Sunday 24th August
Charity BBQ at the Market Hotel, Elsecar. From 2pm, so skip lunch as there will be
loads of food, games inc Giant Jenga, raffle etc. Please come along and offer your
support. All proceeds to the Barnsley Samaritans
Saturday 20th September The Sponsored Walk. Meet at the Joseph Bramah at 11am for a 12 noon start. About 8 miles to the Station Inn at Darfield (the long way).
October - Pub crawl with change donations. Race Night (16th Oct TBC)
More information for any events above can be found on the main socials page, under, Charity Events. Also more information can be requested from Margaret by email and please consider offering prizes for our quizzes, raffles and tombolas.
Barnsley Samaritans - 2008/09
(Barnsley Branch) 77 Pitt St. Barnsley. SAMARITANS ORDINARY PEOPLE DOING EXTRA-ORDINARY THINGS
What single word comes to mind when we think of Samaritans? SUICIDE!
Today this is a long way from the truth. Would you believe that only a small percentage of calls are from suicidal people? The vast majority are from individuals faced with problems and dilemmas which at one time or other are beyond their control. Marital difficulties, loneliness, money worries, health problems, addiction, business pressures and depression are just some of the issues facing our callers.
Our volunteers in Barnsley have been listening to such problems for over thirty-three years, day and night three hundred and sixty five days a year. LAST YEAR ALONE WE TOOK 7565 CALLS
Barnsley Samaritans are now in crisis.
It costs roughly £1200 per month to run our branch. Our branch is a registered charity. We receive NO government funding, NO national support and are solely responsible for our survival.
The Barnsley Centre cannot survive unless there is a dramatic increase in donations. Imagine no local non-judgemental organisation to listen to those in need.
TO LOSE BARNSLEY SAMARITANS WOULD BE SUICIDAL.
PLEASE HELP.
Sexually confused? Invalided? Alone? Teenage problems? Marriage in difficulties? Abused at home/work? Addicted to drugs/alcohol? No one to talk to? Racially abused? Suicidal?
WE are HEAR for YOU
CALL SAMARITANS: 01226-202222 Money so far this year = £220 - Updated 12th July 2008
Each year Barnsley CAMRA choose a local charity who could benefit from a little extra money that we can raise during our socials. Below are the charities who have benefited over the years. Over the last five years Barnsley CAMRA has helped raise £9590 for local Barnsley Charities. Thank you.
The club was founded in 2002 to give young people with learning difficulties or disabilities an opportunity to play football. The club now has around 60 players who meet at Barnsley football club each Wednesday evening to train. The club is actively looking for games and tournaments to play in.
The players have various disabilities and teams are grouped depending on their ability. The club's aim is to progress onwards and upwards to the best of their ability. When a player has progressed to the advanced stage they are then trained as coaches to help the less able players. The club needs funding for various projects as well as waterproof clothing, football boots as many of the players are on benefits and cannot afford these items. The club also pays for the lighting at Barnsley football club and any transport to matches and tournaments.
In the summer of 2005 seven players were picked for various teams to represent Yorkshire at the Disability Olympics. The club funded the cost for a coach and nurse, but the players rallied round and organised two sponsored walks, a sponsored car wash and a valentines ball with help from the club. Everyone who went to the Olympics were given sponsorship forms also, as they wanted to do their own fundraising towards the trip.
They were able to send all the young people to the Olympics, and they came home with a silver and a bronze medal plus a fourth place medal. A fantastic achievement that made all their efforts worth while as well as being very rewarding. The majority of the help is purely by volunteers who are from all across the borough and all help in various ways. The players and committee are very grateful for any donations that both Barnsley CAMRA can raise throughout the year as well as direct donations. You can visit the football teams on Wednesdays between 4.30pm and 6pm at the Barnsley FC training ground. Ask for Molly Walker, you will be made most welcome. The club would also be interested if anyone is willing to volunteer, so if you have an interest in football, and can help people with disabilities then also please get in touch by calling Molly Walker on 747313.
Please help support Barnsley CAMRA's nominated charity this year. Watch out for us in a pub near you, usually selling raffle tickets.
Thanks for 2007/08 go to : Acorn Brewery, Team UK, Keel Inn, Canal Street, Barnsley, Wentworth Arms, Penistone, Joseph Bramah, Barnsley, Gatehouse, Barnsley, Waggon and Horses, Oxspring, Travellers Rest, Oxspring, Station Inn, Silkstone Common, Ring O' Bells, Silkstone, Jane - Bank End Close, Bolton-On-Dearne, plus countless others who donate prizes and money etc, etc.
Money Raised To Date - 16th January 2008- Over £1620.50 - Thank you
Over the last year the Barnsley branch along with the Tykes players and committee have helped raise over £1600.
We held a Race Night at the Shaw Lane Sports Club, this was very well
attended and a great night was had by everyone, even those who didn’t win
on the races.
We had a two part sponsored walk from the Wentworth Arms at Penistone
to the Ring O’Bells in Silkstone and called off at the Waggon and Horses
and Travelers at Oxspring and the Station Inn at Silkstone Common, thanks go to all the pubs for
the good beer en route.
We have also managed a couple of quiz nights helping other charities as well as the Tykes. At the
Joseph Bramah in Barnsley a quiz night helped raise money for Clic Sargent Wetherspoons
adopted Childrens charity. While at the Gatehouse, Barnsley money was raised with another quiz
evening for PDSA Rob’s adopted Pets Charity. On both these evenings the moneys were split
50/50 with the Tykes.
