Advice & Support

The Mini Messenger needs youth groups, schools and people aged 5-25 to help create a section made by and for young people. Training and support is available. If you would like to get involved please [Read more]

ASSIST Sheffield provides accommodation, information and support to people who are seeking sanctuary and have been refused asylum. Without legal status, not being allowed to work, or access any form of statutory support, people become homeless and destitute in our city. The eight ASSIST houses in Pitsmoor, Firvale and Firth Park have four bedrooms, each room housing an asylum seeker. The Messenger visited some of the residents in these houses and spoke to a few who have become keen gardeners. [Read more]

Safiya Saeed 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) Safiya.Saeed@councillor.sheffield.gov.uk Talib Hussain 07894 413 952 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) talib.hussain@councillor.sheffield.gov.uk Mark Jones 07472 501 187 0114 273 5380 (Town Hall) mark.jones@councillor.sheffield.gov.uk Surgeries Burngreave surgeries are shared [Read more]

A community fun day is coming to Ellesmere Green on WEDNESDAY 15th September  at 11.30am-2.30pm. Organised by the Reach Up youth group, they invite you to join local residents and businesses on a fun day [Read more]

A Jobs Fair for ages 16 and over, featuring employment links, interview workshops and C.V. assistance, is coming to the Verdon Street Centre on Monday 23rd August 11.30am – 4pm. The event is hosted by [Read more]

Bilingual staff from Maan Somali Mental Health are present everyday providing support in English, Somali and Arabic at the Burngreave Vestry Hall drop in vaccination clinics. They are there supporting the health professionals, giving advice [Read more]

The COVID Community Bus will be at additional locations in and around Burngreave, providing lateral flow tests for those without symptoms, free boxes of home testing device kits, vaccination advice, support to book an appointment [Read more]

Commissioned by Burngreave-based Reach Up Youth, Sheffield Rapper Sliime has written and recorded the new single ‘Allow It’, which aims to inform and inspire young people to get their Covid vaccinations. In what could be [Read more]

The Grab the Jab walk-in Covid vaccination clinics will be available at Burngreave Vestry Hall from Tuesday 10th August to Sunday 15th August. It will be open 11.15am – 6.30pm each day for first and [Read more]

The COVID Community Bus will be in Burngreave from 7th – 11th AUGUST providing lateral flow tests for those without symptoms, free boxes of home testing device kits, vaccination advice, support to book an appointment [Read more]

The Burngreave Foodbank centre has reopened with some changes and new opening times for collection of food parcels. For collection of food parcels in person, it will now be open on Wednesdays and Fridays 1-3pm [Read more]

Story by ECC. “An incredible adventure!”  This is how Dr Sharon Curtis describes her leadership. Sharon is the head of Ellesmere Children’s Centre and has been since opening in 1996. The award winning centre has [Read more]

Story by Saleema Imam | Photos by Carl Rose. Messenger volunteers visited our newest purpose-built mosque at Petre Street, joining the largest congregation of the week for Friday prayers. The project received its first building [Read more]

Story and photo by Sharmarke Ismail When the restrictions eased MAAN encouraged people to be safely active and socialise in Abbeyfield Park- some elders enjoyed football and others did park walks. Misinformation and disinformation MAAN [Read more]