sharrow today | august 2013

Highfield Adventure Playground

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A better Batt Street

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The Big Calm

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Artist of the Month

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Sharrow TodayBUILDING THE COMMUNITY’S VOICE

The February-March edition of Sharrow Today had a front page supporting efforts to save the Highfields Adventure Playground after Council cuts threatened its existence.

In the last 5 months a massive effort from The Friends of Group, Sharrow Community Forum and various departments in the Council has meant that the im-mediate future is secured.

Everybody involved should be applauded for their unstinting determination to not only keep the playground, but also to find extra funding and ideas to im-prove the site and more impor-tantly to maintain the opportuni-ties for young children to have access to this wonderful site.

A Steering Committee (wonder-fully Chaired by Rebecca Mad-dox) has been established with Friends of HAP, Sharrow Com-munity Forum, Home Educators Group and Council Officers to ensure the best possible future provision at the Playground by a range of supporting agencies.

An agreement between Shar-row Community Forum and Sheffield City Council has been drawn up to allow the man-agement of the site to be held within Sharrow. The agreement

will ensure that the playground stays open and can draw down funding to pay all utility costs for the next 3 years. The agreement also creates opportunity for SCF to rent out the building and playground to individuals and groups for parties, fun days and possibly team building opportu-nities for local companies.

Over the summer holidays £10k of funding was awarded by the lottery (Awards for All) meaning that the site has been staffed throughout the break. The play-ground will continue to open Tuesday – Saturday between 12-6pm with staffing from 2pm-6pm throughout the holidays.

Now efforts are underway to find enough money to pay for a full time coordinator and other ses-sional staff, thus creating a team of workers that will be the foun-dation of a sustainable future.

I would like to take this opportu-nity to thank all those involved (it would be wrong to list people as this would inevitably mean miss-ing someone) as it is their sup-port, actions and hard work that has allowed this to happen.

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Let your-self go with AIM

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Smooth Cuts @ Marmaris

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For the best head shave in town Marmaris Barber Shop on Abbey-dale Rd is the place to be!Ran by the cheerful and friendly Mustafa, he utilises his many years of experience to offer his custom-ers the best service possible at a fantastic price. Moving to Sheffield from Marmaris in Turkey 13 years ago he is hap-pily settled here with his family. He enjoys life in Sheffield and loves everything apart from the weather! His hairdressing experience be-gan at the young age of 12 when he started helping his Uncle, who had a Barber shop, after school. He developed a passion for the trade and hasn’t stopped since! He first set up shop in Firth Park and then developed further skills at college before working as a stylist on Ecclesall Road. The current shop has now been running for 10 years and he loves the Sharrow community. He ap-preciates the people here and has built many good relationships.

He finds Sharrow to be a friendly, relaxed and laid back area with a good mix of people overall. It’s not just locals that pop in though, the walls of his shop are covered with photos of many celebrity clients including box-ers such as Clinton Woods, Ryan Rhodes and Adam Etches who know where to come to feel good and look sharp before get-ting in the ring!Mustafa likes to give good value to his customers offering a top quality service at an affordable price. He wants people to know that even if they aren’t rich they can come to him and walk away feeling like a million dollars (or £s)!He also offers to train people up who want to learn how to do cut throat shaves which is a great op-portunity to learn from an expert in the game. Negotiable prices can be arranged for private ses-sions. Ideal for existing hairdressers who may wish to broaden their service range!He is even looking to take on extra part time staff on Thursday,

Friday and Saturdays so give him a shout for more info if you’re interested.Mustafa is offering us a great value special package service for Sharrow Today readers which in-cludes a traditional Turkish shave or haircut, facial steam machine, hot towel, wet foam shave, deep tissue shoulder massage and a head & neck massage all for £10!At that price we’ll be wanting our hair to grow back quicker so we can go back for more!A range of special products is also available for us to take home including creams, gels and after-

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Cllr Jillian Creasy (Green) Tel: 0114 205 3320 (office)Email: [email protected] 07791 614 904 (mobile) Cllr Rob Murphy (Green) Tel: 0114 274 7752Email: [email protected] regular monthly Green councillor surgeries are atHighfield Library, London Rd, 10.30 – 11.30am, third SaturdayCllr Mohammad Maroof (Labour) Tel: 07790 017 298 (mobile)Email: [email protected] surgeries at Highfiled Library, 12.00 - 1.00, first Saturday & Madina Mosque Community Room, 2.30 - 3.30, first Sunday

