A popular Spring Bank Holiday arts workshop series for 7-12 year olds run by Ignite Imaginations in collaboration with Sheffield Libraries is to be run this year as a virtual event. A series of daily, free, artist-led activities will be available online from Monday with a video and online...
Homeless at greater risk following Archer Project fire
Shaffaq Mohammed, Liberal Democrat leader on Sheffield Council is calling for a citywide fundraising campaign to support the homeless. The Archer Project, a leading homelessness charity, has closed due to a recent fire caused during a break in. Councillor Shaffaq Mohammed also called on other providers to step in...
Disability arts charity adapts to lockdown
Disability arts charity Under the Stars have adapted their work with vulnerable people by embracing online technologies and providing support for home-based activities. The charity supports adults with learning disabilities and has been organising social events and studio-based music, drama and dance workshops in Sheffield for over ten years....
Mental health charity offers phone and online support
Sheffield Flourish, the mental health charity and publisher of Sheffield Mental Health Guide, is maintaining a phone helpline and has moved other support activities online. Deputy mental health director Jo Eckerseley spoke to Sheffield Live! about the impact of the lockdown on mental health support services in Sheffield. Azz...
Cash flow and contingency planning webinar
This webinar provides guidance and support on cash flow and contingency planning, including loan finance and steps you can take you to protect your organisation and to build resilience. This webinar is hosted by Sheffield Social Enterprise Network. Taking us through the topic is Adrian Bean, who has worked...
Accelerate Online Workshops
Social Enterprise Exchange – Accelerate Workshop Series Commencing 21 May 2020, 4x half-day sessions 10:00am – 13:00pm INVITATION ONLY EVENT SEE Accelerate workshop is an opportunity to work with experienced advisers and coaches to develop your enterprise ideas. This series will consist of four online workshops: 21 May 2020...
Job opportunity at Sheffield Live
Sheffield Live is seeking to recruit a Marketing Assistant to support its work as a partner in the Social Enterprise Exchange. We are looking for an entrepreneurial individual with a media and/or communications background to work alongside our partners to promote social enterprise and to support the city region’s...
Migration Matters Festival to be go online
Sheffield’s Migration Matters Festival has announced this year’s event will be held online as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Festival director Sam Holland told Sheffield Live! the event will be delivered as an online and digital programme celebrating sanctuary, migration and solidarity. The one week event is set...
BAME community groups unite in Covid-19 response
A group of organisations from Sheffield’s black and minority ethnic communities have come together to form a Covid-19 action group to provide food parcels and other support to those most vulnerable during the current pandemic. Sheffield Live! reporter Baillot Jalloh spoke to Abdul Shaif, chair of the Covid-19 BAME...
Social enterprise aims to reduce lockdown loneliness
Two students from the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester have launched an online platform to help people make new friends and to support the isolated during and beyond lockdown. Corona Unity is a not-for-profit project created by politics, philosophy and economics student James Augustin and computer...