Sharrow Community Organisers

06/07/2015

This Thursday we are organising a Sheffield Care in Crisis meeting at the Old Junior School in Sharrow. If you are, or know anyone who is receiving care, come along to this friendly meeting to share experiences and stories with others and maybe even develop some ideas how we can work together to make things better. The meeting is open to everyone who is interested. Despite the seriousness of the topic, we want to keep this meeting positive and constructive :) For more details, see the poster or contact [email protected]/0114 250 8384 and they will pass on your message to the organisers.
Please share freely!

19/03/2015

The public should know all we can about the business of the decision makers that affect our lives, our wallets and our democracy. This is a record of my efforts to try and improve the levels of transparency and accountability within Sheffield City Council and others. To shine a light on how decision…

09/01/2015

Happy New Year to you all! Just a reminder that our Conversation Club is back and running again on Tuesdays at 10am-12...everyone is welcome!!

10/11/2014

Local Green Councillor Jillian Creasy to run for Parliament next year!

The leader of Sheffield’s Green Party is standing down as a councillor – to run for Parliament at the next election.

10/11/2014

Congratulations to Sum Studios in Heeley for doing brilliantly in the Sheffield Design Awards! The only community building in the running, big thumbs up for this crazy beautiful building!

Sum Studios won a total of four awards at the 2014 Sheffield Design Awards at a ceremony at the University Arts Tower on 17th October.

06/11/2014

The article does not explain what the councillor thinks are considered as 'good benefits'. The problem however is not only touching people on benefits, as many working families today have to resort to using food banks as well. Cutting people off from the basic necessities that keep you healthy, fit and sane, cannot be used as an incentive to get people into work...and if work can't yield you the self-sufficiency and dignity either, then what is a person to do? When people are going hungry in one of the biggest economies in the world, we have to start wondering what is wrong and where is the money that is not feeding these people?

A Tory councillor who once described golliwogs as "nostalgic, not racist" has called for those on "good benefits" to be banned from using food banks as they can afford food. Dawn Barnett, 72, made the comments despite food bank...

04/11/2014

Sheffield to the win!

It's far from grim up north.

03/11/2014

EXCITING NEWS for everyone wanting to VOLUNTEER!
Sharrow Community Forum is starting a new Volunteer Training Programme (accredited and non-accredited!)! The programme will start with a 2-day training on the 21st-22nd November, and the training will be completely FREE for everyone! The training will be followed by a volunteer placement and more training in the community over the next 6 months. To register for the programme and the 2-day training, please find details below!

29/09/2014

An important issue featured in the Guardian a few weeks ago through an interview with a Sheffield based women's organisation. They do a fantastic job and provide support for women in desperate situations. Services like these with a real human connections are truly needed in communities.

Women's shelters are closing due to cuts – and those protecting vulnerable ethnic minorites, such as Ashiana in Sheffield, have been especially hard hit. Homa Khaleeli reports

29/09/2014

FYI!

Sheffield Live! TV is Sheffield’s new local TV channel, launching today (watch news item here). How can you watch it – and what will it cover? Jamie Veitch explains. It all began when a group of Sharrow community activists made a radio broadcast, from a caravan, of a four-day festival in Sharrow in…

29/09/2014

O-hoy Sharrow, there is a public meeting on PARKING PERMITS on the 16th October! This is a hot topic for a lot of people, so make sure you head down to Duchess Road and have your say!

Visit the post for more.