John Hays

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My name is John Hays, I have lived in Highgate, Goldthorpe and Bolton upon Dearne all my life and am a founding member of the Goldthorpe Development Group.

 

I am an ex-miner and have seen the rapid decline in the Dearne from the mid-1990’s onwards, my frustration at seeing this decline led to the forming of the Goldthorpe Development Group in 2012.

 

The Group are residents/workers of Goldthorpe volunteering in order to help revitalise the community, prevent isolation, reduce anti-social behaviour and create a better environment for our future generations.

 

We started with street clean-up’s which led to BMBC donating equipment to support our volunteering. The group then began putting on fundraising social events which led us to focus on the elderly and vulnerable who we saw struggling in the area. Our monthly social events for the elderly over the last five years have been supported by the Dearne Area team of BMBC and have been very popular; these sadly have had to stop the time being because of COVID. Funding helped us put on bigger events which saw around 3,000 people attending both our Bounce into Summer and a Christmas event at Goldthorpe Market.

 

This is why I’m passionate about the Dearne area, because the people here are “Simply the Best”.

 

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