Welcome to Darnall Forum's Community Website: June 2009

Friday, 19 June 2009

Road Safety in Darnall

Road traffic accidents are the largest cause of accidental death or serious injury for children. Darnall and Burngreave are areas of Sheffield which have a particularly high number of child casualties. 232 children were injured in these wards between 2004 and 2008, 18% of Sheffield’s child road casualties in this time period.

The road safety team work in schools, with parents and with other agencies to improve the way children cross roads and stay safe within a car. If you would like any further information, please contact the Road Safety team on 2736162.

Many schools have taken up the offer of working with published poets to produce road safety poetry. Children's road safety poems have been compiled into an anthology which is available for £2 from the team now.

Aisha A, aged 9, from Firshill Primary School wrote:

It was an accident ...

It was an accident ...
I didn't listen to the Road Safety Officer
It was an accident ...
I was texting Vicky
It was an accident ...
I was also listening to music.
It was an accident ...
I crossed at the red man
It was an accident ...
I didn't look both ways
It was an accident ...
I got run over
It was an accident ...
That I was nearly in a coma
It was an accident ...
I'm lying in hospital
It was an accident ...
I'm now paralysed
It was an accident ...
I may not get out alive
It is NOT an accident ...
I'm sorry
Sorry
Sorry.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

East Community Assembly Meeting

Thursday 18 June 2009
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Springs Academy
Hurlfield Road
S12 2SF

Agenda items to include:-
• What is a Community Assembly?
• Public questions
• Area Based Grant funding
• Community Involvement Action Plan
• Development of Community Assembly Plan

There is an opportunity for you to submit any public questions prior to the meeting. Please submit your questions to communityassemblyeast@sheffield.gov.uk or telephone Judith Coyle / Lisa Lyon, Joint Community Assembly Managers on 2736734.

If you require transport please ring our office number above.

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS DAY

Darnall Children's Centre
Friday 5 & 12 June
£10 per session for professionals
Free for parents

Speak to Val on 0114 244 8497

DARNALL CARNIVAL & THE BAISHAKI MELA

DARNALL CARNIVAL Saturday 13 June 12 - 5pm
@ High Hazels Park
Stilt Walker
Clowns
Funfair Rides
Fire Engine
Stalls
Silver Band
Kabaddi
Climbing Wall
Bouncy Castle
Football & Sports Activities
Hot & Cold Food & Drink
100 Years of Greenlands School
Information Marquees

For more information contact Darnall Forum

BAISHAKI MELA Sunday 14 June 11am - 6pm
@ High Hazels Park
Funfair Rides
Clothes & Food Stalls
Live Music
Family Fun

Publish Post

Information Stalls
Bouncy Castle

For more information contact Shahin on 07816 042133

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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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