The Councillors for Nether Edge ward are:Cllr Qurban Hussain (Labour) Tel: (Town Hall) 0114 273 5588Email: [email protected] Anders Hanson (Liberal Democrat) Tel: (home) 0114 303 0064Email: [email protected] Nikki Bond (Labour) Tel: (mobile) 07971 961803Email: [email protected]

Your local representativesin Sharrow and Nether Edge

Paul Blomfield is the MP for Sheffield Central ward, which covers Sharrow. He can be contacted on 0114 272 2882 or via [email protected] His consituency office is Unit 4, Edmund Road Business Centre, 135 Edmund Road, Sheffield S2 4ED. His web-site is www.paulblomfield.co.uk.

Regular surgeries are held on: 4th Friday of each month between 4.00 -5.00pm and 2nd Saturday of each month (except April and Dec) between 9.30-10.30am. Please tel. 0114 272 2882 frst to check the dates and book your appointment.

shaves so we can help ourselves look good even longer!

Also, for any happy people about to tie the knot – Mustafa provides special wedding appointment packages where he will even open the shop outside his normal hours! How’s that for service!

So, gentlemen of Sharrow, next time you want to smarten up – forget the rest and try the best!

Open from 9am – 5pm Monday to Saturday Marmaris Barbers – 135 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, S7 1FE Tel: 07500701228

Get the Smoothest Head shave in town – right here in Sharrow! By Alex Barber

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Local charity for young homeless people, Roundabout, celebrated the renovation of its emergency hostel by inviting local supporters to join them and see how their donations have helped improve the facilities.

Roundabout gives shelter, sup-port and life skills to homeless young people across the city through a wide range of services.

Roundabout’s emergency hostel on St Barnabas Road, which is owned by South Yorkshire Hous-ing Association, has undergone a £1million renovation to improve the facilities by adding more bed-rooms, making all rooms en-suite and extending to create a train-ing space for young people to learn the skills needed for them to live independently in the future.

Roundabout was fortunate enough to receive £700,000 of funding from South Yorkshire Housing Association and man-aged to raise enough funds to generate the £300,000 shortfall.

Ben Keegan, Chief Executive at Roundabout said: “It has been amazing to see the hos-tel throughout its renovation

and now to see the completed project. The renovation has made a huge difference to the young people who are living there who now have a safe and comfort-able place to stay. Thank you to everyone who has supported this project and helped to make it happen.”

Roundabout residents gave tours to supporters to show their new home and the hostel was offi-cially opened by Ann Hill, former Trustee at Roundabout who has recently been awarded an MBE for her services to the community.

If you would like to support Roundabout and help change the lives of young homeless people, either by volunteering, or fundraising please contact Amy on 0114 2536753.

You can also email [email protected]

or visit; www.roundabouthomeless.org

Roundabout renovation completeBy Amy Casbolt

St Wilfrid’s Centre for the home-less and vulnerable was par-ticularly busy recently, and not just with clients. As the word spreads of the fantastic service they offer to vulnerable people within the area more people want to come and have a look for themselves.

The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire David Crompton came for a tour of the Centre and was so impressed that in return he ar-ranged for police horses to visit and put on a show for staff and clients.

The Mounted Division represent-ed by Alison and Julie, with their horses Billy and Fenwick, told the clients about their work and how they managed the horses to control crowds and patrol trouble spots. The horses were tested as clients banged drums, blew hooters and waved flags to put them through their paces.

The new Police Commissioner for South Yorkshire Shaun Wright


Everyone wants to visit St. Wilfrid’s! By Kevin Bradley

visited alongside the MP for Sheffield Central Paul Blomfield. Mr Wright said “I thoroughly enjoyed visiting St Wilfrid’s and the staff and the volunteers do a brilliant job. The support they offer is crucial to the people who attend. Paul Blomfield also added after the visit. “St Wilfrid’s is a fantastic charity with which I have a close relationship and which undertakes work with some of the city’s most vulner-able people.”

Subsequent to these visits the new Lord Mayor of Sheffield Vickie Priestley came for an official tour of the Centre and yet again expressed her amaze-ment at what was on offer for vulnerable people. The Lord Mayor recently announced that one of her two charities during her year in office will be St Wil-frid’s Centre.

As the saying goes ‘There’s only One St Wil-frid’s Centre’.

A fantastic evening was recently enjoyed by over 200 people at the Platinum Suite Bramall Lane.

