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Did you ever used to visit The King’s Head pub in Crosspool before it was demolished?
On Saturday 3 November, Sarah Goodhead and Dave Robinson are hosting a get together for anyone who used to be a regular at the Manchester Road pub.
Go along to the Crosspool Tavern on Saturday 3 November from 8pm to join in the reunion and meet old friends, share memories and have a laugh. There will also be live music from MLC.
A local cycling group are currently running a monthly cycle ride that departs from Crosspool.
The Sheffield Women’s Cycling group leave at 9am from Crosspool Tavern for a women-only ride in the peaks on the last Sunday of each month. The next two rides are on 30 September and 28 October.
All abilities are welcome and you can contact them via their website or Facebook page for more information.
Four new National Open College Network (NOCN) computer courses are starting next month in Crosspool. The topics for this term’s courses are:
More details are on the poster below, including the start and expected finish dates for each course.
Perhaps you have a friend or relative who would be interested in building their confidence on a computer? Anyone wishing to join any of these courses should contact Ian, Crosspool Forum, on 0114 335 1674 or email crosspoolforum@fsmail.net.
A Crosspool-based fitness initiative will be holding a free, charity health and fun day on Sunday 16 September from 12-4pm at Hallam football club on Sandygate Road.
The event is being held to promote healthy living in the community and raise money for The Sick Children’s Trust. There’ll be activities such as football and other sports to get involved with, a healthy BBQ with lots of great ideas for a more nutritional grill, stalls from various health-related traders and a raffle, bouncy castle and games. Smoothies and drinks will be available from the new Hallam clubhouse.
Former Tapton pupil Kate Hill is organising the fun day as part of her FunMeFit initiative. FunMeFit is a central hub for local sports clubs, activity groups and larger organisations to list details about what they’re doing so that families in Sheffield and further afield can choose what activity to try next and get active.
Kate recently moved back to Crosspool after a decade living in other areas of Sheffield. She said: “We’re a family trying to help other families feel like part of a community with support and resources to get healthy and find fun activities to take part in. I organised this free event to make more people aware of what we’re trying to do and to raise money for a very worthy cause. Whatever the weather, there will be lots going on.”
Kate is also looking for any local businesses to support the fun day, for example through raffle prizes or healthy BBQ food. You can get in touch with her using kate@funmefit.com or via the FunMeFit website.
FunMeFit charity fun day – 16 September 2012
Police officers will be offering advice and answering questions to Crosspudlians on Wednesday 29 August outside Spar.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will be in Crosspool from 2–3pm. It’s your opportunity to meet some of the team and to get community safety advice, discuss any issues that are relevant to you or to get crime reduction information.
Representatives from the South West Community Assembly will also be there.
Meanwhile, the latest Crookes Safer Neighbourhood Area newsletter from the police highlights their efforts to combat thefts of pedal cycles and items from motor vehicles in the locality. They also flag up milk thefts from people’s doorsteps in the early hours – you can phone 101 to report any suspicious activity.
32 people from Dransfield Road aged from 9 months to 91 years joined together on Friday morning to ring all the bells to mark the start of the Olympic games. £23 was raised for the RNLI and tea and toast was enjoyed by everyone afterwards.
Residents of Dransfield Road are invited to join in with three minutes of bell ringing to mark the start of the Olympics on Friday morning.
People all over the country will be taking part in artist and musician Martin Creed’s ‘Work No.1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes’, a simultaneous, nationwide bell-ringing to celebrate the first day of London 2012.
So if you live on Dransfield then you’re invited to meet outside number 83 at 8am to start ringing at 12 minutes past. The organiser has some bells, however if you have any then bring them along.
Tea and toast will be served after if the weather is nice.
You’re invited to Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 26 July at St Columba’s Church. It starts at 7pm.
A provisional agenda is below. Come along to give your concerns on Crosspool issues to local councillors, the police and council officials.
Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 July 2012 (PDF, 66KB)
Date of next meeting Thursday October 25th.
Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 26 July 2012 (PDF, 66KB)
At 2pm today, the annual Crosspool Summer Fayre takes place at Coldwell Lane sports field. There’s loads going on for all the family:
Police officers will be offering advice and answering questions on Wednesday 25 July outside Spar.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will be in Crosspool from 2–3pm. It’s your opportunity to meet some of the team and to get community safety advice, discuss any issues that are relevant to you or to get crime reduction information.
Meanwhile, the latest SNT newsletter reports that a male was stopped in a white transit van who was collecting scrap in the Crosspool area. After checks, the male was reported on summons for no insurance and having no waste carriers licence.
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