Projects & People

Local resident Malcolm Camp has set up a Just Giving page to raise money for bins for vulnerable residents. Malcolm, a member of the Pitsmoor Pickers group, says: “Weʼre raising £250 to provide black bins [Read more]

Story and photo by Elissa Thompson. Behind the allotments at the end of Ellesmere Road North there is a piece of land owned by Sheffield Homes. Those of you who live nearby, will know this [Read more]

In 2021 Little Amal (a 3.5 metre tall puppet representing a 9 year old Syrian refugee girl) will begin her 8000 kilometre walk through Europe from the Syria-Turkey border and ending in Sheffield and Manchester. [Read more]

Story by Martin Currie. Photo by James Woollen. Patrick Amber, the local artist we now share with Greece, was on top form during his last visit home. Along with Gary Manton, he gatecrashed the Nottingham [Read more]

Words by Dianne Hancock. Picture by Falak Zeb. It’s every parent’s nightmare to have a child diagnosed with a serious condition but Falak Zeb had to face this challenge twice. In 2001 her newborn daughter [Read more]

Words and picture by Hamsa Awil. I embarked on a challenge to run four miles for 40 days. The motive behind this physical and mental quest is to test myself. I lived all my life [Read more]

Story and main photo by Deborah Egan. Abbeyfield House was built in 1850 by local colliery owner William Pass and bizarrely, he decided to call the house Pitsmoor Abbey despite there being no religious activity [Read more]

Story by Year 3 Denmark. We all got an iPad during the coronavirus lockdown of 2021. The iPad helped us to learn during lockdown. Every day we could meet our class on Microsoft Teams to [Read more]

Story by OASIS Academy Year 6 pupils. In Y6 we had a visitor named Olga who was an astronomer. She brought a gigantic planetarium dome, which was nearly as big as our classroom! We climbed [Read more]

Story by Year 3 Denmark On the 23rd of April 2021 Year 3 Denmark had a visit from a real farm! They made a farm in our playground with sheep, alpacas, goats, ducks, and lots [Read more]

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]

Story and photo by Emily Hutchinson. Sheffield Theatres are looking to work with artists who live in the Burngreave and Pitsmoor area to deliver creative projects as part of Sheffield Theatre’s community project Together with [Read more]

Story by Teo Greenstreet. Photo by Mike Poole. Troupe is Greentop Community Circus’s performance company for young aspiring performers aged 11–25 years. They’ve just finished touring their 2021 show “Playground of Dreams” that performed at [Read more]

Story and photos by Mariam Pasha Walking along Herries Road on the wayside plot of Norwood Allotments you may smell wafts of enticing aromas drifting over from an outdoor pizza oven. Close by are a [Read more]