S40 Local - 23 Summer 2021

Issue 23 - Summer 2021

Cover Photography Richard Gibson Images

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Intro

Copy Date Friday 27 Aug

Hello and welcome to the summer edition of S41 Local Magazine.

At the time of writing this the sun shining, the kids are playing happily on the back garden and Bekah is cooking up a storm in the kitchen. I've had worse Sundays!

So much has changed for us in the past six weeks: I resigned from my teaching role with NCS and now spend my mornings working for Galaxy Travel and my afternoons, and some evenings, creating the magazine. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the students, but it got a point where I was too busy to be productive or present!

The six weeks holidays are here, which means we have both children at home! This, at times, can be challenging as Bekah and I both work full-time jobs. If it wasn't for the grandparents stepping up and helping us out, we would be doing child care all day and working all night! As a society we definitely need a 'Grandparents Day' to show our appreciation to all the GP's out there holding it down!

Eva (aged 10) got a fantastic school report and is above expectation in most subjects, but most importantly she is kind, caring and considerate towards her fellow classmates and we couldn't be any prouder of her. As she is finally tall enough to go on the big rides at Alton Towers we are taking her and a friend for some fun ... and because I want to go on all rides!

S41 contributor Molly Scott has landed herself a paid column at the Derbyshire Times, so sadly this will be the last time she is featured in S41 Local Magazine, for now! I want to say a huge thank you to her for her contribution over the past year and a massive well done. It is well deserved and I couldn't be any happier for her.

You may be forgiven for thinking Top Gear Magazine dropped through your letter box this month! The photo from Richard Gibson was taken during the Classic Show at Eckington and we loved it so much we popped it on the front of the magazine. Visit s41local.com to read about Shaun Lawless's Nissan Skyline GT-R as featured on this months cover!

As the sun is shining I'm off to play with the kids on the back garden. Have a wonderful summer.

Peace, love and positivity.

Simon, Bekah and the kids.

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Charity

The 'Car' Show Must Go On! Chesterfield Rotary & Satelite Rotary catch the sun for their annual car show.

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here's the global pandemic thing that's been going around and alongside it comes a list of rules of what we can do and/or cannot do.

If you're organising a car show do you do it or don't you? Is there any risk as it's outdoors or is it safe? If 20,000 people can attend a football match in a stadium surely a few thousand (hopefully) people can browse some cars at respectful distances and help raise some money for local charities... that need our support and haven't been able to open their charity shops for months!

These are just a few of the questions that the Chesterfield Rotary and Satellite Rotary Clubs faced as the annual show at Eckington approached.

With an event like this you need to book the location in advance, arrange caterers etc, ensure that exhibitors know so they can have their vehicles ready and let people know so they can book the date and come and appreciate the cars and bikes.

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Charity Well we took a punt and sorted a date with Renishaw Hall.

It was after an announcement about dates suggesting that as it was outside we should be OK, so the sub group came together and set about putting everything in place.

We set about testing mobile phone linked credit card readers so we reduce the dependency on cash which seemed to work and would help on the gate. Fab, all is going well.

The Football! England have a key match to play at 5pm on the day of the show, will anyone turn up? We considered rearranging but UEFA were not prepared to reschedule the match... so we agree to kick off (!) at 3pm, people could still come and be home for 5pm. Another disaster averted.

Then a couple of days before the event we're told we need to register everyone on the COVID booking app as they enter! Previously unknown to us when booking, members of the Historic Houses Association, which includes Renishaw Hall, are required to apply the system.

Nightmare, do we call it off? We updated our facebook site with the facts and people started posting responses. The majority said 'no problem' we're still coming and looking forward to it! We're back on again!

So the day came.

The sun flexed it's muscles, it had been a bit shy for a week, and at 3pm classic cars started rolling up the drive to find a friendly greeting from one of the many volunteers on the entrance. The cards readers seemed to be working and the exhibitors areas started filling up nicely.

I took a wander around the event and chatted to a few of the owners, they were all extremely pleased to be out. It had been a testing 18 months and most were just happy to have their cars and bikes out for a spin and the opportunity to spend some time chatting to like-minded folk.

Andrew and Paul from Rotary took a stroll around and picked out a rather nice Austin Healy and a 1938 Triumph Speed Twin as winning car and bike. Quite early on the attendees started to thin out destined to see how England fare.

Viewing numbers were a little down on normal years but after the takings were counted we'd raised £6,000 for local charities including Ashgate Hospicecare, The Elm Foundation and Relate, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.

I have to pass on the thanks of Chesterfield Rotary and Satellite Rotary to everyone who attended. It was great to see so many people enjoying the day and happy to put a few £'s in the bucket for charity.