The home of Sheffield United provided the perfect back-drop as Tony Currie came to-gether with St Wilfrid’s director Kevin Bradley for an interview which explored the career of the former Blades and England legend.

The event included a Pie and Pea supper and film highlights of TC’s career with all the magic moments and superb goals.

Tony is a great supporter of St Wilf’s and has been supporting them for the last 10 years.

The money raised from the night was over £4,000 and Kevin com-mented:

“TC will always be very special to all of us at the Centre and it was a privilege to be part of an evening with him. The money raised will go towards the Cen-tre’s dream of building a 50 bed Residential for homeless peo-ple.”

Kevin Bradley and the new Police Commissioner

News from St Wilfrid’s

An evening with Tony Currie By Kevin Bradley

The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire

The new Lord Mayor of Sheffield (centre)


Ali Saricicek, Ahmed Saricicek and Lorian Biet are head coach-es and Co-Founders of Action in Motion (AIM).

We’re a team of action-loving Parkour/Freerunning practitioners, Gymnastics enthusiasts, Coaches & Performers.

Parkour, all though less famil-iar than mainstream sports and physical activities, is breaking out across the country and indeed the world over.

Sheffield is home to some of the most dedicated and respect-ful practitioners in the country. Limited only by the lack of train-ing facilities, the upcoming art of Parkour has immeasurable room for potential, due to its applicabil-ity to people from all walks of life.

As Parkour is as much a phi-losophy as a training regimen, it would be better to break it down with a definition, rather than list exercises and training structures.

To define Parkour, one might imagine obstacles, physical or

metaphorical. In order to progress ‘beyond’ these obstacles, one must overcome certain aspects of themselves that limit their potential. This might mean ditch-ing old habits, or simply improv-ing weaknesses. In the physical sense, this would mean training the body to overcome, by being stronger, more agile etc. Mental-ly, one would find ways of apply-ing creativity to an objective in order to advance. One might call it ‘learning through movement’.

Physically, mentally and crea-tively pushing boundaries, par-ticipants of the art form consider themselves free, without restraints and seeing life from a whole new perspective.

As individuals we’ve been teach-ing, performing and acting for over four years. We all have a strong athletic background that brought us together to achieve our passion.

We decided to join forces and create AIM, to help other pas-sionate people, willing to achieve

Check out our website @ www.actioninmotion.co.uk

and Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/aim.sheffield

their dreams, to get to where they need to be, in both body and mind. Be-coming full-time Parkour/Freerunning coaches and performers, we hope we’ll be able to help you too.

Each with our own unique skill-sets, yet proficient and diverse in all forms of move-ment. Ranging from Dance to Parkour, we’re available for all types of performanc-es and coaching.

With fantastic support from Nathan at Sharrow Commu-nity Forum’s Digital Media Centre, and from FURD - we got our business started quickly and smoothly, mak-ing full use of their multime-dia services.

Learning through movement - the art of free running By Ali Saricicek


The residents of Batt Street have been very active this summer improving the look of their street and the little green facing their houses. You might have seen them digging out shrubs, litter-picking and planting new col-ourful flowers over the last few weeks.

As Sharrow is an inner city area with heavy traffic, and houses with small back gardens, one thing that the residents thought was really important was to make sure that there is enough space for children from the street to play on - and also for everyone to be able to enjoy the green as much as possible.

Some of the residents were also concerned about the litter, and shrubs that provided an ideal place for mice and rats, as well as street drinking and the general unsightliness of the area.

The land turned out to be owned

by the Parks Department and so we proceeded to organise a meeting with a lovely gentleman from that department who came out to see the green.

He was very excited about the plans and the council promised to support the residents by tak-ing away the garden waste and bringing some new wood for the bench.

Since the first meeting the resi-dents have organised two gar-dening and clean-up days on the green, with 15-20 residents of all ages coming to help out each time.

The children, in particular, have been active in taking care of the new flowers, while the adults took care of the unsightly shrubs and bushes. They dug out the roots and cleared the area around the big tree so that there is now a bigger space for children to play in.

Making Batt Street BetterBy Anna Vainio

The residents have been able to pull together and, as a result of all the work they have already achieved, they have made a long-term plan for the green.

They are hoping to:

• Plant a wildflower mead-ow next to the garage wall for the years to come

• Clear out the rest of the shrubs and put down woodchip-pings around the trees

• Cut down some of the trees to bring more light to the green

• Trim and support some of the wild fruit bushes

The next step for the residents is to clear a bit more of the street - lead by their resident tree sur-geon - prepare the soil for the wildflower meadow, and have a STREET PARTY on 1st September to celebrate the work and the com-

munity spirit they have fostered among their neighbours.

