March 2020 4,000 Copies Distributed BUILDING the COMMUNITY’S VOICE
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Sharrow Today March 2020 4,000 copies distributed BUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE Building a more Peaceful Sharrow by Sahira Irshad On Saturday 29th Februaury our community came together as a symbol of hope and what we can achieve when we put our differences aside. Seventy members of the community took part in a Walk for Peace and over 25 local organisations were represented. Read more about this story on page 3. The Lantern Half-term at Mind History of Sports and Lynne Carnival is HAP Community local car Health Chapman’s Coming! Garden production Creative Colors Page 5 Page 11 Inside Page 8 Page 10 Page 15 Page 16 Views expressed in Sharrow Today are not necessarily those of Sharrow Community Forum. Contact Sharrow Community Forum on 0114 250 8384. 2 Sharrow Today March 2020 Sharrow and Abbeydale Community Contacts The Councillors for the Sharrow and Nether Edge Ward are: Other Useful contact details What do I do if large waste items have been dumped near Cllr Jim Steinke (Labour) Tel: 07583 018289 (mobile) me? Phone Streets Ahead to report it on 0114 273 4567 Email: [email protected] 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) Who do I contact to get litter removed from my street? If it is The regular Labour councillors’ surgeries are on: blue bins or black bins in the street then call Veolia, if it is fly- tipping then Streets ahead on 0114 273 4567 1st Saturday of the month from 11.00 am until 12.00 at Dalton Court Community Centre, 2 Dalton Court, Sheffield, S8 0YU. How can I help the regular litter picking team in Sharrow? See The centre is located off Abbeydale Road. No appointment the Sheffield Litter Pickers Facebook Page and look out for needed. posters about monthly Sharrow Litter Picks that you can join in Strip the Willow or the Old Junior School noticeboard and in 2nd Saturday of the month between 12.00 and 1.00 pm at many other places. Highfield Library, London Road, Sheffield S2 4NF. No appoint- ment needed. Who should I contact about any vermin / pests in /or near my house? Contact Environmental Protection on 0114 273 4567 How do I report anti-social behaviour in my local area? Phone Cllr Peter Garbutt(Green Party) Tel: 0114 27 35380 101 to report it. If there is immediate danger phone 999. You Email: [email protected] can also make reports online at https://www.reportingcrime. uk/. You can also volunteer to help the police on www.south- Cllr Alison Teal (Green Party) Tel: 07500765419 (mobile) yorkshire.police.uk/content/volunteer-vacancies Email: [email protected] 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) My neighbours are really noisy – what can I do about it? The regular Green Party councillor’s surgery is on: Phone 101 to report it. If it is ongoing phone 0114 273 4567 and speak to environmental protection 3rd Saturday of the month between 10.30 and 11.30 am at Highfield Library, London Road, Sheffield S2 4NF. No appoint- I’d like to help at the Autumn Carnival: email vicki@igniteim- ment needed. aginations.org.uk / [email protected] I’d like to help with Sharrow Festival: email Colin Havard at Paul Blomfield is the MP for Sheffield Central ward, which [email protected] covers Sharrow. I want to help improve Mount Pleasant Park– how do I do that? Join the Friends of Mount Pleasant Park Group. See the He can be contacted on 0114 272 2882 or via paul.blomfield. Friends of Mount Pleasant Park Facebook page for more infor- [email protected] His consituency office is Unit 4, Edmund mation. Road Business Centre, 135 Edmund Road, Sheffield S2 4ED. I live on the Lansdowne Estate and want to know more about His website is www.paulblomfield.co.uk. what’s going on there: Contact the Lansdowne TARA on Regular surgeries are held on: 4th Friday of each month [email protected] between 4.00 -5.00pm and 2nd Saturday of each month I run a business in the Abbeydale Road area and I’d like to (except April and Dec) between 9.30-10.30am. Please work with others to improve the local economy and address tel. 0114 272 2882 frst to check the dates and book your issues affecting local businesses: Join Abbeydale Retail Com- appointment. munity (voluntary group) email [email protected] WRITE FOR ADVERTISE IN SHARROW TODAY! SHARROW TODAY! Cafe reviews, gig reviews, community Low-cost, high-impact advertising for your events, sports news, good news stories, business or event. cartoons, art and more! Quarter-page - £40 If you fancy contributing either a regular or one-off article to Sharrow Today then get in Half-page - £80 touch with our editorial team via sharrow- Full-page - £160 [email protected] - it’s YOUR community voice and we’d love to hear it! To enquire about advertising with us contact [email protected] March 2020 Sharrow Today 3 Local News Sharrow Peace Walk - 29th February by Sahira Irshad for Mums United All of us came together in a show of unity; it was an opportunity for reflection, prayer and good hot food! We had 5 different speakers from different cultural backgrounds and every speaker spoke from their heart. They spoke of hope, the issues we need to address, and how we can move forward as one. At the event we had people from different areas and different cultural backgrounds - but one thing united us: safety of our children. It is from these 4 words we must take steps in coming together. Only two months into the year and look at what is happening to our city; half a dozen stabbings and shootings have shaken the community, when is this going to stop? We can talk about austerity and cuts in police services all day long, and it is without doubt that the cuts have created a vacuum which have enabled gangs and drugs to operate under the radar, however when do we say enough is enough? What will it take for us, as a community to say no? No, we will not allow ourselves to be bullied and feel vulnerable in our own homes. enough. We must come together as a community to address this The media labels certain problem. demographics of a particular area as ‘gangs’ or Asian, Muslim As a community we must stand or black – and as a society we fall united and strong together; we into this narrative. The media has cannot live in hindsight - what created a norm and social media we could’ve, or should’ve done. has glamourised youth violence. We must listen to the victims and hear their grief, their pain and their Gangs haven’t just popped up in strength, we must provide them our areas, they have taken years with the love and support to move to grow and infiltrate and now forward one step at a time. they are sewed into the fabric of our community. Drugs and Our children are the next gangs have been around since generation, it is our duty to make ancient history, it’s not a new this our problem, we have to construct. Children are especially change the narrative from the vulnerable; their innocence is grass roots. used and discarded. What is new is the levels of violence that Unity must be achieved from within iarebeing seen, and the age of our communities, if we don’t stand those involved is getting younger. united how do we expect our We need urgent action.... children to be united? In February 2019 Anne Longfield, It is through adversity that we will the Childrens’ Commissioner find solidarity and hope for a better for England, published an in- tomorrow, we owe it to anyone depth study looking at children who has lost their child to youth in England who are members violence. of gangs - the report estimated 27,000 children identified as The peace walk is our symbol of being a gang member. Enough is hope and solidarity. 4 Sharrow Today March 2020 Opportunities Do You Have A Spare Room? 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