Visit s41local.com to read about Shaun Lawless's Nissan Skyline GT-R as featured on this months cover!

I joined the Satellite Rotary Club to give a bit back to the community by way of my time, helping out at events like this is always a pleasure and if it's something that appeals to you, just give me call on 07764 801080 or drop me an email: paul@s40local.co.uk.

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The best bike winner, John from Rotherham with his amazing 1938 Triumph Speedtwin, a barn find 6 years ago that he's restored.

The best car winner, Robert from Barlow and his beautiful burgandy and cream Austin Healy 100-6, restored by Robert over the last 12 years.

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Five Go Ape At Sherwood Pines Words & Images: Simon Paterson

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ike many people over the past 15 months Eva (aged 10) missed out on celebrating her birthday with friends and family when restrictions were still in place. So, Bekah had the brilliant idea of taking her and four friends to Go Ape. Well, I thought it was a brilliant idea until I found out I was the designated adult that would be going up in the trees with them! Good old Gavin (Darcey’s dad) volunteered to get involved, which made me feel better as he is considerably taller than I, so if the harness worked on him, I’d be fine!

Go Ape is a short 40-minute driveaway at Sherwood Pines. Sherwood Pines is awesome and I don’t use that word lightly!

As well as Go Ape it has: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

3 walking trails 3 cycling trails 2 running trails Disc golf Bushcraft activities Bike Park and skills loop Go Ape Forest Segway Nordic Walking Play areas Orienteering Bike hire Café Barbecue and picnic areas (BBQs currently not permitted)

Many of the above activities are free, so all there is to pay is parking which is about £7 for the whole day!

Upon arriving at Go Ape I was instantly filled with an impending sense of doom (it’s high up, really high up), but like most strong, alpha males I pretended I wasn’t scared of heights and showed no fear, hoping my wobbly legs wouldn’t give me away!

wire in a graceful manner and Gavin demonstrated perfectly how not to land, which we all thoroughly enjoyed. Sorry Gavin!

The second run was a little higher with an increased climbing difficulty, but not too much. The kids had grown in confidence from their first run and couldn’t wait to take on the next one.

Now, the third run is not for the faint hearted, but after completing the first two we were all ready to take on the challenge.

As well as the sharp increase in height, it introduced a climbing wall which you had to shimmy across and several tightropebased challenges. The girls smashed it and Gavin and I loved it, despite bodging the zip wire landing again!

At the start of the day one of our group was a little sacred, but after pushing herself to face her fears, she had conquered them.

This got me thinking.

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Community

Junction Arts Bringing Communities back together Words: Hannah Bowdler (Junction Arts) Images: Junction Arts

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his September sees the return of the free family event, Tapton Lock Festival, and Junction Arts, the charity behind the event, can’t wait to see you there!

Running over the weekend of Saturday the 11th and the Sunday 12th of September, the Tapton Lock Festival boasts of having something for everyone. Taking place along the banks of the Chesterfield canal, this event celebrates the great outdoors and the incredible wildlife we have on our doorstep. From a climbing wall and canoeing to art workshops and fantastic performances, there is no chance of getting bored.

Hosted in partnership with the Derbyshire County Council Countryside Service, this festival is the first large event that Junction Arts, local arts and wellbeing charity, has been able to run since March 2020. Having worked hard to continue their support to care homes, schools and families at a distance, the team is happy to be back running their events and workshops face to face again, offering people the opportunity to be creative and empowering lives.

This year, Junction Arts is on a mission to bring our communities back together safely, through its calendar of exciting events. They see how involvement in creative and social activities and interaction within our communities alleviates loneliness, anxiety and stress, and you are invited to benefit from this too!

Tapton Lock Festival, 11th-12th September

A free family festival along the banks of the Chesterfield canal. Enjoy the ever-popular climbing wall, ‘have a go’ canoes and boat rides, arts & crafts & circus skills workshops. This year they are welcoming back the captivating bubbleologist.

On Sunday, enjoy children’s puppet shows and performances by Bee Guides Bombus and Borage and their amazing Bee Cart!

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Clay Cross Digital Light Up, September

After working with the Clay Cross community earlier in the year to share the exciting new Town Deal investment, the charity has been busy planning a week of dynamic projection events at the end of September. Stunning new artwork will be projected onto the newly restored ventilation shaft on Market Street as well as other temporary light installations, a digital graffiti wall, and shadow stage. For more information check Junction Arts social media and website nearer the time.

