Author: Steve Barker

  • Daley News – Volume 1

    Ay-up neighbours! Here is the first volume of Daley News, published November 2025.

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    Daley News – Volume 1
  • Update on Progress – October 2025

    Ay-up neighbours! Since our volunteers’ meeting back in July, we’ve been busy working on important setup tasks for our community – that’s why things have been a little quiet. We wanted to give you a quick update on what we’ve been working on, what we’ve achieved so far and what we have coming up.  The (Boring) Paperwork and Admin Bit 😮‍💨  We were finding it difficult to attract grants, funding and donations (especially from our lovely community) without a bank account, but in order to get a bank account, we needed to set up as an official organisation.  We’re therefore…

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    Update on Progress – October 2025
  • Summary of the First Volunteers’ Meeting

    Ay-up neighbours! We wanted to give you all a quick update following our volunteers’ meeting at the end of July. Thanks once again to all who attended. Overall, the meeting was very positive. We identified a small number of priorities which we can start working on immediately, and generated lots of ideas we can explore as our group develops. In the short term the group will be focusing on the issues of weeds, speeding vehicles and better engagement with the council and police, led by our volunteers. If you would like anything else to be considered, please use our Request…

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    Summary of the First Volunteers’ Meeting
  • First Community Update

    Hello Sherwood Dales residents! Firstly, thank you for your patience – it probably feels like a long time since you filled in your Sherwood Dales resident surveys! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been busy shaping our community and putting key things in place – including email groups, WhatsApp channels, and a Facebook group. We’ve also set up dedicated channels for our volunteers and are looking forward to meeting with them on Thursday 31st July to keep things moving forward. On that note, it’s not too late to volunteer – please get in touch using our contact form and we’ll…

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    First Community Update