This project started off from a sin-gle resident’s vision for her street, who after getting support and advice from the local Commu-nity Organiser, went round all the neighbours and got them excited about doing something positive on the street.

She collected the loves and concerns of the neighbourhood about where they live and has now been able to mobilise a whole street, as well as address-ing some of the issues the resi-dents expressed about their living environment.

Do you want something like this to happen on your street as well?If YES, contact:Anna at Sharrow Community Organisers078 6052 [email protected]

Support for the project has been received from:

Did you know you can now buy a cup of real coffee at the Three Bears Kitchen?

They have installed a Cafeology espresso machine and use eth-nically sourced fairtrade coffee beans to provide you with that perfect cup of fresh hot coffee - full of ‘wake-up’ flavour.

So why not pop along to the Three Baristas at the Three Bears Kitchen.

Real fresh coffee at the Three Bears Kitchen


The Sharrow Festival 2013 2013’s Sharrow Festival once again served up a vibrant and culturally diverse offering that added up to another hugely successful event. Over the years its repu-tation has spread far and wide and, on the day, more than 6000 people came to Mount Pleasant Park from all over the city, as well as from Sharrow itself. They enjoyed a beautiful hot sunny day with music , dance, food, art, and entertainment from around the world, and a fascinating array of over 40 stalls selling arts and crafts (as well as food), holding all sorts of workshops such as drumming and dance, supporting faiths and charities, and campaigning for all sorts of causes. The mu-sic and entertainment went on into the evening compered by the one and only MC Nige and the inimitable Papa Al. There was also a lively Hip Hop Zone where you could watch vibrant street art being created before your very eyes. Many thanks to all who supported and helped to organise the event. Photos by Steve Fryer.


The Big Calm in the Cemetery ParkThe Big Calm community music event took place on Saturday 13th July in Cemetery Park, attracting around 200 people who came to chill out in the glorious sunshine. The event was truly Sharrow with music and sound coming from Frozac and Velophonic Hi-Fi, while the Khachapuri Café was on hand providing delicious vegetarian food, cakes and drinks. Alongside the music and food, we were treated to fantastic performances and workshops from the Creative Edge Drumming group and the CDO Capoeira group, not forgetting the Sheffield Samba Band who dropped in! A small pot of funding was secured by Sharrow Community Organisers, through the national ‘Our Big Gig’ initiative which aims to bring communities together through music. A massive thank you to all who came along and were involved in making the day a great success. Photos by Eletta Giusto, Sonia Bct and Anna Vainio.


Fitness Tips from Personal Trainer Bea Jefferson

Q: I am 65 years old and about to retire – is it too late for me to get fit?

A: It’s never too late! In fact, fitness becomes even more important with age. If you start to exercise regularly now you will increase your chances of a long, healthy and independent old age.

However, see your GP for a check-up before you start exer-cising. There are several com-mon health conditions, such as high blood pressure, which can be improved by exercise – but you may need specialist ad-vice to make sure you exercise safely.

Whatever your age, a good fitness programme will include exercises to increase strength, cardio-vascular fitness and flexibility. For an older person I would also recommend regular exercises to improve balance – as retaining good balance can help to prevent falls when you get older.

StrengthWe all tend to lose muscle as we age, and with it strength. However, regular strength-build-ing exercise can slow, or even reverse, this loss. You can build strength by doing any activity which involves a bit of muscle power – this could be lifting weights in a gym, digging a garden or carrying heavy shop-ping. Try to do an activity that requires using strength at least twice each week.

When you are doing strength exercises it is important to look after your back. You can mini-mise the chances of a back injury by:

• Good lifting technique. If you are not sure how to lift things properly, look up ‘manual handling at work’ on the Health and Safety Executive website. If you are lifting weights in a gym, get advice from the instructors.

• Back strengthening. Include in your routine some exercises which strengthen the back. Backcare.org.uk has a fact sheet ‘exercises for a better back’.

• Knowing your limits. Never try to lift something be-yond your capabilities.

Cardio-VascularCardio-Vascular exercise (or CV) is the type of exercise that gets your heart rate up and makes you breathe more deep-ly. One of the best forms of CV you can do is brisk walking. Start off by getting into the habit of going for a short steady walk every day – and build this up over time until you can do a 30 minute brisk walk on most days.

