The Barnby Dun & Edenthorpe Arrow April Issue

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Welcome to the April 2023 issue of the Barnby Dun & Edenthorpe Arrow.

You will find lots of local news and events throughout this months Arrow. Its great that people keep sending information about the community to be included. If you are a member of a local group and would like to have some information in the Arrow, please send it to me at the details below.

The Deadline for the May issue is Thursday 13th April.

Best Wishes

Julie Morrell

Tel: 07854 880882

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Julie@arrowpublications.co.uk

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Community Grants 2023

Are you involved with a local charity or community group that is seeking funds? Each year the Rotary Club of Doncaster St. George’s makes donations to local charities and community groups under its Community Grant Scheme. Applications are now being considered for Grants of up to £750. Over 100 charities have benefitted since the scheme’s inception including among many others carers groups, brownies, autism charities, counselling organisations, community libraries, the local branch of the Samaritans and conservation projects. In 2022 we were able to award grants to fifteen local different charities and groups despite fundraising restrictions due to the pandemic.

If you would like an application form and accompanying documents simply look for “Rotary Club of Doncaster St. George’s” in a search engine. For further information on the scheme contact the grants coordinator, Clive Smith, by email to community.grants@doncasterstgeorges.org.uk Applications open on 1st March 2023 Completed application forms must be received by 30th April 2023.

DONCASTER CANCER DETECTION TRUST

Hopefully, by the time you are reading this, we will all be enjoying some lovely Spring weather.

Can you help us? We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team of volunteers, someone who could organise a few events throughout the year to help with our fundraising. Also, our Secretary needs someone to learn the ropes in the office, probably on a job share basis. It would only take one or two hours a week on average. If you can combine fundraising with admin that would be even better!

You will be helping a local charity that is 51 years old. Through the generous donations from organisations, groups and individuals we have raised millions of pounds over the years. Our most recent purchases have been a second CT scanner, a biopsy machine for the Urology Department (plus two couches) and two dissecting racks for the Jasmine Centre (breast cancer) – all for Doncaster Royal Infirmary. As a local charity we believe that donations should benefit the local community. We are all volunteers, including the Trustees. There are no paid staff.

If you are interested in joining us and would like more information please send us a quick Email to info@dcdt.co.uk with a brief description of yourself and a telephone number. We will then contact you for an informal chat. We really do need your help so please do get in touch.

Our contact details are: 22 Wood Street, Doncaster DN1 3LW (entrance by the side of Kerry Gough Florists), first floor (lift available), Room 111. Tel. 01302 325029. Email: info@dcdt.co.uk. Website: dcdt.co.uk

As the office is not fully manned it is best to Email or telephone in advance if you are thinking of coming to see us. We hope to hear from you soon.

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The Friends Of Quarry Park

The second of our two February work parties took place on Monday 27th when we gathered to continue with our tree planting project. 15 volunteers were joined by our 2 DMBC Rangers who distributed the tree saplings, canes and guards in the designated planting area in the woodland near St. Mary’s Road car park. The 70 trees are a mix of native woodland species including Silver Birch, Hornbeam, Rowan and Hazel which have been donated to Quarry Park by The Conservation Volunteers in partnership with OVO Energy as part of their 'I Dig Trees' project to plant over 3 million trees this year!

It didn’t take long for our super-efficient volunteers to plant the saplings and water them in. We had a quick break for refreshments with delicious chocolate cake baked by Julie, before splitting up to carry out other tasks including litter picking 3 bags of rubbish, and hedge trimming. We did get caught in a downpour at one stage, but at least the trees have been well watered! Hopefully a good percentage of the trees will flourish to create a beautiful woodland in the future.

Thank you to all the volunteers and Rangers for another successful day.

The Friends of Jubilee Park held their Coffee Morning in Hatfield Library on Saturday 25th February, and we were invited along to promote the work of the Friends of Quarry Park. There was a good attendance throughout the morning with a number of visitors expressing an interest in volunteering with the group. We also had a visit from Nick Fletcher MP, who popped in for a chat and publicised the visit on his Facebook page.

