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Do you have any ideas for Crosspool Festival? Would you consider getting involved or helping out in some capacity?
The Crosspool Festival team are meeting in The Sportsman pub, Benty Lane, on Wednesday 8 November at 8pm. They’d welcome anyone interested to join them. Please come along to share your thoughts and ideas and have a drink.
Next year’s Crosspool Festival is due to take place between Friday 29 June to Sunday 8 July 2018.
A local resident who has spent decades helping out in our local community has been rewarded with this year’s Crosspool Person of the Year award.
Sheila Lomas is well known for her voluntary work at Tapton Congregational Church where she has been involved with hosting garden parties, Christmas events and summer fetes and other fundraisers.
Her selfless work in the local community has been truly remarkable and she is a worthy recipient for this award.
In 1997 Sheila started the Soup and a Roll lunch club with 6 guests. Still running today, it has grown to nearly 40 diners, meeting monthly for lunch, a natter and an afternoon of entertainment.
Crosspool Forum had arranged for the Lord Mayor Councillor Anne Murphy to make the presentation at the Open Meeting on Thursday, but due to a last minute reschedule the Lord Mayor was unable to attend and has therefore kindly agreed to officially present Sheila with the award a little later in the year.
Care in Crosspool are looking to welcome more volunteers for befriending in the local community.
You have to be over 18. Their chair will be at the summer fayre with more information or otherwise please contact the office on 0114 267 0045 or email careincrosspool@gmail.com.
On Saturday 1 July the annual Summer Fayre takes place on the Coldwell Lane sports field from 1-4pm.
We’re a bit short on volunteers this year so if you can offer to help run a stall then please email crosspoolforum@gmail.com.
The Crosspool Christmas trees will be installed above our local shops on Sunday morning.
If you have an hour to spare from 9:30am on Sunday 11 December 2016, any help with putting the lights on the trees would be welcomed and very much appreciated.
Join Care in Crosspool volunteers for tea and cake at St Columba’s church on Monday October 31 from 2-3.30 pm.
They’re celebrating 30 years of involvement with the community.
The National Trust community allotment on Back Lane will be open on Tuesday 11 October from 11am-2pm.
Could you lend at hand at a Crosspool-organised soup run that helps Sheffield’s homeless people?
For several years, volunteers from the community and local churches of Crosspool have been helping homeless people by making and distributing sandwiches, hot drinks and soup in designated city centre locations.
They do this every other Monday evening between September and May, arriving at 8pm and finishing before 9pm.
Organisers are looking for some more volunteers who would be willing to come down and help distribute the food and drinks. You can choose whether to help out one every four weeks, or every two weeks – most do a monthly rota.
If you are interested and would like to know more, then please email the organiser for Crosspool, Eddie.sherwood@btinternet.com.
A message from Crosspool Festival organisers:
Many thanks to all who made bunting for the festival. We have enough lengths for all the shops to have some to decorate their windows during the festival. Crosspool shopping centre should look very attractive!
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