2024 Crosspool Festival Art, Craft, Photography Exhibition

Demonstrations and Awards. Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd July.

This summer, Crosspool Festival is holding its popular two-day Art, Craft, and Photography for the people of Crosspool to showcase their creativity in the areas of Art, Craft, and Photography.

Anyone who lives, works, worships, volunteers, visits, shops or goes to school in the Crosspool area can enter and have their submission exhibited. There will be a chance also to win some prizes, which are sponsored by Cocker & Carr Estate Agents.

During the two days, there will also be demonstrations by local residents on watercolour painting, wood turning and lace making.

If you would like to offer to demonstrate your skill/hobby, then please contact us using the details below*.
There is no theme to follow, just show us what you can create. You can enter as many of the categories as you want, but no more than two entries per category.

All visitors to the exhibition will be able to vote for their favourite entries in both the under-16s and over-16s categories.

After the exhibition, Cocker & Carr will then put on a window display for some of the entries
How to enter.

Art and Craft Creations.
This is open to

Under 16s
Everyone over 16 years

You can submit up to two creations that you have made yourself.
You must include a card that gives details of

Your name
Age category
Your contact email and phone number.

From Monday 10th June, you can drop off your entries at Cocker & Carr Estate Agents. The closing date is midday on Friday 28th June.

Photography
This is open to

Everyone over 16 years old.
Under 16s

You can submit a maximum of two images and the prints can be any size from A5 or A3. They can be printed only or be mounted or framed. On the back, you must state:

Your name
Age category
Your contact email and phone number
A title for your photo.

From Monday 10th June, you can drop off your entries at Cocker & Carr Estate Agents. The closing date is midday on Friday 28th June.

Collection of your exhibits.

You can take home your work on Wednesday 3rd July from 6:30 to 7pm or by special arrangements made via emailing the contact details below.

*For further information on all the categories, and to demonstrate your hobby, contact crosspoolfestivalphotos@gmail.com.

7 Feb, 2013

Smiley Crosspool Big Issue in the North seller earns award

Crosspool Big Issue in the North seller Mohammad Iqbal picks up his award

The dedicated approach of Mohammed Iqbal, Crosspool’s vendor for The Big Issue in the North, has been recognised with a special award.

Mohammed sells the magazine outside Spar in the precinct. He was recently presented with the award by the magazine’s Sheffield office.

In the article below Mohammed explains a bit more about his background, why 2012 was a difficult year for him and his experiences of selling in Crosspool. The piece originally appeared in the Big Issue in the North and is reproduced here with permission.

Well done to Mohammed and thanks to Heather for spotting the article and letting us know about the news.

Smiley vendor earns award

One of Sheffield’s vendors, Mohammad Iqbal, has been rewarded for his tireless work over the past year, being given the Sheffield office’s Most Dedicated Vendor of 2012 award as part of its end of year celebrations.

Iqbal, 45, has been selling The Big Issue in the North for nine years in Yorkshire, between Scunthorpe, Barnsley and Sheffield, and is now reaping the rewards with an impressive sales record on his new pitch.

Iqbal said: “I have been selling at Crosspool since June, which has been really good as I now have a lot of regular customers there who have started calling me ‘Smiley’. The manager and staff are very friendly. They let me stand under their shelter and so I return the favour by helping the shop’s customers with their trolleys. I’ve even stopped a thief running away from the shop twice, which they thanked me for.”

Having a good relationship with his customers and the public means a lot to Iqbal. “I enjoy talking to people, and working each day helps keep me in good spirits and motivated to improve my situation. My family live in Pakistan, and being so far away makes it difficult, but selling the magazine helps keep me busy whilst making the money I need.

“2012 was a very difficult year for me, as I lost three very close members of my family; my son Akhtar, my daughter Sophia and my mother. But I have worked very hard every day selling the magazine so that I can support them as much as I can, to pay my own way for things, and to put some money in savings, which will help me in the future.

“My main aim is to try and get my family to move over to England this year, which would make me a very happy man. I’m very thankful to anyone who buys my magazines and helps me do this.”

22 Oct, 2011

Rivelin Valley Conservation Group scoops environment award

Rivelin valley : the local conservation group has won an award

Rivelin Valley Conservation Group collected top prize at the Sheffield Telegraph Environment Awards this week.

The organisation is now twenty years old and continues to encourage the effective management of wildlife habitats and to reverse the decline of the nature trail.

Volunteers from a membership of 500 meet once a month for regular walks, talks from both enthusiasts and experts and also to improve the Rivelin valley environment.

Sheffield Telegraph Environment Awards: meet our winners

Rivelin Valley Conservation Group