CROSSPOOL FESTIVAL COMPETITIONS
There’s still time for you to enter one of the Crosspool Festival competitions to showcase your creativity in the areas of art, photography, cake making and biscuit decorating
Entries for the Art and Photography Competition can be handed in at Cocker and Carr Estate Agents, 11-13 Sandygate Rd, Sheffield S10 5NG Tele: 0114 268 7777, any time before 5pm, Friday 28th June.
Entries for the cakes and biscuits Competition must be handed in at St Columba’s Church, 503 Manchester Rd, Sheffield S10 5PL, Tele: 0114 267 0006 on Tuesday 2nd July between 7 & 8 pm, or Wednesday morning 3rd July between 9 &10 am.
HALLAM CHASE, TUESDAY 28TH MAY
Tomorrow Tuesday 28th May, 8pm, the 3¼ miles long, with 800 feet of climb, annual Hallam Chase Fell Race, organised by Hallamshire Harriers and hosted by Hallam Cricket Club, takes place.
Runners set off from Hallam Football/Cricket Club’s Sandygate ground at 8pm, go down Den Bank through the Rivelin Valley and up Tofts Lane to Stannington Church gates, before returning by the same route.
This heritage related event goes back as far as 1862.
The current record time of 19 minutes 42 seconds was set in 1968 by Trevor Wright.
Find out more on the Hallam Chase and Hallamshire Harriers website
Crosspool Festival 2019
Crosspool Festival programme is now online:
It is also in the Crosspool precinct shops and is being distributed with the summer issue of the Crosspool Clarion.
The 2019 festival dates are Friday 28th June to Sunday 7th July 2019.
Festival Charities 2019
Ben’s Centre
Ben’s Centre is a registered charity that offers a home for those who have forgotten what home is.
It provides a clothing store, laundry, free food, hot drinks, free telephone and internet, referrals to Outreach and accommodation signposting to other agencies. Support and advice and a daily Outreach program for people on the streets in Sheffield City Centre
Northern General Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Unit
Sheffield Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, started functioning as a specialist regional centre in 1999 and is a regionally Cystic Fibrosis Trust accredited unit.
This charity was chosen for the late Dawn boulter, our Festival ex-Chair, whose daughter, Jess died of Cystic Fibrosis in 2017.
Crosspool Festival Street Market – Sunday 30 June – Facebook event
SECOND VEGETABLE & BEDDING PLANT SALE
Vegetable & bedding PLANT SALES this weekend
The “Hagg Lane and District Gardeners Allotments Society” will be holding the Second of their Annual Plant Sales at their allotment on Back Lane, Crosspool,
Saturday, May18th & Sunday May19th, between 9.30am and 2.30ish.
You, your friends & family and anyone else that visits at some point, either over the coming weekend or indeed at any time, will be made very welcome!
Tea and cake will be available throughout.
ROCK CHOIR IN CONCERT
Congregational Church Lego Challenge, Saturday 18th May
Tapton Congregational Church, Tapton Hill Road/Manchester Road
Saturday 18th May 10.30am -12noon
Children of primary school age, (accompanied by parents or carers), are invited to enjoy taking part in another Lego challenge.
Hear the story of Ascension and Pentecost.
Can your machine lift the weights up and down?
Every child will go home with a gift.
Donations welcome.
For further information contact: Suzanne on 0114 2325790 or email suzannenockels@gmail.com
CREATIVITY IN CROSSPOOL
It is time for you to showcase your creativity
in the areas of art, photography, cake making and biscuit decorating.
Anyone who lives, works or goes to school in Crosspool can enter.
All you need to do is enter no more than two of your creations. These will be put on display for everyone to admire and judges will award certificates to the winners.
There is no theme to follow. Just show us what you can create.
The categories for entry are as follows:-
Biscuit decorating for young children:-
• Under-fives.
• Five to eleven years.
You don’t have to make the biscuit, just decorate it using your imagination and make sure you don’t eat them all before showing them off!
Art, Photograph and Cake making: – There are two categories for each.
• Under 16 years.
• Everyone over 16 years.
Photography prints can be either A5 or A4 in size, but there is no restriction on the size in the art or cake categories.
How to Enter:-
Entries for the cakes and biscuits must be handed in at St Columba’s Church Manchester Rd, Tuesday 2nd July between 7 & 8 pm,
or Wednesday morning 3rd July between 9 &10 am.
Entries for the art and photography can be handed in anytime at
Cocker and Carr Estate Agents but before 5pm on Friday 28th June.
The Event:-
This will take place on Wednesday 3rd July 2019 at St Columba church on Manchester Rd. People will be able to view the entries from 2:30 pm and refreshments will be available. Certificates and prizes will be presented to the winners at 4:30 pm.
For further information on all the categories, contact: – crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com.
CROSSPOOL’S GOT TALENT 2019
Crosspool Festival Talent Night
Stephen Hill Church Hall, Manchester Road /Benty Lane, Tuesday evening 2nd July 2019
What every your age/s, if you or your group have a talent to entertain an audience.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Roger Kite, Tel: 0114 2306194
Crosspool Forum Open Meeting Bullet Points, Thursday 25th April 2019
Download a summary of the bullet points from the April meeting:
Open Meeting bullet points 25-04-19
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