Communitymatters
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KIVETON PARK & WALES
June 2016
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COMMUNITY MATTERS
June 2016
Kiveton Park & Wales
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The Clocks have altered, the mornings are getting lighter, the birds are chirping out their dawn chorus and the evenings are getting longer, so its all looking and sounding good. It’s only a few more weeks now until the schools break up for the summer, so lets hope we get some good weather for the holidays and of course good luck to anyone taking exams before the end of this school year. In this our summer edition you can catch up with all the latest news from our parish council on pages 9 through to13. There are updates from the canal trust, our local cricket and football clubs and of course the Grand Opening of the wonderful new Kiveton sports park. So sit back and enjoy this our latest edition. If you would like us to feature your club, group or society, share your news with the wider community or place an advert then please get in touch. We are always on the lookout for volunteers to help us deliver our magazine, so if you think you can help us in any way, with just maybe an hour of your time, then please give us a ring, as they say many hands make light work and its all in a good cause delivering the magazine that is the envy of many communities in Rotherham.
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Kiveton Community Woodland a thriving woodland created after the demise of the former Kiveton Park Colliery is a natural space of remarkable diversity, providing a vast array of habitats including woodland, grassland wetland. The bird life on the site is particularly impressive, especially in springtime when masses of Skylarks are present An amazing variety of informal play and recreation takes place on the flat area close to the main entrance which also includes a performance amphitheatre that is a popular location for community events. As you cross a small bridge and head up the striking zig-zag path to the viewpoint you enter a delightful wilder world where nature thrives. The paths on this part of the site take in a vast array of habitats including both mature and new woodland, natural grassland and a variety of wetland. The adjoining fishing ponds are a magnet for wildlife, as well as anglers. The woodland is proof that a long term approach to management and community engagement can provide lasting benefit to the community. Article and map courtesy of the Land Trust.
EPILEPSY SOCIETY FUND RAISING DAY SUNDAY 21st AUGUST 2016 In 2015 Waleswood SCC a registered charity donated its facilities for a fund raising day for the British Heart Foundation which raised £2400. This year we will be donating the facilities to the Epilepsy Society who’s organisers will be running a double event consisting of a Kids play Day and Craft Fare. Further details will be in the local press and social media but if you are interested you can contact the organiser Donna Bird on 07593287855. On the playing side the club has welcomed new and returning players for all 4 teams (2 teams in the Saturday Bassetlaw league and 2 teams in the Sunday Mansfield League) and despite the poor weather and games cancelled due to opponents not raising teams results have been excellent with the younger players continuing their improvement. Off the field the facilities are again being improved with the help of our volunteers who work tirelessly at the club. Our aim for 2016 is to build on the clubs efforts of last year and again promote the junior side of the game . If you are interested in becoming involved either as a player , volunteer or sponsor in a friendly cricket club that encourages junior players and promotes both the playing and social side of cricket then contact us on the following Gen Secretary/Child Welfare Officier Mrs Sue Long 01909567365 Cricket information Tom Young 07790071965 M Willgoose 07443411286 We have have facilities for parties up to 50/65 people which can be arranged with our club Chairman Stan Gaskill 07794256020 Please visit our web site at www.waleswoodscc.sportsclubswebsite.com/ June 2016
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Kiveton Community Sports Park The morning of the 15th May dawned bright and sunny ready for the Grand Opening of the new Kiveton Community Sports Park. Lots of children and their parents arriving early eager to get started with their football games. There were lots of fun things to do for those not involved in the matches. The climbing wall seemed very popular along with the Caving Experience. The face painting was kept busy judging by the number of children walking about looking very glamorous. In the afternoon some of the pitches were used for Zorb Ball football which was enjoyed by both participants and spectators alike. The facility was officially opened by Sir Kevin Barron MP and The Lady Mayor Cllr Maggie Clarke. Both pictured below with Steph Hryschko Chair of the Development Trust Red Road kept everyone informed of activities interspersed by good music. Ozzy Owl and Captain Blade gave lots of opportunities for children to have their photographs taken as mementos of the day. There was also plenty of choice of food to keep everyone going throughout the day from the Hog Roast, Hot Dogs, cakes, hot and cold drinks and ice creams. The cake stall seemed to sell out very quickly obviously satisfying everyone’s sweet tooth. The Carnival atmosphere helped to make sure everyone had a good time and the venue itself is something the whole village can be very proud of.
