Crosspool News – crosspool.info
The Crosspool community website run by Crosspool Forum
The alpacas and pond dipping proved popular for many visitors at Sunday’s open event on Holly Hagg in Crosspool.
The morning also started with a surprise visit from Radio Sheffield’s Clueless Team.
Keep an eye on the Holly Hagg website for autumn and winter events or visit them on Facebook or Twitter.
You can also see a few more photos from Sunday on the Crosspool Forum Facebook page.
Tapton Hill Congregational Church is holding a short food hygiene course on Thursday 26 October from 10am-2pm.
It is suitable for any voluntary organisation that does occasional catering e.g. buffets/coffee mornings etc. The cost is £30 per person.
Email Suzanne Nockels to book your place at suzannenockels@gmail.com.
Thanks to a generous donation from a local resident and a council grant Crosspool Forum has been able to buy and install a defibrillator for emergency use in the community.
The defibrillator is located on the right-hand external side wall of St Columba’s church, Manchester Road S10 5PL.
In the event of an emergency, where you think someone might require the defibrillator:
Defibrillators have been shown to save lives around the country and we hope that this will be a valuable asset to the community.
If you have any queries please contact Crosspool Forum on crosspoolforum@gmail.com.
You may have noticed the building work at the Scout Hut on Benty Lane. This is the headquarters of the 36th Sheffield St John’s Ranmoor Scout Group.
The group is looking to upgrade and modernise the building in a series of phases to provide:
This is a community asset that, as well as providing a home for the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, is also made use of by various local groups including the Old School House Nursery; Art Classes; Computer Classes; Chairobics and Sensory Classes for Babies. It’s hoped that the upgrades to the building will allow even more groups to use it.
The group are trying to raise money to allow this work to be completed and among other things are running sponsored walks, family bingo evenings and running a buy a brick campaign.
They could really use your support – whether you are a former Beaver, Cub or Scout yourself or a parent of one of the past, current and future Scouting members or a friend of the Scouting movement.
You can also donate by contacting the group treasurer direct using eric@ranmoorscouts.com.
Staff at Enhance the hairdressers in Crosspool are going to be holding a Macmillan coffee morning on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 September throughout the day.
They will be selling cakes and buns to take away to raise money for Macmillan cancer support.
The demolition of the former Hallam Tower hotel on Manchester Road has started.
Planning permission for luxury apartments was previously granted.
The deadline for sending in your photos for consideration for next year’s Crosspool calendar is the end of Thursday 31 August 2017.
The Save The Plough campaign group have announced that their bid to buy The Plough has been beaten by a higher offer from another party that wishes to reopen the pub:
We submitted our bid to the agents last week. Our bid was based on a professional valuation of £435,000 which also included the third car park adjacent to the sports ground.
We were informed by the agents that the third car park had now been taken out of the sale but we stood by our bid.
In discussions with both the agents and Enterprise Inns this week, we were asked if we could increase our bid to match one which was ‘significantly’ higher than ours. We did not want to get drawn into a bidding war and restated that our bid was a fair and reasonable offer.
It seems that Enterprise Inns will go with the higher offer. We do not know who the other bidder is but Enterprise did say it was someone who wants to reopen the pub and it is someone with a track record in the industry.
Despite the fact that we now seem to have reached the end of the road for our project, we would like to thank everyone who has supported the campaign and those who pledged to invest in a community pub. Local people have shown great support for the Plough and we think that this has persuaded other investors that it can be a viable pub and a great local.
Obviously, there is some disappointment in that we might not meet our aim of reopening the Plough as a community run pub but we feel that we can all be proud of what we achieved. When our campaign began in June 2016, our original campaign slogan was ‘Save the Plough’ and it looks like we have done that. If we had not successfully campaigned against Sainsbury’s application for change of the use, the pub would have been lost forever.
During the course of our campaign, it has become clear that there is tremendous community spirit in Crosspool and it would be great if that community spirit could be channeled into other local projects – any ideas?
Once again, we would like to thank everyone for their support throughout a long and challenging campaign and, whenever we had a low point as a campaign group, the support of the community always got us through.
Regards
Peter
(The Plough Community Campaign)
A free walk which forms part of Sheffield Walking Festival in September will depart from Crosspool.
On Monday 11 September 2017, the 16.5km walk leaves Crosspool shops at 10:20am and will then visit a number of cemeteries on the western edge of Sheffield.
As well as the cemeteries we go along the Rivelin Valley with its industrial archaeology and past a mini sculpture park. The walk has great views of the moorlands and the countryside. We finally take the old coffin path to High Bradfield and if we have time visit the motte and baile.
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