London Marathon, 3rd October

Look out for the Junction Arts shirt running through the streets of London, as local runner Glen Roberts Holland takes on the challenge this year! Already raising over £800, Glen has made a massive difference in the free activities the charity has been able to deliver this year to care homes and schools.

All Junction Arts events and workshops aren’t possible without the generous support of the charity’s fundraisers and business sponsors. Their donations mean more people can feel valued and connected to their community through the vital support the arts and Junction Arts provides.

If you want to join our mission to bring our communities back together safely this September, get involved today and help us continue our working by supporting our Tapton Lock Festival.

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Community

Saffron Kitchen: The Asian Association Words: Simon Paterson Images: The Asian Association

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’d like to start this article with an apology!

Here is what I expected to find when I visited the Asian Association of Chesterfield: A small group of elderly, Asian ladies running groups for Chesterfield’s Asian community. Here is what it is: The Asian Association is a multicultural, fully inclusive community of socially conscious leaders from all walks of life that champion and support those in need. So, for my unconscious stereotyping, you have my sincerest apologies.

Now, let’s showcase and celebrate all the wonderful things the Asian Association does for the people and communities of Chesterfield.

Established in 1982 with the aim of promoting the culture, education, health and welfare of Asian people residing in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire, the Asian Association have been

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breaking down barriers, challenging stereotypes and facilitating social integration for almost 40 years!

The Asian Association's doors are open to everyone and they are always looking for volunteers to help them with their social action projects. I was very pleased to see one of my old school friends Laura volunteering in the kitchen and it was great to hear that local painter and decorator Matt Bradbury had volunteered his time and skills to give the place a complete makeover.

From the moment I entered I was made to feel very welcome by Shar and the team and was pleased to learn that they offer an Asian cookery course that Bekah will definitely be attending when it is running again; I also fancy a bit of yoga as well, it does wonder for the back you know!

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Based in Hasland and open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:15am to 5:15pm The Asian Association host a variety of fantastic groups, workshops and community projects including: • • • • • • • • • • •

Domestic abuse support Race & religion hate crime awareness Language classes Film club Bhangra dance classes Yoga classes Asian cooking classes Drop in sessions Walks Health & wellbeing workshops Luncheon club

During the pandemic they have been running a social action project that has helped 100’s of vulnerable and isolated people across Chesterfield amidst one of the most challenging times in recent history.

Saffron Kitchen was launched in the summer of 2020 as a community meal service, delivering fresh, hot meals directly to the door. During the pandemic this service has been a lifeline for many residents in our community. A variety of both eastern and western dishes are cooked on site in their purpose-built kitchen and I was lucky enough to sample the goods! Perks of the job.

For those who can afford it a modest price is charged, but for those who are struggling financially Saffrons Kitchen offer a free meal service as part of the ‘Feeding Derbyshire’ project run by Rural Action Derbyshire. This service has proved invaluable over the past year.

Saffron Kitchen is going from strength to strength and now offer a full catering service for dinner parties and small events. The profits are fed back in to The Asian Association and used to further fund social action projects in our communities. I look forward to having some friends over soon and treating them to the delights that Saffrons Kitchen deliver to my front door.

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Asian Association and cannot recommend Saffron Kitchen and all they do enough.

If you wish to order a tasty meal and/or get involved with them please get in touch.

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Economy

Reasons: To Shop Local

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When you can of course...

Words: Molly Scott

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f you’re of a certain age, you’ll appreciate how the word ‘local’ has come full circle back into fashion and desirable. When I was growing up, I had some sense that local was the last thing I wanted. I was keen to escape what seemed to be a very boring place. Local pubs seemed miserable places where conversation stopped when someone new entered.

And of course, if you’ve ever watched the darkly satirical comedy, The League of Gentlemen, the “local shop for local people” was definitely to be avoided. Local, at least for me, was associated with smallmindedness and inward looking. And that was the last thing I wanted to be.

Somewhere along the line, the connotations of local changed for me.

Maybe I just got older and wiser, but I feel like local had a revival. Maybe the narrative of the 1980s and 90s that bigger equalled better just eventually wore a bit thin. Perhaps we finally appreciated if globalisation equals homogenisation, then everywhere just feels bland and boring. But something changed. Local is no longer associated with stale, parochial and provincial. Today’s local is dynamic and cosmopolitan. Today’s local is also inclusive. When I talk about how much I love Derbyshire, I mean a contemporary, multicultural, vibrant Derbyshire.

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great example is Shop Indie located on Vicar Lane. They stock a variety of locally made products by Chesterfield’s talented creatives such as Me & Thee, who featured on the front cover of S40 and S41 Local Magazines.