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The day was a huge success and finished with a friendly Girls U12 game between Kiveton Park Girls and Sheffield United Community Ladies, the very first time the pitch was used for a full game. Spectators stayed to watch a high quality and competitive game, showcasing the opportunities for girls’ football. During the half time period, both teams received a special team talk from Doncaster Rovers Belles player Kasia Lipka. Kasia gave advice and challenges to try and help both teams in the second half. Lots of chances were created with both goalkeepers kept very busy. The game ended 1-1, a fitting way to finish a great celebratory match. After the game, Kasia then held a Q&A with all the players and coaches offering advice and gave the players a fantastic opportunity to pick Kasia’s brain on the most challenging topics in football. Eva Egginton, Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA’s Girl’s, Women’s and Inclusion Football Development Officer said: “The facility opening was a great event on a sunny Sunday with 200 to 300 people coming along for the day to get involved in all the activities available. They were able to celebrate another brand new facility designed to encourage more young players to become involved in sport” The facility is owned and will be maintained by the Kiveton Park and Wales Community Development Trust and bookings to use the facilities can be made through the kivetoncommunitysportspark.co.uk website which is expected to be on line very soon.
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What’s happening at Kiveton Library The Summer Reading Challenge this year is called The Big Friendly Read and will form part of our celebrations of Roald Dahl, one hundred years since his birthday. Registration for the Challenge opens on Saturday 16th July. Libraries will be holding six weeks’ of activities based on the topics of friendship, mischief, adventure, invention, wordplay and champions. At the end of the summer, for those who have completed the challenge there will be an award of certificates and medals. If anyone is interested volunteering to help with our summer read – we particularly want to target the 13-24 year range and want to build on last year’s volunteer numbers and involvement. Please let us know. Library has now got a Knit and natter group that meets every Friday from 10.00am For Knitting, chatting and coffee all welcome. Our rhyme time sessions which are held on Tuesday from 10.30 and Thursday from 2.00pm and story stop which is every Friday afternoon from 3.30pm – 4.30pm will continue throughout the summer holidays. Do not forget the Library offers books, ebooks, Emagazines, talking books free computers and free WIFI , photocopying Free meeting space. Also has Kiveton Park independent advice service to offer help with Debts ,and benefits. Credit union to help with saving and Loans. So come along and sign up for free.
Mothers Union Hi, what do you do on Monday evenings? Well if the answer is not much and you fancy a change of scene, then why not come and join us. Our meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of the month 7.30pm, at St.Johns Rooms. Our next meetings will be Monday 13th June and Monday 11th July. We arrange talks and meetings that are relevant to members and have various events and talks planned for this year. So why not come along for a chat and find out a little more of what we do. The Mothers’ Union this year will be celebrating 140 years and in this area there will be a FAMILY FUN DAY at Clifton Park Rotherham on Saturday 18th June, all welcome.
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COMMUNITY MATTERS
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KIVETON PARK FOOTBALL CLUB
Well done to the U12’s on securing another promotion under the guidance of Paul Brookes and Sam Jarvis. E Division to B Division in 2 years!! Kiveton Park Football Club are very proud that 2 coaches have successfully obtained further coaching qualifications. The Under 14’s Manager Scott Willis has gained his FA Level 2 Certificate in Football Coaching and the Under 11’s Manager Martin Wilson has completed his FA Youth Award Module Level 1. The club are excited to announce the formation of a new Under 21's team for the upcoming season 2016-2017.
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CHAIRMAN’S REPORT In about 1952/53 the West Riding Constabulary arrived at Wales Primary School with Billy Belisha in a van to teach us about road safety and how to cross a road. Look right, look left, look right again and if all is clear walk, don’t run, walk quickly across the road but keep looking and listening. It was the time that I and three others were caned by Mr Bass the headmaster for the heinous crime of disturbing the protective coating of dust, grime and sludge on this van by playing noughts and crosses in it. Move on some years and Dave H my driving instructor told me that if a bus was stood it was about to move and if it was moving it was about to stop. The other was that as I approached a road sign with an image of a burning torch on it there was a school ahead and therefore children so be ready. When my lad was nine he entered an all Rotherham schools cycling proficiency competition and came second. When Mrs P the head teacher (notice the subtle change) read out his name in assembly, it was pointed out to the whole school that he had only come second. Is this another example of encouragement? I was concerned to hear that a child had been hit by a car outside the junior school on Chestnut Avenue. He ran out between parked vehicles giving the driver no chance. I wonder how bad the situation is going to get as the high school is taking in more students from September. I was pleased to see a ‘crocodile’ of younger children on Chestnut Avenue with high viz coats, helmets and bicycles being taught how to ride on a road properly. Progress!
EGGSTRA EXCITEMENT! What an amazing array of millinery marvels the children and parents from St John’s Playgroup prepared for their annual Easter Bonnet parade this year. The effort that went in to making them was eggstraordinary and much appreciated, although it makes judging more difficult every year. Councillors Christine Carswell and Sue Halfpenny had the unenviable task of picking three from the incredible selection. The winners were: Lily Tupholme, Sophie Campbell and Alex Taylor. All the children received a small egg as a prize while Lily, Sophie and Alex were given a large egg. Well done to everyone.
