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The Kendray Gala will be held on the Central Park on Birk Ave on Saturday 12th July the Mayor will open the Gala at 12noon. Anyone requestig forms to hold a stall need to contact-Gemma Stothard,Community House,27/29 Birk Ave, Ken...[full story]
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 | The Canadians apparently much admire what’s been achieved in Neighbourhood Renewal here in the U.K. and as a result Ann Hart and Cynthia Cunningham, resident co-chairs of The Kendray Initiative Board were invited by them to give a...[full story]
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Did you know that the Citizens Advice Bureau do a drop in service every Tuesday morning at Community House?
Bethan Hopkin is available between 9.30am and 12pm to provide free and confidential advice to local people.
Pop in or ri...[full story]
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From the 21st of January, Hunni Bee Children's Centre will run a Breastfeeding Drop-in. This is every Monday (Term time only) from 10-11.30am. A chance for new mums to meet, make friends and get valuable advice from our local heal...[full story]
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Notes from meeting held on Wednesday 7th. November
At
St. Andrews Church
6.30pm
Present : Jean Horbury ( chair for the evening )
Cath Winder, Joan Gaines (Berneslai Homes ) Ann Hart, Cynthia Cunningham,
Marg...[full story]
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There is a Gala Group meeting this Thursday 22nd November at 6.30pm in Community House to discuss the possibility of having a 2008 Kendray Gala. If you'd like to keep this event going and get involved with the planning then come ...[full story]
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We're looking for Kendray people to take part in a ground breaking new research project. The research aims to find out how public services can help residents to become healthier and wealthier – to increase their income and liv...[full story]
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The Kendray and Worsborough Community Partnership have a new sports worker in post called Laura Peebles.
Laura is based at Worsbrough Common ICT centre and her role is to develop and facilitate sport, recreation and leisure op...[full story]
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A thriving South Yorkshire community transformed by a successful regeneration programme has celebrated a major milestone.
The Kendray estate, in Barnsley, which is undergoing a significant renewal project lead by the Kendray In...[full story]
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On Friday 15th December Kendray held it's first ever Oscar ceramony.The Young At Heart Group was nominated & won an Oscar for An Outstanding Social Contribution By An Organiseation Providing A service.The Oscar was presented to Ma...[full story]
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Young people on road to success
A team of young people from Barnsley who helped to transform part of an overgrown area into a playground are all on the road to success.
The group of six from Kendray - Aaron Flather, of Popla...[full story]
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Can't cook?
Won't cook?
Can cook?
Don't cook?
Is this you?
Then join us for a cookery class at Kendray Resource Centre every Wednesday 1.00-3.00pm
For more information call us on 01226 293264 or call in to see us.
Thornton...[full story]
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ARE YOU SKILLED & INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH 8-17 YEAR OLDS & THEIR FAMILIES??
Kendray Youth Inclusion Support Panel is successfully working with young people from the ages of 8-17 in the area of Kendray.
To be able to expan...[full story]
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Kendray Youth Inclusion Support Panel would like to invite children and young people aged between 8 and 13 years of age to our drop in sessions to chill-out, get together and be involved in various activities including games, list...[full story]
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A Kendray residents' group is aiming to relaunch later this year, and is looking for new members & a new place to meet.
Kendray Tenants' & Residents' Association (TARA),formerly based on Birk Crescent, wants new members to help...[full story]
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The Community Media Association has just announced continued funding for community groups through the South Yorkshire Community Media Fund.
This fund is part of a larger 'Turn Up The Volume' project which offers advice, support...[full story]
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 | Two Barnsley residents who have helped transform the town’s Kendray estate have toasted its success with the Queen.