Environmentally friendly: Buying locally grown and made products is simply better for the environment. Let’s take fruit and vegetables. Seasonal, locally grown fruit and veg is infinitely better than anything that has travelled halfway across the world, likely packaged in single use plastic and sold in supermarkets. It’s a no brainer that it has less food miles. The same is true of dairy and meat. I love supporting our local milkman, knowing that the milk comes from nearby farms and that the glass bottles drastically reduce the waste we create.

Highfield House Farm Shop located on Darley Road sells a fantastic variety of locally, grown and reared products.

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I’d also like to stress it’s not about being perfect or having unreasonably high standards. We still get a weekly ‘big shop’ from a supermarket, I often grab a branded coffee on the way to work and my husband makes very good use of the internet to shop, so we definitely aren’t ‘purists’ about this. But I do try to support local when I can. And I feel good about every single purchase.

Anyway, enough waffle! Let’s get down to the reasons why you should shop local when you can.

Good for the local economy: Shopping local creates jobs, keeps people in work and keeps businesses running. Local businesses tend to hire local people. Every pound spent in the local economy tends to circulate longer within it. A great example of a company who pride themselves on this is Alfreton based, Just Jigsaws. All their machine parts are manufactured in Alfreton, prints and corrugated cartons are manufactured in Derbyshire, all the timber is sourced in the Midlands and all their boxes are manufactured in nearby Leicester. So, buying one of their highquality jigsaws doesn’t just support them but all of their local suppliers too. Another

Better service: A family run, local business instinctively just takes more pride in what they’re doing. Many of the local businesses I know pride themselves on getting to know their customers and that results in a friendlier, more personalised service. And if you’ve ever been caught in the vicious circle of computerised ‘customer service’ systems where you just go round and round pressing 1 for this and 2 for that, you’ll appreciate that sometimes it’s better to just to talk to an actual human being who knows what’s what!

Responsive and customer focused: My favourite local businesses have one thing in common, they’re responsive and customer focused. We’ve all heard the old adage about putting customers first, but how often do the big chains actually do this? I love how innovative many small businesses have been. I’m sure they’re all sick to the back teeth of having to ‘pivot’ this crazy year. But that’s what successful operations do. They flex and change to supply demand. Want to click and collect?

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Economy Better quality: When I think of the local shops I know and love, what they all have in common is the exceptionally good quality of the products they sell. Whether that’s the Highfield House Farm Shop with their fresh veg, Shop Indie with their locally made gifts or Libby’s Cafe on Chatsworth Road with their amazing sweet treats, you get what you pay for and I think it's worth paying for!

Keeps our high streets interesting and vibrant: In my mind there is nothing more depressing than the homogenisation of British high streets. Who wants the same bland serving everywhere they go? I certainly don’t. I want to soak in the local character, and enjoy whatever’s great about that place, and then enjoy the difference when I go somewhere new. Chesterfield’s Chatsworth Road,

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Strengthens communities: Shopping locally helps forge strong, united communities. We’ve seen this first hand during the hardships of the last year. When the supermarkets struggled to cope with panic buying, local businesses rose to the challenge. Increasingly, communities might operate digitally, but those fundamental aspects of human interaction remain unchanged. People helping other people. @mollyinderbyshire @Derbyshire Lovely Local Indie

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News

Revitalising Chesterfield Market Words: Edited from a Press Release Chesterfield Borough Council

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he Market Place in Chesterfield has been centre stage for over 800 years. As with anything, times change and we all need to adapt - the market is no exception.

Chesterfield Borough Council has announced ambitious plans to revitalise Chesterfield Market – creating a vibrant open-air shopping experience with new event space, seating, and landscaping.

Drawn up following a first round of consultation with local market traders, town centre businesses and residents, the draft Revitalising the Heart of Chesterfield Vision Master Plan will have been to the council’s Cabinet just before we print. If approved, the draft will be subject to further public consultation before specific delivery dates are finalised for completion of the works in 2022.

Councillor Kate Sarvent, Chesterfield Borough Council’s cabinet member for town centre and visitor economy, said: “Chesterfield Borough Council recognise the need to invest now to make sure Chesterfield town centre remains modern, vibrant, and relevant.

“As the heart and soul of our town centre, we must do all we can to make sure that Chesterfield Market continues to prosper in the modern world, as a destination of choice for traders, residents, and visitors."

Key proposals include: • Re-siting market stalls currently located in New Square and on Low Pavement into a single market ground of 100 stalls in Market Square.

• Re-modelling New Square as a flexible events space – able to hold large-scale events, and accommodate temporary installations and active edges linked to local bars and restaurants • Upgrades to the paving to improve the quality while also making it more accessible for people dependent on wheelchairs, pushchairs, or mobility aids Page 28

• New seating areas and attractive landscaping to create spaces where people want to sit and chat.