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June 2016
NUISANCE PHONE CALLS There are two types. Your best friend has it on good authority that in this edition of the second series of Poldark your desired paramour goes skinny dipping again in the sea and this time the scene is not tastefully filmed from a distance but up close and personal. Your hero has just dismounted from his horse and is striding into the surf with the camera zooming in...when the phone rings! Or you’re underneath the car, legs twisted into an unnatural shape, neck stretched as long as a giraffe’s, concentrating hard as you carefully unscrew a bolt that even the great Houdini would struggle to remove...when there is a voice from above, “You’re wanted on the phone!” Your eyes bulge, your face contorts like Mr Hyde and your inner voice bellows, ******! But the words from your mouth are pure Dr Jekyll, “Who is it, dear?” Can’t do much about those phone calls, I’m afraid. The other type of nuisance phone calls can be insidious and there is something you can do about them. Nuisance marketing calls are unwanted phone calls from companies marketing products or services or seeking to persuade you to support some cause or other. They can be made either by a real person or, more typically, are a pre-recorded message that is triggered when you pick up the phone. To stop nuisance marketing calls from a real person you can register with the Telephone Preference Service free of charge (you can register mobile numbers as well as landlines). The TPS is a central register of individuals who have opted out of receiving live marketing calls and the website address is: http://www. tpsonline.org.uk Companies are prohibited from making unsolicited marketing calls to persons on the register under the Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. If you receive marketing phone calls 28 days after you have registered with the TPS, you can complain to the TPS or the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk However, any companies that you have agreed can make marketing calls to you can continue to do so after you have registered with the TPS until you tell them that you are withdrawing consent. The Information Commissioner’s Office enforces the 2003 Regulations, which regulate the way companies make automated direct marketing phone calls. Only if you have agreed to receive automated calls from a company should you receive them. If you receive calls that ask you to phone a premium rate number (a number that begins with 090), you can contact PhonepayPlus at http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk, which is the UK’s independent regulator of premium rate services. Premium rate services are the goods and services that you can buy by charging the cost to your phone bill or pre-pay account. They include directory enquiries, voting on TV talent shows, donating to charity by text or downloading apps on your mobile phone. PhonepayPlus takes action to safeguard consumers and help cutting-edge providers of digital content and services to thrive. All other nuisance automated marketing phone calls should be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which is empowered to fine offenders who break the law up to £500,000. Occasionally you may get repeated silent or abandoned calls – you answer the phone and there is no one at the other end of the line. You can report these to Ofcom on 020 7981 3040 or at http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk Ofcom has the power to fine the caller up to £2 million.
SUMMER SAFEGUARDS We are committed to the safety and security of our community, and to that end work closely with the local Neighbourhood Watch. As we come into the long, warm (we hope!) summer days, and the buzz and whirr of garden machinery wafts on the summer breeze, crooks crawl from under their stones, sniff the wind and seek opportunities to make some quick cash. Don’t make it easy for them! Here are some do’s and don’ts to help keep your home and garden more secure this summer: • • • • • • PAGE 10
Stop thieves from making off with your expensive trees and shrubs by securing them with a specialist land anchor when you plant them. A low tech alternative is to plant through a layer of chicken wire topped with soil - it makes them harder to pull or dig up. Use a permanent ink marker (cost around £1 from a good stationers) to write your postcode and house number on to your garden tools. Don’t leave tools and garden equipment unattended in the garden for any length of time. At best they may be stolen, at worst, spades could be used to force open a door or window to your home, shed or garage. If you have a lot of valuable garden or power tools think about storing them in your home rather than your shed. Houses are generally far more secure than sheds. When you have battened down the hatches on the garden security, don’t forget never to leave windows open in unoccupied ground floor rooms even if you are at home but working elsewhere in the house. Likewise, if you are working outdoors or enjoying sitting in the sun, lock your doors to ensure no one can sneak in. And never leave valuables and keys on display for prying eyes.
