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Views expressed in Sharrow Today are not necessarily those of Sharrow Community Forum. Contact Sharrow Community Forum on 0114 250 8384. Inside this issue: SCF Annual Report Centre Pages From Youths to Youth- workers Page 4 Artist of the Month Page 12 2,000 copies distributed October 2011 Sharrow Today BUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE As you may know, since Colin Havard left Sharrow Community Forum, Sharrow Today has been written, collated and edited by a new group of volunteers, some of whom are pictured …. This will be the third edition we have put together collectively and though we are still very much finding our feet, we feel we are starting to get to grips with some of tasks necessary in putting a community paper together. However we are a very small group and consequently each member ends up having to do a lot of work. We need your help. We need to know how you think we are doing. Is there anything you think we should change? We need articles- did you know that Sharrow Today has a press run of 2000 and you can advertise ( preferably in the form of an article) your event, community group, lo- cal business etc for free? Or maybe you just want to write about something that inter- ests you. Anything is consid- ered and most used! Once we make the paper it still, then, needs to be delivered and this at the moment is falling to the same team. Can you help with distribu- tion? Do you have a business that could do with some reading material. Each month we have to write a lot of the articles and spend a lot of time chasing others. It is a community newspaper and should reflect what you see in your community. Any thoughts and constructive criticism will be gratefully re- ceived. We are a team of 3 or 4 vol- unteers. If this number doesn’t increase we fear the paper will It’s Your Paper - Join Our Team By Joanna Swain Theatre Vox Pop Page 9 eventually fold and we don’t want to see this happen! Have your say. E-mail [email protected] or pop in to the Old Junior School and leave a message. Grow Veg in your garden Page2 Meet Munir Page 2 Call for Witnesses Police attended the Crowther Place area of Sheffield at 12.45pm on Friday 30 September, after a report that a man had been assaulted.The man was treated by a paramedic at the scene before being taken by ambulance to the city’s Northern General Hospital, where he died an hour after the incident.Mean- while police have sealed off the area, which includes part of Abbeydale Road, and have begun inves- tigations.Anyone with information about how the man was injured should contact South Yorkshire Police on: 0114 2202020 and quote incident number 520 of 30 September.

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Views expressed in Sharrow Today are not necessarily those of Sharrow Community Forum. Contact Sharrow Community Forum on 0114 250 8384.

Inside this issue:

SCF Annual Report

Centre Pages

From Youths to Youth-workers

Page 4

Artist of the Month

Page 12

2,000 copies distributed October 2011

Sharrow TodayBUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE

As you may know, since Colin Havard left Sharrow Community Forum, Sharrow Today has been written, collated and edited by a new group of volunteers, some of whom are pictured ….

This will be the third edition we have put together collectively and though we are still very much finding our feet, we feel we are starting to get to grips with some of tasks necessary in putting a community paper together.

However we are a very small group and consequently each member ends up having to do a lot of work.

• We need your help.

• We need to know how you think we are doing. Is there anything you think we should change?

• We need articles- did you

know that Sharrow Today has a press run of 2000 and you can advertise ( preferably in the form of an article) your event, community group, lo-cal business etc for free? Or maybe you just want to write about something that inter-ests you. Anything is consid-ered and most used!

Once we make the paper it still, then, needs to be delivered and this at the moment is falling to the same team.

• Can you help with distribu-tion?

• Do you have a business that could do with some reading material.

Each month we have to write a lot of the articles and spend a lot of time chasing others.

It is a community newspaper and should reflect what you see in

your community.

Any thoughts and constructive criticism will be gratefully re-ceived.

We are a team of 3 or 4 vol-unteers. If this number doesn’t increase we fear the paper will

It’s Your Paper - Join Our TeamBy Joanna Swain

Theatre Vox Pop

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eventually fold and we don’t want to see this happen!

Have your say.

E-mail [email protected] or pop in to the Old Junior School and leave a message.

Grow Veg in your garden

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Meet Munir

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Call for WitnessesPolice attended the Crowther Place area of Sheffield at 12.45pm on Friday 30 September, after a report that a man had been assaulted.The man was treated by a paramedic at the scene before being taken by ambulance to the city’s Northern General Hospital, where he died an hour after the incident.Mean-while police have sealed off the area, which includes part of Abbeydale Road, and have begun inves-tigations.Anyone with information about how the man was injured should contact South Yorkshire Police

on: 0114 2202020 and quote incident number 520 of 30 September.

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All gardens are useful as we can grow in pots. Between us we can choose what food we enjoy. If you’re up for it get in touch. If you live on a different road and fancy starting one yourself you can also get in touch.