If you struggle to find the moti-vation to go out walking, try to find a friend to walk with and set a regular date. Or, even bet-ter, get a dog or volunteer to walk a neighbour’s dog – that way you will be guaranteed an enthusiastic companion who will want to go out, whatever the weather!

Flexibility and BalanceOur joints, tendons and muscles tend to stiffen up as we age – so it’s important to keep moving – even if you have a condition such as arthritis that makes joint movement painful. Regular walks and stretches will help. It’s best to stretch after walking rather than trying to stretch cold muscles and joints.

Balance can be improved by any activity which tests the balance – such as standing on one leg or walking ‘heel to toe’ along a straight line. Try to do a couple of minutes practicing balance every day.

The NHS choices website has a good set of strength, flexibility and balance exercises specifi-cally designed for older people in the ‘fitness’ section. If you have not got access to the internet at home, go along to your local library and see about getting access there.

As well as strength, CV, flexibil-ity and balance exercises, it is important to eat a healthy diet and keep you mind active if you want to stay fit and healthy. So try out some new recipes, eat plenty of fresh fruit and veg, and get out and about as much as you can.

Enjoy your retirement!

You are never too old! By Bea Jefferson

Get Healthy

Send your exercise and fitness questions to: [email protected]

Ingredients (for 6 portions):

3 aubergines; 2 tbsp of olive oil (plus extra for brushing); 1 onion, finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1 tin of chopped tomatoes; small bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped; salt and pepper.

Method

1. Cut the aubergines in half and cook in the oven at gas 5 / 190°C for 15 to 20 mins until they are soft. Take out and leave to cool.

2. Fry the onion, cinnamon and garlic in a separate pan, then scoop the centre of the roasted aubergine into the fried onions.

3. Add the chopped tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes till the mixture is reduced. Add the chopped parsley.

4. Place the tomato mixture into the aubergine skins (you can top them with cheese) and bake in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes.

Imam Bayildi – stuffed aubergines By Chris Hanson

Healthy Recipe


ShipShape News

September 22nd 2013 see’s the second Community health foot-ball festival taking place at the Goodwin sports centre in Shef-field.

The festival is being run by Ship-shape health and wellbeing project, Sheffield Alcohol Support Service (SASS) and Sharrow Sure Start. The aim of the festival is to get people healthier and more active and to find out about the broad range of health charities and services available in Shef-field.

The festival has been planned over the past few months by vol-unteers and staff from all organi-sations involved, and is going to include a range of activities on the day - food stalls, children’s games, information stalls and the football tournament.

One of the volunteers who is involved in the festival is local resi-dent Gary Turner. Gary is currently a health champion at Shipshape and is getting involved in various projects. Gary is a former footballer who played in the Northern Counties Leagues and is a lifelong blades fan. Gary has been unable to work due to medical problems and decided to volunteer for Shipshape. He says “it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made (to volunteer at Shipshape) and I’m ever so pleased to be in-volved”.

Gary is also involved in some other projects and is working to-wards starting local ladies 6 a side league later this year and pro-gressing towards employment in the health and wellbeing sector.

Chris Hanson (Shipshape com-munity health manager) says, “Gary’s skills and enthusiasm for the various projects has been fan-tastic to see and he’s a massive asset to the Sharrow community”.

The event which is being funded and supported by Sheffield City Council, Healthy Communities programme will also be running training sessions from August 12th every Monday evening for 6 weeks at Goodwin sports centre between 6 and 7 pm in the build-up to the festival.

The training sessions are an ideal opportunity for anyone who en-joys a bit of a kick about to come and have a game in a friendly, not too competitive game. Its also a good chance to get in-volved and sign up to a team for the festival if you want.

The festival is open to everyone, and football training sessions are open to anyone over 18 years of age.

For more information or to book a free stall please contact Chris Hanson at Shipshape on 2500222 or email [email protected].

On the 7th August, the Health Champions organised an event called Chaand Raat for the first time.

It was a very successful event at-tended by more than 50 people. There were a variety of stalls such as Henna, nail art, threading, jew-ellery and readymade clothes. Free refreshment was also pro-vided. People of different back-grounds attended and every one enjoyed the evening. Overall it was a very pleasant event.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped to make the evening so welcoming to all who came and stayed for hours with us.

Shipshape Community health football festivalBy Chris Hanson

Chaand Raat at the ShipShape CentreBy Connie Chapman

Chand Raat is a time of celebration when families and friends gather in open areas at the end of the last day of Ramadan to spot the new moon, which signals the arrival of the Islamic month of Shawwal and the day of Eid.

