Clean-up at Prince of Wales Rd, 11th May

About 20 bags of rubbish collected and a much better environment. Here's the team looking pleased with themselves.

Sustrans wins at award ceremony!

Josh Jones, our Student Volunteer , won the award for "Inspire and be Inspired at the Sheffield Volunteering awards last night (29th April) . Here he is collecting his award. 

Meanwhile, Polly Blacker and Tony Cornah, also Sustrans Volunteers were up for an award, not for Sustrans work but for the Homework Club they run in Broomhall (I don't know how they find the time!)

So here they are collecting their award for Student Friendly Voluntary Organisation of the Year. 

Well done all of you! 

Manor Clean-up, 11th May

We're having a clean-up in the Manor area on 11th May

Meet in the Travelodge car park off Prince of Wales Rd, 10a.m. It's OK to park there and we can use toilets in the nearby garage. (For cyclists it's just straight up NCN627 from the canal basin.)

From there hopefully we'll have enough people to send teams in both directions. My old camper van has been fired up for the summer seasons so we should be able to do brews, take shelter in case of summer storms etc.

I'd like to make it at full day event (10-4) so we can get as much as possible done in one day, but if you can only come for an hour or two, that's fine. If you've got litter-pickers, bin bags etc bring 'em along. Spread the word!

Simon

Litter Picking Parson Cross

Tim Hess writes:

Today was a good day for maintenance of the trail. The ever neglected TPT through Parsons cross’s Tongue Gutter, that feeds to Hartley Brook and eventually Chapeltown Greenway had some essential attention. What always surprises me about so called run down areas is that the community often are very welcoming and willing to get involved. The day started with me putting up posters for the next litter picking event on the 23^rd March where I am hoping to get more community involvement. My first stop was ASDA on Chaucer Rd. I met Kerry from ASDA who had unbounded enthusiasm towards community activities. She wanted to promote the event on the 23^rd and will try to get involvement though local Schools and people from the store. Even offering free fruit and drinks for the event and paid staff to join us. I then put posters up at key community points and went on to the trail.

At 10 AM no-one appeared. After a while Jon Fyne came along and Jon and I continued alone clearing the trail. See before and after shots. I had hoped that the new recruit rangers would have joined me as planned. Maybe some of the recruits will come forward in the near future and get involved. I am hoping so as I still have two roles to allocate out and five potential people to get involved.

Towards the end of our session two young boys came up and asked if they could help. I said that they were too young for me to look after without one of their parents there. Then half an hour later the entire family came out, three boys and a young girl called Lucy and their dad Matt. They all helped out and made a real difference to part of the  trail in the end we covered about 300 meters of the trail.

Come on everyone come and join us on the 23^rd of March? The weather and company can’t get any better!

NCN6 re-routed - Sheffield.

Pleased to announce that, thanks to some sterling community work by Polly Blacker, the Friends of Lynwood Gardens and the residents of Guernsey Rd and Park Crescent have allowed us to re-route NCN6 through the Gardens. The route will now go through quiet streets and an urban wildlife reserve rather than Glossop Rd and Clarkehouse Roads, which, although they have cycle lanes on them, some of these are part-time only and the roads are very busy and quite hazardous.

Big Thanks to Judith

Judith Rutnam has stepped down as a Sustrans Volunteer - she has an aged mother as well  as a horse to look after so she no longer has the time.

Here she is on the horse:

We wish her well for the future.