Projects & People

Let’s Build Health Grants – Autumn 2020

2nd November 2020

Let’s Build Health Grants of up to £1500 are available to help create opportunities and develop local activity that improves health and wellbeing. Closing date: Midnight Sunday 15th November 2020. … [Read more]

All the web links from issue 48 October 2020

20th October 2020

All the links from the October 2020 issue collected together in one place to save you from typing. The coronavirus advice and support links: Sheffield City Council service updates, help and information: www.sheffield.gov.uk/coronavirus NHS information … [Read more]

Community Contact Tracers

19th October 2020

Story by Carrie Hedderwick. Thank you to the passer-by who took the photo. Introducing the Sheffield Community Contact Tracers (SCCT) & the Burngreave Fir Vale group SCCT, a group of community activists, local volunteers, former … [Read more]

Pitsmoor Scarecrow Festival

19th October 2020

Story by Stan Burt If you were walking through Pitsmoor this month you may have gotten a fright as strange creatures were seen lurking in people’s front gardens and hedges, but there was nothing to … [Read more]

Yard sale

19th October 2020

Story by Stan Burt Those missing a bit of retail therapy over this last year were happily treated to a day of bargain hunting when entrepreneurial residents decided to put on a local yard sale. … [Read more]

Outdoors can be an oasis for growth

19th October 2020

Story by Adam Thornton | Photos by Angga Kara and Adam Thornton Men Up North are a group of men who have come together to normalise honest conversations on male mental health and masculinity in … [Read more]

Green City Action Toolbank open again

19th October 2020

Story and photos by Jenny Tibbles Taking Covid precautions, we are now open on Saturdays 10am12noon in Abbeyfield House. Only staff are allowed indoors. We will pick and check the tool for you, before handing … [Read more]

New festival coming to Page Hall

19th October 2020

Story by Sam Holland | Photo by Smart Banda If you’ve been fearful about a coronavirus in the bleak midwinter than perhaps this will be a welcome distraction. In February 2021 (dates to be cconfirmed) … [Read more]

Litter pick in Ellesmere Park

19th October 2020

Story by Patrick Moran Back in July a small group of local volunteers led by Safiya Saeed, turned up to carry out a covid-19 secure litter pick at Ellesmere Park. This is a lovely slightly … [Read more]

Whiteways litter pick

19th October 2020

Whiteways litter pick Story by Patrick Moran Whiteways Community group is finding ways to continue the work that they do within the new rules. Members of Whiteways Community Group organised a litter pick on Saturday … [Read more]

Parkwood Springs during the pandemic

19th October 2020

Story by Neill Schofield | Photos by Friends of Parkwood Springs and Bernadette O’Callaghan The pandemic has had a big effect on both Parkwood Springs and the Friends Group. On the positive side, it has … [Read more]

Building for the future

19th October 2020

Story and photo by Drew Dallen Both Burngreave Cemetery chapels have had their roofs repaired this month. This is another step on the road to getting these chapels functioning for community use. Now the roofs … [Read more]

Diary of a beekeeper

19th October 2020

Story by Linda Cawley, bee keeper | Photo by Tim Neal When I thought about how bees have been affected Covid I couldn’t think what to write. Then it came to me: pollution. When people … [Read more]

Asylum seekers confused by Covid guidelines

19th October 2020

Story and photo by Victor Mujakachi Speaking to a number of asylum seekers about their experiences this year, one man said: “When lockdown came into effect, my wife and children stayed at home. I was … [Read more]

Victor’s book

19th October 2020

Story by Ingrid Hanson How often do you wake up in the morning and wonder whether you might randomly be hauled off to prison, having done nothing wrong, by the end of the day? For … [Read more]

Fir Vale Foodbank

19th October 2020

Story and photo by Nicola White We held our final drop in meal on Thursday 19th March. 67 people were at the door by 2pm. We realised social distancing would be impossible to maintain. With … [Read more]

Let’s Build Health Grants – Autumn 2020

All the web links from issue 48 October 2020

Community Contact Tracers

Pitsmoor Scarecrow Festival

Yard sale

Outdoors can be an oasis for growth

Green City Action Toolbank open again

New festival coming to Page Hall

Litter pick in Ellesmere Park

Whiteways litter pick

Parkwood Springs during the pandemic

Building for the future

Diary of a beekeeper

Asylum seekers confused by Covid guidelines

Victor’s book

Fir Vale Foodbank

Messenger Editorial

Help people self-isolating

People’s Kitchen local residents survey