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1st November 2020

Dalton Newsletter – November

1st November 2020

Rawthorpe and Dalton Library opening times

19th October 2020

Rawthorpe and Dalton Library is open for computer use by appointment
Monday 1-3pm
Tuesday 10am-12pm
Friday 10am-12pm

and for borrowing
Monday 3-5pm
Tuesday 12-1.30pm
Friday 12-1.30pm

Ring 01484 414868

Christmas Hamper Appeal

4th October 2020

This Christmas we want to ensure that our most vulnerable neighbours enjoy some Christmas food and gifts.

Thank you so much for signing up to donate a hamper(s)—it really will make a huge difference to families and individuals in the Dalton Ward.

We work closely with partner organisations across the Ward who identify some of their most vulnerable clients who have no one else to turn to at Christmas.

Please make your hamper as attractive as possible, both in how it’s wrapped and what you include inside, to demonstrate to the recipient that people do care and that they are valued this Christmas.
What shall I include in my Christmas hamper?

Below is a suggested list of contents for a hamper for a single person, Please increase quantities appropriately if you are providing a hamper for a couple or
family, remember no need to worry about everyday essentials as your hamper will be delivered with our seven day food and hygiene packages.
Please note hamper recipient info should be checked carefully for any dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian, celiac, halal etc.)
The prices of the individual items are only approximations, but as the cost a hamper for a single recipient is likely to be in the region of £50 and the assumption that the cost per hamper will increase by approximately £15 per additional recipient, we strongly advocate that individuals or small voluntary groups donating a hamper/s task friends, family or group members to contribute an item/s from the list to help make up the final product.

“WE REALLY DO WANT TO MAKE CHRISTMAS POSSIBLE FOR THE RECIPIENT/S”

Suggested contents (number and size of the individual items will have to be
increased to reflect the number of recipients to be catered for)

 Coffee/hot chocolate – £5
 Tinned meat (Ham/Chicken) – £2.50
 Cheese/crackers (please check dates carefully) – £5 + £2.50
 Snacks/nibbles – £2.00
 Selection boxes or chocolate treats £4
 Festive sweets/biscuits – £3.50
 Christmas cake/chocolate log/gingerbread house – £7.50
 Mince pies and/or Shortbread £1.50
 Cordial/fruit juice or other non-alcoholic drinks £2.50
 Christmas crackers (for 2 or more recipients, please do not include in single
persons hamper) £5
 Age appropriate gifts, nicely wrapped and labelled (once you have been
allocated a hamper you will find out details of the ages and gender of your
hamper recipient/s so that you can buy appropriate gifts). – £10
 A Christmas card with a personal message & words of encouragement.
Important Reminders –
Please return hampers to your allocated drop off point by Friday 11th December.
Please ensure hampers DO NOT contain any ALCOHOL.
Please ensure all food donations will still be in date for Christmas.
Keep on reading for important hamper packing hints and tips!
Hamper Packing Hints and Tips Presentation and Packing
 If you are using a cardboard box, make sure to tape the bottom of your box
well…we don’t want everything to fall out as we lift it!
 Place heavy items on the bottom… nobody wants to receive broken biscuits
or squashed cake!

