Local Politics and New
Deal
Issue 41 May 2004
|  A
New Deal for Burngreave
Family
learning for all!
New Deal funded Community
Education Co-ordinators have been busy organising the first
community Family Learning Days at Byron Wood and Pye Bank
Schools...
Musical
Fun For All – Firs Hill
Over 120 adults and
200 children turned out for Firs Hill Community Primary School’s
biggest event since its launch...
Photography
Day – St Catherine’s
Thirteen participants
of all ages spent a day learning how to use state of the art
digital cameras and software photo packages...
Science
Week Lecture – St Catherine’s
Dr. Richard Walton
from Sheffield Hallam University spoke about science in the
home...
Burngreave
Grant Fund
Burngreave Community
Action Trust has been contracted to deliver the £1.1
million BNDfC Burngreave Grant Fund...
Information
Shop
Participate in consultations.
Find out what is happening in BNDfC. Funding/Business support
information available. Meet friendly, supportive BNDfC staff...
Sorby
House
All tenancy request
forms need to be returned...
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Issue 40 April 2004
X marks the spot
All over Europe the rise
of parties like the British National Party (BNP) is a worrying
trend. With elections in June 2004, Operation Black Vote urge
you to use your vote or register to vote if you haven’t
yet done so...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Burngreave
Businesses Join Forces
Businesses in Burngreave
will be linking up to boost their profile both within Sheffield
and beyond, thanks to the recent launch of the Burngreave
Business Forum...
Achieving
Results!
There’s a lot
going on to try and improve educational achievement in Burngreave
– such as the Community Learning Campaign, and Community
Education Co-ordinators in schools – but how will we
know if all this hard work is paying off?
Greening
Burngreave!
The Green Environment
Programme has made some real advances over the past year in
making Burngreave a pleasant environment to work and relax
in...
News
roundup
Everyone working for
New Deal will soon be employed directly by the company, rather
than the Council...
The Year 4 Delivery Plan has been agreedand is now with Government
Office for final approval...
Around £1 million has been earmarked over the next five
years for a number of initiatives for young people... |
|  Burngreave
Area Panel
Area
Panel Local Action Plan 2004-2006
The Burngreave Area
Panel has been given nearly £400,000 of Neighbourhood
Renewal Fund money to spend on improving the quality of life
for local people over the next two years...
News
Roundup
Over 40 local residents
attended a meeting to talk about traffic problems on Grimesthorpe
Road and decide on a way forward...
At the last meeting
of the Burngreave Area Panel the Council’s Highways
Service came along to talk about the Burngreave Transport
Strategy... |
Issue 39 March 2004
Representing...
As a founder member of
BCAF and the Sheffield Women’s Forum, Rose Ardron has gone
on to become the Community Chair of the New Deal Partnership Board...
| A
New Deal for Burngreave
Success
for First Public Meeting
Burngreave New Deal
for Communities got the new year off to a good start with
its first public meeting which was well attended by members
of the local community and projects funded through BNDfC...
Welcome
to two new Board members
Two new members have
recently joined the BNDfC Partnership Board. Steve Cooke has
taken up the BCAF vacancy, and Bob Evans from the Learning
and Skills Council, South Yorkshire has also become a member...
Advancing
Together
Burngreave New Deal
for Communities signed up to a ground-breaking agreement with
Sheffield City Council, aimed at ensuring that people in Burngreave
benefited from major improvements in local services...
Burngreave…
It’s the business
The first-ever Burngreave
business directory will be uncovered at the launch of the
Burngreave Business Forum...
Reach
for the Skies!
BNDfC is funding a
whole range of projects which help children with homework,
support revision for GCSEs and important tests, and projects
which help children who are getting into difficulties with
school...
 Early
Progress Report on the New Deal for Communities Programme
Available for download:
the Audit Office Report on the first 3 years of the Government’s
New Deal for Communities programme nationally... |
Issue 38 February 2004
Burngreave
Honours
Congratulations to the people living
and working in Burngreave who got honours in the New Years list...
New Plan
for New Deal
As Year Three of New Deal comes to an
end, this is the first year they have achieved spending targets.
So where’s
the money going?
We bring you news of where the money
went last year and what's being planned for Year Four...
