00:00It's really good, it's for charity and you can bring the kids, we're going to bring the
00:05grand bairns next week. You can just forget about things and you can just have a laugh.
00:11But I'm winning. We asked for permission to play this game, Japan Park Golf, on this
00:16council-owned course. It wasn't getting used by the bowling club anymore, so yes we allocated this
00:22on a trial basis. It's been so successful that we've got this full tank, so this is actually now
00:29the home of Japan Park Golf. Alex has been with his mum and dad, but I've not been so, but it's
00:36enjoyable, I like it, it's good. They've got the scooters with them, so they've been the rare skate
00:40park, so yeah they've had a good day so far. We are from Autism Abel and a group came last year,
00:47they loved it, yeah. At Men's Space it's specifically for men age 50 plus in South Tyneside, so I'm bringing
00:54men together to promote positive mental health and well-being. The rules of Japan Park Golf is the
00:59holes are no longer than 100 yards long, so this is a great little course for everybody just to
01:04get a taste of where it is. So it's slowly back at a whack. Oh we purchased a plaque here basically
01:13saying it's free of charge because people keep coming fast and saying how much is it? It's free to
01:18play and we're looking for donations. Like we've said it many times, if you haven't got any money,
01:23don't worry about it. Bring the kids and have a game. So still at the moment there's no other
01:27registered Japan Park Golf courses in England. We're a distributing charity, registered charity.
01:33We're a little bit like that because of the weather, but we've just decided to come down
01:36and give it a go you know. I look forward to a real idea, it's not no deal. I've had a bit of a downpour
01:43that's actually cleared everybody off the course. If I see the weather forecasting it's going to be
01:47growing a gale and it's hardly worth setting up because a lot of the board games will just blow down
01:53and the flags will go away. At the moment I'm here by myself so I'm looking for volunteers. How long
01:58to set up? Normally between an hour and a half and two hours to set up and take it all down again.
02:04So I was on Marketplace and I've seen a gentleman selling these fairground games,
02:09fair games, whatever you want and I went and bought a lot of them. Some of the youngsters who
02:13are a little bit too young to play Japan Park Golf, the youngsters can play this. My first visit here
02:18and I'll come back again if the bend doesn't come. What did the bend do? I hit the ball across the
02:25hole, he picked my ball up and threw it away. So I lost. Marvellous day, nice place to come.
02:32We've raised nearly £4,000 for charity now and over 4,000 people have played the game. Last year we raised
02:38£1,209 to the Sea Change Cafe who employ young adults with learning difficulties and autism. I'm glad
02:46to say that we've been granted £17,900 of lottery funding that will go to help to pay for a van
02:52and more equipment so I can take it to schools and anybody that would like us to bring it along and
02:56try. Yesterday I got another surprise as well we've just been granted £4,800 from Sport England so that
03:05again will help us progress and develop the game. I'm really grateful for the sponsorship that we're
03:11getting. We're now in a position where we can donate to volunteers some sort of expenses. Anybody that
03:19comes down we can give them up to £20 a day depending on how long they stay here. Unfortunately
03:25I haven't known, I've been around once, I'm going to go around the second time and have a second bash.
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