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Job Vacancy: Community Organiser

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Community Organiser – Full Time 37 hours                                                  

Salary – £20,661 per annum – Permanent

Rotherham Federation are seeking a Community Organiser to join their team to support Rotherham communities to grow and develop, working with them to building their sense of belonging, community pride and spirit.

Duties include:

  • To support the empowerment of under-represented groups within local communities, enhancing community cohesion and collaborative working
  • To support community groups to develop, enabling project development and training opportunities in local communities
  • To increase community influence in decision making within Rotherham supporting individuals and groups to identify issues, needs and problems and help resolve them
  • To enable increased community activity and engagement both locally within communities and with Rotherham Federation through listening’s, building networks and fostering leadership and resident-led action.
  • Provide personal support to individual volunteers within communities
  • To deliver and report on specific targets and outputs as determined by funding requirements

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in community work and in supporting community groups with their development.

For further details and to request an application pack, please contact: Sarah Fletcher on 01709 368515 or email sarah.fletcher@rotehrfed.org

The closing date for applications is 8thth September 2019, with the assessment day including panel interviews held on 11th September 2019.

Applicants that have been shortlisted will be contacted on the 9th September to be invited to the assessment/interview day.

Successful candidates will have a DBS check carried out.

Appointment will be subject to suitable references.

Job Description – Community OrganiserDownload

East Herringthorpe Easter Extravaganza

Laura/ / Connect Newsletter, In Your Community

Local residents hosted an event to promote family fun and raise money for charities.

The Easter Extravaganza was held on 20th April at East Herringthorpe social club by sisters Paula Allen, Toni Connell and Elle-Mae Spittle. East Herringthorpe Social Club kindly provided the room for the event free of charge.

The organisers received over 70 donations of prizes from local businesses and local residents for a tombola and a raffle, all of which have been won!

The prizes included an holiday to Mablethorpe, a Carlton Park Hotel meal for 2, Jump Inc tickets, Fantasy Island vouchers, Camelot tickets, Cannon Hall Farm family day pass, a Toby Carvery meal for 2, hampers, bottles of wine, chocolates, cakes, and many more generous donations!

There was plenty for all the family to do on the day with stalls ranging from local artist’s artwork to hair extensions. Soaps, wax burners, bath bombs and decorated stones were available to buy.

The event also had a cake stall manned by Elle-Mae and Penny Thompson, an impressive 180 cakes and cookies had been baked by Penny! Cakes were also donated by local residents including a huge chocolate one by a lady from Rawmarsh. Every last cake was sold!

Elle-Mae on the cake stall

You can’t have an Easter Extravaganza without an Easter egg hunt, right? After the children designed and decorated their own Easter bags to put their eggs in, they took part in a Easter egg hunt. The hunt was fun and enjoyable for the kids that took part and also their parents. Every child even took home an Easter egg for participating as well as doing an excellent job in finding all of the eggs that were hidden!

Residents who attended the Easter Extravaganza

The event was so well attended, with over 120 local residents stopping by, that the club had to bring in more staff to keep up with demand, and more seating had to be brought in from the bar area, as more people attended than anticipated.

Not only did the event create an abundance of family fun it was also a fantastic opportunity for the residents to raise a bit of money for McMillan, CALM and Rotherham Hospice. The residents managed to raise an incredible £613.12, which was split between all three charities. The money was raised through the tombola and raffle as well as a £1 charge to take part in the Easter egg hunt.

If you would like support to get involved in activities in East Herringthorpe, contact Penny Thompson by email at penny.thompson@rotherfed.org or call 07813 543332.

This was taken from our quarterly newsletter for Summer 2019.

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Dinnington’s Bus Route Changes

Laura/ / Connect Newsletter, In Your Community

Community organiser Ian Huddleston received feedback whilst speaking to Dinnington residents that the bus route to Rotherham Town Centre had been changed, it no longer went through High Nook Road.

This was isolating many people, especially older people who then struggled to get to a bus into town. An open day was then put on at High Nook Community Centre due to the feedback. Members of the council and a local councillor was invited to answer residents’ questions.

The local council then spoke to the bus company. through working together with the councillor, Rotherham Council, the bus company and Rotherham Federation, a change in the bus route was achieved for the local residents.

This was taken from our quarterly newsletter for Summer 2019.

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Bakersfield Court 10th Anniversary Event

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Bakersfield Court TARA celebrated their 10 year anniversary with an event on Thursday 16th May 2019

The former mayor and his wife attended, one of the last events he attended as Mayor.

Congratulations to Bakersfield court for 10 years of involvement and social inclusion at the centre!

Tenants and the Former Mayor
TARA Treasurer/Secretary and the Former Mayor and his Wife

This was taken from our quarterly newsletter for Summer 2019.

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Ferham School Gets Organising

Laura/ / In Your Community

The young people at Ferham School came together to organise their own summer fayre this year with the help of our Community Organiser Vicky Hilton.

The young people came together as a group made up of initially the school council and friendship ambassadors which then extended out to other pupils within school.

The young people had the chance to learn about community organising and how they have the power to bring about change and make things happen.

They set the date and time, designed posters and wrote letters to the voluntary and community sector to garner support and invite people along to the event. The young people even extended the invite out to Buckingham Palace by inviting the Queen.

The young people took part in a school wide competition which listened to the voices of over 50 school children to find out what they like about where they live, what they don’t like and how they think they can make changes.

The young people had a great insight into their community, what works well and what we need more of. The most common problem identified was there was more provision needed for young people in the area, although Ferham Park came up top trumps for one of the young people’s favourite place in the area.

Vicky said ‘It’s been a privilege and an honour to work alongside the young people at Ferham Primary School. The school has been extremely supportive and it’s the start to a whole programme of events designed by local school children’.

Ferham School Pupils

They had a Fire Engine, Bouncy Slides, African Drumming and much more planned for the day. The Ferham School Summer Fayre took place on Thursday 20th June 1.15pm – 4pm at the school.

Your local community organiser for Ferham is Vicky, if you are interested in getting involved in your community please do email Vicky at Victoria.hilton@rotherfed.org

This was taken from our quarterly newsletter for Summer 2019.

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Nominate RMBC, Mears or Fortem Staff for an Award

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Rotherham Federation will be presenting staff award to RMBC, Mears and Fortem staff at the RMBC Tenants’ Open Day 2019.

The staff members can be nominated by Council tenants across Rotherham by submitting the nomination form. The winners will be selected by a panel of tenants.

The closing date for submitting a nomination has been extended to 21st June 2019.

Nomination Form 2018-19Download

Please return the form to info@rotherfed.org or to Springwell Gardens Community Centre, Eastwood View, S65 1NH

Community Group Awards Are Back!

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Rotherham Federation will be presenting the Community Group Awards at the RMBC Tenants Open Day which will be held at the New York Stadium on 10th July 9.30am – 2pm.

We are inviting member groups to apply for the awards which will have both a Gold (£150) and Silver (£50) award in each of the 6 categories.*

The Categories are;

  • Involving People
  • Making a Difference
  • Policies
  • Finance
  • Governance
  • Communication

Applications are available here (all highlighted sections of the PDF can be filled in!) and the criteria can be found here. The criteria shows how you score your group. For scoring please start from 1 and work up to the full 6 points, whatever you score yourself you have to be doing that criteria and all the numbers below it.

Please return your applications to us by email or to Springwell Gardens Community Centre, Eastwood View, S65 1NH

The closing date for the applications will be 31st May 2019.

Good Luck!

*Please note these awards are only for Rotherham Federation organisational members to apply for