Happy growing!

Ben Allen- 07515 [email protected]

I love living in Sharrow.

There’s such a wonderful mix of people and a really positive vibe. However one thing I used to think Sharrow lacked was places to grow food; open space or near-by allotments.

Then one day whilst walking past the often flourishing weeds in some gardens I thought ‘these could be flourishing blackcur-rents, or potatoes, or tomatoes?’ And why not?

There IS loads of unused land in Sharrow-peoples gardens! There are also lots of people in Shar-row who do love gardening and often have allotments they drive to.

Why not connect those who do enjoy gardening with people with gardens they don’t want/ can’t cope with/ don’t use!? Why not grow food in those gar-dens?

There is nothing like working together, sharing and helping each other out to build com-munity. In the process we also get an abundance of free food to pass around to all involved. We also make our streets more beautiful and something to be proud of.

Life is so much more rich, positive and safe when we have a strong community spirit around us; when we share, help, rely on and call on each other.

I’ve long believed that most of us strongly desire it. However breaking out of our independ-ent, self contained lives, breaking down barriers and opening doors initially takes more discomfort, courage and time than most of us are comfortable with.

But if you do think it’s worth it then start having more chats on your street, or bake an extra cake to take round (who doesn’t like cake!) or even invite some neighbours to a house party.

Community Growth = Vegetable GrowthBy Ben Allen

I love our corner shop!

When I lived in Scarborough - by mistake for six years - if I was left in the lurch for want of tea ingredi-ents, the best I could procure from the corner shop there was a tin of beans and a white sliced loaf.

Not so if you live anywhere near South View Road in Sharrow.

Now if you drop by uninvited for tea I can whip you up many a delight from around the world us-ing a variety of fresh ingredients, herbs, spices and dried goods just by popping down the road for two minutes!

Munir arrived in England from Uganda in 1972 with his Indian born Dad his Kenyan Mum and 8 siblings.

They were forced to leave when the then president, Idi Amin, or-dered the expulsion of the coun-try’s Asian minority giving them just 90 days to leave!

Like many of the Ugandan Asian population his parents were British citizens and emigrated here, leav-ing their home and business to be ‘handed over’ to Amin’s support-ers. Even the £50 they had in their pockets was taken off them at the airport.

They arrived here with nothing, not even any milk for 2 year old Munir.

Meet Munir - Our Cosmopolitan Corner Shop King By Joanna Swain

After some time in refugee camps in Hamswell and Bexhill they were helped by family friends who gave them a house to rent in Sheffield.

His older siblings all worked at Vin-ers and eventually, about 25 years ago, his father managed to get enough money together to buy the building that is now the shop, and Munir, his sister and his par-ents moved into the flat above.

My Dad wanted me to have something for me to do when I left school. I think He had a good idea I wasn’t going to do too well with my qualifications!’ says Munir.

Sure enough he left Silverdale when he was 15 and immediately started working along side his Dad in the shop.

I ask him if he felt lost working alone there after his Dad died 15 years ago. ‘You’re kidding! As soon as I was 17 and old enough to drive to the suppliers I was left to it’ He’s now been running it for over 25 years.

Munir actually met his wife Tina, who is half Chinese and Half Scottish, at school where he was friends with her brother. They have been life long friends but only married 8 years ago. They have two boys who are 4 and 7.

I wonder if he will be passing the shop onto them and he says he doesn’t think they will be inter-

ested. Besides, he speaks three languages and his wife speaks two. The boys only speak English!

The demographic of the shop has changed radically over the years.

‘Originally it was mostly white families that shopped here; there were no students at all. Then the area became more multi-racial and I started stocking more conti-nental foods. About 18 years ago the students came and now there is a real mix round here.’

He is gearing up for a major refur-bishment at the end of the year. ’I’ve decided i’m not going to be retiring any time soon so I want to give the shop a really modern look and make it a more comfort-able place to work’

After all he is there most of the time being open from 11.30 till 8pm every day!

So if you’re new to the area or have never yet popped in and had a look, go and visit,

You’ll be amazed at how much they sell. And you can of course get that tin of beans and white sliced loaf too!

Or, of course, volunteer yourself or your garden in return for some free food!

I’ll be fliering/ knocking on doors on Vincent and South View road over the winter scoping interest.

I’m keen myself to keep it local with the emphasis on neighbours meeting one another.

Munir’s Mini-Market South View Roadopen 364 days/yr

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I was chatting to my brother, on a bleak November morn-ing, Speaking of the weather, which we hoped would turn out bright,

When he touched upon a memory, of a time I’d quite forgotten, A time when we were children and it was bon-fire night.

