December 2018

The Messenger office will be closed over the holidays from 21st December, re-opening on 7th January. Our phone lines and emails will still be working though, so if you do have a story, let us … [Read more]

Story by Alison Higgins | Photos by Zia Khan and Mazher Iqbal Communities across Burngreave came together to mark Rabi-ul-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar, and the birth of the Prophet Muhammed. On … [Read more]

Story by Patrick Moran Local Page Hall community activists and community development workers from the Sheffield Community Investment Deal team attended a two day ‘Community Intermediaries Training’ funded through the Council of Europe on the … [Read more]

Story by Nick Cleeve | Photo courtesy of Simon Roscoe Please tell us a little about yourself, where you grew up, studied, how your personality was formed etc. I grew up in a little village … [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones | Photo by Rashad Hassan Oasis Academy Fir Vale has won a national Modeshift STARS Silver Award for its work on safe and environmentally friendly initiatives on travelling to school. This … [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin A Burngreave Working Group on Universal Credit came together on November 29th to coordinate support for those moving on to Universal Credit. Coordinated by Pam Grant, the meeting brought together representatives … [Read more]

Story by Fran Belbin Burngreave residents have been busy raising funds to support those suffering since the escalation in violence in the war in Yemen. For three years, Yemen, the world’s poorest country, has been … [Read more]

Story by Miroslav Kandrac | Photo by Christina Tegola The3million is a non-profit organisation of EU citizens in the UK. It was formed after the Brexit referendum to protect the lives of EU citizens who … [Read more]

Story by Cath Baker The Startwell Family Programme has been developed by Sheffield City Council Public Health team and is a five session programme that looks at healthy eating and lifestyle for the whole family. … [Read more]

Story by Farhaan Warsame | Photo by Sharmarke Ismail MAAN is primarily a mental health charity that helps Somali people who need some support. MAAN is working with other health and social care services to … [Read more]

Story by Smaira Sadique Hundreds of local residents in Burngreave have taken advantage of one of the many excellent community learning courses on offer in the area. These courses, in such subjects as ESOL, English, … [Read more]

Story and photo by Gillian Andrews 186th St Catherine’s rainbows were invited to visit Eureka at Halifax with the 39th Wisewood Rainbows and Brownies. They had a wonderful time learning and playing on all of … [Read more]

Story and photos by Julie Clark At Abbeyfield Primary School we pride ourselves at being a caring school. Not only do we have wonderful children, our parents are pretty special too. When we decided to … [Read more]

Story and photos by Deborah Blencowe On Monday 19th November I was kindly invited to get involved with an art session at Pye Bank CE Primary School. As part of the work during anti-bullying week … [Read more]