Volunteering - Burngreave Messenger

Burngreave repair shop powered by volunteers

17th February 2023

Volunteers are finding that it is not only the vacuum cleaners, furniture and jeans that are being repaired at a new social enterprise in Sheffield, but their own levels of confidence, wellbeing and sense of [Read more]

Fighting loneliness across the generational divide

4th April 2022

Story and photos by SCCCC. Wiktoria Abramowicz and George Joseph are relativity new volunteers on local charity, SCCCC’s Inclusive Community Care Project, a befriending scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities across Sheffield. Wiktoria [Read more]

Join SCCCC as a volunteer befriender

23rd December 2021

Story by SCCCC. Want to support older people in your community? Do you love to chat? Can you spare an hour a week to visit or call an older person? Do you speak any additional [Read more]

Become a Messenger editor – a unique volunteering opportunity

22nd October 2021

Do you fancy trying your hand at being the editor of your local newspaper? We are offering a unique opportunity for a local person or a local group to become a guest-editor of the Burngreave [Read more]

The Messenger is BACK and this time, it’s ‘Personnel’

12th May 2021

After a prolonged break due to the pandemic and furlough, the Burngreave Messenger will be returning. Polly Perkins has recently been appointed as our new interim project manager, and we are making moves to re-launch [Read more]

Library volunteers meet at Sheffield Peace Gardens

Meet Burngreave Library volunteers as they celebrate four years

9th October 2019

Burngreave Library celebrated it’s fourth year as a volunteer led service on Saturday 5th October with a get together and meal. On the day Burngreave Library Tweeted to say: “Today marks four years since Burngreave [Read more]