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Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting and AGM, Thursday 27 October 2011

Crosspool Forum Open Meeting
Come along to the Crosspool Forum Open Meeting on Thursday 27 October

You are invited to Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting and eighth AGM on Thursday 27 October at St Columba’s Church. It starts at 7pm.

Come along to give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and council officials. A provisional agenda is below.

Crosspool Forum 8th AGM 27 October 2011 – agenda (PDF, 66KB)

Provisional agenda

Crosspool Forum Open Meeting/AGM
Thursday 27 October 2011 7pm

  • Chair’s welcome
  • Introduction of top table
  • Apologies for absence

Eighth AGM

  1. Minutes of last meeting to be approved
  2. Matters arising
  3. Chairman’s report
  4. Treasurer’s report
  5. Committee members report
    Related activities
  6. Election of Committee members
    No resignations or nominations received; 15 members max

Open Meeting

  1. Minutes of last meeting to be approved
  2. Matters arising
  3. Police Liaison
    An update on policing in the area
  4. Questions & Answers with Local Councillors
    Cllr. Sylvia Anginotti, Cllr. Brian Holmes, Cllr. Geoff Smith
  5. Council officials
    Tammy Barrass, Community Assembly Manager (responsibility for assembly activities)

Any other business

Next Open Meeting at St. Columba’s, Thursday 26th January 2012
Guest speaker Greg Challis, Planning and Highways
Benty lane /Stephen Hill junction with Manchester Road

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Spring bulb planting this Saturday – get involved!

Thanks for all your ideas for where to plant our spring bulbs. The three locations earmarked to receive this year’s allocation are the top of Stephen Hill, the triangle at the junction of Watt lane and Dransfield Road and on Manchester Road, possibly between the two churches.

Can you spare an hour on Saturday 15 October to help Crosspool Forum plant them on grass verges near to where you live? We’ll be meeting at 10am on the verge in front of the Crosspool Tavern.

If you fancy popping along then telephone 0114 335 1674, email  crosspoolforum@fsmail.net or just turn up. You don’t need to bring anything, but if you do have a small spade then please bring it along.

Spring bulb planting, Saturday 10 October
Spring bulb planting, Saturday 10 October
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Lydgate Green clean up this Sunday

Lydgate Green
Lydgate Green

The Friends of Lydgate Green are organising a day to work on the flower beds.

This Sunday 2 October, volunteers will be weeding, moving plants, litter picking and tidying up.

They’re inviting anyone interested in helping to come along from 10am. It’s a family affair, the more the merrier – bring your forks, spades, barrows & buckets!

There are gaps to be filled so any spare perennials for donation are also very welcome.

Lydgate Green is on the Lydgate Lane/Lydgate Hall Crescent junction in Crosspool.

Lydgate Green
Lydgate Green: join in the clear up
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Monthly writing workshops by local poet and writer

Calling all budding writers and especially those that came to the writing workshop during the Crosspool Festival.

Adrian Scott will be starting a new series of workshops in town at Montgomery Arts Centre on Surrey Street in town. He hopes to encourage and enrich writers to tap into their creative abilities and help them to explore different styles of writing.

The sessions are monthly on Monday nights starting on 26 September from 7pm-9pm. They are open to anyone, costing £7 per session or £20 for three.

Call Margaret or Dawn on 0114 272 0455 for further details or look on the website www.macsheffield.org.uk to get a booking form.

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Computer Course Registrations on Friday 6th January 2012

Do you know anyone in Crosspool who is a learner with little confidence or who has not used ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) before?

If you know someone who is having difficulty getting to grips with word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, or using the internet and sending emails, why not suggest that they book a place on one of our two-hourly classes?

A laptop is provided and a projector is used to display lessons on to a large screen.

The Crosspool Forum’s next computer courses, for beginner’s and the more advanced, are scheduled to run for a 10 week term from January 2012. Registrations, 9.30am Friday 6TH January, St Columba’s Church Hall, Manchester Road.

To reserve a place in either class, please contact Ian Hague on 0114 335 1674 or crosspoolforum@fsmail.net

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Upcoming events at The Sportsman pub

The Sportsman pub on Benty Lane is hosting three events this month:

  • Cheese & Wine night, Monday 15 August, 8pm
  • Whisky Tasting, Wednesday 17 August, 9pm
  • Summer Cocktails, Thursday 25 Aug, 8pm

For more information, call the pub on 0114 268 8011.

The Sportsman pub

The new-look Sportsman pub in Crosspool
The Sportsman pub in Crosspool
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Lydgate Green clean up: your help is required!

Lydgate Green
Lydgate Green

The Friends of Lydgate Green are organising a day to work on the flower beds.

On Sunday 2 October volunteers will be weeding, moving plants, litter picking and tidying up.

They’re inviting anyone interested in helping to come along from 10am. It’s a family affair, the more the merrier – bring your forks, spades, barrows & buckets!

There are gaps to be filled so any spare perennials for donation are also very welcome.

Lydgate Green is on the Lydgate Lane/Lydgate Hall Crescent junction in Crosspool.

Lydgate Green
Lydgate Green: join in the clear up
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Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 28 July 2011

Open Meeting July 2011
Open Meeting July 2011

A reminder that you are invited to Crosspool Forum’s Open Meeting on Thursday 28 July at St Columba’s Church. It starts at 7pm.

A provisional agenda is below. Come along to give your concerns on local issues to local councillors, the police and council officials.

Agenda for Crosspool Forum Open Meeting, Thursday 28 July 2011 (Word document, 33KB)

Open Meeting, Thursday 28 July 2011, 7pm: provisional agenda

  1. Chairman’s welcome
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of last meeting to be approved
    Bullet points
  4. Matters arising:
  5. Chairman’s report:
    New computer course 
starts 9 Sept beginners, also a class for the advanced (spreadsheets)
    Car Boot Sale (10 Sept)
    Fayre/Festival
    Funding for next year’s Queens Jubilee & Olympics, Floral displays
    Clarion; Website
    Hagg Copse
    Hillside Harvest
  6. Treasurer’s report:
  7. Police Liaison: Police update on the area’s crime and concerns.
  8. Councillors: question time
  9. Planning and Highways
  10. Guest Speakers (approx. 7.30pm)
    Two magistrates, Andrew Bentley, Anthea Peers, accompanied by trainee magistrate Grant Laughton, have volunteered, under the “magistrates in the community” scheme, to attend our meeting to explain and enlighten us on the workings and judgments of a magistrates court.
 A number of attendees may be invited to take part in a mock trial.
  11. Any other business