Year: 2018

Story and photos by Julie Clark At Abbeyfield Primary School we pride ourselves at being a caring school. Not only do we have wonderful children, our parents are pretty special too. When we decided to [Read more]

Story and photos by Deborah Blencowe On Monday 19th November I was kindly invited to get involved with an art session at Pye Bank CE Primary School. As part of the work during anti-bullying week [Read more]

Story by Deborah Blencowe | Photographs provided by Albert Hoult I visited local residents Margaret and Albert Hoult who told me the story of a charity pram push that took place around Pitsmoor in 1976. [Read more]

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]

Story by Ruby Munson-Hirst Burngreave based mental health charity, SAGE, run a women’s community singing group Singing Through the Seasons every Monday (term time) between 12.30-2.30pm, at The Welcome Centre, Nottingham Street. The group welcomes [Read more]

Story by Tamikka Reid | Photo by Graham Booth Sheffield based youth charity Endeavour is this week unveiling its brand new teaching kitchen at their headquarters in Fir Vale. The kitchen features eight stations with [Read more]

Photo from the 2017 awards by Anwar Suliman We will be hosting Burngreave’s New Year’s Honours early next year, and there is still an opportunity to nominate a worthy person or organisation! If you know [Read more]

As reported elsewhere in the Messenger, your councillors have been keen to help set up a local Universal Credit Working Group. Last year, we agreed that we would ‘work with partners to mitigate the impact [Read more]

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 12th January 11am – 12.15pm Mark Jones 07500 764 202 (Mobile) mark.jonescllr@sheffield.gov.uk 0114 [Read more]

Story by Carrie Hedderwick | Photos courtesy of Adnan Hussain Meet Adnan Hussain who has recently completed his short novel ‘An Unforgettable Date’ about a gay couple’s love affair. How not only two, but three [Read more]

Story and photos by Jackie Jones Cheap Thrills, the Zero Budget Film Festival, hit Pitsmoor once again, for its eighth successful year. The event organised and hosted by ‘Commander’ Martin Currie attracted a record 1000+ [Read more]

Story and photos by James Woollen On the 26th November, St Catherine’s held their Christmas fair attended by family members of the residents. Glasses of sherry and mince pies were handed out and there were [Read more]

Streets of Light in Fir Vale Story by Kevin Stapleton | Photo by Patrick Moran Hundreds attended this years ‘Streets of Light’ around Fir Vale, with houses joining in from Earl Marshall Road up to [Read more]

Story by Anne Wyatt | Picture by Jonathan Turner I came away from the Sunday Best exhibition at Yorkshire Art Space Exchange Studios full of renewed pride at being part of such a diverse and [Read more]