A Derbyshire school is installing a skateboarding park in an attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour out of school hours.
The new £120,000 facility will be built inside the grounds of Bishops Purglove Primary School in Tideswell.
The village is one of seven areas in Derbyshire and the High Peak benefiting from a £1.2m grant from Sport England.
It is hoped the project will also reduce vandalism and bad behaviour in the centre of the village.
Wayne Alsop, a youth sport development officer for Sport England, said: "Hopefully the skate park will make young people more physically active and have an effect on anti-social behaviour.
"Also, it will give young people a place where they can congregate away from residential areas and hopefully the antisocial behaviour will decrease."
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