We only had a backyard, but our dad made us a fire, In a bucket stood on bricks, with its sides all punched with holes,

He filled it up with wood, that he carried home from work, Then he went to fetch a shovel-full of red hot coals.

We were so excited, when our mum made us some toffee, A jar of boiled sweet-fishes were the usual sweets we had,

She scrubbed some big pota-toes, which we ate while in their jackets, In the oven by the fire she made some parkin for our dad.

A little box of fireworks had us sitting round the table, Roman Candles and the Catherine Wheels, brought endless great delight,

There was Golden Rain and Rockets and Jumpers, even Bangers, We looked and read each label, then they were lit and set alight.

I was suddenly transported to those times when we were chil-dren, Remembering just how close we were and all the fun we had,

We never had a lot, but we had a bit of most things, And I wish I could say thank you, to our mum and to our dad.

Margaret Daly is a grandmoth-er from Sharrow who has been an active member of Highfield Trinity Church, on London Road, for many, many years. 3

As many of you will know, Shar-row Surestart, along with other Children’s Centres across the city, have faced massive financial cuts since the Liberal Democrat budg-et earlier this year.

As part of its pre-election prom-ise, Labour stated that it would reverse the cuts to Surestart if it reclaimed administrative power of local government. However, even though Labour are back in office, Surestart has had to meet the cuts put in place by the previous administration – and has lost staff and services as a result.

As Chair of the Advisory Board at Sharrow Surestart, I have heard from many parents in the area concerned that Surestart is reduc-ing its opening hours, activities, even facing closure.

I would like to reassure parents that this is not the case. But what

Surestart does need, is for all of us - mums, dads, grandparents and carers – to use our local chil-dren’s centre.

All the activities are free except Pregnancy Yoga, and you don’t need to book in advance. In ad-dition to midwife and Health visi-tor appointments, there are Stay and Plays, Breastfeeding Cafe, Weaning group, arts and craft group, and Dad’s group, plus adult and family learning classes throughout term-times.

As a community, Sharrow is won-derfully diverse – there are over 60 languages spoken in the area! It is also an area where people get involved with the community and are keen to contribute to-wards local activities, events and festivals.

So when Sharrow Surestart held a meeting to invite local parents and carers to say what they wanted from their children’s cen-tre, we were delighted to hear

from so many of you.

In response, Surestart would like to set up a parents group called Parents Together, to meet once a month to discuss Surestart and keep it offering the services we want for parents and young chil-dren.

There isn’t a parent out there who couldn’t do with some support, friendship and advice from time to time, and for many, being able to meet with other parents, carers or grandparents can make all the difference.

So if you have any suggestions about what you think Surestart should be offering, or better still, have any time to volunteer at Surestart, then get in touch. Afterall, Sharrow Surestart is your Children’s Centre – Use it - Lets not lose it!

For more information on Par-ents Together please call 01142 507373, or Emma on 07910 699928

Monday

Breastfeeding Cafe - 10.00 - 12.00

Midwives appointments - from 9.00 onwards

Tuesday

Crawl & Climb - 10.00 - 11.30 (for children aged 1-2)

Tuesday Suprise (activity & lunch) - 11.30 - 1.00 (term time only)

Baby Time Drop-in - 1.30 - 3.00 (Birth - 1 year)

What’s happening at Sharrow Surestart every week? By Emma Parmakis

Parents TogetherBy Emma Parmakis

Bonfire NightBy Margaret Daly

Wednesday

Baby Clinic with Health Visitors - 9.30 - 12.00

Stay & Play at Broomhall Centre (Broomspring Lane) 10.00 - 11.30

Weaning Session - 10.00 -12.00

Thursday

Stay & Play at highfield Trinity - 10.00 - 12.00

Ready Steady Go - 10.00 - 12.00 Drop in if you are concerned

about your child’s development (Term time only)

Arts & Crafts Group - 1.00 - 3.00 For parents and Children (Term time only)

Yoga for Pregnancy - 7.30 - 9.30pm - charges apply. Booking is essential - call 01142 678948

Friday

Midwives Drop-in Group (individu-al consultations by appointment) - 10.00 - 12.00

Saturday

Dad’s Drop-in 10.30 - 12.30 - Fun activities & support for dad’s and their children

Congratulations to ShipShape Health champions, who received a certificate at a health champi-ons award ceremony at the Town Hall on Tuesday 20th September 2011.

Also congratulations and good luck go to Connie Chapman and Val Pico in their new jobs. Best of luck for the future!