Ann Hart and Cynthia Cunningham, co-chairs of the Kendray Initiative Board, were invited to the Queen’s Garden ...[full story]
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Hunni-Bee children's Centre is now offering free childcare for 2 year olds. You may be eligible of you meet the following criteria:
*Unemplyed or work less than 16 hours a week
*Lone parent
*Child with a disability or special e...[full story]
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There will be fun in the sun for the whole family when Kendray hosts its 6th community gala at the weekend.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 22, and will run from noon to 4pm, on Kendray Primary School f...[full story]
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Hunni-Bee Children's Centre, located at Hunningley Primary School, is offering parents a 'one off' chance to access our day care during the holidays for children aged 0-5 years. There is no obligation to continue using our day car...[full story]
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A new neighbourhood agreement has been launched in Kendray, Barnsley, to highlight the wide range of opportunities available for young people in the area.
The Kendray Young People’s Agreement (11-19 years) will provide young pe...[full story]
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The transformation of the Kendray estate, in Barnsley, will be showcased in a brand new information pack for local residents.
Kendray Resident Information Pack is a project that has been inspired and developed by the Laying the...[full story]
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Come along to the Bumps and Babies group for mums to be and new mums! The cost is £1 per child and refreshments are provided. The Health Visitor also vists to give advice and to model Baby Massage, an excellent way to relax and bo...[full story]
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Hunni-Bee Children's Centre has a new mother and toddler group on Wednesday mornings from 9.30am unitl 11.30am. Parents, Grandparents and Aunties all welcome!
There is small charge of £1.25/child to cover refreshments and educ...[full story]
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The hunt is on for former staff who worked at Barnsley’s Elmhirst School.
The school, which closes in August after serving the community for 55 years to make way for the Barnsley Academy, wants staff who used to wor...[full story]
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Neighbourhood renewal experts and delegates from around the country will be visiting Barnsley next week (June 7 and 8) to find out more about the excellent regeneration work that has been carried out in Kendray.
Thirty r...[full story]
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The hunt is on for volunteers who would like to help organise this year’s Kendray Gala.
The sixth annual Kendray gala will take place on July 22 between 12 noon and 4pm and will be held on the playing field of Ken...[full story]
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A Barnsley regeneration group is in the money!
Kendray’s Laying the Foundations Group (LTF), a locally based resident led regeneration agency, has benefited from a £107,000 grant from Objective One.
This funding...[full story]
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A community barbecue to be held in Kendray will mark the first birthday of the estate’s community garden and allotment site.
The event, being organised jointly by Groundwork Dearne Valley and the Kendray Laying the Found...[full story]
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 | Residents and staff from organisations working hard to regenerate the Kendray area of Barnsley have come together to help plan the next steps for the estate.
Around 80 people gathered at the Into the Future 2 event, held a...[full story]
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‘Keeping Kendray Clean and Tidy’ was the first of a series of Neighbourhood agreements introduced on the estate to ensure local services, such as rubbish bin collections and street lighting, are of the highest quality.
It also...[full story]
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A Barnsley website, which is going from strength to strength, has had a new section added to inform residents of construction projects in their area.
The Kendray website – www.kendray.net - which was launched on Valent...[full story]
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Birthday celebrations will be taking place in Barnsley next week (Week commencing Jan 23) when Kendray Community House celebrates its fifth anniversary.
The centre, based on the Kendray estate, has been open since Jan...[full story]
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Kendray and Worsbrough residents and staff working in the areas are being invited to have their say on how regeneration of the neighbourhoods is progressing.
The Kendray and Worsbrough Partnership has worked extremely ...[full story]
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 | A pioneering project to regenerate the Kendray area of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, has won a prestigious award.
The Kendray Initiative has clinched the Outstanding Neighbourhood Management Partnership of the Year in the New ...[full story]
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Pensioners in Kendray, Barnsley, are being invited to a free pension check – to ensure they are receiving all of the pension credits they are due to.
On December 1 and 8, staff at Kendray Community House, based at 27 – 2...[full story]
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The hunt is on for old photos of the Kendray area in Barnsley – dating from the 1880s to the 1990s.
And organisers of the book, the Kendray Media Group, are asking for your help!
