An enterprising Rotherham mum is using her entrepreneurial skills honed as a personal fitness trainer and aerobics instructor to help strengthen a healthy sense of community. Last year, Jodie Goodall “swooped in” to take over the lease of a long vacant community centre in the Brecks area of Rotherham...
Motion, a Sheffield social enterprise on a mission to create moments that move people, is working with activity coordinators in local care homes to break down the barriers and address challenges around delivering meaningful wellbeing activities for residents. A revolutionary digital platform hosts a range of activities on demand...
Sheffield based charity, Autistic Children and Carers Together (ACCT) has been successful in the public vote stage of the National Lottery funded People’s Projects. The charity has won a vital grant of £70,000 to support its work with more than 500 children and their families in Sheffield. Here’s a...
Neurodiversity is the broad spectrum of diversity across all human brains. It doesn’t relate to a specific group of people; it relates to all humans in the same way as hair colour. Approximately one in five individuals are neurodivergent, these are the people that are significantly different from society’s...
Over the last few months, a number of organisations in the city have been working to enable an open, inclusive and collaborative process towards a set of Sheffield City Goals which will drive our response to the changing and challenging world we live in. They will guide us all...
Thinking of starting up in business or going freelance? Want to find out more about what social enterprise is and how it works? This two-day introductory workshop, delivered by specialists in social entrepreneurship, will take you through the basics, from first principles through marketing, business planning and getting organised....
Union St cemented its place in the Sheffield social enterprise ecosystem recently, hosting a popular networking event for the region’s social entrepreneurs. It is essentially just bricks and mortar office space in a convenient location, albeit with a nice aesthetic of industrial-looking upcycled furniture and artwork on the walls,...
We believe that being inspired by others is one of the best ways to stay passionate and motivated to continue doing what is important to you…And who doesn’t need a bit of motivation! At this lunchtime session we’ll be joined by Claire Rimmer, Head of Operations at Sheffield-based creative...
Hillsborough-based charity S6 Foodbank has welcomed the new cost of living payment to help struggling families but say more support is needed. Speaking to Sheffield Live! Alison Wise said more help is needed for poor households as the number of people using their foodbank has rocketed in the last...
Sheffield charity Element Society has completed a successful crowdfunding to teach cost-of-living kitchen skills and provide ingredients for 1800 meal parcels. The project, started during lockdown, was originally funded to give young people the kitchen skills to cook from scratch, so they were able to help support their families...