 Distribute the weight evenly; this will help when transporting your hamper.
(Use several boxes if needed but please ensure each is labelled with your
donor details and state box 1of2, 2of2 etc.)
 Please wrap your hamper nicely. It’s what’s on the inside that counts, but
first impressions do make a difference!
 Make sure your name, hamper donor ID (see email from your hamper sign-up
for these), hamper size (e.g. family of 3 etc.) and organisation are clearly
marked on the outside of your hamper box.
 If you’re providing a hamper for a family, why not get a large sturdy plastic
box(es) with a lid which the family can later use for storage?
 If your hamper recipient has requested a Vegetarian or Halal friendly
hamper, please do not include any meat products, especially pork, including
gelatine, which can be found in items such as sweets, jelly and marshmallows.
 Make sure items contained are within their ‘best before’ date and will still
be in date for Christmas.
 Please do NOT include Christmas crackers if your donation is for an
individual. Please DO include crackers for hampers for 2 or more people.
 Include appropriate amounts of food depending on the number of people the
hamper is for.
Gift Ideas
Men: Socks, Toiletry Gift Set, Puzzle/Game, Mug, One-size Slippers, Gift Card.
Women: Toiletry Gift Set, Candle/diffuser, Picture Frame, Accessories, Hot
Water Bottle & Cover/scented wheat bag, Gift Card.
Teenage Girl: Toiletry Gift Set, Fluffy Socks/Slippers, Stationery, Mug,
Accessories, Jewellery, Make-Up, Gift Card.
Teenage Boy: Toiletry Gift Set, Socks, Mug, Puzzle/Game, Stationery,
Confectionery Gift Sets, Gift Card.
Children: Colouring Books/Craft sets, Age Appropriate Reading Books,
Stationery, Cuddly Toys, Games, Cars, Dolls, Puzzles, Gift Card.
If you have any questions at all about making your hamper, please email

info@daltontogether.co.uk

Dalton Together – Message Triangle – how it all started!

29th September 2020

Cummins has been at their site in St Andrews Road for nearly 70 years and have a world class reputation for innovative technologies specifically in designing and manufacturing turbochargers in Huddersfield. The business has long believed that it has a responsibility towards the community in which it operates and focuses employee community engagement in 3 priority areas namely education, equality of opportunity and environment. Every Cummins employee is encouraged to use at least 4 work hours to contribute to local projects and partners by leveraging their own unique skills that are honed in roles used to delivering results and applying creative ingenuity to solve challenges.

Lucy Bristow is the Capital Manager based in Huddersfield but has been the Community Involvement Team Leader for 3 years representing the company in many community and council led forums in the local region. As a regular attendee of the Dalton Ward Partnership meeting, she first learnt about what was initially being discussed as a ward governance group. With many voices from community organisations, businesses and Councillors contributing to what this group should do and what it should look like, there was a struggle to find focus. Lucy offered to host a workshop on their Huddersfield site to work on a message triangle and mission statement for the group. The process would take everybody’s opinions into account and resolve them into a triangle which best represents what the aims and mission of the group is.

In the end, the process took 2 workshops and 15 people from various community interests contributed 6 hours each to complete the work. It was facilitated by Cummins employee, Michelle Oddy who kept the workshop flowing and the participants motivated. Michelle took everyone through steps to show how the triangle effect simplifies the message so that it stays in the mind but graphically demonstrates that messages on each equal side are all equally important.

The workshop outcomes formed a clear and consistent message for what we now know as Dalton Together. The 3 sides of the triangle that were highlighted were: 1. Speak up for our community, 2. Seize opportunities to build a thriving community and 3. Work together to make a bigger impact in our community. All of these are now utilised by Dalton Together and form the vision of the group.

Lucy said “It has been great to include everyone from the community in this process. Dalton Together was always going to be a group championing the needs of the Dalton Ward so it was important to have diverse voices heard and represented. I personally enjoyed being part of the early formation of the group and will continue to take a keen interest in what it goes on to achieve. I’m also proud of how we can take business processes into the community to make it stronger and more impactful.”

Launch of Dalton Together

27th September 2020

Dalton Together is a new partnership organisation that aims to strengthen the community in the Dalton Ward area of Kirklees.

The Dalton Ward consists of Dalton | Kirkheaton | Rawthorpe | Moldgreen | Waterloo | Lakes | Standiforth | Town Estate

Its purpose is to:

Work together to make a bigger impact in our community

Attracting new resources, funding and ideas
Creating pride and belonging in our community
Encouraging community connections and sharing experiences

How did it all come about?