Shipshape would like to thank all the Health Champions for their hard work and commitment.

Health ChampionsBy Tanyat Basharat

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Last month I was lucky enough to attend two very different, but equally enjoyable theatre experi-ences.

The first was at the Crucible, which is 40 this year and as part of their celebrations they have staged an incredibly impressive production of Othello with ‘the wire’ mega-stars Domonic West and Clark Peters.

I was invited to the press night: third row seats, and a packed audience electric with expecta-tion. The performance was rivet-ing and beautifully executed, both in its performances and its direction. It’s wonderful to see a show in a full auditorium, espe-cially in your own city and the big stars certainly help to draw in the crowds: the production is nearly sold out to end of its run!

If I had any criticisms they would be of the plot, not the produc-tion its self. Sometimes it is a little bit difficult as modern audience to make the leap of faith neces-sary to accept that the charac-ters behave in such erratic and violent ways. But Shakespeare is Shakespeare: not everyone’s cup of tea and you can’t mess about with it too much!

Not so the second show I saw this month. In ‘Two Brothers and One World Cup’ the audience actu-ally gets to choose the sequence of events -making 720 different ways to tell the story! No mean learning feat for the two strong cast.

This show could not have dif-fered more from Othello. No big names, no set other than a chair or two, an irreverent relationship with the text and sadly only ten people in the audience. Every single one of us though had a really good night out and I don’t even like football!

The theatres themselves could not be more different either. The crucible holds around 750 and is in the center of town. The Lantern is in the heart of our own community on Kenwood Park Road and holds only 84.

The Lantern Theatre, originally known as the Chalet Theatre, was built as a private theatre by

William Webster. He lived in a large adjoining property in Priory Road and the land on which the theatre stands was used for his carriage and horses. The part of the building now used for the dressing room, wardrobe and scenery store was Mr. Webster’s stable and coach house.

However, by the 1950’s the thea-tre had fallen into disuse and the neglected building rose from a forest of undergrowth. It was Dilys Guite, an actress and drama teacher, who approached the then owner, Charles Richardson, with a view to restoring it.

In May 1957 a nominal rent was agreed and Dilys and her small group embarked on their mam-moth task. Mr. Richardson was so impressed with their enthusiasm and sheer hard work that he pre-sented the theatre to the players in memory of his wife, Annie.

This year under the stewardship of the Dylis Guite Players the the-atre’s foyer has an amazing face lift and they have an impressive programme of professional small scale touring shows on offer. They even have a very reasonably priced bar with locally brewed ales and beers.

Yet hardly anyone knows it exists. See our vox pop in this issue. Not one of our interviewees men-tioned having been there.

If you fancy a trip to theatre then I think in Sheffield we are really lucky. The Crucible is producing world class shows at the moment and they try very hard to offer deals: it’s often not as expensive as you think. And in Sharrow we have the added bonus of being able to just wander round the corner to the cutest little theatre imaginable and watch innova-tive and massively enjoyable performances with really small ticket prices.

So check out the seasons for both theatres and see if you fancy anything. I bet you have a great night out.

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk box office 0114 249 6000

www.laterntheatre.org.uk box office 0114 2551776

A Tale of Two Theatres By Joanna Swain

FURD (Football Unites - Racism Di-vides) is proud to report that four young people closely involved with the project have successfully gained a NVQ Level 2 qualifica-tion in Youth Work, delivered by Sheffield Futures.

Amjid Hafiz, Sandro Vashakidze, Sajida Bibi and Sajaad Rauf all started as participants in FURD’s young people’s programmes and progressed to do voluntary work with FURD. Amjid, Sandro and Sajaad are all now em-ployed part time with FURD -

Amjid as a youth engagement officer, Sandro as a football coach and Sajaad as volunteer support worker, while Sajida is working for Sheffield City Council.

FURD’s volunteer co-ordinator Mehrun Ahmed said, “we are delighted that FURD has been able to help these young people to develop to a point where they can support and mentor other young people, from a position of understanding, and to make a positive contribution to the com-munity”.

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From Youths to Youth Workers By Keith Ward

The Lantern Theatre (top) The Crucible Theatre (bottom)

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The company is limited by guarantee. The objects are the regeneration of the Sharrow area of Sheffield. The trustees, who are also direc-tors for the purposes of company law, and who served during the year were:

Tim Chester resigned 5/1/11, Hafren Williams resigned 5/1/11, Linsey Taylor-Auad resigned 15/10/10, Jill Lancaster resigned 18/09/11, Anne Davies, Tim Bathatchet appointed 22/11/10, James Chapman, Steven Owen appointed 18/1/11, Bea Jefferson & Maggie O’Neil Appoint-ed 18/09/11.