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EDWARDIAN SUMMER FAIR We are delighted to support Wales High School, which this summer is putting on a very special event to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles in history that lives on in the collective conscience – like Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, the Battle of Britain, El Alamein, to name a few – and defines us as a nation. The Battle of the Somme took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 during which time more than one million men were killed or wounded in action. Some of the men who enlisted from this area would have joined the Sheffield City Battalion, part of the Yorks and Lancashire Regiment. The battalion was one of a number of “pals” battalions that saw action at the Battle of the Somme and was so-called because they were made up of friends, neighbours and colleagues who were recruited with the promise that they would serve alongside each other rather than being dispersed amongst the battalions. On the opening day of the battle, July 1st 1916, the Sheffield Pals’ task was to capture the heavily fortified village of Serre. This was the most catastrophic day in Britain’s fighting history and well over half of the battalion – 513 officers and other ranks – were killed, seriously wounded or listed as missing. As one soldier later remarked, the Pals were “two years in the making, ten minutes in the destroying”. Some of the men who lost their lives are recorded on war memorials around the village, including at The Square, the Old Colliery Offices, Kiveton Park & Wales Community Development Trust and St John the Baptist Church on Church Street. We shall be replanting the flower beds by the war memorial in The Square in recognition of the occasion and as a mark of our and your respect for them. The school’s week of commemoration of the event starts with an Edwardian summer Fair on Sunday 26th June at the school. This original and innovative event will take us all back to the time just before the outbreak of war in 1914 when Kiveton Park and Wales was a bucolic hamlet and the pace of live much as it had always been. The Great War was the first mechanised war and it rapidly accelerated change and led directly to the modern, frenetic world we now inhabit. The event is non-profit making with the primary aim of raising funds for the British Legion and for Bluebell Wood. The fair will be very much a community event with period entertainment to suit everyone, including a carousel, swing boats, a big wheel and stalls. There will be a beer tent, afternoon teas from the Women’s Institute and all sorts of sports activities, three-legged races and sack races for the children, and a “local derby” between 1915 FA Cup winners Sheffield United and The Wednesday, as Sheffield Wednesday was known in 1916. The pals were volunteers, who responded to Lord Kitchener’s call to arms at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 with the accusatory recruiting slogan, “Your country needs you!” The school needs YOU. How can YOU get involved? Could you run a stall – the school is hoping to have a farmers’ market of local produce – which needs to be in keeping, if possible, with the Edwardian “feel” of the day. What about you and your mates forming a tug-of-war team to take on all comers on the day? Any ideas would be most welcome. Local hostelries and firms have been invited to join in a knock-out competition for a champion’s trophy. There will also be input from, local musical groups, churches, local councils and Bluebell Wood. If you can help, contribute, sponsor the school in any way, or know someone or company who would consider being involved, please contact Chris McKee at cm@waleshigh.com or Jude Cole at jco@waleshigh.com or the school on (01909) 771291. Keep your eyes peeled for posters with information about timings and pricings. Or ask the clerk, Richard Waller, for information about the event. We hope you will go along and enjoy the entertainment as well as reflecting on the sacrifices made by those who gave their lives fighting to uphold our freedom and values. Let’s make it a memorable and enjoyable event for the whole community!
ROTHERHAM HOLIDAY AID In April we gave Rotherham Holiday Aid a grant of £50.00. RHA is a registered charity, which was established in the 1980s in response to high unemployment levels in Rotherham with the collapse of the steel and mining industries. Working with the Family Holiday Association, a similar national charity, RHA helps disadvantaged families to have a short break, usually self-catering in a caravan park or holiday centre in the UK. Well over 1500 Rotherham families have enjoyed a much needed break as a result of RHA’s work. Last year some 89 Rotherham families (almost 400 children, parents or carers) were the beneficiaries of the public’s largesse. RHA has no administration costs so every penny raised goes towards holidays for those in need. If you get the chance, please give to this worthwhile cause.
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A STAR IN THE MAKING Ashleigh Weir, a former student at Wales High School, now reading English at Cambridge University, has won glowing reviews after becoming one of the few first-year students ever to win a leading role in the Footlights – the starting place of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and dozens of other stars of show business. Reviewers called hers the “standout performance” as Maid Marian in the Footlights pantomime. One wrote: “The star of the show was without doubt Ashleigh Weir’s Maid Marian, a role made even more impressive considering this is her Cambridge debut. Her performance was hilarious, loveable and utterly believable…she stole the audiences’ hearts”. In years to come when Ashleigh is a household name and a big name star of theatre and screen, allow yourself a reflected glow of pride that she was once a student here.
GOT TO PICK A POCKET OR TWO... We’re all familiar with Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Fagin and his gang of child pick pockets. In this day and age having your pocket picked is not as common as it was in Dickens’ time, but make no mistake the risk of having your hard earned cash and valuables stolen is greater than ever. Instead of eyeing the contents of our pockets or hand bags, modern day thieves have eyes on a bigger price – relieving us of the hard earned cash in our bank accounts. One technique for doing this is called “shoulder surfing”. This is a modern variation of the technique practised by pick pockets in Dickens’ day. The gang select a victim in the process of drawing cash from a cash machine or purchasing an item in a shop using a credit or debit card. While some of the gang distract the victim, one of them commits to memory the PIN number of the card. To minimise the chance of anyone stealing from your account: •
Always shield your PIN when you’re using your card.
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Don’t let anyone distract you when you’re using your card in a shop or at a cash machine, even if they appear helpful.
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Be wary if someone is looking over your shoulder, or saying something to distract you, as they may be trying to get your PIN number.
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Don’t use a cash machine if it, or anyone around it, looks suspicious.
