Burngreave Messenger – Voice of the Burngreave Community

£500 to £5000 grants available to make a difference in Burngreave

19th February 2020

Grants of up to £5000 are available from Yorkshire Sport Foundation to make a difference in Burngreave. Funding is available to any community groups or individuals with an idea which uses sport or activity to ... [Read more]

Dear Messenger: Night buses diverted due to vandalism

16th December 2019

Dear Messenger, Are you aware that late night buses are not travelling up or down Rock Street and Nottingham Street? I was on the last bus from town on three nights last week and they ... [Read more]

Sheffield against Slovak fascism

16th December 2019

Story and photo by David Hamburg Several hundred people gathered in London at the end of November to protest against the far-right Slovak political party Kotleba – the ‘People’s Party Our Slovakia’ known in Slovak ... [Read more]

Happy New Year

16th December 2019

In place of our regular ‘Hello and thank you’ section, for this issue we thought it would be more useful to be able to wish our neighbours a ‘Happy New Year’. We hope all our … [Read more]

SAGE forced to reduce service

16th December 2019

Story by SAGE | Photo courtesy of SAGE SAGE Sheffield, which has been providing services to adults experiencing mental health problems since 2006, will be radically reducing its services after Christmas 2019. The award winning … [Read more]

Dear Messenger: Providing places for drug users

16th December 2019

Dear Messenger, I was very interested to read about the Burngreave TARA meeting concerning drug use around Ellesmere Green in the last issue. For far too long drug policy, both locally and nationally, seems to … [Read more]

Local Councillors and surgery dates December 2019

16th December 2019

Jackie Drayton 0114 243 5388 (Home) jackie.drayton@ sheffield.gov.uk 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) Surgery dates Burngreave Library, Sorby House, 42 Spital Hill. • Saturday 11th January 11am – 12.15pm Mark Jones 07500 764 202 (Mobile) … [Read more]

Variety of found mushrooms. Photo by Victoria Smith.

Family funghi foray

16th December 2019

Story by Sasleema Imam | Photos by Victoria Smith Half term saw Ziggy Senkans, SCC ecology officer, lead our annual autumn, family funghi foray in Burngreave cemetery. Despite the council workers having mown most of … [Read more]

Tales of learning English

16th December 2019

Story and photo by Lucy Kitto Zeinab moved to England nine years ago. A mum of six children, she has only been able to attend English classes on and off over that time. Back in … [Read more]

£500 to £5000 grants available to make a difference in Burngreave

New events in the calendar

International Women’s Day event at Verdon Rec.

International Women’s Day Conference 2020

Friends of Parkwood Springs Conservation Session February 2020

Parkwood Springs Forest Gardening February 2020

Parkwood Springs conservation session 18th January

Friends of Parkwood Springs open meeting 16th January

Sheffield Folk Chorale Christmas Concert 2019

Be a green man or woman at the Forest Gardening tidy up

Love yourself! Bollywood theme cancer awareness event

Come down and get warm with hot chocolate on Spital Hill

Issue 145 December 2019 online

Dear Messenger: Night buses diverted due to vandalism

Sheffield against Slovak fascism

More from December 2019 Issue 146 online

Happy New Year

SAGE forced to reduce service

Dear Messenger: Providing places for drug users

Local Councillors and surgery dates December 2019

Family funghi foray

Tales of learning English

Dan Jarvis, our other Mayor

I belong to Burngreave – Brian Holland

Fir Vale photo competition