Achievements and Performance Examples of some of the activities, work and partnerships SCF have been involved in during 2010-11:

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ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11

Objectives and Activities The principal activity of the company is that of facilitating the social, economic and environmental regeneration of the area by encour-aging and supporting partnership working between and within the community, voluntary, statutory and business sector. There has been no change in this activity during the year.

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ShipShape has gone from strength to strength again this year, with the development of the Health Trainer service and hosting low level mental health workers. We have increased our health checks in community set-tings, started healthy eating Cook Along courses, and had success in getting Health Champion volunteers into employment.

The Stop Smoking Service has not only met all its targets but continues to increase the numbers of clients it supports; seeing 75 clients between April 2010 and April 2011 with a 48 % increase on client access since then.

Our proactive community engage-ment work during the year was limited due to the end of all funding related to it. We focussed on sup-porting key resident groups around Lansdowne Estate and Abbeydale, but we also took the opportunity to become involved in supporting faith organisations through partnership working with Sheffield Faiths Forum.

This led to a joint research project with Highfield Trinity Methodist Church and the Usmania Mosque as well as the production of a faith group directory for the area.

During the year we continued a UKOnline service at the Old Junior School, with over 50 regular users accessing online training courses, as part of a series of training courses on offer.

Sharrow Community ForumWe focussed on attracting other pro-viders to use the space and secured 7 regular U3A courses as well as regular ESOL provision from several different organisations.

In managing the Old Junior School we have continued to provide a community facility used by a wide range of local groups, including regular youth clubs, City of Sheffield Amateur Boxing Club, Community Choir, Side by Side theatre group, Lai Yin Association, Parent & Toddler group, a sewing group, conversation class and African dance classes.

In addition we have rented out space for weddings, parties and other events. We now have over 500 people per week using the building, not including staff.

During the year we started to work in partnership with Creative Action Net-work to run a series of social events and fun courses to attract people to use the space, and we also started a lunch cafe two days per week.

2010-11 saw us stopping the provision of cleaning staff for Sharrow Primary School but we extended our facilities management service to included St Peter’s and Highfield Trinity as well as Sharrow SureStart, increasing the amount of local employment we can offer.

ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11Activities 2010-11

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Sharrow Community ForumANNUAL REPORT 2010-11We have continued to produce Sharrow Today regularly, with sig-nificant amount of volunteer input, especially in delivering the paper door-to-door.

During the year we have improved our volunteering support, both at ShipShape and at the Old Junior School, so that we can offer struc-tured volunteering opportunities as well as the more informal opportuni-ties to get involved with projects.

Distinctive Sharrow has developed its various projects during the year with huge amounts of volunteer input.

In addition we started to support tenants of Portland Works to develop a response to proposed redevelop-ment of the Works by the landlord.

This has led to us securing high level support from across the city and the input of several professionals to help create a business case for retain-ing the works as an important place of local employment that supports historical Sheffield trades.

Our partnership working during the year included being part of the Sharrow Children’s Centre Advisory Board, continuing to have a place on the Sharrow CAB Board, and helping to secure community input into the Central Community Assem-bly Partner Panel.

Our involvement in Sharrow Pro-gramme continued, albeit more arm’s length than previously, al-though the development of a new community hub has not moved forward as quickly as we hoped.

We have also taken over the coor-dination and chairing of the Central Area Learning Partnership, which looks at joint working between train-ing providers as well as making recommendations to Sheffield City Council around monies spent on training activity across the Central Assembly area.

With the end of Sharrow Partnership in March 2010 we took over the run-ning of the Shine on Sharrow local grant scheme and gave out 6 small grants for activities that encouraged people to meet their neighbours.

We also continued to support Team Sharrow and host events for workers from local organisations.

Jonathan Roberts Development Manager,

Chris Hanson Community Health De-velopment Manager

Tanyat Basharat Community Health Development Manager

Manal Lotfallah Finance Worker (part-time),

Natalie Gregory Receptionist/Admin-istrator,

Elaine Nightingale Community Health Development Worker,

Saima Ahmed Health Trainer,

Charlotte Duckmanton, Health Trainer,

Ruth Passey Health Trainer,

Waqas Hameed Health Trainer,

Susannah Brewer Information Work-er,

Adrian Mackey Caretaker/Cleaner,

Ridouan Smikil Cleaner

Staff Team 2011-12

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In terms of work SCF is determined to continue a varied programme of engagement based around health, the built environment, and training & skills, whilst making the most of the Old Junior School facility. We may need to adjust the amount of work we do in each area in line with finances however. We will con-tinue to undertake work that brings people together and strengthens communities in Sharrow.

