Eckington Jan 2021
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The Doorsteppa<br />
21 COMMUNITY<br />
In late 2018 a handful of enthusiastic community minded residents<br />
met up for cuppa and cake to look at what we could do to help our<br />
community. We were all involved with various little groups but felt<br />
that both we, and the wider community, didn’t really appreciate the<br />
number of groups there are throughout Killamarsh.<br />
Our thoughts on this were to become an umbrella organisation to<br />
have a website with online diary of events and regular meetings of<br />
all groups to make it easier for residents to get a feel for what<br />
happens and, hopefully, join some of the groups, or at least attend<br />
events.<br />
After visits to ETT - <strong>Eckington</strong> Town Team we broadened our vision<br />
to encompass general things that may help the Community<br />
Youth Project - Some of our founding members joined with the 2<br />
ladies operating Youth Services, other community minded residents,<br />
Councillors from County, District and Parish as well as officers from<br />
County to hold meetings to, hopefully, find a way forward to bring<br />
back Youth Services.<br />
Covid19 brought obstacles and delays to this work but, at the end of<br />
October 2020, we had notification from County that discussions<br />
could begin to move forward, which they have, and by the time this<br />
announcement appears in the <strong>Jan</strong>uary issue of Doorsteppa in<br />
<strong>Jan</strong>uary we hope most things have fallen into place and we can start<br />
preparations to resume Youth Services if the pandemic allows.<br />
Once the Youth Project is running smoothly our aim is to then<br />
expand use of the building/facilities for use by other groups &<br />
residents when not scheduled for youth provision – such as Internet<br />
Café, Drop-In Centre, socials and most things that come along that<br />
we can help with, and raise money as well to ensure the services &<br />
activities can continue for the foreseeable future.<br />
As this is totally Community oriented, we welcome as much support<br />
from volunteers as possible to join us in running Youth Services<br />
and/or other services we may be able to offer – one lady has offered<br />
to use her skills helping others to learn use of computers and<br />
packages [thanks Carol], and volunteers who can help in other ways<br />
generally, or with any particular skills they have and, so important,<br />
ideas and thoughts on events and activities that the community may<br />
benefit from.<br />
Big tasks ahead (depending on condition of the building) decorating,<br />
repair, refurbishment of kitchen to current requirement and much<br />
more, enhance web site and much more.<br />
Please see our (current) website for more information, along with a<br />
form to contact us with any thoughts and offers to help/volunteer<br />
www.killamarshtownteam.org.uk<br />
Our ‘phone number is 0300 30 20 941 (included in call packages)<br />
where you can leave a voice mail and we’ll respond as soon as we<br />
can.<br />
Thank you, we hope you had a Happy and enjoyable Christmas, in the<br />
circumstances and wish you a Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous New<br />
Year.<br />
Tel: 0114 4185359 • Mob: 07903 858276 • Email: thedoorsteppa@gmail.com • Web: www.thedoorsteppa.co.uk
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