A group of local and community media organisations have come together with an ambitious plan to expand choice for radio listeners tuning to digital radio in Sheffield and Rotherham. Community radio stations Link FM and Sheffield Live! have joined forces with Sheffield Community Media to establish a new digital...

Women asylum seekers and refugees are facing multiple challenges including mental health conditions and homelessness linked to the coronavirus pandemic according to a Sheffield-based support group. In a new report, the social enterprise Development and Women’s Advancement (DEWA) found 82 per cent of women interviewed reported their mental health...

Sheffield’s UnShut Festival of Performance is set to launch a three day virtual events programme of radical and experimental new performance art, online, by post and in the streets. UnShut began as a theatre festival in Sheffield in 2017 and is now home to an array of new talent...

Sheffield’s Migration Matters Festival, the largest Refugee Week festival in the UK, has launched this year as an online celebration of global sanctuary and the positive impact of migration. The festival will feature music, arts, theatre and debate from Sheffield and around the world but all events are to...

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...

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 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....

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...

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...

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...