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Personalise your debit card with a photo of your choice.
Personalising your debit card is a good way to make it less attractive to thieves, so that if you lose your card or it is stolen it is not as useful to a thief. Some banks and card companies provide this service. Barclays operate a free service for customers who have one of their debit cards. On the face of the card is printed a photograph that is personal to you or chosen from one of their gallery of photographs. You can order a card online and a card printed to the design of your choice so long as it conforms to a few simple rules. The manager of our local branch of Barclays on Wales Road, Richard Chapman, has offered to hold an informal seminar or two for residents to talk about the various scams that thieves currently practise and offer tips and advice on how to prevent them from succeeding. You do not have to be a customer of Barclays. The seminars would be held in the village hall. If you would be interested in attending such an event, please let the staff in the branch on Wales Road know or the clerk to the council, Richard Waller on (01909) 515784 or by email at wales.pc@onetel.net We have a small number of copies of a booklet called The Little Book of Big Scams, which have been placed on the counter of the village hall reception. The booklet can also be viewed online at the Metropolitan Police website, http://www.met.police.uk/docs/ little_scam.pdf It’s packed with good advice and worth a read. Let the clerk know if you would like similar articles to this in future editions of the newsletter.
MEMO TO DOG OWNERS: MICROCHIPPING Just a reminder that from 6th April this year, all dogs over 8 weeks of age must be microchipped, or the keeper of the dog could be fined up to £500. The Council has once again arranged free microchipping on Tuesday 21st June from 10.30am in the Wales Parish Rooms at the rear of the Recreation Ground car park. You can also come along and check/update your details if your dog has already been chipped.
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CARRY ON CAMPING The time is rapidly approaching when the Recreation Ground off Wales Road comes alive to the sound of excited children’s voices as the Mega-Active summer camp rolls into town. Which boy or girl is going to be this year’s top gun and vanquish all comers in the water fights that are a regular feature of the event? The camp is on for two weeks at the Wales Recreation Ground, Wales Road, Kiveton Park, Sheffield, S26 5RA, from Monday to Thursday 1 – 4 August and Monday to Thursday 8 – 11 August, starting at 10.00am and finishing at 4.00pm each day, and run by Rotherham Borough Council’s Active Rotherham staff, who are qualified instructors and assistant instructors dedicated to ensuring every child has a great time. There will be all sorts of activities: tennis, football, golf, rounders, cricket, handball, kangoo jumps and lots of other games where the emphasis is on fun, fun, fun! Places are limited and therefore will be allocated on the basis of first-come-first-served. To ensure your child has a place, we recommend booking online using the following link www.activerotherham.org. uk When Active Rotherham have received your booking you will be sent a Mega-Active booking reference e.g. WA16_100. Payment can be made at the parish council office in the village hall before the start of camp. Please use your Mega-Active booking reference when making payment as this will link your payment to your booking. As in previous years the council is subsidising the event thereby reducing the cost to a very reasonable £2.00 per child per day, £8.00 for the week and £16.00 for two weeks. Let the good times roll!
KIVETON PARK FOOTBALL CLUB Kiveton Park Football Club is in the process of starting an under 21 football team. If you are a budding Jamie Vardy, Wayne Rooney or David Beckham and would like to improve and develop your skills by playing a higher level of football, please contact Matthew Blackwell on 0771 4643 118 or Cllr David Carswell on 0789 690 9538.
SURGERY DATES
Our local MP, the Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP, will be holding surgeries at his constituency office at 9 Lordens Hill, Dinnington, S25 2QE between 5.00pm and 7.00pm on Friday, 10th June and Friday, 24th June 2016 For further details please phone (01909) 568611. Cllr Gillian M Shaw 32 Walesmoor Ave, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5RG Tel: 01909 771317 Wales Ward
WALES PARISH COUNCILLORS As at June 2016
Cllr Ann Britton 15 Street Farm Close, Harthill, Sheffield. S26 7UH Tel: 01909 773617 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr Peter H Blanksby 8 Littlemoor Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield . S26 5NZ Tel: 01909 772627 Wales Ward
Cllr Paul N Martin 92 South Terrace Wales Bar Sheffield S26 5QL Tel: 01909 774199 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr John M Brabbs (Chairman) 72 School Road, Wales, Sheffield. S26 5QJ Tel: 01909 771113 Wales Ward
Cllr Christine Carswell 17 Chestnut Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5LN Tel: 01909 515607 Wales Ward
Cllr Susan Halfpenny 7 Garden House Drive, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 6SS Tel: 01909 515686 Wales Ward
Cllr George R Barker 13 Limetree Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5NY Tel: 01909 773405 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr Ann L Togher 12 Lodge Hill Drive, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5RU Tel: 01909 290012 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr David Carswell (Vice Chairman) 17 Chestnut Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5LN Tel: 01909 515607 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr Wendy Fowkes 7 Limetree Avenue, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5NY Tel: 01909 772992 Wales Ward
Cllr Vanessa M Adams 20 Walesmoor Ave, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 5RG Tel: 01909 770154 Wales Ward
Cllr Chris T Batty 29 Stoney Bank Drive, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 6SJ Tel: 01909 770180 Kiveton Park Ward
Cllr Julie G Shaw 46, Wesley Rd, Kiveton Park, Sheffield. S26 6RJ Tel: 07870 972 076 Wales Ward
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COMMUNITY MATTERS
June 2016
St Johns the Baptist Church Wales
Dear Friends You split open the springs and brooks: You dried up ever-flowing streams. Yours is the day, yours also the night; You established the moon and the sun. You fixed all the bounds of the earth; You made winter and summer. Psalm 74 v 14 - 16 Thank God for Summer! Summer is a time of open roads. A time for exploration. For winding down some small road you’ve never visited before. You want to go there just because you’re curious and it seems to call. God is down the road. God is to be found in exploration. God is met by the curious. “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in God.” Wrote St. Augustine.
