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May 2025
Welcome to the May edition of the North Area Team newsletter, keeping you updated on the latest news, events and activities taking place across our great communities. We are proud to share with you updates from our team, commissioned services and our Ward Alliances. Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy hearing about some of the fabulous work happening in the North area.
National Volunteers Week 2025 is taking place 2 to 8 June and is the perfect opportunity for us to celebrate the tremendous amount of volunteering which takes place across our communities.
The North Area has a fabulous network of community groups and volunteers who dedicate their time freely for the benefit of their local community and all who live there. If you are one of them, we would love to hear your story!
We are looking for stories which we can share to showcase our fabulous volunteer network and to encourage more people to get involved and experience first hand some of the great benefits which volunteering brings.
We are also pulling together a calendar of events and activities being delivered that week by our community network. If your community group has something taking place and would like us to help promote this, please do get in touch.
 We're excited to relaunch Love Where You Live, investing £3.5 million into projects that will improve neighbourhoods and bring communities together.
This funding will help keep streets clean and green, support local events and cultural activities, and create safer, more connected communities.
Watch our video below to hear how this investment will bring people together, enhance public spaces, and make Barnsley a place we're all proud to call home.
Love Where You Live is about all of us working together, listening to each other and making a real difference.
Look out for exciting projects starting over the coming year!
 Darton East Ward Alliance was blown away recently by the talented artists who all designed a beautiful Easter Egg as part of its first ever Easter trail across Mapplewell village.
Over 50 children took part in the trail which ran throughout the Easter school holidays and incorporated community venues, local businesses and outdoor green spaces.
Winners were selected at random and each received a prize voucher. See their fabulous designs below.
The Easter trail is just one of the many activities planned by the Ward Alliance this year to help support its Children, Teenagers and Young Adults priority.
To stay up to date on what activities are running when, follow them on Facebook.
Darton West Ward Alliance is hoping to deliver a jam packed, fun programme of activities for families living across the ward.
The Ward Alliance has set aside some funding to develop a timetable of activity to support local families with free provision during the school summer holidays.
If you are a community group, organisation or local business who would be interested in putting on a session in the area, please do get in touch with us for more information. Not only will you be supporting a great community project, but its a perfect opportunity for you to promote your own work and business to the wider community.
Darton West includes the communities of Barugh, Barugh Green, Darton, Gawber, Kexborough, Redbrook and Wilthorpe.
The Old Town Ward Alliance recently supported Emmanuel Church in their bid to tackle social isolation.
The AWL group based at the church in Wilthorpe asked for £150 to support the hosting of an afternoon tea, that includes entertainment and some high quality food. The project is aimed at encouraging those who would otherwise be isolated, to attend, chat to the friendly staff, and make new friends.
The tea will be occurring on 10 May.
St Helens Ward Alliance will be turning back the clock and dusting off the tablecloths for their very own 40's style celebration!
The ex-servicemen's club is the perfect venue to celebrate the 80th anniversary of one of the most iconic events of the 20th century, the end of the fighting in Europe during the second world war.
Entertainment includes a period singer, bingo, beetle drive, raffles and more buns and cakes than you can shake a union jack at!
The North Area Council commissions CAB and DIAL Barnsley to deliver local advice and information sessions for those living across area.
Help and support is available on a whole host of issues including debt and money worries, housing, benefits, employment and energy efficiency.
Sessions take place across the area and run as drop-ins. No appointment is needed, simply turn up.
Please note that these sessions are only available to residents living in the Darton East, Darton West, Old Town and St Helen's Wards.
If you would like to know more about any of the features within this article, or about our work in general, please email us.
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