TEAMWORK: Sam Matthews, Dylan Tapsall and Oliver Payne with plans for the skate bowl.

WHEN a group of Beechworth teenagers felt the town’s skate bowl was not up to scratch, they presented a petition to Indigo Shire Council requesting it be upgraded.

That was some months ago and now, under the guidance of Indigo Shire’s youth development officer Bev Hoffmann, the teenagers applied for and received a seeding grant from council to develop their ideas to upgrade the skate bowl.

They are currently assessing their concept plan and costings.

Ms Hoffman said part of that assessment of the plan is a bus trip on January 7 to other skate bowls in the region.

"The kids suggested this as a way of checking whether their plan was appropriate for the Beechworth site," she said.

One keen BMX rider and member of the group, Oliver Payne, is looking forward to the road trip.

"We thought it would be good to go to bigger and better skate parks to get ideas about how to expand ours," he said.

The group has been meeting regularly and, with guidance from Ms Hoffman and other Indigo Shire staff, have helped put together an application for a grant from the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development to bring the skate bowl up to the same standard as others in Indigo Shire."