Barnsley Beer Festival has always been a giving festival and last year the festival visitors once
again bought raffle tickets and donated unused beer tokens which raised over £300.
Barnsley CAMRA have truly enjoyed the fundraising events in the last 12 months and look
forward to helping the Tykes again in the near future.
Barnsley CAMRA was proud to help raise much needed cash for PATHWAYS over 2006/2007. In April Barnsley CAMRA will make its charity donation at the Pheasant Inn, Dodworth. The Pheasant was held one of the main charity evenings in January and raised £851 on a race night.
PATHWAYS have had a rocky year in 2006 as the office on Doncaster Rd, Barnsley will have to close and be re-located due to the landlord selling up. Barnsley CAMRA events helped raise £2800 (tbc) during the year. We ran raffles, walked miles and miles had fun party BBQ’s and games evenings, the usual stuff.
The money raised will help the group to help the abused in domestic violence, be it female, male. It will also help with having to move to the new premises in Barnsley.
Here are some sobering words from Pathways Patron -
Ian McMillan
I'm proud to be the Patron of the Barnsley Domestic Violence Group (BDVG) or the Pathways Centre; it's a place that's sadly needed more and more and a centre that is vital to the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health of the people of Barnsley.
I'm often asked to be a patron or a supporter of organisations locally and nationally, and to be honest a lot of them are to do with writing and literacy. Pathways is different and yet a lot of the work here is to do with words and the way that abusers and the abused can use (and abuse) words.
Hit. Slap. Smack. Taunt. Torment. Bully. Kick. Cry. Scream. Push. Trip. Stare. Point. Small words, short words that are easy to say but which mean so much in so many different and terrible ways.
Here are a few more short words: Help. Cash. Dosh. Coin. Note. Cheque. Time. That's what we need here at Pathways. Small words with big meanings.
Let's face it, Domestic Violence isn't a headline-grabber. It's not a natural disaster, it's not a famine or an earthquake. And yet, in some ways, it is. It's an unnatural disaster. It's a famine of feeling, where people are hungry for love or a kind word, and it's an earthquake of terror in a house down your street, across your road.
So we need your help. We need your money, and your support, and we need you to know that places like Pathways are, as I said at the start, vital. And, not counting these words that I'm writing now, I've just written 251 words. And I wish that each of these words could get the Pathways Centre a thousand pounds. Then I'd be happy. Because no matter how important or pretty or powerful these words are, they aren't enough. Pathways needs the money, or it won't exist. And you know what happens without a pathway. You get lost. Really lost.
As patron of Pathways I'd just like to say many, many thanks to the Barnsley branch of CAMRA for adopting Pathways as their charity. There are so many demands on peoples' time and money, and it's great to have you supporting a cause that's often forgotten. And of course as CAMRA members you'll remember when real beer was almost a lost cause and we were almost condemned to drinking Watney’s Red Barrel ! So, many thanks for helping a cause that can sometimes feel like it's not fashionable and not at the front of peoples' agendas.
Very best wishes,
Ian McMillan
Please contact BDVG or pass the knowledge of its existence of the group to someone that you know is suffering.
DO NOT SUFFER IN SILENCE
Barnsley CAMRA again sponsored the Riding School for the Disabled for 2005/2006. In January Barnsley CAMRA made its charity donation at the Keel Inn, Barnsley. The Keel Inn also sold beers for £1 a pint with ALL the money being donated to the charity. Thank you Dave and Lisa, this raised £140 on the night.
Riding School for the Disabled is based just outside Barnsley. Barnsley CAMRA events helped raise £1553 during the year, this total has now risen to about £1770. We ran raffles, walked miles and miles had fun party BBQ’s and games evenings.
The money raised will help the school which is self funding provide a much needed service to the 100 to 150 riders each week. It will also help shelter over a dozen horses. The last few years haven’t been the best for the school, their premises often being burgled and vandalised but despite these setbacks the team battle on and continue to provide pleasure to some very deserving kids.
Thanks go to everyone who walked the walk or placed a few pence or pounds in the boxes at the festival or bought raffle tickets in the pubs.
The Rainbow Room at the Barnsley District General Hospital. It's a place for the parents of a baby who has died to grieve, away from the hustle and bustle of the busy Hospital. The money we have raised will help to furnish the room and also go towards additional stationery such as hand and foot prints and cameras etc...
To date Barnsley CAMRA have raised over £2200. Thank you
During 2003/04 Barnsley CAMRA helped raise over £1200 for the Riding School for the Disabled. The school offers a wonderful and active support for kids in and outside the Borough, and is the only self-supporting charity of its kind. The cash strapped charity is still having problems with theft and vandalism. Our money went towards a much needed stable for horses that had been kindly donated. Thank you for all your support.
The club was founded in 2002 to give young people with learning difficulties or disabilities an opportunity to play football. The club now has around 60 players who meet at Barnsley football club each Wednesday evening to train. The club is actively looking for games and tournaments to play in.
The club needs funding for various projects as well as waterproof clothing, football boots as many of the players are on benefits and cannot afford these items. The club also pays for the lighting at Barnsley football club and any transport to matches and tournaments.
The majority of the help is purely by volunteers who are from all across the borough and all help in various ways. The players and committee are very grateful for any donations that both Barnsley CAMRA can raise throughout the year as well as direct donations. You can visit the football teams on Wednesdays between 4.30pm and 6pm at the Barnsley FC training ground. Ask for Molly Walker, you will be made most welcome. The club would also be interested if anyone is willing to volunteer, so if you have an interest in football, and can help people with disabilities then also please get in touch by calling Molly Walker on 747313.
