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Supporting our community

13th December 2021

Story by the Sheffield City Council North-East Local Area Committee. Every year your Councillors fund activities across Burngreave Ward. This funding includes activities, like the magnificent light festival in Parkwood Springs. We also fund local [Read more]

Sharon Curtis celebrates 25 years of Ellesmere Children's Centre.

Ellesmere Children’s Centre still going strong after 25 years

15th June 2021

Story by ECC. “An incredible adventure!” This is how Dr Sharon Curtis describes her leadership. Sharon is the head of Ellesmere Children’s Centre and has been since opening in 1996. The award winning centre has [Read more]

Kids chalk on the ground "come and help paint."

Kids will be kids

19th October 2020

Story and photos by Steve Pool I took a stroll out to Pitsmoor Adventure Playground; it was nice to hear the kids’ shouts and laughter from playtime at Byron Wood School. Pitsmoor Adventure Playground looks [Read more]

Pitsmoor Adventure Playground Staff Team Photo

Making play safer for all

16th December 2019

Story by John Malkin | Photos by Katie Lee Pitsmoor Adventure Playground is part of a consortium of playgrounds that are leading the way in playground safety. Along with their partners at Highfields Adventure Playground, [Read more]

Your local area: Provision for children and young people

16th December 2019

Story by the Your Local Area team. Activities and provision for children and young people is a key area for councillors and the local community. Ensuring that we are delivering the services that are needed [Read more]

Helping children grow

16th December 2019

Story by Tim Neal | Photo by Parisa Ashab Just for kidz is a new organisation with a vision to promote opportunities for challenges, success and independence. Part of this vision is to enable children [Read more]

Fun palaces team on the Crucible theatre steps

Turning the Crucible into a palace of fun!

4th November 2019

Story by Zara Suleiman | Photos by Mushtaq Ahmed On Sunday 6th October 2019 Sheffield Crucible Theatre opened the doors to the public. It had been amazingly transformed into a fun palace, a place of [Read more]

New play equipment for Wensley Park

24th June 2019

Story by Mary Carnforth | Photos by Mustafa Ahmed New play equipment has been installed in the Wensley Park playground as part of the renewal of the area. Consultations were held last year with local [Read more]

Wensley Street Playground Plans

17th December 2018

Story by Adrian Lake | Photo by Mustafa Ahmed | Picture by Kate Clark Wensley TARA held their AGM on 7th December, with tenants hearing all about the work they have carried out over the [Read more]

The Maths corridor transformed itself into Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

Fun, frivolity and fancy dress

5th November 2018

Story and photos by Amy Hancock Firth Park Academy’s Y6 open evening on 26th September was phenomenal, with staff from all departments donning costumes to bring the school to life. The Maths corridor transformed itself [Read more]

Kirton Road pavement artists

6th August 2018

Story and photos by Gareth Coleman On 1st July, local residents on Kirton Road organised a street party for their neighbours. Having spoken with the council and local police team, everything was very peaceful and [Read more]

The poorest in South Yorkshire

19th March 2018

Story by Richard Belbin A report issued last month from the End Child Poverty coalition of charities showed shocking levels of child poverty across the country. 87 council wards in the UK have a majority [Read more]

Children at the Shakespeare Showtime drama initiative.

Much Ado gave children more than something to do

19th March 2018

Story by Laura Farah | Photo by Erica Patterson Shakespeare Showtime is a drama initiative aimed at encouraging children aged 8-16 years to explore the works of William Shakespeare whilst building confidence and communication skills. This [Read more]

Burngreave Summer events for young people

5th August 2017

Issue 128 pdf – The parents issue

3rd August 2017

Click the link to download issue 128 pdf to read offline. Burngreave Messenger July 2017 Issue 128

A party at playgroup

28th July 2017

Story and photo by Amy Palmer St James’ parent and toddler group was started by Isilda over 30 years ago in September 1986. I joined them for their Eid party to see what it was [Read more]