New Address to contact the Area Panel and Burngreave Area Action Team at: 12-14 Burngreave Road, Sheffield, S3 9DD, Tel: 276 9134

email: s.bolton@unisonfree.net

Also, all minutes and agendas for Area Panel meetings are available on the Internet at www.sheffield.gov.uk

ROUND ONE
The Area Panel met at the beginning of October to look at all of the applications you had sent us for the first round of the Area Panel’s Community Chest fund. There were some great ideas from many of the different projects that are working hard to make Burngreave a better place. The Area Panel could not give money to everyone and it had to make some difficult decisions. This list shows who was successful:

Friends of Osgathorpe Park -To hire a marquee for fun day, £200
Trinity Methodist Church, Fir Vale - To buy a bench for the public garden, £200. Firs Hill School Parents Association - To paint a mural in the community room, £200. Green City Action, Toy Box project - To buy toys to lend out to children, £200. Raising Self Esteem for Young People with Physical Impairment, Fir Vale School - Give young people a trip to Magna Centre, £150. Whiteways School Parents Group - To painting a mural in the community room, £100. SHURA Arabic Group - To help work with adult Asian women, £100. Grimesthorpe Community Garden - To get a skip to help clear up allotments, £130. Friends of Burngreave Chapel and Cemetery - To buy tea urn to make drinks for volunteers, £120. TOTAL £1400

We wish all the projects good luck in their work and will be using an Area Panel meeting later next year to let you know about how they have got on. If you did not get an application in this time you will be glad to know that there will be another chance at the end of this year when we have the second round of the Burngreave Area Panel Community Chest. Look out for details on posters and in the Burngreave Messenger.

GET OUT MORE
As you may have seen and heard your Area Panel has been busy getting out and about with you to see what the problems are where you live and help you get them sorted out.

In late September Councillor Jackie Field, Chair of Burngreave Area Panel, was out with Firshill Tenants and Residents Association (TARA) and Council workers on the Firshill estate and Roe Wood. Jean Hayden, the Chair of Firshill TARA, and other residents lead us round and showed us the problems that they were having. The Council workers are now working to tackle these problems and Firshill TARA will be keeping a check on how they are doing.

At the end of September all of your Area Panel went with Tammy Pear, the Chair of Fir Vale Community Forum, as they showed Sheffield City Council’s Leader Cllr. Jan Wilson and Chief Executive Bob Kerslake round Fir Vale. As they went round local people showed them the problems with you have to live with like poor housing, dumped cars, litter and traffic. You also told them about the crime and drugs problem that Fir Vale suffers. Jan Wilson and Bob Kerslake were both concerned at what they saw and are keen to work with the Fir Vale Forum and Area Panel to help make a change.

BURNGREAVE CELEBRATES
At your last Area Panel meeting on 16th October the Lord Mayor gave out the first Streetforce Environment Awards to celebrate the work that local people and groups had done to make Burngreave greener and cleaner. The awards are a new idea and are a way for the Area Panel and Streetforce to say thank you to local people. This year’s awards went to:

Wensley Tenants and Residents Association - Gold Award
Burngreave Dog Walkers - Silver Award
Green City Action - Silver Award
Parkwood Landfill Action Group - Silver Award
Friends of Burngreave Cemetery - Bronze Award
Firshill Tenants and Residents Assoc. - Bronze Award
Friends of Osgathorpe Park - Bronze Award

Names as follows Left to Right: Cllr Steve Jones, Mohammed Islam and Sadeer Bashir - Friends of Osgathorpe Park, Cllr Jackie Field, Panni Poh Yoke Loh - Green City Action, David Barker - (Mayor’s son), Marjorie Barker – Mayor, Steve Cooke – BCAF, Richard Sheldon – Wensley TARA, John Errington - Burngreave Cemetery Dog Walkers, Mrs Armstrong - Parkwood Action Group, Cllr Ibrar Hussain, Christine Steers - Friends of Burngreave Cemetery, Jean Hayden - Firshill TARA, Stuart Bolton

YOUR AREA PANEL
You can meet your local Area Panel Councillors to talk about any problems you have and see what they can do to help by going to their regular surgeries at:

Burngreave Library, Spital Hill - Saturdays 11am to 12pm, Firshill TARA Office, 11a Firshill Glade - Saturday 14th December 2002 12.15 to 1.15 pm