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Brinsworth News & Events Around Brinsworth Spring 2019 Inside: Cllrs Contact Details p2 Regular Activities p2 Clerks Update p3 News Update p5 Your Letters p6 The Centre p7-p9 SY Police p10 Ward Cllrs p16 Brinsworth Parish Council Keeping the ‘worth’ in Brinsworth! Councillors Regular Activities in the DATES Contact Pavilion Hall FOR YOUR Details Monday to Friday 08.45 - 15.45 Funtime Pre-School DIARY Chairman Monday 17.30 - 20.30 Available to Hire Jeff Williams Tuesday (Term Time) 18.15 - 19.45 KidZone Youth Club (7 -11 yrs) Parish 07831 554326 Wednesday 17.30 - 20.30 Available to Hire jeff@ Thursday 17.30 - 19.30 Jill Hyde Leigh School of Dance Meetings brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk Friday 17.30 - 20.30 Available to Hire Members of the public are Vice Chairman Saturday 09.00 - 12.00 Indian Classical Dance welcome to attend the Parish Council Meetings at The Centre, Dave Barry (Bharathanattiyam) Brinsworth Lane, in order to raise 07584 300140 13.00 - 16.00 Available to Hire dave@ issues of concern. brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk Sunday 09.00 - 12.00 Available to Hire 13.00 - 16.00 Available to Hire Councillors There is a period of 20 minutes at Ryan Bowler the start of each meeting when 07393 110253 Please telephone the Parish Office for more information on public participation is encouraged, ryan@ 01709 916896 Monday to Friday 9.00am to 1.00pm. if you would like to come along, brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk here are dates of the next few: Alan Buckley We currently have availability to hire the Pavilion for your classes, meetings, parties etc. For all enquiries please call the Assistant Clerk on Date Meeting 07896 158996 7th March Events & Premises alan@ 01709 916896 brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk 21st March Ordinary See page 8 regarding other activities available in The Centre. 28th March Finance Dick Dyson 4th April Events & Premises 01709 368040 18th April Ordinary dick@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk 25th April Finance Your Parish Councillors 2nd May Finance & Premises Pamela Gregory 16th May Annual Assembly 01709 375263 Cllr Jane Tompkins 16th May Annual Meeting of pam@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk the Council I became a member of the parish 16th May Ordinary Margaret Hughes council in 2015 and how quickly 23rd May Finance 01709 374500 nearly four years have passed. 6th June Events & Premises margaret.h@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk 20th June Ordinary Back then my fellow councillors had 27th June Finance Simon Ridge already been successful in getting 07903 699926 the funding in place for a new Meetings are held from 6.00 pm simon@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk community centre. Nevertheless, in The Centre on Brinsworth Lane. we still had a fair way to go getting Margaret Rollinson it off the ground. We worked in We hope to see you there, 01709 373447 conjunction with the architects remember this is your community! margaret.r@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk to deliver exactly the building we thought would serve the needs of Have Your Say! Kate Saxton our community. I think you will all 01709 360853 agree it’s a massive improvement kate@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk on the old building. I am very proud of the end result. Bluebell Wood Jane Tompkins Collection 07522 370760 I hope you will all pop in and have a look round, after all the building jane@ brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk belongs to all the residents of Brinsworth and I am sure with your support Dates it will be very successful. Parish Clerk Field View Car Park from 10.00 am Gail Blank - 2.00 pm For more information, please visit 01709 916896 Funtime Community Pre-School [email protected] www.bluebellwood.org is a small charity run setting, Monday 25th March Please send your photos, news, issues, offering childcare for children Monday 29th April personal achievements, school achievements, ages 2-4 years Monday to Friday. Monday 20th May awards, etc., to: The Parish Newsletter, Monday 24th June Brinsworth Parish Council, Brinsworth Lane, Rotherham, S60 5BU Distribution for the next edition March 2019 FREE childcare places for 2-4 Hearing Aid Designed & Produced by year olds available! Chameleon, Worksop S81 8HT Action For Hearing group to be Articles & Advertising: 07876 352209 If you are interested or for more information please contact: held in The Centre at 1.00 pm email: [email protected] - 2.00 pm. © Brinsworth Parish Council. No part of this 01709 835005 Tuesday 26th March publication may be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the publisher & Brinsworth Funtime Community Pre-school, Recreation Ground Pavilion, Tuesday 30th April Parish Council. All information and advertising does Brinsworth