The Kendray Media Group – made ...[full story]
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 | As most of the world knows, the Earl of Wessex (Prince Edward) visited Kendray on 14th September to give his royal seal of approval to the hard work that’s been goi...[full story]
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A Barnsley church is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
St Andrews in Kendray is preparing to commemorate the landmark occasion with a special service on Sunday, October 16. While the old part of the church celebr...[full story]
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 | A new computer course is starting for families living in Kendray and Worsbrough.
The course will start on Thursdays in October for 12 weeks and will be run at the Sunnybank Children’s Centre. Classes will last from 1pm-4pm and...[full story]
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Margaret Freeman has been appointed as the new learning resource centre manager for Kendray and Worsbrough Common in Barnsley.
Margaret (pictured), of Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, recently took up the new post and wor...[full story]
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Two Individual Opportunity Advisers have started work in Kendray, Barnsley, in a bid to help residents who want to return to work.
The advisers, who will be working on a project called ‘Kendray Options?’ are based at the Com...[full story]
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Residents in Kendray, Barnsley, are being urged to come along to an event to find out what is going off in their area and meet up with other local residents who are members of a group called the Laying the Foundations.
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Residents in Kendray, Barnsley, can sample sights and sounds from around the world at an event on September 21.
The Sights and Sounds from Across the World event will take place at Kendray’s amphitheatre, on Birk Avenue, betw...[full story]
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 | The Earl of Wessex (Prince Edward)is to give the royal seal of approval to Kendray, and see how the once run down area is being transformed.
His Royal Highness will visit Kendray on Wednesday September 14th - when he will recei...[full story]
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 | On Wednesday 21st September between 6.00 pm and 8.30 pm, the Kendray Initiative will be hosting a 'Sights & Sounds from Across the World' Event on the Amphitheatre in the Central area of Kendray.
The event will include lots of ...[full story]
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 | Residents in Kendray, Barnsley, are being urged to become green-fingered by snapping up the chance to work on a community allotment.
The Kendray Community Growing Project is based at Swannee Road Allotments, and residents and l...[full story]
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Young people from the Kendray area of Barnsley are getting the chance to play a part in the estate’s first ever open air music festival.
The unique Urban Rock Festival is being staged at Kendray’s Amphitheatre on August ...[full story]
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Kendray gala organisers are on the hunt for old photos of the area – dating from the 1880s to the 1990s.
Organisers are wanting the photos, ranging from old school day pictures to snaps of club trips and historical phot...[full story]
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A new sports club for young people is to be launched in Kendray, Barnsley, on Saturday (July 16).
The sports club will hold coached sessions on the Farm Road Playing Fields, and will cater for young people aged between...[full story]
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There will be fun in the sun for the whole family when Kendray hosts its 5th community gala later this month.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 23, and will run from noon to 4pm, on Kendray Primary School fiel...[full story]
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There will be fun in the sun for the whole family when Kendray hosts its 5th community gala later this month.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 23, and will run from noon to 4pm, on Kendray Primary School field. ...[full story]
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Children at Kendray Primary School are set for a fun packed week in July with the return of Creative Arts Week.
This will be the fifth time the event has taken place at the school and promises to be the biggest and best yet,...[full story]
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A campaign in the Kendray area of Barnsley aimed at young people to encourage them to ‘get out and do something,’ is proving a huge success.
Young people aged between 11 and 19, are being encouraged to visit a newly-s...[full story]
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 | This Friday (24th June), the new Sunnybank Children's Centre on Overdale Aveune, Worsbrough Dale opens.
You are invitied to come and join in a day of fun from 11am-4pm.
Activities will include:
Official opening by The W...[full story]
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Gemma Fogg has been appointed as the new partnership development co-ordinator for the Kendray and Worsborough areas of Barnsley.
Gemma (25), originally from Sunderland, previously worked with Barnsley’s Community Empow...[full story]
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A Kendray teenager has scooped a prestigious award for all of her hard work in helping to regenerate the area where she lives.