• Planting more trees.

• Brighter, more vibrant stall coverings and flexible stalls supplied with water, better lighting and digital connectivity.

• Greater prominence to the Market Hall and the town pump.

However, these are just plans and if approved a consultation will follow between 2 August and 12 September.

You are encourage to take a look and have your say on the future of Chesterfield town centre and in particular, the key proposals for the market.

The council has secured £1.15m funding through the Derbyshire Business Rates Pilot and D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership. Further funding for later phases is being sought from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund.

The second phase of consultation will be carried out via a virtual exhibition.

Exhibition documents will also be available to view at Chesterfield Market Hall and paper copies of the questionnaire from the council’s Customer Services Centre, just off New Square.

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Music

Born in The UK We catch up with front man Tom from local band, Alpaca Factory Words: Paul Chapman Images: Alpaca Factory

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n our June 2019 edition we featured Alpaca Factory, a local band formed in 2018 consisting of friends from Brookfield and St Mary’s.

A few years on and we catch up with Tom Gannon, vocals and guitar with the band, to learn about their latest single ‘Face of God’ and how they have been coping without playing live!

Alpaca Factory are Rebecca ‘Churchy’ Church (drums), James Vardy (guitar), Tom ‘Gan’ Gannon (guitar & vocals) and Jono Vardy (bass guitar), apart from Tom they were all at Brookfield School where the band formed, Tom joined through friends and they picked up a young and loyal following.

They are still quite a young band but quickly found popularity playing live within a couple of months of coming together. Initial gigs were support slots for bands playing at Café Totem (Sheffield), Sidney & Matlida and The Foundry, their most recent gig was at The Leadmill supporting fellow Chesterfieldians ‘Rosadocs’, this was back in March 2020, a few weeks before lockdown.

“The music scene in Chesterfield is thriving” explains Tom, “but we have very few venues.

It would be great to have a music venue with a capacity for a few hundred to help new bands get off the ground.

“Life has been hard for the band over the last

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12 months, not least due to COVID, but also as we develop into our careers, we are finding ourselves spread around the country. Jono, our bassist will be working in London, Churchy will be studying in Loughborough and myself and James will be based in Leeds, I deferred for a year due to COVID.”

The band have continued to demo and record.

The present single was written by Tom and it was only due to lockdown restrictions easing at the right time that they were able to get together and complete the track with the final mixing taking place at Foxden Production in Sheffield.

“James and I have been writing on our own over the past year,” says Tom. “James favours a more electronic sound and I’m perhaps a bit more ‘poppy’. I think this is reflected in the sound of “Face of God’, a bit distanced from our usual guitar band sound.”

Tom mentioned the lyrics but was keen that we as listeners make of it what we will, it’s to be listened to and digested personally. He also discussed how song writing changes as you grow, “writing a proper love song at school is a bit of a risk,” he jokes, “it was more about teenage angst and rebellion when we started, now we get the chance to put our feelings into our music, having a much greater level of confidence in ourselves in our post school style.”

The band had planned to release ‘Face of God’ at the Y Not festival but have had to change plans as the festival will not be going ahead this year. “We’ve had some great support from Dean Jackson who’s program, BBC Introducing, features new music from local bands from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire played on local BBC radio and we can only hope it gets picked up by the national playlist from this platform,” says Tom.

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I asked what challenges face musicians? “As our attention span gets shorter and shorter it becomes harder to grab attention. It takes months to create a three-minute track that must compete with the 60,000 tracks that are uploaded to Spotify each day… that’s one per second!

“The Spotify streaming model as a way to support a band financially is useless, the only way to make money is through playing live gigs and the accompanying merchandise which has been decimated by COVID.” My last question to Tom, if you could only listen to one track on repeat all day, what would it be? “A Bruce Springsteen track of some sort, there are some strong Springsteen influnences to what I do, as we started out we were very British, but I think we’re taking on a more Americanised sound as we grow.”

It’s difficult to tell what the next step will be for the young band, with many venues still closed and the band members moving around the country, Tom is excited for the future and is sure they will stay together in one format or another.

To hear the new single check out their SoundCloud account below and as always Tom was keen to pass on thanks to all their fans, friends and family for being so supportive over the years. If you are interested in contacting Alpaca Factory for bookings and enquiries their socials are below.

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AUGUST Wed 4: Chesterfield and District Family History Society. Online at 7:30pm. John Robinson talks on Robinsons of Chesterfield - A history of the company during the last 300 years. New members and guests are welcome. For further details and to register please send an email to secretary@cadfhs.org.

