Happy Easter to everyone from Social Eyes Rotherham. Hopefully, everyone has received lots of eggs.

Still some egg deliveries being made.

Visiting to two Doncaster parks to take advantage of the sunshine and extend our local area travelogue.

Elmfield Park Chequer Road, Doncaster DN1 2AN

Home to a junior football club, Hyde Park Knight JFC in Doncaster who have teams running from the nursery team to U16s inclusive. Everyone who runs the club and teams are volunteers and we are very family orientated club.

The park also includes:

• places to play including toddler and junior play areas and a playing field
• picnic areas
• sports facilities including tennis courts, multi-use games area, table tennis table, Teqball table and football pitches (visit our football pitches page for booking information)
• teen sheltered seating
• bowling green (visit our bowling green page for booking information) 
• walking routes throughout the park
• a 2 mile gentle walk starting at the park. For the full route, visit our walking in Doncaster page
• public sculpture/memorial.

Sandall Park Thorne Road, Doncaster DN2 5DY

Friends of Sandall Park are a group of like minded people dedicated to the improvement of the park for the benefit of its human visitors, birds and resident wildlife.

Our group is primarily made up of volunteers who work alongside professionals from various agencies committed to regenerating the park. We are enthusiastic, forward thinking and will continue to develop the park in a way that reflects what our visitors want.

Just look around the park and you will see a variety of changes brought about by our group. Walk and jog on the fitness trails, stroll around the nature trails or relax and have a picnic in the picnic area while studying the wildlife information boards. You may just wish to walk around the lake and rest on any of the numerous new benches.

Sandall Park is an important and unique resource for the people of Doncaster as a whole, and the local community in particular.

An update: Colin’s Super 7 for Autism fund raising 7k walk, 7k run & 7k cycle has been completed. Anyone wishing to make a donation the fundraising page will close at midnight on Tuesday 6th April 2021.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/colins7for700kforautism

It was a wee bit cooler for Colin today as he completed his 7k walk in aid of Autism. A just giving page has been set up at :

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/colins7for700kforautism

Here are the photos of all the challenges.

First the 7k walk, followed by 7k bike and then the 7k run.

Well done Colin.

Great excitement as our minibuses [socially distanced] loaded up.

The beautiful sunshine heralded another travelogue outing, this time to Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield.

Norfolk Heritage Park is a Victorian park with an English Heritage Grade 2 Star listed landscape. A City Park close to Sheffield city centre providing great play, sport and café facilities.

There is no admission charge and Norfolk Heritage Park is open at all times. The Centre in the Park is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm. There is a café but Covid restrictions apply.

There was a hospital delivery of the Easter treats and Tom’s birthday and a purchase for next year’s odd socks day.

This beautiful weather has meant more outdoor visits, so enabling us to continue with our travelogue of places to visit around the South Yorkshire area that are disability friendly.

While the mainly girls trip went to Wentworth, the boys went exploring at Monk Bretton Priory and for those not at Social Eyes the Green Team went out delivering Easter eggs and Easter activity packs.

The Priory of Monk Bretton was founded in the year 1154 and belonged, as with St Johns, to the mighty, French order of Cluny, whose members followed the Rule of St Benedict, from the 6th Century. Barnsley MBC’s Museums Education Officer has put together a multi-media education program to help schoolchildren learn more about the priory. There are information panels, edited by English Heritage, on site for daytime visitors.

Hi all,

As some of you know I have the privilege of helping with an open-age football league for adults with learning difficulties and autism called the SYACL and with a disability service provision in Rotherham called Social Eyes.

This week ahead  is World Autism Awareness Week so I’ll be running 7k cycling 7k and walking 7k for Social Eyes.

The 7 represents the fact that 1 in 100 folk in the UK  has some form of autism – 700,000 people.

You can check Social Eyes out at www.socialeyesrotherham.co.uk 

and the SYACL at www.southyorkshireabilitycountsleague.com

If you can support this fantastic group by sponsoring me that would be great, but if you can’t just give me some words of encouragement! 

best wishes and thankyou, Colin