Month: April 2019

Story by Saleema Imam | Photos by Ray Black and Graham Jones What is a ‘greave’, and why did we burn it? If you’ve ever wondered how some of our local place names came about, [Read more]

Story by Rae Panache | Photo by 2030 Vision Rose Tomlin is the founder of Black Owned Business Sheffield (BOBS). She promotes and circulates information regarding black businesses in Sheffield and the surrounding areas. She [Read more]

Story by Graham Parker | Photo courtesy of Ellesmere Children’s Centre Senior professionals in children’s development have called for more emotional support services for children from deprived communities to prevent longer term health and well-being issues [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 11th May • Saturday 8th June 11am – 12.15pm Mark Jones 07500 [Read more]

Photo by Nikki La Vey On Monday 25th March over a hundred people came to the Nelson Mandela room of the Town Hall for the Burngreave Community Star Awards. The awards are given to people [Read more]

Compiled by Pam Grant | Photo by Anwar Suliman WINNING ORGANISATIONS  Singing Through The Seasons Choir IT Community School and Subject Support Wensley TARA Big Brother Burngreave – Reach Up Youth Pitsmoor CAB The People‘s Kitchen Pitsmoor Sheffield [Read more]

Story and photos by Gillian Andrews On 24th February the 186th Sheffield Rainbows, Brownies and Guides (St Catherine’s) celebrated our World Thinking Day which honours the joint birthdays of the organisations founders, Lord and Lady [Read more]

Story and photo by Richard Belbin Rainbows is the youngest GirlGuiding section in the UK, for girls aged five to seven. The 186th troupe for founded in 2003 and now meet at St Catherine’s school [Read more]

Story by Sahal Barre, Tess Awoke and Abdul-Malik Onasan | Photos by Sarah Zagni The Active Burngreave organisation have achieved many of their set goals and provided the group members with once in a lifetime [Read more]

George and Brian get set for their holidays – but has George packed everything he needs? [Read more]

Story by Christine Steers | Photo by Nico Hall Private David Barry of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, died of septic poisoning in Sheffield on 21 September 1916. Born in Ireland, he was living in Canada [Read more]

Story and photo by Steve Poole To say that the scout hut on Holtwood Road was decked out would be an overstatement. Freshly stolen bits of wood and leaves hung from the ceiling and no [Read more]

Hi my name is Joel Blessan, I am 9 years old this month, I study at Pye Bank school in Y4 and I play regularly at Abbeyfield Park. Recently I wrote a story. I hope [Read more]

Dear Messenger, When visiting Sorby House recently, I attempted to use my Blue Badge to park nearby, in one of the very few disabled parking spaces available in the area. Unfortunately, I was unable to, [Read more]