the project.

On Saturday they turned out to help install fencing around the new track under the supervision of Broadway warden David Jelfs.

The youth of the village have been instrumental in creating plans for the new park and in raising funds for the project.

Seven boys from Broadway raised £700 when they went on a 12-mile hike with five adults around the Cotswolds countryside during the night and another walk has been planned for this year.

They have now raised £2,500, including grants from Broadway Parish Council and Chipping Campden Rotary to cover this stage of the work.

The whole project on the recreation ground will cost £30,000 and organisers hope it will be completed in three or four years.