Subsidiary pages - Spending
plans for:
Education | Health
| Environment |
Over-Arching
Employment
& Enterprise | Housing
| Crime
Blunkett visits Jamal
Mosque
Local Islamic leaders and Church representatives,
press, radio and police gathered inside Fir Vale's Jamal Mosque,
playing host to Home Secretary David Blunkett...
SuperTruck poll results
Thank you to the 31 people who voted
on our first ever online poll...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Message
from the Chair
Lots of major things which have
been developed and planned over the last two years are now
beginning to make a real difference to our local community...
A
magical event!
Holly Pool and Rinica Warner (yr
5, Firs Hill School) report on their visit to see Aladdin
at the Lyceum...
Cutting
out anti-social behaviour
In an effort to cut anti-social
behaviour in Burngreave, a new Anti-Social Behaviour Team
has now been recruited...
Working
with the community
Eight local people have now started
work as Community Wardens - identifying anything which could
be making life less than pleasant for people in the area and
making sure something gets done to sort it out...
Skills
for life
Burngreave Community Learning Campaign
is running a major campaign to help people improve their skills
for life...
Jobs
for local people
The latest employment figures presented
to the BNDfC Partnership Board showed that jobs created through
New Deal investment are on the up...
Invitation
to Tender
BNDfC require the services of an
external consultancy to work with staff and residents to set
up and maintain a web-site and on-line community directory...
Year
4 draft delivery plan (2004-2005)
The Burngreave New Deal draft delivery
plan is available for download as Portable Document Files
(pdf)... |
Issue 37 December 2003
Burngreave
SuperTruck
New Deal are planning to spend around
£100,000 on an ‘information and communications vehicle’...
BCAT: "It's
business as usual..."
BCAT held its AGM on 1st December to
plan the way ahead after the resignation of Director Lynne Hoy
and three Trustees. Despite BCAT’s claim Lynne left after
finding another job, she has made it clear she felt forced out...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Festive Fun!
BNDfC will be funding some festive
fun for all children attending primary schools in the Burngreave
New Deal for Communities area, with every child receiving
a £10 book voucher and the chance to go with their school
on a theatre trip to see the magical pantomime Aladdin...
Out and about
with New Deal!
The New Deal team will be out and
about even more in the new year – with the opening of
the New Deal Information Shop on Burngreave Road Spital Hill,
and the purchase of an information and communications vehicle...
At the heart
of the community
A team of Community Education Co-ordinators
has been recruited to develop community provision within the
area’s primary and secondary schools...
BLSA wants
to talk to you!
The Burngreave Language Support
Agency is working hard to ensure local people have access
to language services, as well as providing training to local
people to enable them to develop their language skills... |
| Burngreave
Area Panel
What
you told us…
We will be working with all of the
services in this area to find ways make the best of the good
things you told us about and tackle the problems you raised...
News roundup
The Area Panel will be holding an
event to celebrate Burngreave, congratulations are due to
the Chair of the Area Panel who recently married, and at our
next public meeting we will be focusing on health... |
Community Rep interview
Kelvin Pine helped organise the very
first meetings about New Deal and was appointed as a Community
Rep on the Partnership Board in August 2000. Since then he’s
been elected onto the Board twice and is one of only three Reps
who have been involved throughout...
Issue 36 November 2003
Community Rep interview
Rob Smith interviews Dorrett Buckley-Greaves
who was elected in April as one of the Community Reps on the New
Deal Partnership Board...
Working together
Staff at Burngreave Community Action
Trust and Burngreave Community Action Forum volunteers pulled
together a fantastic AGM in October, focusing on activities for
children and young people...
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New Deal for Burngreave
A Driving
Force!
An innovative partnership between
Burngreave New Deal for Communities and Nationwide Ethnic
Transport Training will teach 160 local people to drive over
the next three years...
Support for
would be interpreters
People in Burngreave who would like
to use their language skills to find work as interpreters
or translators can now turn to the Burngreave Language Support
Agency for help...
Facelift
for Catherine Street Park
BNDfC has linked up with a team
of architecture students in a project aimed at making Catherine
Street Park a safer, friendlier place...
