Distinctive Sharrow Action Group meeting

The next Distinctive Sharrow Action group meeting will be held at the Old Junior School, South View Road on Tuesday 6th April at 6.30pm.

Please send any agenda items through to me at julia@sharrowcf.org.uk before this date

We will update/ have a chat about the following:

1. Lloyds Corner
2. Lowfield Myspace
3. Empty Shops and Artists
4. Portland Works
5. Art trail
6. Project planning and proposals

Art Trail: Call for facilitators

We are hosting Sheffield Hallam Student Volunteers next month. Their brief will be to create an art trail throughout sharrow...

The workshops will be held on Friday 19th Feb and Friday 26th Feb from 12.30pm... We are currently looking for volunteers to help facilitate...

Our aims for the project are that:

1. The students find out more about the area- and therefore may be more likely to come here/ think more positively about what sharrow has to offer...
2. They draw people who live, work and play in sharrows attention to aspects of sharrow that excite them/inspire them and/or are critical of things- so perhaps comment on the way space is used/ link places together...
3. They have to talk to local businesses/ people at the potential locations of the signs and so converstaions start and negotioations start... people start talking about the area and what is distinctive/ important
3. We create a map of their signs and distribute it around schools/ shops/ local people/ students and get poeple walking aorund at looking at sharrow more generally...

We need facilitators for the two workshops- the first would be presenting the area/ themes in the brief and going for a walk around with the students, provoking them, getting then to look at/ know the area better... then help them to come back and discuss ideas for their groups signs... and begin to design them...

The second workshop would be the making of the signs... we have some bought materials as we have fairly substantial pot of money (about £400) and also will hope to salvage materials etc...

The students could also have a small budget per group (from hallam) of about £40 to buy extras if they needed them...

We are expecting 40-50 students to attend and i thought that they could form 8 groups of 5 students (two groups per theme and area- 'create'- the john street triangle... 'play'- the parks and schools, 'gather'... the community buildings (inc sufc!) and 'trade'- london road area)...

I think it is important for the facilitators to push with how the students would interpret these themes... and get them to be as creative as possible... (so play could be about lots of things- a full page of defintions according to the online dictionary- i like Quick, often irregular movement or action, especially of light or color: the play of color on iridescent feathers.)

so please drop me a line at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you might like to be involved...

Portland Works: Alternative Futures

The next meeting about Portland Works will be held in the Sharrow Suite of the Old Junior School on South View Road at 5pm on Tuesday 12th January. Please RSVP if you wish to attend.

Action Group Events in January and February

Saturday 9th January 10am-1pm: Empty Shops and Artists Funding Workshop meet at the OJS

Saturday 16th January 10-1pm: Lloyds Corner Design Workshop at Action Group HQ, the OJS

Wednesday 27th January 5.30pm: South Yorkshire Energy Centre Training, meet at the centre, 5.30pm

Wednesday 24th February: Built Environment and Landscape Students Presentations and Action Group Social. At 6.00pm at the Action Group HQ, the OJS

Please contact me on sharrow_action@hotmail.com for more details about any of the above events. There are also more to come, watch this space!

Next Action Group Meeting

The next meeting of the action group will be next Tuesday, 8th December at 6pm...

Please try to attend as it will give us a chance to plan the projects for next year...
Three-line-whip!

This includes the next stage of LLoyds Corner, the Art Trail and the Shops Project...We have now got funding for two of these and need to work towards gettting funding for the third...

briefs for hallam student volunteers

Next Distinctive Action group meeting

Agenda Action Group meeting: Tuesday 10th November

1. Treasure hunt, development and finalisation of clues
2. Stall at Winter Market – development and finalisation
3. Youchoose fund presentation
4. Briefs for Hallam Students- finalisation

Next Meeting: Treasure Hunt

In order to finalise the treasure hunt and plan our stall/ promotion strategy lets meet on...

Tuesday 10th November at 6.00pm at Action Group HQ, The Old Junior School, Southview Road.

Please RSVP.

Empty Shops Meeting Notes

Notes from the Shops meeting

Please find below the key information from the empty shops meeting.

· We will create an umbrella organisation and identity for empty shops projects throughout the city. This should help us gain publicity and also help link together people who are interested in this type of project. We have agreed this with the Sheffield University Empty Quarter Live project and they will mention this in their final report to Sheffield City Council.

· Our empty shops project will run alongside Art Sheffield, which is from March- May 2009. We will aim to secure four shops and have a number of artists in each on a rolling programme.

· We will need to make an application for funding ideally before Christmas as the Arts Council take 3 months to decide an application for over £5,000.

· We are looking for one or two people who may be interested in looking at the funding application for this project. Julia will be in contact to see if anyone is willing to pursue this.

· We will create a website which will include Sheffield Empty Shops information, such as contacts, other projects and reports (inc Empty Quarter Project Report), creative ideas, useful information. CM will look in to the creation of this.

Next Meeting: Treasure Hunt

Our next meeting to make a series of clues for the treasure hunt will be on Saturday 31st October at 10am... It will be held in the Distinctive Sharrow Action group room at the Old junior school. Please come along to help make clues...

Entry to the treasure hunt will be promoted at the Winter market and forms will also be available to download from the Sharrow Community forum Website and this blog. The prize for the winner will be a signed SUFC Shirt!