More people and organisations continue to use the Old Junior School site in what is becoming the cornerstone of SCF strategy going forward – not only in the expansion of what is on offer and increased numbers using the site, but also with refurbishment plans about to be realised in January 2012 . Alongside this, SCF continues to explore options for the re-opening of the Nursery + Infants building on the site with a feasibility study and business plan currently being writ-ten. SCF are also talking to local partners to discuss options for the site as a whole.

Another key example of current and future strategy going forward is Shipshape’s healthy eating work. As a result of the success of the community food work, Sharrow Community Forum, Shipshape and Creative Action Network have set up our community food project, Blend. The main aims of Blend are to run a range of activities and events that encourage people learn to cook, bring people from different local communities to-gether and provide a range of volunteering opportunities for local people.

Blend currently has a team of 10 people working on various parts of the project doing everything from web site design and maintenance to running the baking club and cook along sessions. The project has plans to continue to expand the offer in the future with an emphasis on health related activ-ity, community engagement and community cohesion.

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Sharrow Today continues to be published with a volunteer edito-rial team proving to be very effec-tive and making the newspaper more reflective of the community’s voice.

Although these are challenging times for organisations of all types across the country, SCF will con-tinue to explore new avenues for income generation and fundrais-ing. The potential to continue to work with and for the community are still at the forefront of our strat-egy. We have also increased our skills base at a strategic level with the co-opting of Trustees through-out the year. The new trustees have brought a range of skills and experience that will be crucial for SCF moving forward.

SCF will continue to undertake activities with the express aims of facilitating the social, economic and environmental regeneration of Sharrow.

Sharrow Community Forum wishes to thank all of its stakeholders for their input into the work of the forum. The work of SCF is only pos-sible through the support of mem-bers, both individual and organisa-tions and the active involvement of our trustees.

In addition SCF wishes to thank its funders and contractors through-out the year which have included Sheffield City Council, NHS Sheffield and Sheffield Well-being Consor-tium.

Sharrow Community Forum

The Old Junior School

South View Road

Sheffield S7 1DB

0114 2508384

www.sharrowcf.org.uk

shipshape

222 London Road

Sheffield S2 4LW

0114 2500222

Sharrow Community ForumANNUAL REPORT 2010-11

Sharrow Community Forum

Future Plans

Acknowledgements

Contacts

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Theatre Vox Pop: This month Steve Fryer went out and about around Sharrow to find out what you think about going to the theatre in Sheffield. Here is what you said

Will Larter

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

I’ve only been to the Crucible

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

I’ve only been to the theatre when some-one’s said “lets go to the theatre” and we’ve gone.

I’m not really an ac-tive theatre goer.

I do see posters in the street and think that looks interesting, but not to the extent that I go out and buy a ticket.

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

The performances I’ve seen there have been most enjoyable.

It’s a good theatre. I think theatre in the round is a good way of doing drama – it’s got a sort of intimacy about it.

You feel much closer to the actors, even if you are still 30 yards from the stage, and because you see them from all sides the actors seem much more like real people rather than just performers.

Charlotte Duckmanton

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

None. I have been to the theatre, but not to Sheffield theatres – I’ve been to the thea-tre in Retford , and a few in London.

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

If I got a list through the post about what was on, rather than having to look for it.

So the publicity is the important thing?

Yes. You can have a ‘What’s on’ sent through the post which tells you what’s on about 6 months in advance. That’s a good way of publicis-ing it more, with a bit of a blurb to go with it.

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

I only know the Cru-cible for the snooker. I nearly went there to see the snooker championship last time.

I’ve never been inside the building, but it doesn’t really do any-thing for me.

Mohammed Ali

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

I’ve been to the Crucible Theatre and, years before that, to the Octagon Centre to watch a musical drama. I enjoyed it. The most recent one we went to was the Abbeydale Picture House – to a Punch and Judy type show with the kids.

Those are the only three times I can re-member in my whole life.

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

Definitely more time on my hands.

I know that the cost can be pretty steep and you’re sat there thinking you could use that money at home.

I like cultural plays with a story line based on different cultures, that type of thing

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

I’m going back about 20 years years now, when I was at school. We liked the atmos-phere more in the Crucible than the other ones.

Joe Gregory

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

I’ve been to the Crucible and the Lyceum. I went to see Lenny Henry at the Crucible. But I’ve been to the Lyceum more – I’ve been to the pantomime there a few times and I went there to see Grease, a long time ago. More recently I went to see the Rocky Horror Show.

