Positive Actions for Safer Spaces by Sarah Jane Smalley
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Sharrow Today Official media partner of the Sharrow Festival 2015 August 2015 3,000 copies distributed BUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE Sharrow Festival 22nd August Full Programme Pull-out pages 5-7 Positive Actions for Safer Spaces By Sarah Jane Smalley This special edition of Sharrow Today is focussed around Shar- 40 people were there. It was led by the South Sheffield Com- row Festival, taking place on the 22nd August at Mount Pleas- munity Empowerment project and the Sheffield Muslim Com- ant Park. It’s one of the days in our calendar where we all love munity Forum. having a great day out together. There was lots of discussion about positive activities for young Sometimes though, it’s not much fun to be out and about in people and the need for more. Also for better engagement Sharrow and Nether Edge. A few groups of boys and young with parents and from community organisations and community men have been causing trouble in Mount Pleasant Park, around leaders. If you’d like to be involved in an action group specifi- the Rude Shipyard, and also the Common Ground at St Peter’s. cally working on positive action to deal with this issue, please contact sarahjane.smalley@sheffield.gov.uk or on 07583 015 986. The problem of bored kids hanging out on street corners is as old as time itself but some of the things which have been going If you witness any anti-social behaviour please call 101 to report it. on are quite serious. There have been a few public meetings, and we read about this in the last edition when Sgt John Mal- For more info about the Consultation, contact: lows wrote about the proposed PSPO. sscep@hotmail.co.uk or sheffieldmcforum@gmail.com. It’s one of those issues where every person you talk to has a dif- ferent opinion about whose fault it is and how to fix the prob- To get involved with Friends of Mount Pleasant Park lem. So it was really interesting to attend the Community Con- contact: philvintin@gmail.com. sultation Presentation at the Old Junior School in June. Around To advertise in Sharrow Today call 0114 250 8384 or email sharrowtoday@gmail.com Love Ask Sharrow- Getting fit Horn It’s an Sharrow Adrian Festival Handle Essence Update Pull-out Works thing Page 3 Page 4 Pages 5-7 Page 8 Page 10 Page 12 Inside Views expressed in Sharrow Today are not necessarily those of Sharrow Community Forum. Contact Sharrow Community Forum on 0114 250 8384. 2 Sharrow Today August 2015 I live on the Lansdowne Estate and Talk to Brian or Amina on 0114 250 want to know more about what’s 8384 to share your views. There’s going on there also a new facebook page. Please contact Nicole Jewitt at Nicole. Jewitt@regather.net for details I love our green spaces, what can I There’s a Sharrow Green Spaces do to get involved? facebook group. Or contact sarah- jane.smalley@sheffield.gov.uk for more details WhatContact do I do if large waste items Phone Streets List Ahead to report it I want to help grow vegetables There’s a new scheme to grow have been dumped near me? on 0114 273 4567 locally beans in front gardens, contact nicole.jewitt@regather.net or get in Who do I contact to get litter re- If it is blue bins or black bins in the touch with Grow Sheffield 0114 258 moved from my street? street then call Veolia, if it is fly- 0784 or www.growsheffield.com tipping then Streets ahead on 0114 I own a business near London Road Email lrbfsheffield@gmail.com 273 4567 and want to get involved with a How can I help the regular litter Contact Help Sheffield: Twitter @ Business Forum picking team in Sharrow? HelpSheffield, email HelpYourCit- I’m interested in finding out more Email lrbfsheffield@gmail.com yElves@gmail.com or look out for about the funding/project to posters in Strip the Willow or the smarten up frontages on London Old Junior School noticeboard Road Who should I contact about any Contact Environmental Protection I’d like to get involved with the Contact Brian Holmshaw on 07845 vermin / pests in /or near my on 0114 273 4567 Mount Pleasant Heritage Project 265547 or brian.holmshaw@btin- house? ternet.com How do I report anti-social behav- Phone 101 to report it, if there is iour in my local area? immediate danger phone 999. You can also volunteer to help the Sharrow Today police on www.southyorkshire.po- lice.uk/content/volunteer-vacancies Because of cut-backs Sharrow Today might not appear so often in future. All the work is carried out by volunteers and the only costs My neighbours are really noisy – Phone 101 to report it. If it is ongo- are printing costs. One suggestion, therefore, is to just produce