Welcome to Darnall Forum's Community Website: October 2009

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Annual General Meeting Tuesday 27 October

Darnall Forum’s AGM, will be held on
Tuesday 27th October 2009
6-7.30pm
Darnall Forum
245 Main Road , Darnall

The meeting will celebrate the achievements of the Forum during the past year and give you the chance to raise any issues about Darnall, or about our work, which concern you at the moment. It will also be your opportunity to elect officers and trustees for the coming year.

An Annual Report will be distributed on the evening and copies of the last minutes and agenda will also be provided at the meeting - please contact us if you would like one.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have shown the Forum during the past year, and hope this will continue into the next year.

Sunday, 4 October 2009

20 Years of the PMC!

Wednesday 7th October 2009
Venue: PMC
Woodbourn Road, Darnall, Sheffield, S9 3LQ
Time: 6:30pm

The PMC would like to invite you to celebrate the festival of Eid and the signing of the Lease Ceremony marking 20 years of the PMC! Please encourage friends and family to attend.
The event will commence at 6:30pm.

Hot food will be served after the event!

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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Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Annual General Meeting Tuesday 27 October

Sunday, 4 October 2009

20 Years of the PMC!