On behalf Of Ecclesfield Parish Council, we wish to express our extreme sadness at the announcement of the death of His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
The official mourning ribbon will be flown today outside the main Council offices until the Monday after the funeral – 19th April 2021.
Want to act as a voice and represent the community in which you live?
If so you may wish to consider being a Parish Councillor in Ecclesfield.
Ecclesfield Parish Council has vacancies for Parish Councillors in the following wards:
This will be filled by election on 6 May 2020.
If you are interested in being a Parish Councillor please go to Sheffield City Council website for further information: – https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/your-city-council/standing-election-guidance.
You can also look at the model job description for a Parish Councillor prepared by the Yorkshire Associations of Local Councils, which outlines some of the key aspects of being a Councillor. This can be found at: https://ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Parish-Councillor-Job-description.pdf
To mark the Pandemic, we have been working with members of the Parish, Friends of Chapeltown Park, Chapeltown Forum and Sheffield City Council Park’s team and are looking to place a monument to mark the pandemic in Chapeltown Park overlooking the Parish, with smaller monument areas in other parks across the Parish. We have invited children from the Parish to submit their designs to influence the design, by way of a competition with a prize for the winner. We will also be using painted rocks within the monuments and would love donations of these. Please click the links below for the information and entry form. All entries can be either handed in at your child’s school or emailed to emmamainwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk – The deadline is the 29th March…
https://ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk/…/03/Competition-leaflet.pdf
Please click the link for the easy read version of the Roadmap out of lockdown.
As we know, we now have a dedicated local police team to cover the Parish and they have asked us to circulate their newsletter, talking about what they have been doing.
Click here to view their latest newsletter.
Click the link below to see how we are hoping to improve our Parish for our spiky residents…
The hedge that currently obscures sight lines between the playground and the building in Angram Bank Park will be removed. This work is planned to be carried out by the end of the week. The hedge will be cut down and chipped initially, and then the contractor will return to grind out the stumps at a slightly later date. The Parks team will then soil and seed the area.
The reason for doing this work in two instalments is that we wanted to get the hedge cutting done in plenty of time before bird nesting season.
Grenoside Reading Room have published an update, to read the update, just click the link here.
at GRENOSIDE READING ROOM
42a School Lane, Grenoside
POST OFFICE
every Monday 9am to 12 noon
Grenoside READING ROOM
is hosting the Monday Pop Up Post Office for Post Office Counters Ltd
Sheffield City Council’s Parks and Countryside have started planting whips now in Grenoside Park. It was hoped that this would be Community event however, due to the Coronavirus restrictions this unfortunately had to be cancelled. The trees are being planted by contractors so that they don’t miss the planting season, however, we are hopeful to have a ‘Love Your Trees’ day once the restrictions ease where children and community members can offer the little whips some TLC to help them grow.There is also going to be planting on Charlton Brook this season as well. For more information please click here.
To help people who are self isolating due to Coronavirus there is pack available with all of the numbers you may need, and useful information to help your self isolation go as easily as possible. Just click here to download and view.
For the vaccine centres at the large scale site and the hospital centres being run by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Information about the role and how to apply can be found here: http://bttr.im/hy7ss
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To view the national census leaflet answering the most common questions please click the link below:
https://ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Your-questions-answered_Leaflet_ENGLISH.pdf
A huge thank you to all of our Parish members who have donated to our local food bank this year. At the Pairsh Council we have been collecting donations and nipping them down to St Saviours Food Bank throughout the pandemic to help those most in need in our Community.
We will be making our final drop before Christmas this week, and it really is heartwarming to see all of the donations we have received so close to Christmas.
Special thanks to Candy Kabin and Mazehill Nursery who dropped off lots of donations they collected from their customers and parents, which will really give the Food Bank a boost.
Ecclesfield Park consultation has now gone live and there are posters on the entrance points and other areas of the park, which can also be viewed by clicking here. The aim of the consultation is to gather public feedback & suggestions on how the community use their local greenspace and how they’d like to see it improved. This will give the Council an idea of what people would like and help them to start drafting proposals for changes.
The online consultation which will run initially until 31st January 2021.
To share your ideas & opinions on how the park can be improved to support your health and wellbeing, and that of the wider community visit: https://sheffield.citizenspace.com/place-planning-1/ecclesfieldpark
One of our new projects this Autumn is working on becoming much more Dementia Friendly within our community. We are working closely with our local Dementia friendly champions and community workers along with Sheffield Dementia Action Alliance.
