The Hawley Tool Collection has been awarded £228k @HeritageFundUK to catalogue and showcase its unique collection ‘Pride, Passion and Skills-Made in Sheffield’ will capture disappearing crafts, protect priceless industrial knowledge & inspire young people to learn new skills
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We’re all about supporting voluntary & community groups to acquire the skills, knowledge and confidence to successfully fundraiser for their group, projects, events and activities. Contact us if we can help you.
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New £51m Sheffield leisure Centre to be named The Uriah Rennie Leisure Centre in memory of the first Black Premier League Referee and a champion of numerous community, sports and charity organisations in the city following the unveiling of his Legends Star at Sheffield Town Hall
Join us to honour a true Sheffield and global legend on Monday 2nd Feb 2026 at 11.00am at Sheffield Town Hall. Uriah Rennie, Britain’s first Black Premier League Referee officiating at more than 300 Premier League games and a role model for so many young people.
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12th Football Blue Plaque from Sheffield Home of Football. Another great day !
Another great turnout for our 12th Sheffield Home of Football Blue Plaque dedicated, this time to Herbert Chapman a giant in football management who transformed the fortunes of Huddersfield Town Fc and Arsenal FC.
He was born in the South Yorkshire villlage of Kiveton near Rotherham. Relatives pic
Our partnership with Sheffield City Council is progressing well. Here’s our statement from today’s Rose Garden Cafe Partnership. @sheffieldcouncil.bsky.social
The park is beautiful in the winter sunshine plenty of sledging fun has been had here and today it’s the round Sheffield runners absolutely treacherous under foot
We’re doing quite a bit of funding advice and development work in Doncaster at the moment. Join us for our Meet the Funder at CAST Theatre on Weds 18th March 2026 or at one of our advice surgeries. @mydoncaster.bsky.social
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Very nice ! We’re trying to restore a popular cafe in this park which the council attempted to demolish but we saved it with a huge local campaign and now we have some beer to help with the fundraising !
Read the full story in this issue of Active8
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Love your local park ! Ours has two historic buildings in it and is wonderful
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Three new free Funding Advice Surgeries from syfab.org.uk for voluntary and community groups, small charities and social enterprises in Doncaster in 2026
More info and booking details here.
Thanks to funding from our partners @coalfieldsregen.bsky.social
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SHOF Walks Programme for 2026 now open for booking via Eventbrite
Walk 1: Football's Historic City Centre bit.ly/4pEn330
Walk 2: Lost Grounds & Youdan Cup : bit.ly/4p1vOD
FOUR Guided Walks taking in the locations, people and events focussing on the unique heritage of Sheffield’s footballing history
Sheffield does not need more McDonalds. Great piece by @sammgreg.bsky.social nowthenmagazine.com/articles/as-...
How a bright idea turned into a funding stream for three local charities? Want to know more? Get in touch.
Our banners and pull ups are all up and we’ve collected another batch of this delicious golden IPA. Come and buy yours in time for Christmas and we’ll gift wrap
It if it’s for someone else. We can also deliver 4 or more within 20 miles of Sheffield.
All proceeds in aid of the restoration appeal.
This Saturday 29th November, come and pick up a Christmas gift in the Rose Garden Cafe. We are selling our Rose Garden IPA in the cafe from 10.00am-4.00pm We are licensed to serve with meals or take-away
We can gift wrapped if you order two or more in advance Orders to rosegardencafeappeal@gmail.com
Thanks to everyone who attended our 11th Sheffield Home of Football Blue Plaque unveiling today for 1966 World Cup Goalkeeper Gordon Banks at Jameson's Tea Rooms on Abbeydale Road.
It was unveiled by Gordon’s son Rob in the presence of 6 members of the family and the Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
It’s the unveiling of our 11th Blue Plaque in Sheffield City Centre on Friday 7th November 2025 marking the birthplace of FIFA World Cup winner Gordon Banks OBE
We are honoured to have Gordon’s nephew Nick Banks, unveiling it for us
Nick is a member of Supergroup PULP
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We’re marking the world‘s first football club to emerge from a works or factory Lockwood Brothers FC achieved amazing things in their time and today we erected a blue plaque for them in Sheffield City Centre. We are making Sheffield’s invisible, football history visible!
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An absolute triumph ‘Dear England’, the @nationaltheatre.org.uk production at the Sheffield’s wonderful Victorian Lyceum Theatre . It’s the story of Gareth Southgate’s tenure as England football manager and his new brand of leadership and team management . Fantastic ! @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
Happy Birthday to the World’s Oldest Football Club Sheffield FC formed 24th October 1857 sheffieldhomeoffootball.org.uk
We’ve got another of our ‘Meet the Funder’ Events, this time in Penistone, Barnsley on 27th Nov. Join our mailing list at syfab.org.uk it’s free just click on ‘Get Started’ and we are now able to offer voluntary & community groups free places on our training sessions for groups in South Yorkshire.
Good to be at Cast Doncaster for the World Premiere of ‘Fishlake -The true story of a village underwater’. I was one of the first BBC reporters into the village on Nov 2019 when the flood devastated most of the 200 odd homes in the village after the River Don burst its banks. Highly recommended !
Today’s pictures are from the wonderful Pleasley Colliery Visitor Centre near Mansfield. Great place to cycle to on the ‘Five Pits Trail’ with a lovely cafe and two pit headstocks and other mining machinery intact. Congratulations to all the volunteers who help to keep this going.
Chesterfield Canal in the sunshine. Well
Done to all the volunteers who’ve helped to restore it and run these magnificent barge trips @derbyshirecc.bsky.social
Come and hear the culmination of Dr Alex Jackson's 8 years of research: 'Football's Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front, 1914-1918' at Sheffield Town Hall, Silver Room Fri 7th Nov 2025 at 6.30pm.
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Slow mindful stitching in a beautiful little award-winning walled Garden in Sheffield - What could be nicer?
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Thrilled to be in Hopetown and Shildon at the weekend for the 200th Anniversary of the Railways. I saw George Stephenson’s original Locomation 1 which was the worlds first passenger railways @thestuteshildon.bsky.social
Wonderful to host this amazing event @sheffieldcathedral.bsky.social last night. A gritty, powerful story of addiction, recovery and transformation. An absolutely marvelous venue and 200 guests during National Recovery Month !
