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Realise this won't be relevant to many people, but it may be of interest:-

I saw a climbing partner yesterday, and while I was bewailing the lack of a wall over here, they mentioned that the Department of Tourism and Leisure were planning on building one in the NSC. They had got this information from a reliable contact within the government. So there may be hope on the horizon.

On the subject of this, I was wondering how I + other climbers could go about encouraging the government to take this suggestion further?

In reply to Allan Thomson: Try dressing as Batman and Robin then scale the goverment offices with a climbers for justice banner!

In reply to Allan Thomson: Climbing wall. Great news, should be ready by the time I move over (in 8 years time) knowing the speed the Manx move at! No offence meant.
The best way to get the Manx government moving is to mention cash. It may be worth pointing out that a climbing wall could be used to hold national/international competitions and my well open Manx climbing to many and assorted foreign climbers who would bring cash to the Manx economy.

In reply to sue(A.T.G.N.I.): Good point, usually the government is pretty good to give money to sports (as is the finance sector) if there is an opportunity for competitions. Shall have to give a bit more thought to this and try and get a good case together.

In reply to Allan Thomson: Might well be worth persuing. Look how many sports events you get over there. If it could also be mentioned to the breweries that there may be a slight chance that climbers have been known to drink a little they may be interested in sponsering events in the future. just a thought.

In reply to sue(A.T.G.N.I.): Breweries are definitely good to sponsor fell running!!!

In reply to Allan Thomson: Yup. I always fall if I run after to much booze.

In reply to Allan Thomson: I would try and get the department of education on side aswell. A lot of schools use climbing walls.

In reply to quiet_andy:
Have actually noticed this, whereas in schools "when I was a lad", we did all the normal boring mainstream sports, and only those who did them were able to represent their schools, now the schools have started to introduce other sports (eg interschools kayaking, climbing days, things like that), so yes, that would be a great way to increase the use of the wall.