We already signpost through our website and Facebook pages to any dementia friendly groups… click here to see our events calendar, for dementia friendly events which are currently running via zoom. If you know of any others which members of our Parish would benefit from please email: emmamainwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk.
We will also be posting weekly activity packs for those with Dementia, which can be printed at home. Please click here for this week’s pack.
Here at the Parish council we are hoping to become more dementia friendly and in turn help our whole Parish to become more so. We will be initially making changes from the Parish Council, including making our literature as dementia friendly where possible. We are in the process of issuing our first newsletter and over the first few issues we will be making this as dementia friendly as possible. Meaning lots of boxed text and pictures.
If you would like any further information, or advice on how to become more dementia friendly please contact emmaminwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk
At the Parish Council we are aware of the financial pressures on parents particularly this year even more so than any other, and we are hoping to be able to help in any way we can.
We are opening and housing a Parish Wide School Uniform Swap Shop at the Parish Council building in High Green. This will involve anyone who has any unwanted uniform items that they could no longer use, but which still are wearable could choose to donate such items to the Parish Uniform Swap Shop. Those parents who were struggling could then contact us here at the Council and would be given any items suitable for their child and in keeping with their school’s Uniform policy.
Obviously this isn’t going to be an overnight heaving collection however, we are hoping that over time we can build a collection and will be able to support those most in need across the Parish by alleviating some of the pressure that comes with buying uniform. While also meaning the schools are not overrun with unwanted items.
We will wash and sort all of the items and house them here ready for anyone who needs them.
We are hoping that this will have an all-round benefit to our Community, whether that be environmentally speaking, ‘Reuse – Recycle – Reduce’ as well as financially for families who need our help now more than ever.
To make any donations completely socially distantly, please contact emmamainwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk
Please note we can only accept clothing and not shoes, and please only donate clothing which is of a reasonable standard and which you would be happy to send your children to school in.
Chairman John Housley and Vice Chair John Brownrigg with Vicar Rick Stordy
Chairman John Housley laying the wreath of Poppies
Vice Chair John Brownrigg laying the wreath of poppies
Anthony Roebuck from the Royal British Legion laying a cross for remembrance.
***Community Fund Grants***
If your organisation works with council tenants, or in and around Sheffield council housing estates, you could apply for a grant to get your Covid-secure project off the ground.
Email: communityfund@sheffield.gov.uk for an application form and return it by 30 October 2020.
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The Ann Reresby Trust offers grants available to female students between 16-25 living in High Green who are continuing in further education. For further information please contact the trust by calling 0114 284 8575 or 0114 284 7226 before 31st October 2020.
Sheffield City council are doing some fact finding into what are the funding needs of Volunteer, Community and Faith Groups who have who have helped their communities during the pandemic. For more information please visit or to fill in an expression of interest form please click this link: Sheffield City Council Coronavirus Community Organisation funding.
We have been contacted with regards to some surplus second hand tables and chairs that are available to groups within our community free of charge. For more information please contact emmamainwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk
A lovely Victory over Japan day was celebrated in Chapeltown last weekend, thanks to organiser Diane Round from Ooops a Daisy. Who set up the day with lots of other businesses in order to raise money fot SSAFA – The Armend Forces Charity. We even had a loaned resroed jeep, tombola and fancy dress competion.
A vacancy has arisen for a Parish Clerk and RFO to Ecclesfield Parish Council. We are seeking a suitably experienced person with a wide variety of skills. The post would probably suit someone who has previous experience in management within local government. The successful applicant will preferably hold the CiLCA qualification or be willing to undertake the relevant training. This is a post of 25 hours per week with the benefit of flexible working (Council, Planning and Finance meetings in the evenings) and a pro rata salary in accordance with the new NJC scale 31-35 (£33,799-£37,849) dependent upon experience and qualifications.
The Clerk will also act as the Council’s Responsible Financial Officer, therefore financial acumen will be essential, as well as Leadership and Communication skills. The Parish of Ecclesfield has approximately 40,000 residents and its Parish Council has 15 Councillors.
