Community

Homeless project marks 25 years

The Cathedral Archer Project marked its twenty fifth anniversary today by getting people to sign a Christmas card.  The project supports homeless people by offering food, advice and support. The card is going to travel around the City before returning to The Cathedral on Christmas Eve.

Peace and Islam event

A conference looking at the role that Muslims played in the First World War and how all religions can work together to promote understanding rather then War at the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Sheffield.

Sheffield women reclaim the streets

Hundreds of women walked through Sheffield City Centre yesterday to Reclaim the Night.  The event is now a national one but started off in Yorkshire when women were being told to stay at home by the police because the Yorkshire Ripper was still at large.

Young people learn to make robots

Young people from Barnsley got the chance to make and programme robots from scratch alongside Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Sheffield Centre for Robotics.  Professor Ishiguro is famous for making cutting edge, human like robots in his own image.

Contemporary artists take over old Woolies

Eight local artists are performing in a contemporary art event at the old Woolies on The Moor in Sheffield.  You decide which piece  you want to see and how much you want to pay for it. A short theatre piece on the child exploitation taking place in Rotherham called Did you call the Police? is being performed in one area of the former shop.  While other performers specialise in other art forms.