Keep Britain Tidy’s ‘Great British Spring Clean’ runs from 17th March to 2nd April. We will be supporting this campaign at our next work party on Saturday 18th March (10am-12noon) by dedicating the whole session to litter picking around the park. Check out our Facebook page for more details nearer the time.

Work parties are usually held on the first Friday of each month, weather permitting. There is always plenty of work to be done, from litter picking, clearing paths and cutting back vegetation. Equipment is provided but please ensure you wear suitable clothing and footwear. The next events are scheduled for Saturday 18th March (Great British Spring Clean) and Friday 14th April 10am – 12 noon, meet at the Green Flag. Full details will be published on our Facebook page ‘Friends of Quarry Park’ or you can email us at thequarrypark@gmail.com or call us on 07546 595144.

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Danum Probus Club

Danum Probus Club is a group of people who have retired or are semi-retired from their profession, business or other employment who want to maintain a social network with others who have similar interests. Danum Probus Club meets on the first and third Mondays of the month at Doncaster Sports Club, Bennetthorpe, Doncaster starting at 10 am.

On Monday 6 February John Newborn’s presentation was about Rugby Tourists impressions of Japan. John and his wife have been to several Rugby Union world Cups, and this one was about when it was held in Japan. They are rugby enthusiasts and combine visits abroad like this with a holiday. So we had an excellent presentation including geographic highlights of the country as well as the rugby.

Later in the month on 16 March the Club held its Members and Guests Spring Lunch at the Old Belle at Barmby Dun, and on the following Monday Paul Adey’s presentation was about Rudyard Kipling.

Anyone who would like to come the meetings as a visitor to see what we do, with a view to joining if you like us, please contact John Brown (01302 771602) for more information or look at the website, Danumprobus.co.uk

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Street Beat Dance Academy Launch new venue in Kirk Sandall!!!

Street Beat are a specialist Street and Urban Dance Academy that have been running for over 15 years with successes worldwide including performances in Los Angeles, Germany and on TV, in addition to being selected as one of the top 10 dance companies in the North of England by Yorkshire Dance, being placed 3rd in the World Street Dance Championships and winning the Youth Arts Heritage Achiever of the Year Award!

With specialist teachers who work as professional performers/choreographers Street Beat provide classes in Street Dance, Breakdance, Lockin', House, Commercial, Trix, Acro, Parkour, Musical Theatre, Contemporary Dance Plus much more!

On 1st April they are launching their new venue at Kirk Sandall Parish Hall on Dentons Green Lane in Kirk Sandall and will be opening their doors to new students to take part in the day for FREE!

The 'Fun Day' will include Street Dance Classes, Trix and Breakdance on 7 metre Air Mats and a specialist workshop from prestigious London Artist Steven Thompson from Thriller Live on the West End! Steven, who now works with ZooNation will be coming to run a one-off Hip-Hop workshop! The day will also include prizes, giveaways and showcase opportunities from our Gifted and Talented crew!

So come down and check it out!

"We are so excited to be able to offer more opportunities to local children and can't wait to meet the young people in Kirk Sandall!" States Kim Oakley-Duffill, Director

of Street Beat

After the 1st April classes will run every Saturday from 9.30-2.45pm in a variety of styles with sessions for all ages and abilities. We offer opportunities to be part of our annual theatre productions and also to join our gifted and talented programme for those wishing to challenge themselves further or you can just come along and enjoy the weekly classes!

For more info call 07808070300 or email streetbeatdance@live.co.uk

Edenthorpe Juniors Football Club

Wow what a month we have had at Edenthorpe Juniors Football Club.

The Girls and Ladies provision is really taking off, so much so, that we have decided to launch two new girls’ teams after having a few players on a waiting list. We still have a few places on these teams and are looking to add further players over the next couple of weeks.

If you have a daughter who is aged 11 or 14 (year 7 and 9 at school) who is looking to join a football club, there has never been a better time. Become a founding member of the team, come and have fun whilst making new friends.

Our ladies team continue to develop and firmly have their sights set on joining a competitive league in September. They are looking to add a Goalkeeper, Strikers, and Defenders to their current squad to take the total number of ladies to 25 ready for registering.

