Arts & Culture

As we approach the new year, we’ve launched a last-minute wall calendar for 2023 in the hope of raising some extra funds for the Messenger. Showcasing a selection of recent (and less recent!) images taken [Read more]

Issue 2 of our e-bulletin is here, an exclusively digital version of your community newspaper. Download it now. In this issue we have features on the musical and dancing event on Parkwood Springs, the opening [Read more]

The Messenger did not receive vital funding. We now face the prospect of closure and we have a very short deadline to find alternative funding. The Burngreave Messenger has been working hard to re-launch itself [Read more]

On Friday 9th September, Burngreave Library celebrated its 150th birthday. Writing on Facebook, the team at the library posted: “Happy birthday to us! On Friday 9th September, Burngreave Library will be 150 yrs old! “The library [Read more]

In what we hope will be the first of our ventures into video, the Burngreave Messenger has made a short video documentary celebrating the return of the Abbeyfield Community Festival on Sunday 31st July 2022 [Read more]

It was a wonderful day of fun and play at the Abbeyfield Festival, back for a triumphant summer 2022 return on Sunday . Despite a few early rain showers, the skies finally cleared and everyone at the festival enjoyed a glorious day of sun. [Read more]

We’ve just launched the FIRST edition of the Burngreave Messenger e-bulletin, an exclusively digital version of your community newspaper, with features on the Abbeyfield Festival, Firth Park Summer Festival and the Firth Park Fun Day. [Read more]

Story by Kate Proctor. Photos by Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children. The largest ever family fun-day to support parents with their toddlers and babies in North Sheffield has been hailed a success by organisers. Almost 200 [Read more]

The Abbeyfield Festival is back on Sunday 31st July and the Messenger will be there with both a stall and a small team with video cameras, covering the event and asking you what you think [Read more]

Polly our editor will once again be travelling to the House of Commons in London to take part in a select committee discussion about the sustainability of local journalism on Thursday 7th July. The meeting [Read more]

It’s the end of an era and the start of a new one for the Ellesmere Youth Project. On Thursday 23rd June 2022 they host their end of project celebration event from 6-8pm at St [Read more]

As the only news publication in the UK with charity status, the Burngreave Messenger has been invited to give evidence on “the Sustainability of Local Journalism” at the House of Commons in London. Our editor [Read more]

Story by Saleema Imam. Photos by Nico Hall, Sarah Truman and Donna Wainman. The Friends of Burngreave Cemetery held their annual well-dressing in conjunction with a community picnic on Saturday 4th June. The theme this [Read more]

Story by Lyn Brandon, Friends of Abbeyfield Park The Friends of Abbeyfield Park (FOAP) Committee are organising a community festival to be held on Sunday 31st July, 12noon to 6.00pm. Meetings of the Festival Organising [Read more]