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Dates for your diary A reminder that the deadline for voting on the SSTP proposal mentioned below is midnight on 18th JanuarySTAG General Meeting Saturday 7th February 2-4pm Venue: Sharrow Community CentreSTAG Committee meeting Monday 16th February 7.30pmVenue tbcSTAG AGM Monday 20th April time and venue tbc News Street Tree Planting You said….In the STAG…
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Held on line PresentMark James (Chair), Helen McIlroy (Minutes), Ruth Hubbard, Woll Newall, Isabel O’Leary, Paul Selby, Christine King, Mark Brown. Gerry Firkins joined later. ApologiesAlison Teal, Sue Kondakor, Andrew Kondakor, Asha Dube IntroRuth reminded attendees of the purpose of General Meetings (member input/decision-making – underpinned by an ongoing organisational conversation for information-sharing to contribute…
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Present: Helen McIlroy, Paul Selby, Mark James, Alison Teal, Isabel Oleary, Ruth Hubbard, Woll Newall Observers: None Apologies: NA Minutes: Minutes of the 27/10/25 Committee meeting were approved Matters arising Tree Planting STAG Public Facebook Group Old STAG Website Interactive Website for the Plaque Constitutional Review SSTP Update Preparation for the online General Meeting on 11th December 7-8:30 Agenda: 1. Constitutional…
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Street Tree Planting We are making good progress with the exciting project to fund street trees in low canopy/high deprivation areas of Sheffield using the STAG legal fund. We are confident of being able to order the trees by the deadline of 31st March 2026 for planting in the winter of 26/27. We have had…
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This is the 9th and final day of National Tree Week! We hope you have enjoyed the trees we selected to highlight for National Tree Week, and the memories of the tree protection campaign so many of you were involved in. You can see all the selected trees on the new STAG website here. STAG…
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There are 9 days in National Tree Week!, so today is the first bonus tree – Shane’s Tree, a Common Lime (Tilia x europaea), is the only tree on Aldfield Way, a quiet backstreet in Burngreave, near the Northern General Hospital. Shane’s tree was threatened with felling in 2017, for ‘totally bonkers’ reasons. On July…
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Ellen the Lime (named after the Star journalist Ellen Beardmore) is the lone survivor of the very early morning ‘Night Raid’ on Rustlings Rd on the 17th November 2016, when 7 out of 8 targeted trees were felled. Arrests of protestors under the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act (related to flying picketing) were subsequently…
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This London Plane (Platanus x hispanica), with distinctively shaped branches, was threatened with felling along with 22 others healthy trees on Western Rd, mainly because they were categorised as damaging the pavement or offsetting the kerb. The Western Rd trees were planted in 1919, in memory of former pupils of the local Western Road Council…
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Present: Helen McIlroy, Woll Newall, Paul Selby, Isabel O’Leary, Ruth Hubbard (online). Observers: No observers were present for this meeting. Apologies: Alison Teal, Mark James Minutes: The minutes of the last two committee meetings (18th August, 29th September) were agreed as a true and accurate record. Matters arising: ACTION: Isabel to follow up with Alison to ensure contact made to…
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The branches of ‘Stumpy’, a Common Lime on Meersbrook Park Rd, have filled out nicely since this squirrel protected it, on a rather grey day, from the felling crews early on in the protests. Originally, just under half of the 42 trees on Meersbrook Park Rd were planned to be felled. Squirrels – protestors climbing…
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