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Sun 8: Chesterfield Americana Day. All American cars, vans, trucks, bikes and more. Live entertainment, food and drink, autojumble etc.

10am to 4pm at Olympia House Antiques & Craft Centre, 29 Brimington Road. See FB @ OlympiaHouseAntiquesCraftCentre Fri 13: Bat Walks. Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) evening bat walks in conjunction with Friends of Spital Cemetery. 6:30pm at Spital Cemetery. Route along the Rivers Rother and Hipper seeking out bats, finished for 8pm. Bat detectors will help to hear their calls alongside trying to spot them as light dims. Booking through Eventbrite via www.dcrt.org.uk or email to: thefriendsofspitalcemetery@gmail.com

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Keeping the harmony virtually a-live!!

Text & Images: Minerva members MINERVA, named after the Roman Goddess of wisdom, music and the arts, was founded in 2015 when six friends began singing for pleasure and to develop technique. Within months the chorus had grown and, with the support of two experienced musical directors established a varied repertoire of unaccompanied songs which demonstrated the well-blended harmony sound we set out to achieve.

Minerva Chorus members have shared the joy of singing together by performing regular concerts to support local good causes. Singing in front of an audience of 350 at Sheffield Cathedral in aid of Alzheimer’s Society in December 2019, little did we know that it would be the last performance for some time!

2020 began with usual Minerva rehearsals in Walton, Chesterfield on Monday evenings. The chorus was on the verge of appointing a new MD to help prepare for planned performances. Those plans were thrown into disarray when the March lockdown was announced.

Thinking this would be for a few weeks, rehearsals were moved online, and the group had to learn new IT skills for singing muted on Zoom. Minerva perform without sheet music, so it was vital to maintain regular rehearsals to ensure the songs are remembered! Fortunately, the chorus uses professionally recorded teacher tracks to assist learning words and music, this allowed members to adapt to on-line singing.

Minerva has continued to meet every week since March 2020, which has kept the repertoire fresh, and provided continued friendship and support, this was especially needed during the long winter lockdown. Chorus members, many of whom are front line workers, have risen to the challenges of the pandemic and formed even stronger bonds.

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As the ban on live rehearsals and performances continued through 2020, acting MD Anne adapted songs and created new arrangements for the Minerva blend of vocal harmony. Members have prepared several new songs which we have never yet sung together live.

Members also used their IT skills to individually record several virtual performances of new songs and existing repertoire, which provided a focus after the disappointment of having to cancel a whole year of concerts.

Whilst singing indoors in groups greater than 6 is still not allowed, Minerva are continuing with Zoom rehearsals, but we hope to sing together soon and engage with audiences at live events, to share our love of singing and hear the beautiful vocal harmonies. In the meantime, we remain a committed and supportive group, determined to continue to develop and improve in what has been a challenging 15 months.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SING WITH US? Minerva always welcomes interest from women who love singing and might like to join us. There is no requirement to read music, sheet copies are provided, although many members learn through audio learning tracks alone. To find out more about Minerva have a look at the website where you can also view YouTube clips of some of the repertoire.

CAN WE SING FOR YOU? We like to share our enjoyment of singing together by performing for others. If you are considering a possible concert engagement, we’d be delighted to arrange a discussion.

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Brushfield Park: Restore and rebuild Words & Images: Friends of Brushfield Park

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rushfield Park is a children's play area and green space situated within a housing estate to the west of Chesterfield, built in the mid 1980's. Seeing the park locked for the first time in over 30 years only heightened the true state of its disrepair and has encouraged us (the local community) to take steps to revitalise such a much-loved space.

After contacting our CBC Green Space officer, we found that the council have no plans in their budget to carry out necessary repairs in the foreseeable future, yet the council are keen for the community to adopt the parks and green spaces starting a process of fund-raising, awareness and accountability.

We have formalised the group and together we are trying to raise funds that will contribute towards the cost of replacing the current play equipment by holding events for local residents to participate in.

Our local MP Toby Perkins, Cllr Ed Fordham and Cllr Emily Coy have also come on board, along with Holme Hall School showing their support with fabulous drawings of the parks they would like to see.

Please log onto our Facebook account to view all our latest updates from photos of the current park, to meetings and decorating stones. We are trying our best to generate people's interest and involvement for future events.

Friends of Brushfield Park are reaching out to our local businesses to help support us with donations, gifts or sponsorships of events. This will enable us, the community, to complete a brand-new play area for the children.

To make a donation hold your phones camera to the QR code on this page to be taken the Friends of Brushfield Park Just Giving Page.