Summer is a time for God through our free time. We leave our busy winter schedules, a time when the momentum of our life is interrupted. God is to be found in relaxation. Summer is a time to experience God through rest. God Himself rested on the Sabbath. In one of the lovely Genesis creation stories, God works and then rests. “Be still and know that I am God,” says the Lord, ... Be still Summer is a time for the soul to experience the God of Play. Summer reveals the playfulness of God who creates such an awesome variety of plants, and flowers, and hills and valleys, and bugs and dogs and fish... sandy beaches and wooded mountains, rippling brooks and frothy oceans. Summer is a time to give thanks for - using the words of Carl Sandberg, “For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted in the summer grass.” Our God of Play delivers us from too much seriousness. Summer is a time to return to old haunts and familiar places. Iona Hall writes: “The heat in my kitchen has melted the butter. Soft, yellow lump in a golden puddle. I dip a piece of bread in the puddle and put it in my mouth. Suddenly there they are! All my childhood summers.” Summer is a time to be in touch with old haunts and memories. May you be open to an awareness of the beauty and grace of God this summertime. I hope that this summer time, however you experience its rhythms, will be a special Godly time. Enjoy! Reverend Gary
Tips on Money Management for Older People Having spoken to lots of local people over the years, including older relatives and friends, it seems to me that money matters are often either overlooked or thought of as ‘too sensitive’ to discuss. And Rotherham folk are maybe more coy about money than most! However, it is wise to think things through to avoid getting into a pickle. By that I mean avoiding situations that can limit your choices as you get older as much as simply becoming a possible victim of personal disorganisation. Whilst some older people need help to handle all of their financial affairs, others only need help in certain areas. Here is my simple money de-stress guide… •
Develop a spending plan. Having a plan for money and limiting expenses is important. Consider new ways to cut costs and consider continuing to put some of your income into savings. This will help with budgeting for things like holiday gifts and mini breaks, and can help you avoid a large, sudden withdrawal from your investments. But when the rainy day comes be prepared to spend as needed.
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Create a Joint Account. An older relative can add someone to a cheque/ current account as a joint account holder where they can both withdraw and deposit money and write cheques. It allows for some independence and control, and permits the younger relative to help keep an eye on things, pay bills, and handle some (but not all) financial affairs. Helping people retain independence is better by far. And clearly choosing the right relative who you can 100% rely on is vital. That is where good advice also counts.
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Set up direct debits to pay your bills. This is often a cheaper way to pay bills and it also means everyone knows that all the essentials are covered.
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Use credit cards cautiously. Accumulating debt is costly. Small purchases can add up to big card bills. Before buying using a card, ask yourself if it can be paid off in full when the statement arrives to avoid costly interest charges.
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Simplify. If there are multiple bank and investment accounts and credit cards, decide if it is simpler to close some. This can reduce the hassle factor. Also, for payments you are due to receive, including pensions or tax refunds, there are benefits to having them automatically deposited in low or no cost current or savings accounts.
Don’t forget that you may also want to speak to a local lawyer or financial adviser with a good reputation for elder related work. Members of Solicitors for the Elderly or the Society of Later Life Advisers can be very helpful. Whatever you do don’t sell investments without taking advice on the tax situation. Too many people wind up with an accidental tax bill to pay and whatever else you may do none of us around here are keen to do that! PAGE 14
CommunityMATTERS Matters June 2016AND WALES COMMUNITY KIVETON
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Wales High Schools’ Rugby Readers Programme
‘On Wednesday 13th April Wales High School welcomed author Tom Palmer to visit some Key Stage 3 students currently on the Rugby Readers programme, a reading programme set up to help encourage boys with their reading and writing skills. The school has had help from Yorkshire Carnegie’s Community Manager Adam Blades, “The school have put a great programme in place for the boys and we as a club are proud to support that”. These students have been on a mission all year to achieve points which will allow them to go and see Yorkshire Carnegie in action at Headingley stadium. Each time they read they can gain points towards their target.