Burngreave
Small Grants Fund 2
It is expected that up to £400,000
will be allocated to the Grant Fund annually. We welcome applications
from organisations wishing to be included on the list of candidates
invited to tender...
Launch of
Over-Arching Theme
In Burngreave, the community recognised
that there needed to be a theme supporting community strength
to help residents to get involved with the regeneration of
the area... |
| Burngreave
Area Panel
Spending doubled to clean
up Burngreave
More resources than ever are going
into cleaning up Burngreave. That was the message from the
Council’s Street Force Service at the public meeting
of the Area Panel on 2nd October...
Supporting Local Groups
The Area Panel aims to support local
groups who are working to improve the lives of people in this
area. One way we do this is by providing small grants to local
groups...
Regenerating Woodside
Would you like to have a say in
the future of the Woodside...? |
Issue
35 October 2003
Community
Rep interview
This month’s Partnership Board
Rep interview is with Tony Hall...
| A
New Deal for Burngreave
Not too late
to learn!
Around 60 new learners in Burngreave
have already signed up for a range of courses, thanks to the
efforts of the Community Learning Campaign. And even if you
haven’t enrolled yet – it’s not too late
to get started...
Jobs Fair
The Jobs Fair at Forum House was
a great success, with around 200 people coming along throughout
the day to find out more about new jobs on offer in the Burngreave
New Deal area...
Shop until
you drop trip
On Saturday 6th September, the Freedom
Express Luxury coach took forty women from the Burngreave
area to London...
Safer Burngreave
Burngreave is becoming a safer place
for householders, thanks to the Safer Homes Scheme... |
Issue 34 September 2003
Council Clean Up?
Last month the New Deal and the Council
announced they were ‘Advancing Together’, launching
a package of extra environmental services for the area...
Community Rep interview
This month’s Partnership Board
Rep interview is with Natasha MacFarlane...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Building
a future
People from the Burngreave area
are taking the opportunity to build a career in the construction
industry, thanks to a Burngreave NDfC construction employment
project...
Have
your say!
BNDfC has bought Sorby House on
Spital Hill – with the aim that it will become a central
point for the local community. Now New Deal wants to know
what you’d like to see happening there...
Summer
Fund
The successful trip
to Skegness on 16th August (see above) was just one of a number
of initiatives supported by BNDfC’s Summer Fund –
a grant fund totalling £25,000 to support activities
taking place in the NDC area during August and September..
Other
news:
Two new staff members,
BNDfC's new address and great news for the self employed and
those looking for work. |
| Burngreave
Area Panel
The Big
Autumn Clean Up
Throughout October and November
we will be working with local community groups, schools and
the Council’s Streetforce service to clean up our area...
Other news:
The Burngreave Honours Awards...
Making Burngreave Accessible to
Everyone...
Community Chest: FOURTH ROUND OF
GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE - UP TO £200... |
Issue
33 August 2003
Community
Rep interview
The Messenger plans to interview
all ten community reps elected onto the New Deal Partnership Board
in March. The second to be interviewed is Adam Jones, the youngest
of the reps...
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New Deal for Burngreave
A Great Deal for Burngreave
The Council is entering into a partnership
with us to bring more and better services to the area. Detailed
negotiations have resulted in a three-year plan in which the
Council has made a commitment to continuing to deliver at
least the level of services it already provides...
Top
Level Visit For Burngreave
The man with overall responsibility
for New Deal for Communities spending was in Sheffield recently
to see for himself the progress being made by BNDfC...
Look
out Ellesmere!
Over the next few weeks,
people living in the Ellesmere area can expect a visit from
teams of Community Learning Assistants – part of the
Community Learning Campaign team who are working hard to encourage
local people back into learning...
Security
grants scheme launched
Businesses in the Spital
Hill area could be eligible for grants of up to £5,000
to help them improve security at their premises, thanks to
the newly launched Security and Environment Grants Scheme...
On
the beat!
BNDfC regeneration
worker Farhat Javed was one of the first Burngreave residents
to accept an invitation from the BNDfC Police Team to join
them for a day on the beat... |
Issue
32 June 2003
Community
Rep interview
In March, ten community reps were elected
onto the New Deal Partnership Board. This month we interview Aisha
Special K...
