Club's snooker gift is on cue
Lucky youngsters are getting the chance to go snooker loopy after a generous company donated a couple of tables to their youth club.
US-based Eaton Engineering, which has offices in Fareham, gave the new snooker and pool tables to the award-winning Highlands Youth Project, which was set up by pupils from the nearby Henry Cort Community College.
The company picked the Friday night youth club as one of the local projects it wanted to support through its community initiative.
One of the youth club's adult volunteers works for the engineering company, and arranged for the delivery of the new gaming tables.
The club, based at Hill Park Baptist Church in Gudge Heath Road, Fareham, did have an old pool table which was kept level only by wedging bits of wood under one of the legs.
Henry Cort's student council co-ordinator Paul Bristow was instrumental in helping to set the club up in May.
He said: 'The kids loved the tables – and from the moment they were unwrapped they've been in constant use.
'We've taught them how to play snooker, so they're really getting into it.'
In October the club scooped top honours against hundreds of projects from across the country in the community partnership category of the Health for Kids Awards.
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