The Doncaster Rovers Belles played host to our U13’s team last week and again proved to be very inspirational hosts for their home game against Lincoln City Women. Mark Greenwood, EJFC Vice Chairman said: “Our girls really enjoyed showcasing their talent on the pitch before the game, and at half-time formed a guard of honour as the

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players came out.

The 3-0 Belles win topped the day off perfectly, alongside our girls getting to meet the players and getting programs signed.

Thank you again for welcoming our girls, they will treasure the memories they have made throughout their football development here at Edenthorpe.

Hatfield Town Cricket Club

At the time of writing this we have sub-zero temperatures and snow on the ground so it's hard to believe we are so close to the season starting! We plan to begin our Friday family evenings and junior training on the 14th April, with our first fixtures taking place the following day. It has been a busy winter of indoor nets and preparing for the season ahead, it has been amazing to see so many children at the net sessions and have so many local businesses support us with sponsorship. It really makes us proud to be part of this community when we receive so much support.

Our main focus this winter has been planning a new changing room and toilets following our crowd-funding appeal last year. As you can imagine this is never as simple as expected and we are keen to ensure we use the money wisely and seek all other funding options to add to it so we must thank the small group of members that have been meeting weekly to get us to a stage where we are now submitting a planning application. This will be for a changing room with showers that meets ECB specifications and will include a ladies and disabled toilet. As many of you know our 'big build' of a multi-use community facility was scuppered by Covid but we see this as Phase 1 in our long term aim of improving all our facilities. We will keep you all updated as the planning process progresses. As ever we welcome anyone to get involved with the club who feels they can help us in this aim.

All our fixtures are now in and on our website and you can follow us on Facebook to keep updated with activities, alternatively feel free to call in at the ground when we are open and pick up a fixture book.

We hope to see you soon at the ground when the sun is shining! HTCC

THORNE CAMERA CLUB

Competitions form a major part in all camera clubs programmes with the aim to improve the standard of photography of all members. However not all members like competitions but do have a keen interest in photography and with that in mind the club held its first 'Critique Evening' with Royston Packer providing the critique on a wide range of images where the members had the opportunity to discuss the comments given on their images. All the critiques given provided a constructive view for the growth of each member and the club as a whole.

Two members provided very good talks for the members, one by Malcolm Hayes on camera settings and the typical menus found in most cameras and how the aperture and shutter settings change the visual effect of the images taken and the second member Graham Linley's talk and demonstration on two programmes for the production of Audio/Visual presentations.

Our DPI competition was judged by Nigel Plant from Hebden Bridge. The competition was ‘Open’ and provided many interesting entries. Nigel provided excellent critique on all of the entries and his final choice was:- First and Third Terry Gunnill with 'Bolverk' and ‘Nerthus’ Second Jacki Greenwood with 'Puppy Love'. Well done to all for providing a fine collection of images.

The programme for Highlights for March and April are:-

27th March Black and White Print , Competition Judge, Robert Helliwell

3rd April Trees and Much More. Speaker, Terry Gunnill

Wildlife in Lockdown. Speaker, Stewart Campbell

10th April Easter

17th April The Flat Capped Photographer. Speaker, Tom Marsh

We welcome all who are interested in photography to join our club Monday evenings at 7.30pm at the Methodist Church Hall, Thorne. The membership

for the club is £15.00 per annum with a weekly subscription of £2.00. For further details please contact:-

Chair - Patricia Woodward thornecc2022@gmail.com

Secretary - June Horbury junehorbury@sky.com

Membership - Jackie Woodward tccmembership@gmx.co.uk

Monty's Monthly Tip - The Exposure Triangle (aperture, shutter and ISO) is the basis of exposure control in photography and needs to be understood. When one point of the triangle is moved in one direction then another point of the triangle must be moved by the same amount in the opposite direction to maintain exposure. When making any adjustments to aperture, shutter and ISO settings always check the ‘in camera’ meter and keep the indicator at the midpoint of the scale to achieve a good exposure. For guidance only use ISO 100 for sunny days and up to 400 for overcast days, for poor light conditions use ISO settings of 800 and above. Large apertures (f1.4 – f5.6) give shallow depth of field, small apertures (f8.0 onwards) give deep depth of field. Fast shutter speeds freeze movement and slow shutter speeds blur the movement.

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