BCAT
- here to help
Burngreave Community Action Trust are
ready and waiting to support community groups in Burngreave. New
Deal will be funding BCAT for the next three years and with a
full staff team in place they will be able to manage more projects
for smaller organisations...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Burngreave Limited!
Burngreave New Deal for Communities
has now become a limited company, bringing greater independence
and local control to the vital regeneration process...
It’s
never too late!
You might be way past
school-leaving age – but it’s never too late to
learn. That’s the message from the Community Learning
Campaign which helped to organise a series of events in Burngreave
as part of Adult Learner’s Week during May...
Supporting
business in Burngreave
Business in Burngreave
should soon be on the up, thanks to the appointment of Saghir
Ahmed as the area’s new Business and Enterprise Champion...
Meeting
the needs of older people
Representatives from
a wide range of organisations joined up with local elders
and their carers for an away day looking at the needs of older
people from all communities in the area...
New
lease of life for Sorby House
Sorby House, a major
Spital Hill landmark, is to be given a new lease of life as
the hub of actvities in Burngreave... |
| Burngreave
Area Panel
New Rounds
of Area Panel Community Chest
The Community Chest is there to
support small groups and projects in Burngreave. This year
we will be working with Burngreave Community Action Forum
and their Community Chest so we can help as many groups as
we can...
Area
Panel Acheivements
Here are the things that you have
made happen over the last year through your Area Panel meetings...
Your
Area Panel
Details about Area Panel Councillors
and the next meetings... |
Issue
31 May 2003
Euro-cash
for Fir Vale and Firshill
Firshill and Fir Vale will share in
£800,000 of European ‘Objective One’ money in
the next few years, along with Whiteways, Wensley Estate and parts
of Grimesthorpe and Shirecliffe...
May
2003 Council Election Results
Steve Jones, successful labour candidate
holds his seat. Labour hold majority - turnout 28.9%...
Apology
to Ms Ellisa Clarke
The Messenger apologises to
Ellisa Clarke regarding our 'Voice of the People' report in the
March 2003 edition...
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New Deal for Burngreave
Reaching out to
local people
The three new workers bring with
them a wealth of experience, having worked in a variety of
regeneration and community engagement roles in the past...
Making
a difference
Community Engagement
Manager Levi Ferguson is confident that all the work which
has gone on behind the scenes is now beginning to make a real
difference. But he does understand people’s frustrations
that things haven’t happened more quickly...
Return
to learn in Burngreave!
18 local people have
been employed as Community Learning Assistants in a major
initiative aimed at raising the number of people with recognised
qualifications and improving access to vocational training...
Message
from John Clark, Chief Executive
We are moving into
year 3 of the Burngreave New Deal for Communities programme
with many reasons to be optimistic... |
| Burngreave
Area Panel
Area Panel
Environment Meeting
Everyone in Burngreave will be able
to recycle paper and card by using the a new Citywide kerbside
collection that is starting this year...
How
does the Area Panel work?
The City’s twelve Area Panels
are part of the Council’s political structures and the
local Councillors you elect each year to sit on your Area
Panel...
Also on the same page:
Regeneration
Roundtable
A group called the Burngreave Regeneration
Roundtable has started meeting regularly to look at the difficult
issues that we need to work together on... |
Issue
30 April 2003
Angry
voices
Over 100 people witnessed angry confrontations
and bitter personal accusations at the ‘Voice of the People’
(VOTP) meeting on March 24th. Calls for respect and order allowed
a few strong voices to be heard, speaking of the ‘poverty
trap’ and lack of jobs and facilities, but the meeting drifted
away with no clear conclusion...
Caught
in the middle
The last Messenger listed projects
the New Deal team say have received ‘community endorsement’,
but many have since questioned when endorsement was given. John
Clark, New Deal Chief Executive, said he wasn’t satisfied
with the system of Theme Groups approving projects either, but
was caught between ‘a rock and a hard place’ as people
also complained of a lack of action...
War
in Iraq, but Pitsmoor remains one community
Despite global tension and conflict,
voices across Burngreave and Sheffield are calling on everyone
to help keep harmony in our community...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal executive team.
(5 pages)
1 2
3 4
5
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart Bolton, Area
Panel co-ordinator. (2 pages)
1 2
Issue
29 March 2003
Whose
voice?