As a big Rugby Union and Yorkshire Carnegie supporter, Tom kindly offered his services to the programme. He spent the morning quizzing the students and giving them some advice on reading and working hard! “My main thing is don’t give up . . . keeping going, I tried for 20 years to get my first book published. Do not give up on your dream, all authors on the shelf have one thing in common, they did not give up and they got their book published. Whatever you want to do or be just keep trying!” The students have worked hard all year round, with many realising reading can be a great hobby that can help them improve in school and we hope they continue their hard work for the rest of the school year and further.’
Safe Internet Day Each year Wales High School supports Safer Internet Day in order to promote the safe and responsible use of technology. This year the theme was ‘Play your part for a better internet’, offering the opportunity to focus on both the creative and positive things that children and young people are doing online, as well as the role that we all play in helping to create a better internet. With this mind, a competition was held in which students across all year groups were invited to design a poster on this theme. Isabel Toseland and Emma Dykes in Y7 were joint winners. Jessica Barber in Y7 was one of the runners-up along with Sophie Attewell in Y9.
Chesterfield Canal Trust The aims of the Chesterfield Canal Trust are to promote the full restoration and appropriate development of the Chesterfield Canal, and to campaign for the construction of the Rother Valley Link, a navigable waterway to join the Chesterfield Canal to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. Amongst other activities we run four trip boats (one in Retford, one at Worksop, one at Hollingwood and the fourth in Chesterfield); we run Work Parties on the canal on most Sundays; we have an 84-year old ex BW working boat, Python, that we use as a promotional vehicle all round the waterway system; we have a promotional trailer, the James Brindley, that attends events and town centres throughout the year and we have built Dawn Rose, the first new Cuckoo boat (unique to the canal) for over 80 years. Our base is in the restored and extended Hollingwood Lock House, now called Hollingwood Hub, in Chesterfield. It has a Coffee Shop, we hold concerts and events and it is available for hire. In addition the Trust has regular meetings, social events, regular festivals etc. The Trust has over 1500 members, who, for a small membership fee, receive regular copies of the Trust’s award-winning magazine Cuckoo, so called because of the local name for the canal, the ‘Cuckoo Dyke’. You can follow the Trust on various social networking sites. You’ll find us on: Facebook, Twitter and Pintrest. Please visit our website http://www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/ June 2016
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Summer is almost upon us and here, at Wales Childcare Partnership, our extensive outdoor surroundings are returning back to their summery best, with green leaves on the trees and colourful flowers in bloom. Planting in the garden has begun with strawberries, blackberries, tomatoes, flowers and much more! Children can independently access our free-flow play environment into our large outdoor area surrounded by woodland, giving children opportunities to run, climb, build dens, create their own ‘campsites’ and come close to nature with our nature walks. We recently had a deer, rabbits and squirrels call by! Minibeast hunts and planting are also favourites with the children especially during the summer months. Our ‘Bug Hotel’ will soon be filling up again with various creatures and minibeasts coming to visit! Children are provided with such a wide range of experiences here at Wales and the fun is endless! We offer inclusive care for children from the age of 2 through to 11 years (Day and sessional care, funded 2, 3 and 4 year old places, breakfast club, after school club and holiday clubs). Our fun and exciting holiday club runs all year round with the exception of Christmas where we are closed for 2 weeks. Holiday club is available for children from the age of 3 up to 11 years and children come from various areas and schools around the Rotherham and Sheffield area. Children can come along for the odd day here and there or for days/weeks at a time on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. All are welcome to come and join in the fun with us. For enquiries please call Leanne, Tel:07425 134515.
