//By Penny Thompson, Community Organiser
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.
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//By Ian Huddleston, Community Organiser
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.
Continue reading “Dinnington’s Bus Route Changes”//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!
This was taken from our quarterly newsletter for Summer 2019.
//By Vicky Hilton, Community Organiser
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.
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//By Dan Barron, Community Organiser
The Springwell Tenants and Residents Association have now sent out their first newsletter after a lot of hard work and deliberation it appears to have been a successful release for the group.
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//By Jess Clarke, Project Manager
Over the last month I have been supporting the group Rotherham Sangeet and Choir. This group has been formed since 2014 and Rotherham Federation has supported them throughout their community engagement projects. They are a singing choir working to address social isolation and mental health through music and signing workshops, going into schools, care homes and putting on community events across the Rotherham Borough.
Continue reading “Rotherham Sangeet and Choir Group” //By Ian Huddleston, Community Organiser
From last month, we have now got the committee members together and completed the constitution for the Dinnington boxing community group. They will now get a bank account and start applying for funding asap. The group have lots of other ideas to expand and do other things in the community, so this may only be the beginning for the group in Dinnington.
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//By Rachel Cole, Projects Officer
Shaftesbury House is a RMBC sheltered housing complex close to Rotherham town centre. It is predominantly for people who are over the age of 50 or have a disability.
Back in May 2016 a couple of residents from Shaftesbury House contacted Rotherham Federation to see if we could help support them to start a group. We helped them write a constitution and open a bank account. The group started with three members and now three years on has over twenty members.
Continue reading “Shaftesbury House” //By Ian Huddleston, Community Organiser
Following on from listenings with the young people at JADE, the information back was that they wanted more sports activities to do.
I arranged to meet with David Robinson who has run fitness and boxing sessions previously at a gym, to see if he would like to get involved and run some sessions at JADE with the young people. David is from Dinnington, and all his family are from the area. He talked about the area when he was a child and the community spirit that seems to have been lost, and how he would love to get involved in putting something back into the community.
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//By Sarah Bingham, Community Organiser
Through listenings carried out in the first year of organising in Rawmarsh and Parkgate, I began to find out what was important to people living there, what issues were affecting them and what change they wanted to see where they lived. It became apparent that a lot of the residents I spoke to were passionate about the area’s green spaces and that there were concerns some of them were under threat, in particular, council-owned Green Hill in Parkgate.
Continue reading “Green Hill Gets the Go Ahead!”