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

More of the stuff I’m interested in – more comedy and music.

Does the cost put you off?

Not really. If I’ve got the money I’ll go.

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

The only performance I’ve seen there is Lenny Henry.

I prefer the Lyceum - it’s brighter and there’s more space to move around.

Jeannie Pryce-Davies

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

I’ve been to the Cru-cible, and the Lyc-eum, and the Merlin, and the Drama Stu-dio. So I think I have been to pretty well all of them.

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

I don’t think anything really.

You go enough al-ready.

Yes. I think I do. Yes.

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

I love the Crucible. I love the fact that Richard Wilson is one of the associ-ate directors there because he’s such a nice guy. You’ll often find him sitting in the audience, if it’s one of the plays he’s directed, and then he mingles with everybody during the break. He chats with people and talks to them about what they think. It just feels really nice. It feels very appropriate for Sheffield – very socia-ble. It sums up Shef-field really.

Chris Hanson

Which Sheffield thea-tres have you been to?

The Lyceum and the Crucible.

What would make you more likely to go to the theatre?

We go to the theatre two or three times a year anyway – to probably more of the really good Lon-don Shows. We went to Spamalot earlier in the year. More of those.

Cost puts me off to an extent. It could be cheaper. When you compare it with going to see a band - you are paying £5 or £10 to see a band and then it’s £20 or £30 sometimes to go to the theatre.

What do you think of the Crucible Theatre and the performanc-es they put on?

Very good. There’s a good atmosphere.

Do you like the open layout?

It depends what you’re watching re-ally. Certain plays are probably better in a more conventional theatre, while other ones need a bit more interaction between the audience and the actors.

What do you think?

Let us know.

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If you have something to say, or have a comment to make about anything you have seen in this edition or you have an event you would like to advertise, please get in touch:

Sharrow Community Forum, The Old Junior School, South View Road, S7 1DB0114 250 8384 [email protected] www.sharrowcf.org.uk

Cllr Jillian Creasy (Green) Tel: 0114 272 7886 (Home) Email: [email protected] Rob Murphy (Green) Tel: 0114 274 7752Email: [email protected] regular monthly Green councillor surgeries are atHighfield Library, London Rd, 10.30 – 11.30am, third SaturdayCllr Mohammad Maroof (Labour) Tel: 07790 017 298Email: [email protected] surgeries at Highfiled Library, 12.00 - 1.00, first Saturday & Madina Mosque Community Room, 2.30 - 3.30, first Sunday

The Councillors for Nether Edge ward are:Cllr Qurban Hussain (Labour) Tel: (Town Halll) 0114 273 5588Email: [email protected] Anders Hanson (Liberal Democrat) Tel: (Home) 0114 303 0064Email: [email protected]: Ali Qadar (Liberal Democrat) Tel: (Home) 0114 258 5395Email: [email protected]

Your local representatives

Paul Blomfield is the MP for Sheffield Central ward, which covers Sharrow.

He can be contacted on 0114 272 2882 or via [email protected] His consituency office is Unit 4, Edmund Road Busi-ness Centre, 135 Edmund Road, Sheffield S2 4ED. His website is www.paulblomfield.co.uk.Regular surgeries are held on: 2nd Friday of each month between 4.30-5.30pm and 4th Saturday of each month (except April and Dec) between 9.30-10.30am. Please tel. 0114 272 2882 frst to check the dates and book your appointment.

Folk Club Sells Out! By Michael Tinker

Howard Holmes, the Project Director of FURD (Football Unites, Racism Divides) takes semi-retire-ment this month after 15 years at the helm.

One of FURD’s founders, he has steered the project from its beginnings as a local initiative tackling problems of racism in the Bramall Lane area of Shef-field, to its current position as a multi-faceted organisation with a local, national and international profile working in the areas of youth inclusion and community cohesion.

Howard will continue to work part-time on specific aspects of FURD’s work, specifically the ‘Football: A Shared Sense of

Belonging?’ research project, the new Arthur Wharton Heritage Project, preparations for FURD’s move to the U-Mix centre next year and fund-raising.

After a re-structure, from Octo-ber, FURD will be led by two joint co-ordinators, Mehrun Ahmed and Simon Hyacinth.

Mehrun will lead on FURD’s com-munity cohesion, youth work and education work, while Simon will manage the project’s football development work.

Both are long standing members of the FURD team and will con-tinue with their current project work alongside their manage-ment roles.

Howard has left the building...but not for good!By Ruth Johnson

What do you like to do on a Sun-day evening? Put your feet up for one final weekend chill before the working week begins? Watch a bit of TV? Go to bed early...?

