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Summer newsletter: Our AGM; Grey to Green wins national award; Heritage Open Days
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Summer newsletter

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In this edition of the Sheffield Civic Trust newsletter:
  • Our AGM is on 20th September. We're looking for new trustees to help lead our work. Find out nelow about how you can get involved.
  • Grey to Green wins a national Civic Voice Design Awards.
  • Heritage Open Days. Exciting plans for September (7th-10th) are coming together fast with over 100 diverse offerings already signed up to take part.
  • Visit Bradford's award-winning Sunbridge Wells. The next regional civic societies meeting will take place in Bradford in September.

Sheffield Civic Trust AGM 2017 - Wednesday 20th September

Set up just over ten years ago we are relatively young as Civic Trusts go. Last year in recognition of our hard work Sheffield Civic Trust won the national Marsh Award, which specifically mentioned our communications and the exemplary work of our team who organise Heritage Open Days. Our Trust relies on our volunteer team of trustees who organise events, represent us nationally, write articles and work to deliver the Sheffield Design Awards and Heritage Open Days. This year a number of trustees are stepping down so if you are interested in our city and its buildings and places and would like to get actively involved then email me (sgedye@me.com) and I can talk you through what the Trust does and how you might get involved.

We are holding our annual Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 20th September at 6.30pm at The Circle in Sheffield City Centre. This is an opportunity for you to volunteer, get involved and to hear what the Trust has been up to this year. At the AGM we will elect new trustees.

So if you have skills in event organising, photography, social media, fundraising or are simply interested in the future shape of our city and want to get involved then either come along or get in touch! 

After the AGM there will be a presentation of the city's award-winning Grey to Green Project. More details will follow about this soon.


Simon Gedye, Chair of Sheffield Civic Trust
sgedye@me.com
Grey to Green wins a Civic Voice Design Award
We are delighted that Grey to Green (Phase 1) a scheme nominated by Sheffield Civic Trust has won the Public Realm category in this year’s Civic Voice Design Awards.

Duncan Bradbury, a Landscape Architect at Sheffield City Council gave a presentation about the scheme at a Civic Voice masterclass in the Leadenhall Building in London on 14 July. Later that evening Duncan accepted the Civic Voice Design Award from Rebecca Burns, Community and Public Affairs Executive at British Land, the award sponsor for the Public Realm category.

Innovative and inspiring, Grey to Green (Phase 1) is an impressive multi-purpose public space near the Law Courts that demonstrates a new approach to improving the quality of the public realm in our town and city centres. The project has enhanced the public realm, made walking and cycling more attractive and enjoyable and improved connectivity between Sheffield’s Riverside Business District and the rest of the city centre. The scheme has embraced innovation to meet the challenges of climate change, reduced public funding and the need for more partnership and collaboration.
The scheme also won our Sheffield Design Awards 2016 Public Realm and Overall Best Project categories. Given the quality of the project and the effective collaboration demonstrated by Sheffield City Council with its partner organisations and local community groups, we had no hesitation in nominating it for this national award.

The Civic Voice Design Awards Judges said:
“We applaud Sheffield City Council for investing in the quality of the city’s public realm and building innovative partnerships to find contemporary solutions to water management.  Grey to Green is an outstanding example to other local authorities in transforming areas once dominated by tarmac and traffic into beautifully playful and high quality civic spaces.”
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Heritage Open Days 2017 - September 7th-10th 
As the deadline for entries for this year's Heritage Open Days approaches we are pleased to see that so far 100 very diverse offerings have registered and are waiting to be discovered.
This year's Heritage Open Days activities will include a Heritage Bat Walk, a Street Furniture Walk, a discovery trail around Attercliffe, two - maybe three - Crucible works and many library talks and tours scattered across the city. Other gems will include the recently discovered Zion Graveyard in Attercliffe, a walk and talk about Flocktons, a celebrated Sheffield firm of Architects, the ever popular Wardsend Cemetery as well as the welcome return to our programme of the Madina Mosque in Sharrow. We are so excited that more than a quarter of this year's entries are new.

We hope that you will support all the enthusiastic volunteers and visit as many places as possible between 7-10 September.

Have a look at www.heritageopendays.org.uk for the full list and plan an exciting long weekend. You should be able to pick up a printed version in booklet form from the Tourist Information Centre beneath the Winter Gardens by the middle of August.

Please let us have some feedback too. 
You can contact us at hods@sheffieldcivictrust.org.uk and keep up to date with our plans by following us on twitter @Sheffield_HODS and on facebook at sheffieldheritageopendays.
Yorkshire & Humber Association of Civic Societies - Visit Bradford's Sunbridge Wells on 30/9
The Yorkshire and Humber Association of Civic Societies (YHACS) meetings are open to all Sheffield Civic Trust members and provide important opportunities for us to meet and exchange views with members of other civic trusts and societies throughout Yorkshire.
 
The next YHACS meeting will be in Bradford on 30th September, where the focus will be on a visit to Sunbridge Wells – Bradford's first underground retail complex in the heart of Bradford's historic trading quarter.
 
Sunbridge Wells scooped two honours at this year’s
Civic Voice Design AwardsNominated by Bradford Civic Society, Sunbridge Wells was given a special commendation plaque as well as an award for outstanding achievement within a conservation area. The Civic Voice judges said “We just loved this bold project for its imaginative restoration of a derelict heritage asset, ambitious conservation effort and its positive economic regenerative effect. A beacon of hope for Bradford and an inspiration for our urban centres.”

If you’d like to attend the next YHACS event in Bradford please contact the Chairman, Kevin Trickett on
kevintrickett@msn.com
 
Would you like to join Sheffield Civic Trust? If you're passionate about Sheffield and want to help shape the debate about the buildings, places, spaces of our city then why not become a member? http://sheffieldcivictrust.org.uk/join/
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