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Canklow Community Garden
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The Rotherham South Area Assembly secured Safer Rotherham Partnership funding which has enabled the Canklow community to work in partnership with the Junior and Infant School to develop a greenhouse site and a community Garden.
Parents attending a community group chose to work with the school by passing on their funding allocation to enable the school to erect a greenhouse and to develop a community garden within the school perimeter.
Project 400 offers employment opportunities to people with learning disabilities, they have been employed to dig out the site, erect the greenhouse and develop the area into a community garden alongside the new school on land from the old school site.
The greenhouse is now up and planning for the growing season is taking place. The community garden is well on the way and will be housed on school grounds, pupils and parents will participate in the project alongside each other and already a number of grandparents have volunteered their time to the project and in particular to getting the greenhouse up and running.
It is hoped that in the not too distant future the school will benefit from home grown produce and the project will become self sustaining by selling surplus produce to the community.
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Community Clean-Up
Three very successful community clean up’s have recently taken place in the Rotherham South Area.
The first one took place on the Greystones Estate in Whiston on 6th March, this was followed by Lillian Street off Wellgate on the 13th March and finally Coleridge Road in Eastwood Middle on 20th March.
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Wellgate Clean-up
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Eastwood Clean-up
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Above: Residents of Eastwood receiving a community award
Below: Young People from Whiston Cinema Club receiving certificates
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ROTHERHAM SOUTH AREA ASSEMBLY CELEBRATORY EVENT
The achievements of young people and communities within the Rotherham South area were celebrated at a recent Rotherham South Area Assembly meeting.
A number of projects funded through the Rotherham South Area Assembly Devolved Budget were showcased particularly those benefiting young people. These included a multi sensory garden for deaf blind people, a driving theory test project for deaf students, Whiston Cinema Club a young people divisionary project and the pictured group Kazoku.
Kazoku health and fitness club offers young people the opportunity to gain karate skills in a disciplined environment. The projects offer a referral system to partner agencies like the Police and local schools that are now referring young people to the project.
Ellen McAllister a coach from Kazoku said “the kids loved the event and they all took the certificates to show in assembly at school the following Friday”
A number of community projects were also highlighted and specific members of the community were recognised for their hard work locally with a community award presented by Councillor Shaukat Ali the Mayor of Rotherham.
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Level Ground's Sharon Turner & Joe Devlin with one of the students
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FIRE SERVICE SUPPORTS COMMUNITY PROJECT
People with hearing impairments have an increased chance of passing the Driving Theory Test thanks to Level Ground, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, and Rotherham South Area Assembly who funded the project.
The project is the brainchild of Level Ground’s Sharon Turner and Joe Devlin who realised that a huge gap existed in the current provision for deaf students wanting to take a driving test. Working in partnership with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service who provided the venue Sharon and Joe worked hard to ensure the students had access to a course catering to their specific needs.
Shaun Pilley South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Rotherham Station Manager said ‘This project is an excellent example of partnership working, the Fire Service has encouraged use of its premises and worked alongside the deliverers to ensure these deaf students have access to sessions which help them to understand the terminology used on the driving theory test. The language used is often confusing to deaf people when taking the official test which results in a low pass rate, this project is addressing the pass rate’.
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HEALTH TRAINERS TARGET CANKLOW
Canklow’s community will have access to the innovative Health Trainers scheme thanks to NHS Rotherham and Rotherham South Area Assembly.
Health Trainers have been recruited from within local communities to offer support, encouragement and motivation on a one-to-one basis to help patients achieve and maintain healthier lifestyles.
Health Trainer Alan Vallance explained: “Patients need support and someone to talk to. As a Health Trainer I don’t tell people what to do, they tell me what they want to achieve and I do my very best to help them achieve it”
Following funding from Rotherham South Area Assembly’s Devolved Budget, Health Trainers will now be on hand every Thursday at Canklow Road Surgery.
Canklow Road Surgery Practice Administrator Beverley Harrison welcomed the scheme “The surgery is highly valued in the area and the community are very enthusiastic about this new service being brought into our forward thinking practice”.
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Rotherham South Area Assembly news archive 2009
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