My 12 year old son absolutely loves his Nintendo DSi. As well as being a great way of passing the time on car journeys and other potentially boring situations, it's a great distractor when he's in stressful situations (such as on the way to school); and a really good way of starting a conversation with other kids of the same age. In fact, the DS often attracts a small crowd of youngsters.
This summer we travelled a long way to take part in a (successful) attempt to break the world record for the most people playing on DS consoles, held at the National Media Museum in Bradford. My son had such a wonderful day, chatting and playing games with other enthusiasts, and was very sad to leave when it was over.
I thought at the time, and for various reasons have come back to the thought recently, that it would be good to set up some sort of club locally to bring DS ethusiasts together. I have had a look online, and I see that there is a DS club in London, but it's held in a pub and is obviously aimed at young adults. It all seems a lot more complicated when youngsters are involved, because I imagine any adults involved would have to have police checks etc. Also, I would worry about unruly elements causing trouble.
Does anyone have any inspired thoughts as to how I might progress with this?