Election Results for Wales Ward
Playgroup 2-3 years Name of Candidate
Description (if any)
Number of Votes*
BECK, Dominic Edward
Labour Party
1,584 ELECTED
COX, William John
The Conservative Party Candidate 904
FLYNN, Dennis
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
1,065
MARSHALL, Alan Vincent
Liberal Democrats
408
MARTIN, Paul Neville
Green Party
493
WATSON, Gordon
Labour Party
1,189 ELECTED
WHYSALL, Jennifer
Labour Party
1,450 ELECTED
When commentiong on the results Cllrs Dominic Beck, Gordon Watson and Jenny Whysall said, “We would like to take this opportunity to thank residents of Kiveton Park, Wales and surrounding villages who supported us in the recent local elections. We will work hard for our local area and continue to do our very best by local residents and on behalf of local groups and organisations. If you would like to raise any issues with us you can attend one of our regular surgeries. No appointment is neccassary” Surgery Details Kiveton Park Library – 1st, 2nd, 4th Saturday of the month, 10am – 11am Harthill Methodist Chapel – 1st, 2nd and 3rd Saturday of the month, 10am – 11am Todwick Village Hall – last Tuesday of the month, 6pm – 7pm
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KIVETON PARK & WALES HISTORY SOCIETY Earlier this year, the Flying Scotsman steam engine was restored and made its first official journey from London to York. This prompted one of our members, Betty Quinton, to reflect on her memories of seeing the famous engine as a girl, and how lives have changed in the village since her childhood in the 1930’s. We thought you might like to get a flavour of them here:“…memories flooded back of hours spent on Wooden Bridge (the railway bridge just past the High School) as a child, watching the trains go by. We often saw the Flying Scotsman engine on its way to London and today after much restoration it left London once again on its way to York. Then I reflected on how children’s lives have changed since then. I was born in the early 1930s and grew up on Storth Lane, which was part of the first council estate to be built in Kiveton. It included Chestnut and Limetree Avenues, Maple Road and some houses on Wales Road and Storth Lane. From the recreation ground on Wales Road to Wales Square there were no houses at all, just fields. Storth Lane was the same, with council houses only part way up on the left of the lane, and just fields on the other side. The Meadows School and the High School did not exist, only fields all the way to Todwick. The farmer at that time was called Albert Archer and he had a very large manure heap where the high school now stands. The fields and meadows were our playground. Just past Wooden Bridge, over a style was the first meadow which had a dyke at the bottom of the field where we paddled, caught tiddlers and picnicked during the long summer holidays. This dyke then flowed under Wales Road and became the Recca dyke. It was so clean you could always catch tiddlers there. Now it is so badly polluted and full of rubbish that nothing could live there. Over the meadows to Todwick was the “up and down” field which had been ploughed and then left to grass, creating a wonderful undulating surface on which we rode our bikes. Nobody had a car or TV, computer or Ipad, etc. and all the houses on this council estate had no electricity at all. All the men worked at the pit and got cheap coal, so homes were heated by a coal fire which also fuelled the oven for cooking. The streets were lit at night by gas lamps. As it got dark the gas lamp lighter came round with his long rod and pulled the chain which turned on the gas lamp. Families had a radio which was fuelled by an accumulator. This had to be taken to Tomlinson’s shop every week to be charged. Mr Tomlinson would loan you one of his accumulators until you fetched yours back in a couple of days. This was usually the job of one of the children in the family. You knew everyone who lived on your road and you would enjoy happy times together, as this photo shows. Taken in 1933, it shows families from Storth Lane at Woodall Ponds, to where they had walked to enjoy a picnic together. Sadly Kiveton and Wales no longer enjoy a summer carnival. Some people will remember the carnivals of the 1970s which are also becoming a distant memory, but going back to the 1930s carnivals were a spectacular affair as this photo shows. Taken in 1936, it shows the procession passing the chemists on Wales Road. On the cart are Jack Stocks, Steve Thorpe, Bill Blackwell and Bill Thorpe representing the Health and Strength League entry in the Hospital Carnival. Flags flew from every house and from one side of the road to the other. Decorated carts were pulled by horses and although there were only a few vans in Kiveton at that time, they all joined in. Although the miners’ wages were poor, their wives very rarely went out to work at this time. Their role was that of mother and someone to care for the home. In most homes there were routines that the housewives followed, for instance, Monday was always washday, with all that it involved - not just loading the machine and pressing a button! The council houses had a brick built structure in the corner of the kitchen containing a large iron copper. It had room for a fire to be made underneath and then the copper was filled with water. This provided the boiling water for washday. Most homes had a mangle with big wooden rollers to squeeze water out of the clothes, which still finished up quite wet. On rainy washdays, this meant that the house was full of steam as the housewives tried to dry the washing around the open coal fire. By Tuesday there was a lot of ironing to be done, with irons which were also heated on the coal fire. Wednesday was known as “upstairs” day, when bedrooms were cleaned and polished. The council houses all had a Yorkshire Range which was black-leaded and the flues cleaned out every Thursday. Friday was for polishing downstairs and baking day. Children coming home from school on Friday afternoons would be met by a welcoming smell of newly baked bread, scones and teacakes. All the washing had been done, ironed, aired and put away, and everything was clean and bright for the weekend. On the Monday everything would start all over again”. This is just a short extract of Betty’s memories and you can read more on our website at www.kivetonwaleshistory.co.uk If you or someone you know would like their memories of the village recording for posterity, please get in touch through the website, our Facebook page or leave a message at the Old Colliery Offices and someone will get back to you. Or come along to one of our meetings - we meet on the third Thursday of each month at the Old Colliery Offices from 6.30pm. Everyone welcome June 2016
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