UP OUR STREET - People changing the world. One street at a time. Welcome to the Winter 2017 edition of Up Our Street magazine. I’m Ric Sharry and I was voted in as Chair of Up Our Street when Sally Caseley stepped down at our AGM on 19 October. Sally will stay on the board, and we would all like to thank her for all her hard work over the past five years. She has helped steer the organisation through some tricky times and is certainly a tough act to follow. I have lived in Barton Hill most of my life, and first got involved in community work back in the
Community at Heart days, championing and representing young people’s issues. We have just hosted our seventh annual Thank You Awards, and I was blown away by some of the stories. It was a night of celebration and you can see some of the photos on page 4 and 5. Read on to find out what Up Our Street has planned for the months ahead (including Active Citizens training on page 12), and if you feel inspired by what you’ve read, please get in touch with the team.
Join Up Our Street at Lawrence Hill roundabout for our annual Carols in the Underpass on Wednesday 13 December from 4pm. We’ll be singing with members from the Allsorts Choir who are based in Barton Hill (please join in) and handing out mulled wine, hot chocolate and snacks. We will have our traditional mince pies, plus some tasty savoury treats from Somali Kitchen. It’s a way of bringing some festive cheer, getting people together and sparking conversations.
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Singing together in 2016
We are delighted to welcome two new board members, Nic Ferris and Hannah Pepper, who are both local residents. Check out our Renter’s Rights magazine, out now! This free magazine aims to inform tenants in the private rented sector about their rights and encourage them to use them. Pat from Up Our Street has been doing some targeted work with communities as part of our Bristol Values project. She is helping to organise an event for Roma families and is setting up a ping pong tournament at Borderlands, a refugee charity. We will be holding a Neighbourhood Conversation about Stapleton Road at the end of November/beginning of December. Sign up to our ebulletin or keep an eye on social media for details. Save the date of 24 March for our next Festival of Solutions, venue to be confirmed. We will be focussing on the theme of environment. As we go to print we are preparing to run an “Understanding Whiteness” workshop with Collective Liberation Project. It’s sure to provoke some difficult conversations, we will report back in the next edition. Check out www.thecollectiveliberationproject.com to find out about their work. Up Our Street
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