an what can I do about it? ing phone 0114 273 4567 and speak online version. Other suggestions are sponsorship deals with local to environmental protection businesses or holding fundraising events to keep the printed ver- What if I have issues with the local Get involved with The Abbeydale sion going. What do you, our readers, think? air quality? Corridor Clean Air Campaign, con- Call in to the OJS and let us know, or write / phone / email us with tact annebarr53@hotmail.com your thoughts and suggestions. Your local representatives Sharrow Today in Sharrow and Nether Edge sharrow BUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE The Councillors for Sharrow (Central Ward) are: community forum Cllr Rob Murphy (Green) Tel: 0114 274 7752 Email: robert.murphy@sheffield.gov.uk 07875 015354 (mobile) Cllr Sarah Jane Smalley (Green) Tel: 07583 015986 (mobile) Sharrow Today is a free community newpaper, with 3000 copies Email: sarahjane.smalley@sheffield.gov.uk distributed to local services, libraries, & residents every 2 months. Cllr Lewis Dagnall (Labour) Tel: 0114 273 5588 (office) Email: lewis.dagnall@sheffield.gov.uk Views expressed in Sharrow Today are not necessarilly those of Sharrow Community Forum. The regular monthly Green councillor surgeries are at Highfield Library, London Rd, 10.30 – 11.30am, every third Saturday. Contact Sharrow Community Forum on 0114 250 8384. The Labour councillor’s surgery is held at Central Library, Surrey St. If you have something to say, or have a comment to make on Saturday 1st Aug & 5th Sept from 10.30 to 11.30am and Wednes- day 19th Aug and 16th Sept from 17.30 to 18.30pm. about anything you have seen in this edition, or if you have an event you would like to advertise, please get in touch. The Councillors for Nether Edge ward are: News and Editorial Team Cllr Nasima Akther (Labour) Tel: 07872 476638 (mobile) Jonathan Roberts, Steve Fryer, Mary Jane O’Leary, Maria Kelly Email: nasima.akther@sheffield.gov.uk Connie Chapman, Chris Butler, Sarah Jane Smalley Cllr Nikki Bond (Labour) Tel: 07971 961803 (mobile) Email: nikki.bond@sheffield.gov.uk SHARROW COMMUNITY FORUM Cllr Mohammad Maroof (Labour) Tel: 0114 273 5588 (office) Email: mohammad.maroof@sheffield.gov.uk The Old Junior School, South View Road, Sharrow, Sheffield S7 1DB Tel : 0114 2508 384 Paul Blomfield is the MP for Sheffield Central ward, which covers Email:sharrowtoday@gmail.com Sharrow. He can be contacted on 0114 272 2882 or via paul.blom- field.mp@parliament.uk His consituency office is Unit 4, Edmund Web: www.sharrowcf.org.uk Road Business Centre, 135 Edmund Road, Sheffield S2 4ED. His web- Supported by: site is www.paulblomfield.co.uk. Advertising rates: Regular surgeries are held on: 4th Friday of each month between Commercial: Quarter page £20 / Half page £40 4.00 -5.00pm and 2nd Saturday of each month (except April and Community Organisations: Quarter page £10 / Half page £20 Dec) between 9.30-10.30am. Please tel. 0114 272 2882 frst to check Sharrow Today is printed by www.quotemeprint.com 08451300667 the dates and book your appointment. August 2015 Sharrow Today 3 Local Area Priorities By Councillor Sarah Jane Smalley Sharrow is part of Central Ward, represented by myself and Council- lor Robert Murphy from the Green Party and Councillor Lewis Dagnall from the Labour Party. Each year we set out priorities for our work in local communities and use this to award small grants and commis- sion work to support individuals and local groups. For 2015/2016, Central Ward’s priorities are: • Supporting Community Infrastructure: Giving people a voice • Social Inclusion: Engaging and empowering people who are Community drop-in event at socially isolated Lansdowne Meeting rooms on the • Helping to Improve the local environment and public realm 16th June led by volunteers • Supporting the local, social and community economy Getting ideas down at the Love Sharrow Community Conference, In 2014/2015 the Green Councillors supported the establishment of March 2015 Love Sharrow and the Community Conference in March. It is an overarching programme which supports a wide number of projects, working with a range of partners including Sharrow Community Fo- Retirement: Nourishing it, not ignoring it rum and Ignite Imaginations. By M J O’Leary This included the establishment of the new Lansdowne Estate Group, A Compass for Old Age is a short our affairs can be managed cor- the Me & My Beanstalk Project, the Mount Pleasant Heritage Project, course that approaches retire- rectly if it does happen.” reigniting a Friends of Mt Pleasant group, Sharrow Faces, funding for ment and old age from both a a mural at Queenie’s Park and a security gate in Highfield.