Sheffield Dial a Ride

Sheffield Dial a Ride operates a fleet of minibuses to enable people in wheelchairs and their carers to live as normal a life as possible. Journeys to Day Care Centres, to visit relatives and friends, the shops, the theatre, even the seaside are possible in vehicles specially adapted for wheelchairs and with easy access lifts. Sheffield Town Trust has made regular donations to assist their work.

 

Yorkshire Artspace

Yorkshire Artspace runs Persistence Works, a modern purpose built artists’ studio complex near the City Centre, designed by RIBA Stirling Prize winning architects Feilden Clegg Bradley. It accommodates over 65 visual artists and craftspeople.

There is a particularly significant group of distinguished silversmiths based there, continuing a long Sheffield tradition but producing contemporary product designs. The Trust has supported the Starter Studio Programme for emerging Designer Silversmiths. This is a two-year programme offering fully equipped workspace, ongoing business, technical and mentor support as well as opportunities to exhibit and market new work. The Trust gave the Programme £3,000 pa for three years.

 

Langsett and Walkley Community Association

This community group has been running an annual Fun Day on behalf of local residents since 2005. Sponsored by neighbourhood groups and youth clubs, the fun day focuses on a different theme each year, such as anti-social behaviour or healthy eating. Takings from the stalls and competitions go towards charitable causes; in 2008 the profits were donated to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The Sheffield Town Trust has granted £500 to the Community Association, specifically aimed at helping them organise the event.

 

Oughtibridge War Memorial Sports Club

This 90 year old sports club is in the village of Oughtibridge adjacent to the River Don. The pitches and the surrounding fence and lighting, the grass cutters and rollers, and the pavilion were completely devastated by the 2007 floods which swept through the village. The club, which is entirely self-supporting and run by volunteers, plays host to 4 different football clubs and 2 cricket teams all of which play a strong role in the neighbourhood. After the flood, the future of all of the teams and of the land itself was in jeopardy. The Sheffield Town Trust donated £5,000. This was put towards the purchase of cabins to replace the clubhouse changing rooms, which were subsequently demolished. The club is now enjoying restored grounds and play has successfully resumed.

 

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust is a 130 acre working farm which seeks to offer the children who visit it a wide range of environmental, recreational and educational facilities. They receive no statutory funding so all their income comes from fundraising or from the products they sell.

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust carries out its valuable work amongst many deprived children in an unusually creative and original way. The Sheffield Town Trust has supported several of its capital projects over the years and regularly helps towards the farm’s running costs.

 

Sheffield Leisure Library

The Sheffield Leisure Library is based at All Saints Sports centre and provides leisure equipment for the use of profoundly disabled adults, for example jigsaws, games, and musical instruments. They approached the Town Trust for help in equipping a sensory room which had been developed with funds raised through the Within Reach ActivAbility project. The Trust awarded £2,000 which helped them to purchase colour-change lights and controllers, portable fibre optic lights and specially designed switches which can be operated by severely disabled. The Sensory room was opened in 2007.

 

Meersbrook Park

The facilities for young people in Meersbrook Park have been radically improved over the last 10 years largely due to the work of the Meersbook Park Users Trust which is an entirely voluntary group. The park’s walled garden has been redeveloped, and a youth shelter, ‘skate bowl’ and new playground have been built to which the Town Trust granted £5,000. The aim now is to improve and upgrade the multi-use games area so it can be used for tennis, basketball, football, bike riding and other sports. Funds are being raised for this project and the Town Trust has pledged its help.

 

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