Once the moon is sighted, people wish each other Chand Raat Mubarak (“Have a blessed night of the new moon”) or Eid Mubarak (“Blessings of the Eid day”). Women and girls deco-rate their hands with mehndi (henna), and people prepare desserts for the next day of Eid and do the last round of shopping. City streets have a festive look, and brightly decorated malls and markets remain open late into the night.

Chaand Raat is celebrated festively and passionately by Muslims (and occasionally non-Muslims as well) all over South Asia, and is comparable to Christmas Eve as a socio-cultural event.(source: Wikipedia)


Sharrow Sports

Sheffield City Amateur Boxing Club held their annual end of season presentation night at the Polish Club, Ecclesall Road, on the 12th July. It’s been a busy and successful season for the club with the boxers competing in 79 bouts altogether. In return they have achieved 63 wins and collected 6 Yorkshire titles, 3 national quarter finalists, and a national final runner-up.

Coach Brendan Warburton explains: “Everyone at the club is extremely proud of the box-ers’ achievements this season. Though we didn’t reach the heights of last season with 3 national champions the club has had its busiest year yet. The club has 16 competitive boxers from schoolboy to senior and look strong in all departments, and they have performed fantasti-cally well this year bringing back numerous titles.

Sheffield City ABC, which is based in the old Sharrow Junior School, is also the home for the Hallam

University Boxing Team which has had its finest season yet - with 2 university silver and 2 university gold medallists plus another sell out varsity match at the Octagon Centre.

All the members of the club received medals and trophies for their season’s efforts with the ‘Boxer of the Year’ trophy going to Jack Langford (21 yrs). Jack won 8 out of his 10 bouts and became the club’s first senior champion winning the Yorkshire 71kg title. Coach Brendan says: “Jack deserves the award as he has consistently proved he’s one of the best boxers at his weight in the country. One of the defeats was against the lad who went on to win the national ABA (Ama-teur Boxing Association) title and Jack dominated the bout. With a bit more luck it could have been Jack crowned the champ. He has now competed in over 8o bouts and has been a real credit to the club.”

The other awards were:

Schoolboy Boxer of the Year - Leon Moulds (12 yrs): 6 wins from 8 bouts.

Junior boxer of the year - Ryszard Lewicki (16 yrs): 7 wins from 9 bouts, Yorkshire ABA Junior title, CYP Yorkshire title.

Most promising boxer - Ahmed Camran (13 yrs): 3 wins

from 4 bouts, Yorkshire vest v Isle of Man.

The club are looking forward to another good season which gets underway at the end of Septem-ber. Anyone interested in joining can call Brendan on 07791301984 or call in to the club which is open from 4.45pm Monday to Friday, and 10am Saturdays.

On Tuesday 13th August, Eng-land Under-21s played Scotland Under-21s at Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane. The fixture was des-ignated as part of the ‘season of action’ to mark the 20th anniver-sary of the Kick it Out campaign against racism in football.

The match was dedicated to the memory of Laurie Cunningham, who scored the winning goal on his debut for England Under-21s, also against Scotland at Bramall Lane, in 1977, when he became the first black player to represent England at professional level.

There was an added significance to the occasion for Sheffield, and for FURD, as a youth project based on Sharrow Lane also had the pleasure of welcoming the former Real Madrid star in for a meal of rice and peas the night before that very game in 1977.

He stayed for 2 hours at The Hub African-Caribbean Centre on Sharrow Lane talking to the young people and youth workers. During his visit, Laurie met mem-bers of Sheffield Caribbean FC, a club that still exists to this day.

This story was the catalyst for the Laurie Cunningham Project, run by FURD and The Hub. The impact the visit from Laurie had on the members of Caribbean FC was enormous, with many citing it as a reason for wanting to continue pursuing a career in football.

“When he came to Sheffield, there were a lot more black guys who wanted to play football be-cause of the visit. He was a hero to many.”

Milton, the then Caribbean FC manager and a youth worker at The Hub, said meeting the West Bromwich Albion legend was the highlight of his time in football, especially seeing his young team meet a pioneering footballer

from the black community.

“That was my fondest memory in football,” admitted Milton. “We knew he had been selected for England to play at Bramall Lane. I was then asked to bring our team to The Hub to meet him. I thought it would be a great opportunity for the youngsters to meet some-one they look up to.