Ward Councillors, Peter McBride, Naheed Mather and Musarrat Khan alongside their Council ward support officer (Cheryl Reid), have for some time now been hosting and facilitating Ward Partnership Meetings as part of their commitment to ward partnership working and have regularly discussed their vision for improved ward working in order to develop a whole ward partnership approach …. Being Ward Wise (was then, a working title) to:

• Strengthening partnership working and putting in place governance arrangements across the ward
• Providing generous leadership across the ward to enable Cllrs, the community and partners to champion shared goals
• Responding to shared community priorities and needs through new partnership working arrangements
• Increasing the effectiveness and sustainability of community groups across the ward (existing and newly emerging ones – of all sizes and abilities)
• Sustaining current provision and develop essential community facilities across the ward
• Developing new activities and services and build on strengths and assets that exist across the ward
• Undertaking volunteer succession planning – by supporting existing volunteers and growing new generations of younger volunteers across the ward by putting in place a Volunteering Strategy bespoke to the area
• Developing strategic communication, community engagement, ward/funding plans for the ward to support ward working

So ….. the Councillors hosted two partnership residentials held at Northern College in Barnsley to help local partners, local community groups and local residents work through some of the opportunities and challenges to make the above ambitions a reality. 

The work undertaken on the residential then culminated into a creative but intense visioning session which Cummins, a multi-national organisation, kindly hosted, on behalf of the Dalton Ward Partnership.  Following this engaging process the message triangle (above) was created which sets out the vision for a new community led partnership organisation – named Dalton Together. 

Third Sector Leaders were then approached to work with the partnership in order to formalise its status and put in place all the relevant governance requirements for it to function in an open and transparent way, in order that it could also attract investment into the area.  The Councillors then invested a significant amount of Council funding to Dalton Together to help get it up and running and responding to local needs.  Syngenta, another multi-national organisation, then offered to host at their site, a Dalton Together ward partnership meeting, and invited over to Huddersfield – Keighley Big Local – a successful organisation who established itself to create lasting change in its communities.  Dalton Together picked up lots of learning, inspiration, lessons learnt and good practice which proved beneficial and Dalton Together is now in an exciting place to be able to promote more widely what it can offer to residents, partners, community groups and local businesses because as a community partnership … ‘together we make good things happen.’

We have focussed our approach to 4 key groups within our ward and they are:

If you would like to get involved in any way please contact us through the website or email info@daltontogether.co.uk

To keep up to date with the latest news, events and opportunities within the Dalton Ward follow us on social media.

A Local Offer For All The Family

23rd September 2020

Kirklees Libraries Announce Plans To Welcome Back Local Communities

23rd September 2020

Kirklees residents can once again visit a local library as part of a phased recovery plan which sees buildings open to the public.

Health and safety has been at the heart of preparations as staff work hard to make sure visitors, staff and volunteers remain safe as further library services are re-introduced.  Controlling the spread of the virus is critical and visitors will be reminded to stick to government social distancing guidelines.

Which libraries are open? Read more here

Chat Health Film

17th September 2020

I’d welcome all local businesses to get involved

8th September 2020

From Carl at Syngenta Ltd – Huddersfield

“I’ve seen the development and growth of the Dalton Together Partnership arise from a strong community feeling of wanting to get things to done to improve the ward. This journey began many months ago, long before the current pandemic and I have seen how the partnership can deliver real benefits for local residents. Distribution of food parcels, hand sanitizer and face coverings have all been undertaken by the partnership.

Here are some photo’s of myself delivering Sanitizer and face masks to support Dalton Together to carry out community activities, such as the distribution of meals as part of the summer food sharing project.  Syngenta also hosted a previous Partnership Meeting which included representatives from Keighley Big Local.  We have as a partnership, picked up lots of valuable learning and good practice from them, which has positively influenced how Dalton Together has evolved.

I’d welcome all local businesses to get involved and play a part supporting Dalton Together…. Together we can make great things happen”