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Artist’s impression of entrance to wetland area
Activities at Winyates Barn
Winyates Barn Community Centre will be hosting a media
workshop in partnership with Kingfisher FM on 20th June.
Workshops on the day will include news reading, presenting
skills, research and background work, technical camera work
and editing.
Activities currently available at the centre are:
➤ Action Sport gentle keep fit on Tuesdays 10.30am to
11.30am
➤ Autumn Club on Tuesdays 1.45pm to 3.45pm
➤ Redditch Gateway – alternate Tuesdays 7pm to 9pm
➤ PACT meetings – 2nd Wednesday of each month 7pm to
8pm
For more information contact Winyates Barn
on (01527) 510354.
Among the improved range of security measures being
brought in are video intercoms, magnetic locks and a fob
entry system.
The project has been modelled on a security upgrade at the
Woodrow Centre which has resulted in large fall in burglary,
graffiti and vandalism over the last two years and saved the
Council and the Redditch Community Safety Partnership
several thousands of pounds.
Children have designs
on future of green space
Schoolchildren have turned artists to help transform a green
space close to their school.
Pupils from Roman Way First School have been working with a
sculptor and landscape architect on artwork to feature in a
revamped open space off Colts Lane/Dolben Lane.
Children in Years 3 and 4 have been working with sculptor
Michael Scheuermann on ideas for carved stone artwork to
feature in the space, which is being transformed as part of the
Council’s enhancement project in Winyates West.
The sculptures will be carved by Michael on the school site.
They will be abstract, based on figures wrapped in muslin.
Other plans for the overhaul of the former play area include
introducing a wetlands area. It is hoped that work will be
completed by the summer.
Winyates Barn Community Centre
Local champion remembered
Winyates lost a long-standing champion
with the death of former Leader of the
Council Albert Wharrad last New Year’s Eve.
A lifetime resident of Redditch, Albert
Wharrad represented Winyates Ward from
1983 until 2002 and from 2004-6.
He first became a Councillor in May 1958
when he was elected to the former
Redditch Urban District Council. Albert
served on it until 1967, becoming its
Chairman in 1966. In May 1970 he was reelected
and served on both the Urban
District Council and its successor, Redditch
District Council, until May 1976. His time
serving Redditch Borough Council was
between 1981 and 2006 in which he was
a long-serving Leader of the Council and
during much of this period a member or
Chair of most its Committees.
With the exception of four years in the
Army serving in Egypt, Palestine and the
Sudan, Albert was a spring maker in a
Redditch factory all of his working life.
Albert was described at his funeral
service as “driven by a fury and passion
to defend the underprivileged and fight
for a fairer more equal society in his
home town . . . the embodiment, not just
of leadership but also of judgement,
principle and integrity.”
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