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Christmas Raffle Barnsley Independent Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support are doing a special Christmas voucher raffle to help secure their future and continue to support people in Barnsley living with or affected by dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Due to Covid, the charity has lost around £13,000 a month in fundraising and donations; yet demand for their services has increased in 2020. Their new day care centre, which opened in March, had to close ten days later at a loss of £20,000 a month.


Raffle tickets are just £1 each and on sale directly from the main BIADS centre off Dodworth Road or you can order over the phone and pay by card on 01226 280057.


Prizes are all vouchers which have kindly been donated by independent businesses and larger retailers. The first prize is £50 vouchers for Argos and M&S. Other vouchers include Cannon Hall Farm, Mezalluna Italian Mapplewell, The Flower Corner Darton, Silkstone Golf Club and Wm and Julia Shaw Jewellers.


The raffle will be drawn on Thursday 17th December. Check their Facebook page for more details.


Superjam Tea Parties


Free Online Sessions Saturday 19th December from 2pm With gatherings on hold for the time being, Kathy Markwick and the SuperJam team have organised an online sing-along session with Jessica Mary Brett who will be doing a virtual performance on Facebook. Get ready to join in from home with all your favourite carols and Christmas songs.


The live session will be available on Jessica’s


Facebook page – jmbsinger. For further information or to plan an event, please get in touch with Kathy Markwick, Freelance Community Consultant, on 0772 952 8844 or kathymarkwick@gmail.com


Winthrop Gardens Weekly Outdoor Craft Stalls


While they may not be able to run their popular festive afternoon teas due to current Covid restrictions, Winthrop Gardens will be hosting a weekly craft stall outside Wickersley Library to help keep Anna’s Elves out of mischief!


The stall will be there Fridays 4th, 11th


and 18th December, between 10am-12pm, and will have a wide range of crafts and homemade items.


In the run up to Christmas they are also offering Christmas Afternoon Tea in a Box which can be delivered up to and including 23rd December within a three-mile radius of Wickersley.


Boxes cost £12.50 and must be booked seven days in advance by calling 07397 039226.


Birthday Honours recognition


for Dinnington’s community champion


With realistic-looking phishing emails on the rise, when Jane Havenhand received an email from the Cabinet Office earlier this year informing her that she’d been nominated for an MBE she thought it was just another scam.


But they confirmed that it was in fact genuine; she’d been recognised for her services to the Dinnington community as part of the Queen’s birthday honours 2020.


And rightly deserved.


For the last 15 years, Jane has dedicated her time and efforts into turning around the fortunes of Dinnington Resource Centre on Laughton Road. When she joined the centre as chair of trustees in 2006, their finances were in a sorry state to the tune of almost £90,000 in debt. But through hard work and a lot of fundraising, Jane, manager Darron and the team of staff and volunteers have enabled the thriving community


‘‘Up to the end of June, DCAG provided 2,896 hot meals, 1,784 sandwiches, 396 shopping buddies, 489 children’s gift bags and 123 food parcels’’


centre to become self-financing so it can continue to support the residents of Dinnington in various ways.


Jane was determined to try anything possible to save the purpose-built centre from closing and over the years their fundraising events, such as cabaret nights, quizzes and summer parties, have become mainstay and much-loved social events.


But Jane’s involvement in the community doesn’t end there. She started off by joining the fundraising committee of her local primary school when her children attended. She’s spent time as a local councillor. And she’s even


climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for the community.


But during the Covid pandemic, Jane found herself compelled to help even more so than before. Together with Lee Brown and other local residents, Jane starteds the Dinnington Covid Action Group (DCAG) in March and called for volunteers to support their pledge. “Within hours of me posting on Facebook I had an influx of support with over 60 people volunteering. We organised shopping buddies to help those isolating, local companies got involved to supply meals three times a week to the most vulnerable, and people even offered to go around doing doorstep chats to check up on lonely residents,” Jane says.


Thanks to her connection with the resource centre, Jane was able to apply for funding and donations to help their task. Up to the end of June, DCAG provided 2,896 hot meals, 1,784 sandwiches, 396 shopping buddies, 489 children’s gift bags and 123 food parcels. “It’s brilliant how people soon came together in times of crisis and just showed that Dinnington’s community is there for each other. I feel totally honoured, privileged and overwhelmed to have received an MBE, both for my part in making the resource centre successful, and my work during Covid-19. Neither could have been done without the fantastic groups of people that I have worked with; it truly was a great team effort. We’ve laughed, cried, sweated, worked extremely hard but have never given up.”


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