Please contact julia@sharrowcf.org.uk for more details...

Please RSVP for this Saturday's meeting

Hallam Volunteers?

We have very kindly had the offer of some volunteers from sheffield hallam univeristy for a day of intense creative project work. It would be great to get an exciting self-contained DS Action Group project for them to be involved with... please offer your suggestions here, (so far i have recived the following):

Dear Julia> > What a good idea and lots of potential. It might be useful to remain focus and> try to pursue some of the idea of our last meeting. How about to produce> robust noticable objects to position in strategic positions in Sharrow> identifying the potential sites for intervention and requesting people's ideas,> opinion about the site. A sort of letter box. This could be combined with the> art trail and the treasure hunt we talked about.> > Just an idea...> > See you soon> > Laurence

Housewarming

The Distinctive Sharrow Housewarming on Wednesday 23rd September was a really fun evening where we chatted, found out about each other, collected people's ideas and let people know about the projects which we have been involved in...

Our displays told people about:
1. Distinctive Sharrow / The Distinctive Sharrow Toolkit
2. The Action Group
3. Our future plans
4. The four key projects: i. flags, ii. signs (the word on the street), iii. Lloyds corner, iv. empty shops

During the evening we asked people to add to:
1. The display about people of Sharrow (by telling us something about themselves or their relationship with Sharrow and chalk in on a board and have their portrait taken)
2. A map of Sharrow painted on the wall (telling us a project idea, something we should know about Sharrow, or something that inspires them about Sharrow)
3. A display of exciting ideas, ways to act, art, architecture, landscape or design projects they love. (either by making a card or chalking on the wall)

The photos below give a glimpse of some of the input/ ideas that came back. A comprehensive collation of this will be posted on the blog and this will go on to inspire our agenda for the next few months.

We have also had an expression of interest from a few new members and hope they are still keen to be involved- a meeting will be confirmed asap to welcome them into the group. Watch this space!

Reminder: Empty Shops tour with David Parker

The tour of the shops on The Moor with David Parker will be tomorrow, Tuedsay 15th September, meeting outside the Town Hall at 10.30am prompt.

See you all then!

inspring ideas cards

I am starting to put together some cards with inspring ideas on them- hopefully to get people thinking about future projects in the area and really to update/ build on the toolkit information. I intend to also put some blanks cards up so people can add to these ideas... I have kept text to an absolute minimum, but this does include a link so that people can find out more.

Housewarming

Below is a list of people and groups that we have discussed inviting to our housewarming event on 23rd September 2009. Please add anyone (groups and/or individuals) that are missing to the list...

- Sharrow Action Group extended mailing list
-Sheffield Civic Trust
-Sheffield City Council planners
- Abbeydale Communities Together
- Nether Edge neighbourhood Group
-Broomhall Forum
-Grow Sheffield
-Encounters
-SUFI Centre planning group
- Portland Works businesses
-CAN
-Sharrow Forum
-Lansdowne TARA
-Sheffield University landscape students
- Sam Vardy, Doina Petrescu, Renata Tyszczuk, Florian Kossak, and Carolyn Butterworth + others? from Sheffield Univeristy Architecture Department

-Who else?... either post, comment or email asap...

I will hopefully design an invitation soon in order to mail out early august...(if you would be happy to help with this, please drop me a line!)...

minutes: Empty shops and artists

Minutes: ‘Empty Shops and Artists’, 16th June 2009, 6.30pm
Present: Luisa Golob, Charlotte Morgan, Rosalie Wyatt, Catherine Crompton
Apologies: Julia Udall, Mel Pearson

The minutes of this meeting have now been removed. Please contact the action group at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you would like a copy of these minutes

Lloyds Corner Brief

‘Lloyds Corner’ is a highly visible small urban space, which currently doesn’t have a strong identity or design. However, local people have identified that it has potential to contribute to the quality of the public realm and the community life.

The Action Group has currently commissioned two projects, the first being Community design flags for sites along London Road, the district centre. The second project is a ‘Welcome to Sharrow’ signpost, the project launch for which was celebrated with giant lanterns as part of the annual lantern festival.

Project aims and objectives:
• Regenerate this key public open space in London Road
• Contribute to making visible the identity of Sharrow
• Engage local people with their urban environment.

For a full copy of brief, plese contact Julia Udall on julia@sharrowcf.org.uk .

Next Meeting

I can confirm that we will hold the planning meeting for the Action group on Tuesday 19th May at 6.30pm in the meeting room at the Old Junior School.

It would be great to have as many of you to attend as possible as it will be to plan our activity over the next six-twelve months. This is your chance to influence what we plan to do, who we need to involve and what kinds of skills and knowledge we may need to develop.

If you are unable to attend and still wish to contribute, please email me your thoughts... Also please email me any agenda items... so far it looks like this...

Action Group Agenda

Tuesday 19th May 2009, the Old Junior School, 6:30pm

1. Apologies

2. Matters arising form previous minutes

3. Brief project update
3.1 Lloyds Corner
3.2 Flags
3.3 Sharrow Signposts
3.4 Shop Fronts

4. Forward planning
4.1 Next Priority?
4.2 Promotion and engagement of others
4.3 A space for the action group?
4.4 Thriving Centres: Our role?

5. Sharrow Fringe Festival

6. Next Meeting