Welcome to Darnall Forum's Community Website: September 2009

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Community Consultation Meeting on Wednesday 30 September at 6.30pm

The first community consultation meeting between you, the local residents of Darnall, and your local councillors will be held on Wednesday 30 September at the Living Waters Centre, 81 Main Road, (next-door to the former Industry public house). The meeting will start at 6.30pm and will cover issues such as health care in Darnall, the proposed redevelopment of Darnall Centre, the recent closure of the post office and other important concerns.

This meeting will pick up where the extremely popular Area Panel meetings left off when they came to an end in March. The LIFT (Local Initiative Finance Trust) plans for a new health centre will be top of the agenda for this meeting, which will also deal with:

public questions
the community chest fund
funding for green issues
small highways
bring out your rubbish

If you can't come to the meeting, you can make your concerns known, about these or any other issues, by posting a message on this blog.

Councillors Fund Community Work

The East Area Assembly and our local councillors, Harry Harpham, Mazher Iqbal and Mary Lea, have provided an extra £34,000 for community work in Darnall until March next year. This will help to pay for:

more work with young people, especially by volunteers
more trees and flowers instead of derelict land, as part of Darnall in Bloom
essential feasibility work for the refurbishment of the Staniforth Neighbourhood Centre
more local consultation with the community by our councillors
and the publication of the Darnall Herald

There will be three consultation meetings where you, the residents of Darnall, will be things that matter to you about this area.

PLANS FOR NEW HEALTH CENTRE IN DARNALL

Exciting plans for a state-of-the-art health centre on Main Road have been announced and, on 13 August, a three month consultation process began to get the project underway.

The plans can be viewed at Darnall Well-Being opposite Wilkinsons' and show the ambition of NHS Sheffield, Community 1st Sheffield and Darnall Community Health to offer a wider range of health services to local people in a landmark building.

Construction will commence in 2010.

If you would like further information, come to the Darnall Councillors' Community Consultation Meeting at Living Waters on Wednesday 30 September. The meeting begins at 6.30pm. Living Waters is next-door to the former Industry Public House at 81 Main Road. The meeting starts at 6.30pm.

Air Pollution Protest in Darnall

Monday, 14 September 2009

New Community Language Resources at the LIbrary

Discover the latest list of community language book collections. Books free to borrow in 25 languages,
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/community-languages/books

Join the library using our new translated membership forms available in 25 languages,
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/using-the-library/joining/translatedapplicationform

Prepare for the citizenship test using our free online course,
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/refugees-and-asylum-seekers/lifeingb

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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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