Rose Ardron, Burngreave resident and Chair of the Burngreave for New Deal (BNDfC) Partnership Board, has been selected on to the board of the Sheffield First Partnership (SFP).
One of five new faces to join the SFP board, Rose joins on behalf of voluntary, community and faith organisations across Sheffield. She has extensive knowledge and experience in this sector thanks to her links with BNDfC and the Open Forum for Economic Regeneration.
Sheffield First Partnership brings together the public, private, voluntary, community and faith sectors in order to:
Identify the key issues facing Sheffield and address them.
Develop a widely supported vision of the city, produce a strategy to deliver it and then make sure it happens.
Present a united view to Governments (UK and European) to attract the support and resources to do what needs to be done.
Sheffield First is working towards the ambition of our city becoming a successful, distinctive city of European significance, with opportunities for all.
Other members of the SFP board include the Leader of Sheffield City Council Jan Wilson, Diana Green, Vice Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, and Med Hughes, Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police.
Says Rose: “I am very proud to now be a member of the SFP board and to stand on behalf of the voluntary, community and faith sector in this city. I am particularly pleased because it now means that there is a representative from Burngreave involved because we have such an important part to play in the overall strategy to regenerate and develop Sheffield.
“It says something very positive about where Burngreave is on the road to regeneration. This involvement with SFP gives us access to a city-wide network and the various opportunities that that brings but, more importantly, it gives Burngreave the chance show its experiences of regeneration and what is needed to make a difference in Burngreave and other disadvantaged areas across Sheffield.”
As part of the Sheffield First Partnership board, Rose will be involved with consultation around the forthcoming 2005-2010 City Strategy.
Rose has been a resident of Burngreave for 33 years and involved with Burngreave New Deal for Communities as an elected community representative since the start of the programme in 2001. She has been chair of the BNDfC Board for two years, concentrating on the ‘how’ of regeneration – the processes of communication, decision making and partnership working as the means of building community participation and leadership.
Rose gives her time freely to BNDfC because she wants to work with others to make a positive difference to making Burngreave a better place to live for all.