Children & Young People - Burngreave Messenger

The NEW e-bulletin edition of the Burngreave Messenger online now

9th August 2022

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]

NHS health visitor, Cath Baker, supporting creative activities for children at a family fun-day at Firth Park

Firth Park Fun-Day hailed a success

2nd August 2022

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]

Abbeyfield Festival 12-6pm Sunday 31st July.

The Messenger stall and camera team at the Abbeyfield Festival Sunday 31st July

27th July 2022

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]

Arts & Culture

Ellesmere Youth Project celebrate the end of an era

23rd June 2022

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]

Children for the adventure playground showing off their onions.

Playground kids know their onions

10th June 2022

Burngreave children have been busy celebrating after harvesting a bumper crop of spring onions. The Pitsmoor Adventure Playground team were recipients of training from the Royal Horticultural Society on how to grow vegetables as part [Read more]

Jeld-Wen staff team with Patrick Meleady

It’s child’s play for a team of volunteers

2nd June 2022

A team of staff from Jeld-Wen, a manufacturer of wooden doors, windows and stairs, took a day out to visit Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and help make a big difference to the local community. The team [Read more]

FREE drama workshop at Burngreave Library

6th April 2022

Great news! Chol Theatre will be running a series of FREE drama workshops during the Easter Break including one at Burngreave Library (Carwood Suite) on Tuesday 12th April 2-3.30pm for 7-12 year olds. They will [Read more]

Reach Up Sisterhood Mini Messenger

4th April 2022

The content for the Spring 2022 Mini Messenger has been written and supplied by women at the Reach Up Youth Sisterhood. As well as being in the middle pages of the printed edition of the [Read more]

Pitsmoor playground awarded “best”

4th April 2022

Story by Patrick Meleady | Photo by Zaqer Mused. Pitsmoor Adventure Playground voted the Best Frontline Play provision in the UK at the 12th Annual Playwork Awards on Tuesday 1st March 2022. Pitsmoor Adventure Playground [Read more]

Sisterhood Mini Messenger front cover

4th April 2022

Reach Up Sisterhood cover. Illustration by Robin Millet. Design by Jamie Marriott.

I don’t want to fit in

4th April 2022

Story by Fatima | Photos by Safiya Saeed Berberaawii. When I was in Year 5, it was one of my hardest years. I felt completely out of place considering I weighed over 10 stone. As [Read more]

I found my light

4th April 2022

Story by A.M. (18yrs) Anxiety has affected me since I was 15 and had a massive impact on my sleep, appetite and mental health and always finds any chance to creep up on me, especially [Read more]

All about the Sisterhood

4th April 2022

Photos by Safiya Saeed Berberaawii. We started this project because there were no activities for girls at this age and there was also a lack of BAME female mentors to support local girls, as well [Read more]

Create the next Mini Messenger

4th April 2022

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]

Playwork professionals are all smiles as they set off to Eastbourne for the National Playwork conference.

Pitsmoor Adventure playground win award for playwork

4th March 2022

Congratulations are in order for the team at Pitsmoor Adventure Playground on receiving a Frontline Playwork award at the 2022 National Playwork Conference in Eastbourne. Announcing the news on Twitter, the playground said: “We are [Read more]

Picnic tables, play area, women’s gardening and litter picks at Ellesmere Park

22nd February 2022

Ellesmere Park head towards spring with news of a new ladies gardening group starting 26th February, new park refurbishments and dates for upcoming litter picks. Story by Geraldine and Sahdya from Friends of Ellesmere Park. [Read more]