Four new National Open College Network (NOCN) computer courses are starting next month in Crosspool. The topics for this term’s courses are:
Desk top publishing
Computers For Beginners
Internet and Emailing
Computers For Everyday Life – Absolute Beginners
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.
The Crosspool house nominated for the Sheffield Design Awards
A house on Darwin Lane in Crosspool has been nominated for this year’s Sheffield Design Awards.
Ranmoor House is located opposite the King Edward VII Lower School field. It is designed by local architect Coda Studios and includes zinc cladding to reflect the city’s industrial heritage and art deco features.
The Crosspool house is up against other buildings and locations including The Sheffield Tap pub, South Street park, Tudor Square, JG Graves Woodland Discovery Centre in Ecclesall Woods, Park Hill flats and the university’s Arts Tower.
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
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.
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.
On Sunday, 15 July, at approximately 3.05pm, a yellow BMW S1000 motorcycle driven by a 39-year-old man from Doncaster was travelling towards Sheffield City Centre along Manchester Road, Rivelin.
On approach to the waterworks, police believe that the driver of the motorcycle was in the process of overtaking several stationery vehicles when it collided with a blue Honda Jazz driven by a 64-year-old woman from Stannington that was completing a right turn manouvre into the entrance of the waterworks.
The rider of the motorcycle received serious injuries including the amputation of his left thumb.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has any information, is asked to contact the police on 101, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111, quoting incident number 749 of 15/07/2012.
Changes to ticketing arrangements are also on the table including a single ticket to let you to travel anywhere across the city, even if you have to change buses. The cost of a day ticket would also come down by 70p to £4.30.
Crosspool Festival got off to a great start this weekend with events including the well dressing dedication, Crosspool Open Gardens and the street market on Selborne Road.
The festival runs until Sunday 15 July and as you’ll see below, there are activitiess for all ages. Unfortunately, Crosspool’s Got Talent tonight has had to be cancelled.
There’s less than a week to the 2012 Crosspool Festival. Have you planned which events you’re going to? Make sure you get any tickets soon to make sure you don’t miss out!
The festival runs 7–15 July and as you’ll see below, there are events for all ages. This year’s programme includes:
A well dressing outside Crosspool Tavern – dedication will take place on Friday at 7pm
The return of Crosspool Open Gardens and Gardeners’ Question Time
Several music events, including a gospel concert, organ recital, songs from the shows, pre-school singalong, Guys and Dolls at Tapton School, a folk concert,
A street market on Selborne Road
An open day at Hallam Cricket Club
Quizzes at Crosspool Tavern and Stephen Hill church
A treasure hunt
A film screening of old views of the Rivelin Valley
A coffee evening
A fun run
A book night
Table games
A tea dance and a barn dance
Hillside Harvest Open Day
The annual Crosspool Summer Fayre
Picnic in the park hosted by the Crosspool churches
The 51 bus could go via West Street instead of Broad Lane to improve its reliability as part of proposed changes to Sheffield’s bus network.
It would mean that the drop-in medical centre on Rockingham Street would no longer be included on the route.
Changes to ticketing arrangements are also on the table including a single ticket to let you to travel anywhere across the city, even if you have to change buses. The cost of a day ticket would also come down by 70p to £4.30.
Crosspool News - crosspool.info 