Council and Democracy

Agenda item

Mayor's Communications.

Minutes:

The Mayor referred to the following Mayoral engagements:

 

·        A presentation from Sheena Field of the Medaille Trust, which had been set up to help victims of trafficking in the UK; 

 

·        Remembrance events in November where the people of Chesterfield paid tribute to all those who had served their country, including a very moving event at Spital Cemetery;

 

·        An event in Brimington where restaurant owners across North Eastern Derbyshire and South Yorkshire came together to raise over £37,000 for the Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar;

 

·        The Celebrating Diversity event, where many different communities brought contributions of food to a lunch;

 

·        The rededication of the Church of the Annunciation and the inauguration of the new parish ‘Our Lady Queen of Peace’, which merged the Church of the Annunciation with the Church of the Holy Family on Derby Road.