An application pack containing Job Description, Person Specification and details of where to send your application can be obtained by writing to, telephoning or emailing Ecclesfield Parish Council, The Council Offices, Mortomley Lane, High Green, Sheffield, S35 3HS. Telephone 0114 2845095. The e-mail address for all applications and correspondence regarding the post is admin@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk
Closing date for applications is 4th September 2020 at 5.00pm with interviews to be held on Tuesday 22nd September 2020. The successful candidate will be expected to give a presentation to the Full Council on 1st October 2020.
Previously interviewed candidates need not apply.
Victory Over Japan Day – 75th Anniversary Celebrations
– 15th August 2020 in Chapeltown –
Pop down into Chapeltown this Saturday for lots of socially distant family fun.
– 9:30 – 12:00pm Sign up for fancy dress outside Ooops a Daisy, and a solider hunt too.
– From 9:30 onwards, different activities including a tombola, and bun stalls locally.
– 1:15pm Socially distant fancy dress parade from Aspire to the Garden next to Newton Hall to be judged by members from Chapeltown in Bloom.
A great local day out, in our lovely Parish.
South Yorkshire transport are asking those parents who have children who attend school via public transport, for their help by filling in a survey.
This survey will enable any improvements which are needed to public transport to support their journeys to be explored before September. The survey asks about a child’s home to school travel needs from September, how a child travelled before COVID-19 and alternative travel options that are available.
If your child uses public transport to commute to and from school, or will do in September, please click the link to fill in the survey.
We all know this has been a historic event which people will look back on for generations to come, so at Ecclesfield Parish Archives they are putting together a collection of photographs, videos, etc to document such a momentous time. They are hoping to curate a really diverse collection showing all aspects of ‘life through lockdown’ from the empty streets and empty shelves to more social photographs showing families surviving life in lockdown, homeschooling, socially distant street parties and anything else which will give generations of the future a real feel for what life was like during the pandemic.
If you have anything you would like to contribute, please email emmamainwaring@ecclesfield-pc.gov.uk
Dementia Friends Information Sessions free for all of our Parish members
Rosie Strathearn-Brady, our local Dementia Development Worker from Soar is running some Dementia Friends Information Sessions for anyone who’d like to take part. It only takes an hour of your time and it’s a good way to learn a little more about Dementia. The session will be delivered bia a livestream video online, and full instuctions will be given of how to access the session.
More information can be found at: https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk
To join in one of the sessions simply, book here:
If you can’t make those you can book on another session on the website as well.
Rosie is also a contact if:
You can contact Rosie, our local Dementia Development Worker from SOAR on 0114 213 4065 or email
rosie.strathearn@soarcommunity.org.uk
Chairman John Housley presenting a cheque to Mick Appleby from Chapeltgreen Advice Centre
Ecclesfield Parish Council continues to support local community groups, charities and
businesses throughout the Parish during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Ecclesfield Parish Council work to look after the Parish’s best interests. Throughout the
pandemic, the council have been trying to help the local community by opening up their
offices as a local food bank drop off point, and then passing on all donations to High Green
Food Bank for distribution. This will continue for the foreseeable future and if you would like
to drop any donations in, please just pop by to the Council offices on Mortomley Lane, High
Green, from 9:30am – 11:30am Monday – Friday where drop offs adhere to all social
distancing.
Other efforts include issuing grants to local community groups amongst others, which have
continued throughout lockdown, most recently with Chairman, John Housley, presenting a
cheque to Mick Appleby, Manager of Chapelgreen Advice Centre in Chapeltown. Mick said,
“Thanks to this grant. It ensures that the advice centre can continue to help people from the
Parish, as well as surrounding areas.” The centre provides free and confidential information,
advice and guidance, to citizens on a range of areas including welfare, benefits, employment
rights, money, debt and housing rights. A service which is invaluable, particularly in the
current climate.
For more information on grant applications, please contact Ecclesfield Parish Council’s
Community Coordinator, Emma Mainwaring – emmamainwaring@ecclefield-pc.gov.uk
Ecclesfield Parish Council are working with the local ‘In Bloom’ groups to run a Garden Competition.
Do you like gardening? Do you keep a nice spring/summer garden? Watch this space for updates as we release more details.
Ecclesfield Parish Council has teamed up with the Boys Brigade, to run an award scheme for the youth of the parish.
The scheme is open to any youngster, from any group.
There will be a gold, silver and bronze pewter badge awarded based on the skills tested.
For more details contact the office. An information pack will be sent to you.
