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Acoustic night at Nest on Sunday 28 August – bands wanted

Acoustic night 2 at Nest Crosspool
Acoustic night 2 at Nest Crosspool

The second evening of acoustic pop in one of Crosspool’s cosiest venues will take place on Sunday 28 August.

Come along to Nest cafe on Sandygate Road to hear performers play live and unplugged, including Lofter, jazz/soul duo Kate and James and acoustic singer-songwriter Sophie Anna.

 

The inaugural acoustic night at Crosspool Festival was a big success – check out the videos below.

Do you play in a band or perform acoustically and would like to play at this event? Please email crosspoolnews@gmail.com or comment below with a link to your website or music.

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Agenda for Thursday 28 July 2016 Open Meeting

Crosspool Forum Open MeetingCrosspool Forum Open Meeting
Crosspool Forum Open Meeting – click for provisional agenda (PDF, 530KB)

Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 28 July at St Columba’s will start at 7pm.

Come along for updates local issues including:

  • Local highways refurbishment
  • Claremont Hospital parking
  • Plough Inn closure
  • Selbourne Road Traffic Calming petition
  • Cardoness Road flooding
  • Closed circuit TV in Crosspool

You’ll also get chance to give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and First Bus.

Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, 28 July 2016 (PDF, 530KB)

Minutes from previous Open Meetings

 

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Your guide to the 2016 scarecrows of Crosspool

Wish you were here by the Thompson family of Coldwell Lane
Last year’s winner: Wish you were here by the Thompson family of Coldwell Lane
Over 20 households in the neighbourhood will be displaying a scarecrow in their front garden as part of a scarecrow competition at this year’s Crosspool Festival.

The list of roads where we are expecting to see scarecrows is below. Happy hunting!

Street

Scarecrow names/themes
Benty Lane Carnival
Beavers around the world join the carnival
Barholm Road Ellie Faulkner
Jessica Ennis
Barnfield Drive Carnival
Cardoness Road Rio the carnival bird
Den Bank Crescent Doriteia de Den Bank
Domingo de Den Bank
Dransfield Road Rio the carnival queen
Take a Daly dive
Forres Road Olympic cheer girl
Hagg Lane  Action!
Lydgate Lane Rio Olympics
Manchester Road Bob the Olympic scooter champion
Rosie Arch
Arthur the Archer
Goalkeeper Graham
Golfing Bob
Horse riding hero
The fat golfer
Jazzy javelin
Marsh Lane Olympics, let’s dive in
Rygate Road Football
Sandygate Road Olympic Gold-winning symnastics Gloria

 

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Crosspool Festival 2016 programme now online

The 2016 festival runs Friday 24 June-3 July, with the Summer Fayre scheduled for Saturday 2 July.

This year’s festival theme is Carnival, a summer party with great activities happening on the streets to coincide with this year’s Olympics in Brazil, the queen’s 90th celebrations and more besides.

The organisers are hoping it’ll be a colourful and exciting week for the community to get out and about, meet the neighbours, make new friends and try new activities.

You may have already picked up a copy of the programme from one of our local shops. If not you can browse it online now!

Crosspool Festival 2016 programme

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Care in Crosspool AGM on 4 May 2016

Stephen Hill Methodist Church, Crosspool
Stephen Hill Methodist Church, Crosspool

Care in Crosspool will be holding their annual general meeting at the Beacon Church at Stephen Hill church on Wednesday 4 May at 2.30pm.

The guest speaker is from the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust who will be speaking about their Wild at Heart project.

Everyone is welcome to join us and there will be refreshments after.