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Now in its 20th year, the Dronfield 10k is a two lap road race set in Dronfield Woodhouse, near Sheffield. The course is accredited by UK Athletics, and is a well-marshaled undulating route on roads. The Fun Run, which takes places at the same time, is a 2km run around the traffic-free estate footpaths.

The Dronfield Heritage Project will provide the whole community with opportunities for participating in learning and discovery activities, based around the colourful lead industry entrepreneurs who occupied many of the town’s principal houses in the 17th and 18th centuries. John Rotherham, a successful lead and millstone merchant, built Dronfield Hall on High Street in the early 18th century and may have converted the adjacent Medieval timber framed manor house into a barn. We want you to help us find out more about these characters and the houses they occupied. This will be achieved through four related projects, designed for volunteer participation, currently in their early or planning stages: • Computer digitisation of relevant materials from the Dronfield Archives. This process will facilitate research and allow archive material to be accessed on screens in the new heritage centre and on our website. • A historical research project looking back from the early 18th century and forward to the 19th century. • An archaeological investigation may reveal hidden secrets about Hall Barn and its surroundings. • The rescue and redevelopment of Dronfield Hall Barn. This historic Grade II* building will be rescued from certain dereliction and re-developed as a heritage and arts activities centre, and prestigious functions venue. A distinctive rear extension to Dronfield Hall Barn will house an education centre, archive study room and services. The original building will be largely open plan on two floors so that visitors can appreciate the medieval interior, enjoy viewing the high specification heritage and arts exhibitions and take refreshments.

FoDS are a group of people whose aim is to get more services on more days from Dronfield railway station by promoting it and lobbying central government (the Department for Transport) and the train operating companies. Our members include representatives of North East Derbyshire District Council, Dronfield Town Council and the Civic Society. We are actively supported by Derbyshire County Council. It also has the full support of our local MP Natascha Engel; indeed it was she who brought us together by calling a public meeting. New members are most welcome at any time.