MEMBER NEWS IN BRIEF


Training firm promotes inclusion in football


Derbyshire-based training company Mitre Group is working with Kick It Out to ensure inclusion throughout football. Kick It Out is football’s


equality and inclusion organisation. It works throughout football, educational and community sectors to challenge discrimination, encourage inclusive practices and campaign for positive change. Mitre has been working with


Kick It Out to help upskill staff across all levels of football clubs throughout England and Wales. Jennie Bowmer, Managing


Director at Mitre, said: “As Kick it Out is a small independent charity, it doesn’t have the resource to provide the level of training professional clubs require. Mitre is able to help by providing tailored accredited training for academies, core staff and stewards which in turn provide clubs with staff with the prerequisite knowledge base and skills required.” Keeley Baptista, Programmes


Manager for Kick It Out, added: “Mitre has a clear understanding of the need for training, married with knowledge and experience of having worked in the game – that’s extremely important to such a specialist sector.”


Burbage Band premieres children’s masterpieces


Burbage School was the venue for a very special world premiere when pupils heard their own musical compositions performed for the first time. Buxton International Festival’s


Celia Dunk had taught the youngsters how to write short pieces of music during outreach sessions at the school, and invited Burbage Band, one of the oldest in the world, to come and play them. And the Band gave a


masterclass in how music is created, with an extremely funny but highly professional break- down of how each section works together. “I think this is brilliant,” Band


Musical Director Steve Critchlow said of the outreach programme. “I’m very impressed with what


the kids have been learning. To see them writing music is very impressive, and it was a real joy to put their notes to music and watch their faces. That’s what music is all about. You have to work hard, but the rewards at the end are fantastic. “Music teaching in schools is


having a difficult time so it is really important for organisations like Burbage Band to go out there and give access to it.”


24 business network October 2018


Jade Butt, Senior Branch Customer Adviser at the Society, with members of Inspire Community Garden Chesterfield


£1,000 donation will help community garden grow


A Chesterfield-based charity, Inspire Community Garden, has received a donation of £1,000 from The Mansfield Building Society’s Community Support Scheme to help fund a new secure tool shed and maintenance area for tools and machinery. The Inspire Garden is a charity


that relies solely on the work of volunteers and charitable donations to maintain its land. By working with local residents on garden projects, the community garden encourages people of all


‘The garden has come a long way in such a short space of time’


ages and abilities to get involved in working the garden and growing food while developing a sense of community. Steve Sansom, Trustee of the


Inspire Community Garden, said: “Thank you for the wonderful donation which will result in us building a new secure tool store and workshop. We hope to


continue our work together and we will host an evening at the garden for staff, friends and families to visit with the pizza oven and barbeque in operation.” Jade Butt, Senior Branch


Customer Adviser, added: “After volunteering last year, it was great to visit the Chesterfield Inspire Community Garden again. “The garden has come a long


way in such a short space of time and I know our donation is going to help the Inspire Garden grow even more.”


A fitting tribute to fallen miners


Derbyshire-based contractor G F Tomlinson is sponsoring a statue as part of the Walking Together memorial, which commemorates the miners who lost their lives at Markham Colliery 80 years ago. The 1938 explosion, which


claimed the lives of 79 miners, was the second tragedy to occur at the colliery in Derbyshire after an explosion in 1937 and before the 1973 disaster involving a faulty lift, which together claimed 27 lives. Led by Derbyshire County


Council, the memorial will eventually see 106 steel figures – one to honour each miner – erected between the village of Duckmanton in Chesterfield and the former pithead at Markham Colliery. The 6.5–7ft statues symbolise a


miner’s journey to the pit and back home again. Fifty-three figures with a darker finish will represent those walking home, while 53 brighter figures will represent those walking to the pit to begin their shift. Each figure will carry a bronze tag with the name of one of the miners, along with their age, job role and the year of their death. G F Tomlinson will be sponsoring


the statue that commemorates contractor Arthur May, a World War I


Part of the Walking Together memorial at Markham Vale


‘Each figure will carry a bronze tag with the name of one of the miners, along with their age, job role and the year of their death’


veteran who was 59 when he lost his life in the 1938 disaster. Arthur’s statue and ten others were unveiled to family members and those connected to the project at a private event last month. This is the second instalment of statues to mark the 1938 tragedy, following seven statues being unveiled in January this year.


Andy Sewards, Managing


Director at G F Tomlinson, said: “Being a Derbyshire-based business we are aware of the area’s mining past and the lives that were so sadly lost over the years. “We are honoured to be able to


sponsor the Arthur May statue and be involved in such an inspirational project.”


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