Our ideas for the park include:

Making the play equipment accessible for all abilities.

Ensuring the park is safe to use with wellmaintained surfacing and equipment.

Creating a fun, enjoyable place for local children and friends to visit. making the green space a hub for all ages.

Improving the wildlife and environmental offering, providing bat and bird boxes.

Encouraging interest with the older residents to include their involvement using notice boards and seating areas for them to socialise. looking at what educational play equipment the park can incorporate, numbers etc...

Providing more exciting, modern and stimulating activities and play equipment.

Bedding plants to involve local people to come together in the community.

We know that green-spaces play a massive part in positive mental health and wellbeing which is why we believe this recreational area could give the children the opportunity to enjoy, learn and flourish with their friends and make a difference to the whole community.

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Westfield Allotments Association Summer Show will take place on the 21st of August in the Orchard. Members and guest are invited to view all of the fantastic produce they have grown. Several prizes are up for grabs on the day and the winners will be presented their awards by Jill Manion-Brunt cabinet member for Health & Wellbeing. Best of luck to all involved.

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Summer Gardening Tips Words: Transition Chesterfield Images: Robert Nixon Betts

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• Second Early potato varieties will be ready to harvest now, depending upon when they were planted. They usually take about 16 weeks to produce a good crop.

They can be lifted as you want them, but if you notice slug holes in the crop it is better to lift them all before the damage worsens.

Store only the undamaged tubers and use the others quickly.

• Summer pruning of apple and pear trees can be done now. This helps them to keep their form and remain healthy without having congested growth.

• Most hedges can be pruned or trimmed into shape now, bird nesting should be over and this will give time for limited new growth before it slows down in autumn.

• Keep sowing quick-maturing salad crops – rocket, radishes, mixed leaves and some lettuces are all candidates – they’ll go on growing until the first frosts. Several lettuce varieties including Winter Density, Great Lakes and Lambs lettuce (corn salad) will last through the winter.

• If you’ve got empty patches of soil, consider sowing a green manure; this will cover the ground and put much needed nutrients back into the soil. This will stop weeds becoming established and is best dug in before it sets seed.

• Several herbs can be sown at this time of year in a greenhouse or cold frame e.g. chervil, dill, parsley and coriander can be protected from frost this way and will crop during the late season and winter.

• Pot up any strawberry runners that have rooted or encourage them to do so by pinning them firmly to the ground and make sure they are watered in a dry spell.

• Apart from gently pottering around the garden, this should be the time of year you can spend most time simply enjoying it; however, it's the time most plants, including weeds, also enjoy, so try to stop them setting seed – there's an old saying, 'one year’s seeding is seven years’ weeding'...

• Keep feeding birds to attract them to the garden, where they will also hunt out damaging insects and larvae. A shallow pool is a great wildlife draw, with the possible added bonus of seeing blackbirds washing themselves in a comically Victorian fashion, constantly checking to make sure they're not being overlooked, and covered head-to-toe in black.

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PROMOTION Chesterfield FC Women Words: Sadie Henson (Chesterfield FC Women)

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ollowing the curtailment of the league campaign, there was a positive ending to the season for the Spireites women’s team as they were promoted to the East Midlands Premier Division.

After an application process where the clubs on and off pitch performance was taken into consideration, the side were rewarded with a place in the fifth tier ahead of the new season.

The league will consist of some good ties with Notts County, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town all in the same division next year.

Commenting on the promotion, first team manager, Michael Noon said “We’re all absolutely delighted with the news, all of the players, staff and board members work so hard week in week out and to be recognised for that means so much.

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"We started out on this journey three years ago when the club was in the 7th tier of women’s football, we achieved promotion in the first season and have had the past two seasons cancelled due to Covid so to say that we’ll be starting next season in the 5th tier is brilliant for everyone involved in the club.“

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Ernie Moss Words & Images: Michael South

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rnie Moss was a born and bred Chesterfield gentleman who went on to become a Chesterfield FC legend. He's played for and managed many football teams during his 39 year footballing career, but he was best known for scoring 192 Spireite goals, which is still an unbeaten club record for his home town club.

However, Ernie's natural born skill of the game came at a price, as in 2014 he was diagnosed with a rare form of frontotemporal dementia which his family believe came from years of heading the heavy old school leather footballs. Since his diagnosis there have been many charity football games and events held to help raise awareness and funds to find a cure to this horrible disease.

As I photographer (but more so as CFC fan), I first became involved with the Moss family back in 2016 photographing his “Once Upon a Smile” charity football game at our ground and to be honest, it has been an honour and an absolute pleasure to have photographed him.

So, who was Ernie Moss?

