Welcome to Darnall Forum's Community Website: September 2008

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Darnall Reading Week

YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ

Tuesday 23 September 3.30 - 5pm Story in the Park at Phillimore Park
Join the Park Ranger for story telling and craft activities. Have a go at making sock puppets and bookmarks for Reading Week. For more details ring Claire on 244 6548

Wednesday 24 September 1 - 3.30pm Family Reading Event
Exciting storytelling sessions in Urdu, Bengali, Arabic and Somali. Other activities include creating finger puppets, library puzzles and designing a family reading challenge. For more details ring Yasmin on 243 6091

Friday 26 September 1 - 4pm Poet Performance
Craig is a professional poet, writer and performer who tours the country sharing his passion and infectious enthusiasm for words. For more details ring 203 7429

Saturday 27 September 10am - 4pm Story Telling Open day
Storytelling, craft activities, Chinese writing and much more. For more details ring Janet on 244 8497

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Proposal for Section 30 Dispersal Order

1. Introduction

Due to issues in and around Bonfire night, particularly the misuse of and anti social behaviour related to fireworks, the Darnall, Tinsley, Attercliffe and Meadowhall Safer Neighbourhood Team will be applying for a Section 30 Dispersal Order.

2. Powers

Once an application has been successful, if a police constable or police community support officer has grounds for believing that the presence of a group of two or more people in a public place is likely to result in member(s) of the public being intimidated, harassed, alarmed or distressed, the officer can give the following directions: -

· Require the group to disperse;
· Require those who do not live within the relevant locality to leave the area;
· Prohibit those who do not live in the relevant locality from returning for 24 hours.

Refusing to comply with a direction from an officer is a criminal offence.

If you would like to comment on this application, or if you have any questions, please contact the Safer Neighbourhood Team on 0114 2964439

How to join in

1) Follow us on Twitter @darnallforum
2) To post a comment, click on the link beneath the post or previous comment to which you want to respond and write your message in the box.
3) Complete the word recognition box, which is designed to stop spam.
4) Then, if you have one, you can enter your Google username and password.
5) Alternatively, you can click 'other' and enter your real name, or a nickname which you would like us to display, or you can click 'anonymous'.
6) Then click 'Publish'. Your message will be sent to us for checking.
7) We will know who you are but, if you have used a nickname or chosen to be anonymous, no one else will know.

How our community team can help

Chris, Nazia and Zahira are the friendly voices on the end of the phone line when you call us and the people who deal with your visits, letters and emails.

They work closely with community groups and individuals who want to make a difference to Darnall. Chris is our Lead Key Support Worker, helping people who are over 18 and currently out of work, to find jobs, education or training through Sheffield CIty Council's Pathway to Success programme.

Zahira is currently covering Nazia's learning Champion role and is the person to contact regarding our education programme.

We also have a team of adult community learning tutors who work closely with us. They help us run courses in IT, ESOL, employment skills, driving theory and other subjects.

If you want help with something which isn't listed here, and you live in Attercliffe, Darnall or Acres Hill, why not give us a ring anyway and we'll try to signpost you to the right place.

More about us

Darnall Forum’s day to day business is managed by a Board of local volunteers. Its vision statement is:

To create a listening space for the community, and
To work in partnership with other agencies and organisations to improve local services and help regenerate Darnall.

The Forum has four part-time staff who with local people to implement a Community Action Plan that was drawn-up after extensive consultation with all sections of the local community. The members of the Forum Board are drawn from the different faith and ethnic groups represented in the area and are elected by the members of the Forum at its AGM.

Darnall Forum is currently funded by Sheffield City Council, the European Social Fund and a small number of charitable trusts.

Darnall Forum also trades under the names D F Enterprise and Darnall Forum Trading, which reopened the community post office in 2010 and ran it for nearly eight years.

The Main Aims of Darnall Forum are:

To create a forum where people can meet to raise issues of local concern, where the agenda is set by local people and where leadership and direction remain with local people.

To work together as women, men, young people, elders, black, white, disabled or able-bodies, of different faiths or none, recognising, respecting and valuing our differences.

To form links with key agencies and local enterprises in order to work in partnership with them, discuss their role in the area and – where necessary – challenge them.

To gather resources to support and deliver initiatives begun and supported by local people.

To ensure that there is a clear and agreed process by which the Forum makes and acts upon its decisions, and to ensure that the Forum Board is accountable to the membership.

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Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Darnall Reading Week

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Proposal for Section 30 Dispersal Order