Welcome to Darnall Forum's Community Website: March 2017

Friday, 31 March 2017

Pictures of our Women's Day Event

Collage of pictures from our Women's Day event [1]

About 200 women and children attended today's women's event which we held in Tinsley!

Collage of pictures from our Women's Day event [2]

Collage of pictures from our Women's Day event [3]

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Would you like to learn how to deal better with every day stress?

Starts Friday 28 April at 12.30 pm. Email Zahira@darnall.org.uk.

Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Women’s Day, Tinsley Community Centre, 31 March 1 - 5pm

Women's Day

Tinsley Community Centre

31^st March 2017

1-5pm

· Stalls

· Food

· Book sale

· Crochet taster session

· Cake sale

· Pampering

· Tombola

· Beauty Treatments

Contact: Zahira Naz for more information

07983702870

Monday, 27 March 2017

School Cuts

According to the schoolcuts website Darnall schools will lose £585,000 between them over the next three years, which is equivalent to having to get rid of 17 teachers.

A Week of Exciting Events at Tinsley One Stop Shop

As well as the other activities already announced (see last week's blog posts), there will be a Coffee and Cake Afternoon at Tinsley One Stop Shop, the home of Tinsley Forum, on Wednesday 29 March from 1 till 3 pm. Come along to meet other local people and find out how your local community forums in Darnall and Tinsley can help you.

On Friday 31 March we're rounding off this special week of activities and events with our delayed 'Mothers' Day' event - now a 'Women's Event'! - at Tinsley One Stop Shop from 11 am onwards. Why not come and join the celebrations?

Make-up Mon at 10 & Wed at 9, Cake Decorating Tue at 1, Knitting & Crochet Wed at 11, Coffee & Cake Wed at 1, Women's Event Fri 11

Friday, 24 March 2017

Cake decorating workshop Monday 27 March

Cake decorating workshop at Tinsley Forum Mon 27 Mar 1 - 3 pm

KNITTING AND CROCHET TASTER SESSION

Wednesday 29 March 2017 @Tinsley Forum

11am-1pm

Adults of all ages and abilities welcome.

If you are interested in attending please contact: Zahira Naz

Email: zahira@Darnall,org.uk

Tel: 07500766309

BEAUTY, NAIL AND MAKEUP TRAINING

Wednesday 27 & Friday 29 March 2017

@ Tinsley Forum

120-126 Bawtry Road

9AM-1PM

Learn how to Cleanse, Tone and Moisturise
Apply face masks and learn skin types
Makeup demo/Contour
Handcare, Nail Polish & Henna (Wednesday only)

For more information contact

Zahira Naz 0114 2490099/Mobile: 07983702870

Monday, 13 March 2017

ESOL Enrolment for the Spring Term

Please note that we're holding our ESOL enrolment early this year. Normally it happens straight after Easter but, because Easter falls fairly late in 2017, we are doing it before Easter this time!

The main enrolment session will be on Wednesday 22 March at 12 pm. If you can't make this there will also be a chance to enrol on Monday 20 March at 12 pm, but this is mainly intended for existing learners not new ones. If you are a new learner and we can't fit you in, the tutor will ask you to come back on Wednesday 22 instead.

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.