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  • DPAC Sheffield Protests Against DWP Metro Adverts

    29 May 2019

    Members of DPAC Sheffield the local branch of campaigning organisation “Disabled People Against Cuts” are holding a protest rally at Sheffield railway station on the morning of Friday May 31st against a £250,000 advertising campaign for the controversial Universal Credit scheme in the free Metro newspaper.

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  • Sheffield’s First Dementia Conversation Event

    22 May 2019

    Sheffield Dementia Action Alliance is holding its first Dementia Conversation event on Thursday 13 June 2019 from 9.30am to 3pm at St Mary’s Conference Centre, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, S2 4QZ. The event is open to people living with dementia and their families and carers, members of Sheffield Dementia Action Alliance and organisations working in Sheffield to become more dementia friendly.

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  • Be A Book At University's Living Library

    22 May 2019

    As part of their Living Library events the Department Of Sociological Studies at Sheffield University is looking for people with autism and/or learning disabilities to tell their stories to social work students. The Living Library takes places on Wednesday 5th June 2019 from 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm.

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  • Move More Metro: May Edition

    16 May 2019

    Move More Metro is the organisation’s online newspaper, keeping readers up to date with sports and health news and events throughout Sheffield.Sheffield’s Move More Month is coming up in June!

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  • South Yorkshire Homeless Survival Guide

    15 May 2019

    The Homeless Survival Guide for South Yorkshire is designed as a ‘first port of call’ for anyone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. It provides information on finding accommodation, food, health, other support and amenities in the Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham areas.

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  • Free Magical Workshop for Young People

    14 May 2019

    Changing Faces, which aims to support the 1.3 million people in the UK with a visible difference – a mark, scar or condition that makes them look out of the ordinary – have teamed up with children’s writing and mentoring centre Grimm and Co to hold a magical workshop between 4 and 6pm on Friday 4th June for 10 to 14 year olds living in the Yorkshire and The Humber area. It will take participants on a creative story-telling adventure, helping the young people to increase their resilience, confidence and self-esteem.

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  • Cinema's Help For Film Fans Who Are Deaf

    14 May 2019

    The Showroom has become Sheffield’s first deaf friendly cinema – with subtitled movies every Monday and now a deaf volunteer with knowledge of sign and oral language. Adele Johnston will be performing the role every Monday from now on. She can use either BSL (British Sign Language) or lip reading to help customers.

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  • Making our Conversations Count

    14 May 2019

    Sheffield City Council has released its report into adult social care for 2018 and say that although it has been ‘challenging’ due to a combination of financial cuts and increasing demand they are still making progress. It includes their ‘improvement plan’ for 2018-20.

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  • Interested in Being a Living Library Book?

    14 May 2019

    The University of Sheffield is holding a ‘Living Library’ for its social work students and is looking for people with either particular life experiences or experiences of social work services to become a ‘book’ for the afternoon of Friday the 24th May 2019 ( and at future dates ) and share their story with a small group of about 5 or 6 social work students.

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  • Can Technology Meet Your Social Care Needs?

    08 May 2019

    A group at researchers at Loughborough University wants to find out if recent advances in technology can be used to help more with people’s social care needs and enable independent living They are looking for disabled technology users to collaborate on starting a research project which will examine this.

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