First and foremost he was a proud family man. In addition to that he was a phenomenal footballer with skill and integrity. But If you are from Chesterfield, then you will already have known that. If you haven't though, then let me introduce you to him.

Ernie (or Ernest Moss, to give him his full name) was born on 19th October 1949 in Hollingwood, Chesterfield. From an early age Ernie showed a raw talent with a ball, so much so at age 17 he was signed by Chesterfield Football Club from his local tube works team. Ernie's position was always up front as a striker where he started the first of his seventeen CFC games that season against Bradford in October 1968. In his debut year Ernie helped the Spireites go on to win the Northern League Cup, so he clearly made an immediate impact to his home town team. This was the first of three spells at Chesterfield over his long career spanning three decades. His first chapter at the club was the longest, lasting 7 years from 1968 until 1975. Ernie played 271 games and scored an impressive 95 goals, many with his head. But we will come back to this later.

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During his time at Saltergate, Chesterfield's home ground, Ernie married his wife Jenny in 1971. They went on to have two daughters Nikki and Sarah.

After a few season's away from Chesterfield playing for Peterborough Town and Mansfield Town Ernie returned to Saltergate in 1979. Ernie's goals helped Chesterfield secure the 1981 AngloScottish Cup and nearly got Chesterfield promoted too that season. Sadly though, due to a pay dispute Ernie rejected an offer of a new contract and decided to leave the club and play his football for Port Vale in the June of 1981.

Fast forward five years (after playing for Lincoln City and Doncaster Rovers) Chesterfield's manager John Duncan brought him back to Saltergate for a third and final time. Here Chesterfield went on to win the 1984/85 Fourth Division. Ernie's goals, many of which were headers, helped the club achieve promotion but being a prolific header of the ball would unfortunately come back to haunt him and his family.

After this however it turned out to be Ernie's final chapter for Chesterfield as he would later be sold to Stockport County, where he played one season there before moving onto Scarborough FC. Ernie's last goals were scored while he was out on loan at Rochdale where he netted in his final two goals.

After this, Ernie decided to retire from full-time football.

An interesting light-hearted fact to mention here is, of all his 240+ career goals, Ernie Moss never scored from the penalty spot. Getting back to his Chesterfield days for a moment, during his testimonial game against Sheffield United in 1986, he took his first and only penalty but unfortunately he missed.

In total, Ernie made 539 appearances for the Spireites and scored a club record 192 goals during his three separate spells at the club.

Ernie's next step was into the world of football management where he had a fifteen year career (both as assistant and first team manager) with clubs such as; Boston United and Matlock Town.

During his time in the dugout Ernie did win some silverware. The Northern Premier League

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Sport Challenge Cup and the Peter Swales Shield both won in 1997 for Gainsborough Trinity and the Derbyshire Senior Cup with Matlock Town in 2004. Ernie ended his managerial days though at Belper Town FC in 2007.

Throughout his footballing days Ernie was also a successful business man, as co-owner of the sports shop Moss and Miller. His business partner was the cricketer Geoff Miller. Together they ran two shops located in Chesterfield and Matlock. Over the years Ernie slowed down his pace in life and sadly in 2014 Ernie and his family got the dreadful news of his dementia diagnosis.

Ernie was always a regular at his beloved Chesterfield FC at their home games, even after his retirement. He would attend with his family and together with the club, they held football games in his honor for the dementia charities to raise funds.

The following years in 2015 and 2016 Chesterfield Football Club declared their home game against Ernie's former club Port Vale FC, as “Ernie Moss Days”. All funds raised were donated to his dementia charities.

Other acknowledgments for his football accolades came, including Chesterfield Borough Council naming a road next to the Chesterfield stadium after him in 2017, named “Ernie Moss Way”

Ernie attended his final home Spireite game on his 70th birthday in 2019. I met up with him and his family for a few photos prior to the game in the club bar. It was breathtaking to hear the fans all cheering for him on the 70th minute of the game! Shortly after this, due to his dementia, his family made the heartbreaking decision to move Ernie into a full time nursing home to better meet his care needs. It was here where he sadly passed away.

Its a shame that the sport Ernie loved and was so good at, has robbed him of his later years with his family. There is one thing though that cannot be taken away from him and that is his fantastic footballing legacy. Ernie is still well loved by all who have met and worked with him.

The fans still talk about him and that's what will live forever, that and photographs of him scoring those amazing goals. In the reception of Chesterfield Football Club there is a mosaic of his bittersweet goal of Ernie heading the ball in the net. That will stand proud for many a year to showcase Chesterfield's highest ever goalscorer, you can be sure of that!

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