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  • New Social Wellbeing Cafe

    New Social Wellbeing Cafe

    08 January 2024

    ShipShape Community Hub, which already offers physical and mental health support and practical assistance with food and hardship problems, has a new Social Wellbeing Cafe every Thursday from 11am-1pm.

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  • UK's Most Influential Disability Campaigner

    UK's Most Influential Disability Campaigner

    08 December 2023

    Shani Dhanda is a multi-award-winning disability inclusion specialist, thought leader, social entrepreneur, and accomplished broadcaster, recently named at the top of the Shaw Trust Power 100. Shani has driven change by establishing Diversability, the Asian Woman Festival, and the Asian Disability Network, all dedicated to combating global social inequality.

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  • Museum Gets Changing Places

    Museum Gets Changing Places

    08 December 2023

    One of Sheffield’s most popular museums has now become more accessible thanks to the installation of a Changing Places toilet. The new addition at Weston Park Museum is funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities with support from Sheffield City Council and in association with Muscular Dystrophy UK.

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  • New Adult Autism Support Hub

    New Adult Autism Support Hub

    04 December 2023

    Sheffield has a new Adult Autism Support Hub offering free support to autistic people, aged 16 and above, and their (informal) carers and families. The team is able to provide helpful information and advice and support you to connect with local community groups. You can also get involved in their ongoing co-production activities to help design the service.

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  • Bags of Taste Delivered to your Door

    Bags of Taste Delivered to your Door

    04 December 2023

    Bags of Taste offers a free mentored home cooking course to learn how to make delicious, healthy meals cheaply and designed to be done at home at your own pace over Whatsapp or over the phone. To get you started, they send you a free bag of food to your door with all the ingredients you’ll need for 7 meals.

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  • Sheffield City Goals - Opportunity to give feedback

    Sheffield City Goals - Opportunity to give feedback

    01 December 2023

    Sheffield is continuing on a journey of setting Goals for the city. These aim to give a picture of what we want our city to be like in the future with Goals that citizens, businesses, leaders, educators, and more can focus on and invest in. You can either give your thoughts on the final draft of the goals or join a session with us to share views through conversation with other disabled people in our city.

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  • Blue Badge holders - Views sought on Electric Vehicle Charging Points

    Blue Badge holders - Views sought on Electric Vehicle Charging Points

    23 November 2023

    Are you a driver or someone who uses blue badge spaces? If so you might be interested in hearing about and sharing your thoughts on some current work on Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points.

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  • Replacement Household Appliances

    Replacement Household Appliances

    21 November 2023

    LEAP (Local Energy Advice Partnership) provides advice and home visits But did you know they also support fuel poor and vulnerable households through the replacement of old, inefficient fridges, freezers, fridge-freezers, washing machines, and electric cookers with modern, efficient alternatives?

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  • Discover The Social Model...And More

    Discover The Social Model...And More

    06 November 2023

    A Sheffield venue is this week presenting the first part of an event aimed at providing new perspectives on disability.
    Theatre Deli on Arley Street is playing host to The Social Model…And More Festival 2023, curated by artist Caroline Mawer, exploring new perspectives on disability and the relationship between disabled people and the world.

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  • Family Carer Advocacy Resource

    Family Carer Advocacy Resource

    13 October 2023

    The Challenging Behaviour Foundation has worked with family carers and advocacy partners (Bringing Us Together, Advonet, Cloverleaf, Warrington Speak Up and Pathways Associates) to produce a practical advocacy guide for family carers who have an adult relative who has a learning disability or is autistic and who have been or may be admitted to a mental health service.

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