Jodie Chitoriski (14),pictured, a pupil at Elmhirst School, has won one of ten Spirit of Barnsley ...[full story]
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 | A children's garden party will take place on Thursday 16th June from 11am-1pm at the Swanee Road Allotments.
Come along and join us for face painting, making CD bird scarers, story and rhyme session and a creepy crawly hunt. ...[full story]
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A Kendray community group has received a cash boost, after securing more than £190,000 from the Government’s Single Regeneration Budget.
Kendray’s Laying the Foundations Group will use the money for a new project called K...[full story]
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 | Next week there will be two opportunities for local people to create their own hanging baskets with expert help and advice from Groundwork Derane Valley.
The sessions will be taking place on the new Kendray Community Garden a...[full story]
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 | Three young people from Barnsley, who trained as ‘junior reporters’, received special certificates for their efforts recently.
Kirsty Poppleton, John Hirst and Matti Seston, all Year 10 pupils at Elmhirst School, have been lea...[full story]
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Young people in Kendray, Barnsley, are being urged to ‘get out and do something,’ in a new campaign.
Young people aged between 11 and 19, are being encouraged to visit a newly-set up page on the Kendray website a...[full story]
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A Selby man, who has spent the last two years helping to regenerate the Kendray area of Barnsley, is to move to pastures new.
John Deeley (59), Kendray Initiative’s Learning Net Manager, has spent his time working on the K...[full story]
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An innovative scheme has been launched in Kendray, Barnsley, to help the estate’s long-term unemployed back into work.
The Kendray Initiative – the organisation spearheading the regeneration of the area – has teamed up wit...[full story]
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 | House prices are rising while unemployment and domestic burglary are falling in the Kendray area of Barnsley - as residents work together to help to improve and regenerate their estate.
The news was announced at the ‘ Into the ...[full story]
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 | Are you aged between 5 and 10 years old?
Are you looking for a new activity or club?
Well if the answers yes, Kendray Community Badgers may be just what your looking for.
Being a Badger
Badgers is especially for young ...[full story]
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 | Do you have a child under four years old? Want to join 150,000 feet walking for Marie Curie Cancer Care?
Tomorrow (Wednesday 16th March) and Friday (18th March) families with 0-4 year old children living in Kendray and Worsrbo...[full story]
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 | On Saturday 19th March from 1.00pm to 3.00pm St Andrews Church, Gerald Road, Kendray is holding an Easter Gala event.
There will be a tombola, bric-a-brac, toys, books, a raffle with various prizes and refreshments.
Please c...[full story]
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 | If you have children or grand-children under the age of four, come a join in the fun as the Story Chums come to visit Kendray Resource Centre on Wednesday afternoon.
From 1.30pm babies and toddlers can come and join Diddle an...[full story]
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A Barnsley website is going from strength to strength as it celebrates its first anniversary.
The Kendray website which was launched on Valentine’s Day last year informs Kendray people of what’s going off in their...[full story]
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On Friday 11th February veterans of World War 2 are to be presented with a veteran's lapel badge to acknowledge their personal sacrifice and contribution to the War effort.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Barnsley will officiate at t...[full story]
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The VIDA multi- sports camp is taking place from Monday February 14th- 18th from 10am until 3pm. Its only £5 for the week and you also get lunch included!
Sports included Football, cricket, hockey, basketbal, rounders and much...[full story]
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A class aimed at those who are at risk of falling or who want to strengthen key areas such as knee and hip jopints to prevent the risk of falling in years to come. Takes place at Kendray resource centre on Wednesday afternoons fro...[full story]
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A new class for a new year! Pilates is now taking place at Worsbrough Bridge Miners Welfare Hall on Monday nights 7-8pm. Its free for the 1st 3 weeks and £1 thereafter so why not come and give it a go!!...[full story]
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 | If one of your new year resolutions was to get fitter then get out and about with the Kendray Walking Group.
We kicked off the new year with a gentle stroll around Newmillerdam on Thursday 6th Jan but we are going to step up a ...[full story]
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