Latest News - Burngreave Messenger

The NEW e-bulletin edition of the Burngreave Messenger online now

9th August 2022

We’ve just launched the FIRST edition of the Burngreave Messenger e-bulletin, an exclusively digital version of your community newspaper, with features on the Abbeyfield Festival, Firth Park Summer Festival and the Firth Park Fun Day. [Read more]

NHS health visitor, Cath Baker, supporting creative activities for children at a family fun-day at Firth Park

Firth Park Fun-Day hailed a success

2nd August 2022

Story by Kate Proctor. Photos by Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children. The largest ever family fun-day to support parents with their toddlers and babies in North Sheffield has been hailed a success by organisers. Almost 200 [Read more]

We say thank you to Polly Perkins as she moves on to her next adventure…

29th July 2022

We would like to inform our readers that Polly Perkins has recently stepped down from her role as Interim Editor at the Burngreave Messenger. We want to express our sincere thanks for everything that Polly [Read more]

Abbeyfield Festival 12-6pm Sunday 31st July.

The Messenger stall and camera team at the Abbeyfield Festival Sunday 31st July

27th July 2022

The Abbeyfield Festival is back on Sunday 31st July and the Messenger will be there with both a stall and a small team with video cameras, covering the event and asking you what you think [Read more]

RESCHEDULED: The Messenger goes to Parliament

5th July 2022

Polly our editor will once again be travelling to the House of Commons in London to take part in a select committee discussion about the sustainability of local journalism on Thursday 7th July. The meeting [Read more]

Arts & Culture

Ellesmere Youth Project celebrate the end of an era

23rd June 2022

It’s the end of an era and the start of a new one for the Ellesmere Youth Project. On Thursday 23rd June 2022 they host their end of project celebration event from 6-8pm at St [Read more]

The Burngreave Messenger invited to discuss the sustainability of local journalism

14th June 2022

As the only news publication in the UK with charity status, the Burngreave Messenger has been invited to give evidence on “the Sustainability of Local Journalism” at the House of Commons in London. Our editor [Read more]

Children for the adventure playground showing off their onions.

Playground kids know their onions

10th June 2022

Burngreave children have been busy celebrating after harvesting a bumper crop of spring onions. The Pitsmoor Adventure Playground team were recipients of training from the Royal Horticultural Society on how to grow vegetables as part [Read more]

Carly and Alex from the Playground, Nico Hall and Nico's dog Ginny with the finished well-dressing. Photo by Sarah Truman

Well-dressing 2022 jubilee celebrations

10th June 2022

Story by Saleema Imam. Photos by Nico Hall, Sarah Truman and Donna Wainman. The Friends of Burngreave Cemetery held their annual well-dressing in conjunction with a community picnic on Saturday 4th June. The theme this [Read more]

Crabtree Drive jubilee celebrations

9th June 2022

Story and photo by Kerry Heath. My lovely neighbours and I on Crabtree Drive held a street party to celebrate the queen’s platinum jubilee on Sunday 5th June. It was fantastic to see so many [Read more]

Save the Burngreave Messenger!

2nd June 2022

After 23 years of service to the community, the Burngreave Messenger needs your support. By simply speaking up, you can help show funders why the Messenger matters to you and help keep this vital project [Read more]

Jeld-Wen staff team with Patrick Meleady

It’s child’s play for a team of volunteers

2nd June 2022

A team of staff from Jeld-Wen, a manufacturer of wooden doors, windows and stairs, took a day out to visit Pitsmoor Adventure Playground and help make a big difference to the local community. The team [Read more]

Abbeyfield Festival 2010 - Emily Haimeed

Abbeyfield Community Festival is back Sunday 31st July

27th May 2022

Story by Lyn Brandon, Friends of Abbeyfield Park The Friends of Abbeyfield Park (FOAP) Committee are organising a community festival to be held on Sunday 31st July, 12noon to 6.00pm. Meetings of the Festival Organising [Read more]

Tell us what you think of the Burngreave Messenger

19th May 2022

We want your feedback! Are we good? Are we bad? Do you find the Burngreave Messenger useful? We’d love to hear from more of Burngreave’s people about how they think the Burngreave Messenger could best [Read more]

Safiya Saeed wins Inspirational Individual of the Year award

10th May 2022

Congratulations are in order for local Burngreave resident Safiya Saeed, the founder of Reach Up and councillor for Burngreave, who has won and collected the Yorkshire Choice Awards Inspirational Individual of the Year Award [Read more]

WiCAT International Women's Day workshop 2020

WiCAT announces closure

13th April 2022

In a statement issued on Monday 10th April 2020 in their email newsletter, WiCAT (Women in Construction, Arts & Technology) has announced that, due to pressures of the pandemic, they have come to the conclusion [Read more]