At least 60 people had different ideas on the 25th September 2011.

Cramming into the side room at the Lounge Bar, on Montgomery Road, a sell-out crowd settled in for an evening of folk, ale, sing-ing and much fun.

The event was the first ever Neth-er Edge Folk Club and Lucy Ward was the star of the evening. Winning the crowd over with amusing stories, a great cover of Sheffield-born star Jarvis Cocker’s ‘Common People’ and a depth of voice that had everyone on the edge of their seats, Lucy got the club off to a flying start.

And it came as no surprise. Lucy has been playing to crowds up and down the country, perform-ing at numerous festivals and alongside big folk names such as Seth Lakeman and Jim Moray.

She was a finalist at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, and on the evening’s performance many were left wondering why she didn’t win it.

The next Nether Edge Folk Club is on the 9th October and the award-winning Ian Stephenson will be performing with Sarah Hayes.

Tickets are £10 on the door (£8 advance, £6 concessions) and can be booked from the Lounge on 0114 255 4363.

Given the fact that I couldn’t get a seat at my own folk club this time around it’ll be worth book-ing early.

More details at www.michaeljtinker.com/folkclub

Lucy Ward was a sell-out.

Ian Stephenson will appear at the Nether Edge Folk Club on the 9th October.

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If you went to Highfield Trinity Church, on London Road, dur-ing the Sharrow Fringe Festival you may have come across the beautiful photographs of Mark Maclean, a local artist who takes stunning shots of subjects as di-verse as the cooling towers, con-centration camps and puffins!

Take a look at his website, he re-ally does take amazing shots and although he does play around with some of them to achieve special effects artificially, most of the stunning creativity is achieved by using old fashioned techniques such as long exposure and special lenses.

But Mark didn’t always want to be a photographer; he left school wanting to be a pilot in the R.A.F! However when asthma put paid to this ambition he followed a stint of work experience at T.C. Harri-sons with a Btech in motor vehicle engineering.

He found it difficult to find any work in this field, having no experi-ence but meanwhile had done a GCSE in photography just to learn how to take better holiday snaps. It turned out he had a natural flare for the medium and fol-lowed a Btech with a degree from Blackpool and the Fylde College, whose photography course has the best reputation in the country.

When his job as a graphic design-er in Preston came to an end he moved back to Sheffield where his lack of dark room prompted him to start experimenting with dig-ital photography, and he hasn’t looked back, launching his web-site in 2009.

He has taken photographs for weddings - ‘I prefer the more candid, socio-documentary style shots, but obviously people want the more formal stuff as well’ - and one of his wildlife shots ,’puffin flying’, has ended up on the BBC Springwatch website!

He helped to curate the art exhibi-tion at Highfield Trinity Church and organises art exhibitions with other enthusiasts at the place where he works - the civil service - creat-ing a giant advent calendar for Christmas last year.

In fact he and a couple of col-leagues will be exhibiting in the

Artist of the month: Mark Maclean, Local PhotographerBy Joanna Swain

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ex-jewellers shop front opposite Debenhams in February.

‘But if you want to see my Tinsley Towers work and other local stuff, that will be on display in one of the other empty shop fronts on Pinstone Street from the 17th Of October.’ The picture of the tow-ers, shown here, is in extraordinar-ily high definition. Although it obvi-ously looks beautiful reproduced in our high quality newspaper it’s worth checking out on the web-site and zooming in for it’s clarity of detail.

He also takes a photo group once a fortnight, on a Saturday, at MHAGS (mental health action group Sheffield).

‘We meet in their day centre above the castle market but often we go out around town or parks or the canal, taking photographs. It’s about the pictures but it’s also a social thing’

So does he regret the fact that he never got to fly? Funnily enough photography recently helped him to realise his dream. Whilst taking shots at Waddington Air Show one of the air cadets saw his photos of the squadron’s departure day and was so impressed that he took him up on a flight where he was even able to take the con-trols for a while!

Up and coming projects include a calendar and a photo book he would like to create from photos he took on a trip with St. Mary’s Church to the stunning island of Iona.

‘I’ve been meaning to do it for ages but I just keep taking more photos and it gets left on the back burner’

‘What I love about photography is it open’s your eyes and makes you spot things you don’t normally see, I always have a camera on me, even if it just the one on my phone!’

Much of his work is for sale and one of his large prints recently achieved £150 at a charity auc-tion, ‘So I reckon I’ve got the pric-ing about right!’

Perfect for a Christmas present?

Check him out on www.markma-cleanphotogrphy.com