The contents of this page are prepared by the New Deal executive team. BNDfC’s New Chair You may know me as one of your community representatives on the New Deal Partnership Board and I’d like to let you know that in August the Board voted me in as Chair. It’s good news that we now have a community representative as Chair but I am also aware of the serious responsibility and personal commitment required in this role as demonstrated by the previous Chairs – Muhammad Iqbal and Steve Jones. As Chair I have the extra support of the Executive Director John Clark and the Executive sub group – Partnership Board members Levi Ferguson and Muna Taha (community reps) and Andy Buck (North Sheffield Primary Care Trust) and Joanne Roney (Sheffield City Council). You may be wondering whether New Deal will ever get going and make a difference for people in Burngreave. In spite of all the hard work gone in to date, there is still so much to be done to make this programme work for us. The signs are beginning to show as you can see on these pages and opportunities and services to residents are starting to come forward. Also, we are working to bring New Deal back into the Burngreave community - by what we do, and how and where we do it. Things like posting the Partnership Board minutes in the library; an office base on Burngreave Road; organising community surgeries and eventually a walk-in New Deal shop front; clear information on how to get involved and how to influence; an inclusive community election process…… I will report back to you regularly through these pages and I will do my best to work with the Board, the staff team and of course the wider community to try and ensure that Burngreave gets a Good Deal! Rose Ardron, Chair
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