Top poster team get the message across to yobs in Bognor

Chelsea Martin, Alfie Colwell and Darren Harvey, all aged 15, joined with professional designer Martin Jones to devise the poster.

It details 50 legal ways to have fun. They also produced three leaflets about anti-social behaviour.

Their language and images are designed to appeal to primary and secondary school students by explaining acceptable behaviour contracts and anti-social behaviour orders and the impact of such bad conduct.

Darren said: "I'm looking forward to seeing the leaflets and the poster around the town. They are really colourful.

Alfie stated: "They look just like normal leaflets. It's good we have been able to produce something of that standard."

The literature is the result of a year of work between Martin and the students. It began with workshops involving eight students.

Chelsea, Alfie and Darren were selected from them last January to produce designs to get the message across to young people that anti-social behaviour is unacceptable.

Dave Fletcher, a head of department at the college, said each of the students brought a unique talent to the project.

"Chelsea is an excellent wordsmith. A lot of the slogans we have used have come from her.

"She came up with some key headlines that needed to be in the leaflets to capture the attention of the audience we wanted. She devised some simple but powerful slogans," he stated.

The students were presented with certificates for their work by Arun District Council chairman Cllr Ashvin Patel.

He told them: "Only a minority of young people get involved with anti-social behaviour.

"But it is important to raise awareness the effects such behaviour can have on others. This is what these designs are all about."

College headteacher David Jones commented: "I am very proud of these students as well as the poster and leaflets they have produced."

The project was the idea of the Arun crime and disorder reduction partnership and the district council's anti-social behaviour team.

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