“It’s important that young play-ers, black and white, still have the chance to aspire to be like their role models. Laurie did a lot for his community, talking to people like he did when he came to The Hub. It’s important that profes-sional players these days stay close to their roots, and are not perceived to be untouchable.”

To honour the life of Laurie, and his significant contribution to the progression of black footballers, FURD and The Hub held a cele-bratory dinner in 2009 at Sheffield United’s Millennium Suite.

George Santos, a former Blades favourite, felt privileged to know that he played on the same pitch as his hero. He said: “It was a pleasure to have played at Bramall Lane. To know that a big name like Laurie Cunningham played there too is a great feel-ing as well.

Boxing - Sheffield City season 2012-2013 By Brendan Warburton

Boxer of the year Jack Langford (centre) with former world champion Paul”silky”Jones and coach Brendan Warburton

Football - Laurie Cunningham By Ruth Johnson

The We are still keen to hear from anyone who has photos of Laurie Cunningham at the Hub - please get in touch! [email protected]


Start the autumn with a 6 week beginner’s course in Lishi Tai Chi Movement at Sharrow Old Junior School.

Commencing on October 3rd , the course will run every Thurs-day Evening, 7.30-9.30pm, teaching anyone of any ability the basics of Lishi Tai Chi.

So what is Lishi?

AMAZING FACT NO 1: Lishi originated in China thousands of years ago, and has been passed from teacher to student time and time and time again. And now it can be passed to you, right here on your doorstep.

AMAZING FACT NO 2: Lishi was unknown outside of China until the 1930’s but now is taught in the UK, North America, South America, Germany, France, Denmark with all classes over-seen by Lishi International.

AMAZING FACT NO 3: Lishi will change your life - it will make you happier, more confident, more relaxed, more energetic.

Lishi By Lucie Williams

The class is taught by experi-enced instructor, Lucie Williams, who has trained in Lishi for 15 years. She will teach you Tai Chi FORMS, Kai Men YOGA, Dao Yin BREATHING, Hand of the wind KUNG FU (dynamic self defence) and QI GONG energy work (using and directing your Qi to amazing effect).

Basically you will learn to move and exercise your body in a va-riety of different ways that have proven positive benefits for your physical, mental and emotional health. In other words, by prac-tising Lishi you become physi-cally, mentally, emotionally and spiritually fit.

Now, who wouldn’t want that!! Most people realise they need to be fitter and stronger on at least one of those levels.

If that’s YOU, then come along on Thursday evening to this friendly class.

Come and be amazed, grow stronger and, most importantly, have fun.

Beginner’s Course Starts Thurs-day October 3rd : 7.30 – 9.30 pmMedium Hall, Old Junior School, Sharrow

[email protected]: sheffieldtaichi07583 568726


Sharrow Club has been created to develop a programme of diverse events throughout the year that can harness the talents of the local community and en-gage and entertain the public. At the same time these will help to raise funds and encourage more volunteers for both the Festival and the Lantern Carni-val - ensuring also that they will continue.

There are a number of ways you can get involved:

Become a member for £20 a year and receive:• Reduced entry to 5 events (Creative Action Network run regular cook alongs, supper clubs, evening events, arts work-shops and family activities.)• First invite to special events, previews and workshops. • Regular offers and deals from local organisations and venues.(Open to individuals or organisa-tions; organisations that join will

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Are you a storyteller, singer, poet, dancer or comedian?

How about showcasing your talents to the world by performing at our very own Sharrow’s Got Talent.

You’ll have a five minute slot to impress us - five minutes in the spotlight with a chance to bring entertainment and amazement to the Sharrow community!

It is £4 for performers to enter with the opportunity to win a cash prize (1st) and mystery prizes (probably alcohol) for runners up!

Come to Sharrow’s Got Talenton Friday 4th October from 7.30pm at The Old Junior School, South View Road, Sharrow.

The entrance fee for non-per-formers is £2A bar and snacks will be avail-able at the venue

All proceeds will go towards Shar-row Festival and Sharrow Lantern Carnival

To enter email [email protected]

p.s we want this to be nothing like the actual Britain’s Got Talent.

It will be an interesting mix of lo-cal acts and local talents - and a celebration of this. There will be no booing, and if your name is Simon Cowell you will not be al-lowed in!

https://www.facebook.com/events/150495575146194/

Sharrow’s Got TalentBy Luisa Golob

then be included in our regular deals offer.)

Run your own event: we can support you with the publicity and organisation of the event or become part of our regular fundraising events at The Old Junior School, South View Road.

