“I am at make or break… I may not be around to advocate for the community because I have to go to work.”
Resident and social enterprise leader
Quote: Stainforth (2)
“The developer has diverted democracy”
Quote: Stainforth
“Planning for justice involves the protection of heritage.”
Community leader in Stainforth
Quote: Rhyl
One interviewee stated that Rhyl has had some “great schemes [and] spent millions of pounds”, but it’s “it’s never on something that has been a real community need. It’s been more about what the [local council] think the community need”.
Celebrating heritage, Stainforth, Doncaster
There’s a general feeling of loss around the mining culture and the sense of community it used to bring.
Campaign group Save Our Greenbelt – Conisbrough Parks
Campaign group Save Our Greenbelt – Conisbrough Parks
On the streets of Conisbrough and Denaby Main collecting signatures to campaign against the NSIP largescale solar farm proposed on the greenbelt.
Shaping Stainforth Exhibition, Doncaster
Photographs taken at an exhibition in October 2025 at Frenchgate Shopping Centre. Apologies for some blurry imagery.
I want everyone to be kind. I want us to feel safe on the streets and in our homes.
Can I see my future here? The future is bright.
The future doesn’t have to end here. I trained everyone here, now we need ne premises to train more.
We need places for kids to chill. There needs to be less focus on the past and more on the future.
We make a difference creating this club right here in Stainforth. I want to make a difference.
Shaping Stainforth helped us run free gym sessions for young people this Summer. I want a gym for girls.
We want a free gym for teenagers. This is where I come to chill.
We need better parks, an indoor sports centre, AstroTurf pitches and places to chill out. We need protected areas for the youth.
I just want a better skate park. This park could be designed better – we can help!
I wouldn’t be thriving in my career if it wasn’t for Shaping Stainforth. Kerry saw the potential in me and gave me the confidence to apply for the apprentice role. Now I have so many new opportunities.
It’s very quiet and calm here. I want to stay, it makes me feel better. I have friends here, it will always be home.
Stainforth could be a safe place where everyone knows they will be safe. There’s no light at the end of the tunnel… this is worse than the strike.
We need new sports areas for everyone. I’m so embarrassed, it’s so disheartening. Everything is going up. You can’t tell your kids…
We should have a community growing garden. Bring the community together, train people in being sustainable, teach kids about the soil and nature. We can make the community everything we want.
We could build something that would keep us here.
Quote: West Armagh
“I genuinely think if we continue doing what we’re doing we’re going to promote continued failure and we’re going to continue to have high statistics of addiction, mental health, unemployment and poverty, and we need a new way of going forward to empower local community to have hope for themselves, if we continue doing what we’re doing we’re continuing that cycle of generational unemployment, mental health, disability and addiction”
West Armagh resident and community leader
