Grenoside Reading Room

Ecclesfield Civil Parish Archiving Project have asked us to include information about their forthcoming events. (Read here: Ecclesfield Civil Parish Archiving Project Feb 16 )

Rachel Stevenson of Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust has sent the following message. Many of these events will centre on Grenoside and Greno Woods:

Hello All!,

Happy New 2016 to you all! This is just an email to let you know what we have planned for the woods over the coming year.
We will be running Wild Play and Wild Side events for children to get out into the woods on Thursdays in the school holidays. These be booked on to through our website on this address http://www.wildsheffield.com/whats-on.  The first session will be running for 8 -13 yrs old only (due to cold weather!) in the Feb half term holiday.

In April we will be running a bird spotting and ID day taking in a walk around the woods and maybe over to the Heath for a picnic lunch.

In June we will be running a Wild Flower Meadow walk at Carr House Meadows, our beautiful nature reserve at Wharncliffe Side - well worth a visit!

In the Autumn we will run a fungi / signs of autumn event at Greno.

We will also be running our Volunteer Work Days on the forth Friday of every month. Turn up and stay for the day with us doing habitat management work, or just do an hour to get some exercise! Bring dinner and a drink if you are staying all day.

So hope to see you through the year! I will send out details of the individual events closer to the time and put up posters on site.

Many thanks,
Rachel

GRENOSIDE ART GROUP

Grenoside Reading Room meeting dates for 2016

All 7pm to 9pm. New members welcome:

January 6th and 20th
February 3rd and 17th
March 2nd, 16th and 30th
April 13th and 27th
May 11th and 25th
June 8th and 22nd
July 6th and 20th
August 3rd, 17th and 31st
September 14th and 28th
October 12th and 26th
November 9th and 23rd
December 7th

Annual exhibition 15th and 16th October 2016

The Reading Room Annual General Meeting was held at the Reading Room on Thursday 12th November 2015 at 7.00pm. 

The Report and Accounts for the year ended 3rd April 2015, as approved by the trustees at this meeting,can be seen here:

Reading Room report and accounts 12th nov 2015

Following the success of the talk on Thursday 10th September, we have received the following letter of thanks. (The £200 donation came from the collection on the night of the talk and a donation from the Reading Room):

The History Van is a local mobile heritage project, led by historian, educationalist and museum specialist, Jenny Bland. The project visits schools, village halls and community groups in South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire, bringing history to life creatively and in many kinds of ways.

For more information see their website www.the historyvan.com

Jenny has sent us a copy of the project's first Newsletter

The aim of our Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funded project is to create an on-line easily accessible collection of material (a digital archive) about the history of the Civil Parish area and display material on a dedicated Ecclesfield District Archives website.

This means that it will be easier for a wide range of people to find out about the local history of the area just by looking it up on their computer. The project co-ordinator, Christine Handley, is working with the local history groups across the area (Chapeltown, Ecclesfield, Grenoside and High Green) who are all and individuals to both share information and learn more about local history.

The HLF project runs until the end of October 2016 and during that time we will be:
● gathering material which will be sorted, catalogued, indexed and digitised to create the archive;
● running training courses to develop skills in all aspects of archiving; and in interviewing and recording memories;
● supporting young and older people to enable them to interview and record residents talking about their life experiences in the local area; and
● organising family workshops, drop-in activities, exhibitions and displays to publicise the project and local history.

There will be plenty of opportunities for everyone to get involved, you don't have to be a history expert. Young or old, we all have a story to tell and a photograph or memory to share.

For more details of events and training sessions, and to get involved, please contact the Project Officer, Christine Handley, at the Council Offices, Mortomley Lane, High Green, Sheffield S35 3H5; telephone: 0114 2845095; or email christine.handley@ecclesfield-gcgov.uk