A group calling itself 'Voice of the
People' attacked the New Deal regeneration programme. Ruggy Johnson
and Ellisa Clarke recently secured a meeting with Government Office,
from which BNDfC was excluded. Rumours are that a proposal was
brought forward, including funding for two £40,000 salaries
and a £12,000 budget for hire cars...
Not
in our names!
Hundreds of people from Burngreave made
their feelings clear on 15th February at demonstrations against
a war in Iraq...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart Bolton, Area
Panel co-ordinator.
Issue
28 February 2003
Industrial
tribunal
An Industrial Tribunal between Samantha
Constance, and BNDfC, Sheffield City Council and Burngreave Community
Action Trust, was called off at the last minute after the two
sides reached agreement...
New
Deal calls for community involvement in themes
New Deal has just set up new structures
and is calling for the community to get involved with the key
themes for spending the money: Employment, Education, Environment,
Housing, Health, Crime and an Over-Arching theme...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal
executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart Bolton, Area
Panel co-ordinator.
Issue
27 December 2002
ASTRA
is Born
All Saints residents dreaming and hard
work was rewarded when over 40 people attended the first meeting
of ASTRA (All Saints Tenants and Residents Association) in St.
Peter’s Church Hall...
Regenerating
Fir Vale
Deatails of the Fir Vale Comunity Forum
General Meeting, to be held on December the 14th...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal
executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart
Bolton, Area Panel co-ordinator.
Issue
26 November 2002
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart Bolton, Area
Panel co-ordinator.
Issue
25 October 2002
Pitsmoor
people march against war
Pitsmoor mobilised last weekend to join
the demonstration in London against the proposed war in Iraq...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart Bolton, Area
Panel co-ordinator.
Issue
24 August 2002
Time
to start performing
Few will be surprised at the announcement
that, in the first year of Burngreave New Deal for Communities,
only £175,000 was spent on projects out of a planned £2.1
million. That’s something like a 92% underspend. So what’s
gone wrong? The Messenger spoke to Partnership Board Community
Reps Rose Ardron and Levi Ferguson...
Work
on progress at BCAT
Work has commenced at BCAT premises
to renovate the first floor, and the NDfC executive team and Government
office have given a commitment to protect the current function
of BCAT and help to develop the project...
A
New Deal for Burngreave
News from the New Deal
executive team.
Burngreave
Area Panel
The latest from Stuart
Bolton, Area Panel co-ordinator.
July
2002
We interview the new
Boss for the New Deal in Burngreave, and this months New Deal
pages explain what's
going on? While BCAT
face closure the New Deal are consulting about who
should become the delivery agency.
The Area
Coordinators page introduces Jackie Field and news of action
on abandoned cars.
May
2002
The BCAF EGM heard calls for Unity,
Unity, Unity and Abdul Shaif from BCF says Now
BCAF and BCF must work together!
There are New
Deal Resignations and the New
Deal pages focus on report of the start of major projects.
The Area
Coordinators page brings news of moves to assess health around
Parkwood Landfill site.
Local Election results
April
2002
Unity,
unity, unity. Report from BCAF EGM 13-4
New
Deal Resignations
Stop Press 12-4
Community Ecstasy
at regeneration successes
This month the New
Deal pages include news of the launch of a small grants fund.
The Area
Co-ordinators report from Stuart Bolton brings news of the
Unitary Development plan and a new forum in Fir Vale.
March
2002
The New
Deal pages are full of information about new projects getting
off the ground and dates for March meetings and the Inland Revenue
are offering support
to small organisations.
This month New Deal have announced plans
for a new
staffing structure and frustration
bubbled over at the BCAF quartely forum. Upcoming BCAF
meetings.
The Area
Co-ordinators report from Stuart Bolton.
February
2002
New
Deal pages.
The Area
Co-ordinators report.
December
2001
New
Deal starts spending on projects like a new pitch for the
Adventure
Playground.
The Area
Panel report
November
2001
BCAF
AGM votes to become the New Deal delivery agency.
The Area
Panel report
October
2001
BCAF
the successful local charity have their AGM, would you like to
join BCAF's
governing body?
The Area
Panel report
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