Include us in your pro-gramme of events: If you run regular club nights, events or workshops why not brand the event as a Sharrow Club fundraiser?

For more information, or to be-come a member, email [email protected] or 07854983197

Sharrow Club

Sharrow Club - help fundraise for Sharrow Festival and Sharrow Lantern Carnivalby Luisa Golob

Sheffield Independent School of Art, The Old Junior School, South View Road, S7 1DBFor more information or to book:E: [email protected]: Lu 07854983197https://www.facebook.com/Shef-fieldIndependentSchoolOfArt

Mondays7-9pm Pottery Class. From 9th September [email protected] 07837187930

TuesdaysStarting date for Sep tbc7-9pm Life [email protected] or [email protected]

Wednesdays7-9pm Drawing for BeginnersFrom 11th [email protected] 07594235815 - email prefered-www.artclassessheffield.co.uk

Thursdays12.30-2.30pm Draw for Beginners

From 12th [email protected] 07594235815 - email prefered-www.artclassessheffield.co.uk

3.30 - 5.30pm Beyond BeginnersFrom 12th [email protected] 07594235815 - email prefered

7-9pm Beginners PotteryFrom 12th [email protected] 07837187930

Sheffield Independent School of Art- do you like our new logo?By Luisa Golob

Studio Space- need a space to create, develop one-off projects, or just somewhere to paint for a few hours? The Grey Suite is available on Fridays for regular or one-off bookings at £6/hr


Re-connection with the Earth Artist of the month:Pete HeywoodPete Heywood is a man who rec-ognises the therapeutic benefits of art and enjoys the experimen-tal nature of his work with pottery. He likes every piece to be unique and experiments both with what he can do and with the material he is using.

He doesn’t follow a set style as many artists do but enjoys the freedom of working to his own ideas at the time of doing each piece. He has a personal relation-ship with his work and is driven by pleasure and passion rather than business but does consider com-mission work from time to time.

He joined the Creative Potters group and soon started to help run it, mainly providing art thera-py sessions for service users.

He feels that his work draws on the strong historical connec-tion that humans have naturally engaged with over time. He finds that it has strong benefits in a grounding and earthing sense and that it offers a great relief from our often fast-paced, tech-nologically based modern life-styles.

Pete has a strong interest in na-ture and draws inspiration from natural objects such as leaves, pebbles, rocks, trees and animals. He sometimes adds a narrative element to his work, using the art pieces as a pictorial represen-tation of stories that are of rel-evance to him.

Coming into art after a crisis point in his life during his early twenties he enrolled in a Summer School doing glass blowing and ceram-ics and then realised it was a direction he wanted to pursue. He recalls having a love for art from being a ten year old in junior school but couldn’t pursue it in high school as he was forced to learn Latin instead.

Since then he has been engaged with various artistic activities including puppetry, giant pup-pets and creating massive drag-ons up to 70ft long!! These have been displayed at events such as Guernsey Millennium festival, Stocksbridge Dragon Fayre, the Lord Mayor’s parade in Sheffield and even Glastonbury Festival!

Originally from Leicester, Pete came to Sheffield in his twen-ties to study art at Psalter Lane

By Alex Barber

Art College and like many of us stayed here after falling in love with the city.

Although now living in Norton he remains familiar with Sharrow hav-ing been involved with projects at The Merlin and Lantern Thea-tres and working from Sheffield Independent School of Art which is based at Sharrow Community Forum. He appreciates the mix of people here and finds Sharrow to be a creative and inspiring com-munity.

Pete has a dream to travel to 3rd world countries and connect with people doing pottery in their traditional ways. He would love to work with them and share ideas and techniques.

He will be displaying some of his work at an open evening at Shar-row Community Forum on Sunday 22nd September.

This event is being organised by Sharrow Community Creatives and will be held at the Old Junior School on South View Road, Shar-row.

It’s an open art exhibition and will be an opportunity to showcase and promote artists of all back-grounds within our community. If you just want to come along to the exhibition to see the art, or if you’d like to exhibit your work, the details are as follows:

Exhibition Opening and Call for artists - Sunday 22nd SeptemberOpen Evening 7.30pm- 10pm

The deadline for entrants is Wednesday 18th September and all submissions are welcome. There will be free refreshments and entertainment, and a 10% commission on all sales will go towards Sharrow Community events.

For more information tel.0785498319 or [email protected]://www.facebook.com/events/149697591894759/

Pete can be contacted via: [email protected] or via the Sheffield Independent School of Art based at Sharrow Community Forum.

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