Would you like additional recycling facilities for plastics in Crosspool?
With the current system, the only plastics that you can recycle in Crosspool are plastic bottles. This can be done via your blue box/blue bin.
If you want to recycle other types plastic then the nearest sites are a drive away on Old Fulwood Road in Fulwood and in the University of Sheffield’s Endcliffe Crescent Flats complex.
Crosspool Forum is exploring the suggestion of having a plastics recycling bin in Crosspool. If the idea is popular then this is something we’ll raise with our local councillors.
Please can you take a minute to vote using the poll below to help gauge interest in a plastics recycling bin for Crosspool?
If you haven’t already made a note in your diary then the dates for this year’s Crosspool Festival are 28 June-7 July 2013.
The full programme is being confirmed, but you can be sure that there will be both old and new events to get involved with including a summer fayre, street market, Open Gardens, well dressing, barn dance, folk evening, fun run, open air church service and junior bake-off.
This year the festival will be raising money for the 36th Sheffield Scout Group, which is based in the Benty Lane Scout Hut.
Get involved
This is your chance to get involved with Crosspool’s major annual community event. If you have ideas for the festival or can spare any time to help, please contact the Festival Chair Frances Eccleston on f.m.eccleston@gmail.com or 0114 267 0006.
The Spring art exhibition by artists from Hallam Art Group takes place this weekend.
From 10am-5pm on Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 April you can view pieces by the group at Hallam Community Hall on Hallam Grange Crescent, S10 4BD. Admission is free.
The Friends of Lydgate Green are organising a planting and tidy-up day from 9.30am on Saturday 27 April.
They would really appreciate your support and help to replant the beds and assist with some general maintenance.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to make a difference to this local green space and to meet other local residents. Bring a pair of gloves, something to dig with and some enthusiasm.
What’s more, the kind folk at Crosspool’s Michelin Guide-featured restaurant Artisan will be providing free refreshments!
Friends of Lydgate Green is a small group of local residents who are responsible for the upkeep of the green at the corner of Lydgate Lane.
Do you know anyone in Crosspool who is learning to use computers or who has not used one before?
Crosspool Forum is organising more computer courses to help people build their IT skills. Enrolment is on Monday 8 April 2013 between 10am and 12pm at the Scout Hall on Benty Lane.
Following this, different courses for beginners and the more advanced are expected to take place on Mondays 10am-12pm and 1-3pm.
A laptop is provided and a projector is used to display lessons on to a large screen.
To reserve a place in a class or find our more information, contact Ian Hague on 07713 687 955 or Maxine on 0114 250 0613. You can also email crosspoolforum@fsmail.net.
Over recent days one or two cars have been broken into and houses burgled in the neighbourhood.
The police are reminding us all not to leave items on show in our car and to keep car keys out of sight. They advise to keep your home and gardens as secure as possible and if you have outside lighting or alarms be sure to use them.
If you see anything suspicious, don’t hesitate to contact the police by ringing 101.
Rivelin Valley-based Hillside Harvest have sent the following report and photos from their second open day of 2013:
Hillside Harvest open day: building a bridge
Just recently, we held our second Open Day of 2013. This time our training session was on ‘plot planning’ aimed both at the beginner and the experienced gardener led by an expert from ‘Grow Sheffield’. Once again, a good crowd of new people turned up on a cold, but dry day! Even a few from the previous Open Day returned. There were also tours of the site, which was showing signs of life, despite the weather conditions.
As usual, lunch was a shared affair, centred on a vegetable stew. People are very generous, so there was more than enough to share.
We have a Growing Committee who draws up a plan of when certain activities have to be done and what time of year. But, because of the variable weather, it is still a bit of hit and miss as to whether the timing is right! Yet, we still see quite a bit of produce showing itself at the right times.
On the day a bridge and steps were built to make access easier to help everyone get from the Rivelin Valley Road car park to the lower plots in our block – so hopefully helping all the plot holders in the area.
We received help from a couple of students, who spent quite a few back-breaking hours getting them just right! Also tackled, were the putting up of supports for the fruit plants.
So, you can gather, even though hard work is involved, there is much fun and laughter and a sense of community. If anyone is interested in joining us, using their skills, even if they are not in the gardening area, there is always plenty to do, as well as making new friends, please contact Hillside Harvest via nick.rousseau@hillsideharvest.org.uk.
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