Lane, Brinsworth, Rotherham, S60 5BU Tuesday 28th May not imply any endorsements from ourselves and the E: [email protected]. Reg. Charity No. 1044701 views are entirely from individuals. E&OE Tuesday 25th June 2 The Parish Clerks Update! The Pavilion Howarth Play Area Did you know that our Pavilion building is also A big ‘THANK YOU’ to local residents who have available at weekends for those smaller parties completed a litter pick of the area surrounding that don’t require a bar? The hall is spacious the park, your help keeping Brinsworth tidy is and can hold approximately 70 people, there is very much appreciated! The Parish Council are also a small kitchen available for your use. always happy to supply black bags and gloves for any future litter picking projects. The Pavilion also has availability on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings for anyone The fencing that prevents access to the land interested in setting up a new group, we’d love adjoining the M1 Motorway has been damaged to see the hall used for more exercise classes for by vandals once again, despite only just being local residents. Please ring the Parish Council repaired. The Parish Council are now looking office on 01709 916896 for more details. at options to replace the existing fencing with something more substantial. Brinsworth Playing Fields Damage to swings – once again the swings at the Action for Hearing top of our Playing Fields have been damaged by Just a reminder that Action for Hearing are what we believe to be a puppy or young dog. At available for help and support with your the moment the swings can still be used but any hearing aids, replacement batteries and further damage will see the swings having to be tubes on the last Tuesday of every month, see removed. Please be vigilant and let our office opposite for dates. These sessions are now held know if you witness anything. in The Centre between 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm. Dogs on leads – we regularly receive letters/emails from residents highlighting the Bluebell Wood Collection problems caused with dogs not being on leads. The ever-popular Bluebell Wood collection day Can I please remind people that dogs must be continues to be held on the last Monday of kept on leads at all times regardless of how well every month (except bank holidays – then it’s behaved you believe your dog is? the week before). The collection point is in the Parish Council car park off Field View between This leads me on to the issue of dog fouling, 10.00 am and 2.00 pm. See opposite for the personally I have never seen it as bad as it is at exact dates. the moment. We receive complaints weekly, our local football teams are the most recent to Library – a little update complain as they have to clear the fields before Progress on the new library for Brinsworth has they can kick off, as you can imagine this isn’t been very slow but the project is still going a pleasant task. I’ve also received complaints ahead. Unfortunately, by law the Parish about people dropping bagged dog faeces in the Council are not allowed to fund any projects that ginnels around the Parish so I am in talks with are a statutory duty of the Local Council, which a RMBC to see if we can get more dog bins around library provision is. The Parish Council obtained the Parish and we are looking at other solutions funding from the developers of the Field View such as purchasing equipment etc. estate to build a new Library for Brinsworth and we are working with RMBC to get the balance of We have also received numerous complaints funding required in place so that building work regarding drinking alcohol and anti-social can commence, hopefully in Spring 2019. behaviour on the field in the evenings. There- fore, we would also like to remind residents that the Playing Fields are a ‘no alcohol zone’ and Have Your Say instances of alcohol consumption on the fields As always, the Parish Council are here to listen will be reported to the Police. so please have your say. We are happy to share information that affects other residents through our various media sources and provide advice Millennium Park on who to contact with non-Parish Council Parish Council staff are currently repairing the related issues. flooring to the play area that has shrunk and cracked and become a health and safety hazard. We ask users of the park to take care until these New Look Website repairs have been completed. We are currently updating our website which we hope will go live in the Spring. It will contain We have had a resident abusing the litter bins more useful information for residents - watch on this park, using them for their own domestic this space. waste, please only use the bins for their intended purposes. Contact Details www.brinsworthparishcouncil.gov.uk Further repairs to the Skate Park have been now email: [email protected] been completed as has the repair to the small Facebook: Brinsworth Parish Council see-saw.