Projects & People

Story by Evan Blythe | Photo courtesy Oasis Academy Fir Vale Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough MP, Gill Furniss has marked a local primary schools Parliament Week with a visit to Oasis Academy Fir Vale as … [Read more]

Story by Yamikani and Nasarah – BBC Young Reporters On Wednesday 19th June 2019, students from Parkwood E-ACT Academy, Fir Vale School and Forge Valley School all gathered at Parkwood to compete in a friendly … [Read more]

Story by Evan Blythe | Photos by Abdulrahman Oulmi and Evan Blythe For our twentieth anniversary, we set out to the Toll Gate house to interview Pitsmoor resident, and familiar Burngreave Messenger face, Winnie Bentley. … [Read more]

Councillors have a budget they can allocate to activities and projects that positively contribute to the priorities for their wards. For Burngreave this year the amount is £17,34. Burngreave Ward Councillors are looking to fund … [Read more]

Story and photo by Deborah Blencowe On Saturday 3rd August, I was invited to St Catherine’s Nursing Home for their Summer Fair. For once the weather held up and it was a glorious day. They … [Read more]

Story and photo by Deborah Blencowe The last week of the summer school term. Weather scorching hot, not a cloud in the sky. Children breaking up for a nice six week holiday break. A perfect … [Read more]

You may have noticed that this edition of the Messenger is out a week later than stated in the previous edition. This is due to the delay in receiving news of our national lottery bid, … [Read more]

20th anniversary issue The first issue of the Messenger was published in July 1999, and since then we have distributed over one and a quarter million copies of the paper to households in Burngreave. For … [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones and Gulnaz Hussain | Photo by Flick from Festival of Debate The Festival of Debate sponsored this meeting with the theme ‘How can work together to improve Fir Vale?’ It was … [Read more]

Story by Saleema Imam | Photo by Christine Steers This year’s national Big Lunch Day on Saturday 1st June saw the Friends of Burngreave Cemetery and Pitsmoor Adventure Playground collaborate in providing a fun afternoon’s … [Read more]

Story by Graham Parker | Photo courtesy of Ellesmere Children’s Centre A new crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support a much needed new children’s services in Burngreave. Emosi (which means “emotions” in several languages) … [Read more]

Story by Michelle Cook On Saturday 22nd June Brightside and Hillsborough Labour Party (in partnership with People’s Kitchen Pitsmoor) are hosting ‘the great get together’ at Abbeyfield House. This is a community event, open to … [Read more]

Review by Alison Higgins | Photos by Lynette Hodges Inside the Vestry Hall, fifteen of us are sitting on cushions inside a tent made of colourful draped Indian fabric. On the far wall of the … [Read more]

As we approach summer (despite the torrential rain coming down as we put this issue together) we bring back our popular photography competition. The competition is named after local photographer Richard Hanson, who was a … [Read more]