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  • Sheffield Adventure Film Festival - Access all Areas

    Sheffield Adventure Film Festival - Access all Areas

    24 February 2023

    Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (ShAFF) will screen selected sessions in accessible formats for d/Deaf and blind/partially sighted audiences at the Showroom Cinema from the 3-5th March. This is on top of the level access provision at the Showroom.

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  • City's Clean Air Zone

    City's Clean Air Zone

    20 February 2023

    The Sheffield Clean Air Zone is in place from Monday February 27, aimed at improving the city’s air quality.This is a class C chargeable zone for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), light goods vehicles (LGVs), vans, buses, coaches and taxis that drive within the inner ring road and city centre. Private cars and motorbikes will not be charged. Hackney Carriages don’t have any CAZ charges until June.

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  • Your Voice, Your Experience, Your Change

    Your Voice, Your Experience, Your Change

    10 February 2023

    Sheffield Health and Social Care want to improve community mental health services for people with serious mental illness, holding engagement events with service users, their families and carers during February and March.

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  • Adult Social Care Recruitment Event

    Adult Social Care Recruitment Event

    08 February 2023

    Sheffield City Council and the DWP have partnered to put on an Adult Social Care recruitment event at Sheffield Town Hall on 21st February from 11am to 2pm. Roles include Activities Worker, Care Worker, Personal Assistant, Shared Lives Carer and Advocacy Worker.No qualifications are needed to apply.

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  • Barriers Over Online Access To GP Practices

    Barriers Over Online Access To GP Practices

    08 February 2023

    Some patients in Sheffield are facing ‘significant barriers’ to accessing GP practices online, a new report has said.The report is the work of Healthwatch Sheffield, who set up a GP website health check, which analysed 74 GP practice websites, finding a widely varying picture across the city.

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  • Sheffield Local Plan - Make Your Voice Heard

    Sheffield Local Plan - Make Your Voice Heard

    03 February 2023

    If you are interested in contributing your thoughts to Sheffield’s Draft Local Plan you can do so individually, come along to the next Access Liaison Group meeting on the 8th of February at 10am on Zoom, or email your thoughts to us at Disability Sheffield by 10th of February.

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  • Providing Positive Change

    Providing Positive Change

    02 February 2023

    If you are jobless or economically inactive and want to make changes to improve your future prospects, the courses in Opportunity Sheffield’s e-brochure may help you find a way forward. A Mind Apart, Autism Plus,Down2U Physiotherapy and a Zest4Life are amongst the courses available.

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  • Events For LGBT History Month

    Events For LGBT History Month

    02 February 2023

    Founded in 2005 by Schools OUT UK, LGBT+ History Month takes place every February. Film screenings,talks, concerts, shows, comedy and club nights are all lined up to mark the month in Sheffield.

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  • Healthwatch Sheffield Work Priorities

    Healthwatch Sheffield Work Priorities

    01 February 2023

    Healthwatch Sheffield is dedicated to helping improve health and social care services in Sheffield. If you’d like to have your say on what you think Healthwatch Sheffield should focus on over the next 2 years, please complete their new Work Priorities Survey 2023-2025 or attend a meeting on 21st (online) and 28th (in person) of February.

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  • Call to Write to your MP about Prepayment Meters

    Call to Write to your MP about Prepayment Meters

    27 January 2023

    A campaign call has gone out for disabled people to write to their MP over the forced installation of prepayment meters on vulnerable energy customers. The Action Network is asking you to write and help them to put pressure on the government about this important issue that needs to be addressed.

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