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  • Free Digital Skills Course

    Free Digital Skills Course

    17 April 2024

    Are you interested in improving your day-to-day digital skills? Does being online overwhelm you? CYF are running a free course to boost your online skills and confidence, taking you at your own pace during May .

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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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  • Carers Wellbeing Course

    Carers Wellbeing Course

    06 September 2022

    It’s so important that carers look after themselves as well as others. Running over five weeks, this new online course is an opportunity to meet people who share similar experiences and together develop and learn new skills, including relaxation activities, that may help in coping with the demands of a caring role.

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  • Free Digital Skills Course For Young Adults

    Free Digital Skills Course For Young Adults

    18 July 2022

    Interested in improving your digital skills and aged between 18-25? This Young Entrepreneur Skills (YES) course for disabled young adults – a mix of remote and in person sessions – is offered by Leonard Cheshire in partnership with the John Lewis Foundation.

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  • Play Plans Prove To Be A Big Success

    Play Plans Prove To Be A Big Success

    07 June 2022

    A Sheffield Theatres’ scheme to get disabled people involved in theatre work has proved to be a great success with live performances taking place at a popular Yorkshire venue.Several of those involved on the courses – both on the teaching and being taught sides – were Sheffield-based, including our very own Disability Sheffield news volunteer, John Quinn.

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  • Writing Happiness

    Writing Happiness

    17 September 2021

    Applications are now open for a free online creative writing development course funded by Arts Council England. The course is entitled ‘Writing Happiness – Writing Back Joyfully’ and is run by and for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent writers, including people with long term mental health problems and chronic illnesses. The closing date for applications is 30th September

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  • Free Bags of Taste to your Home

    Free Bags of Taste to your Home

    16 August 2021

    If you are unemployed or receiving benefits and struggle with food costs Bags of Taste can help you to cook healthy meals from scratch to improve your diet and finances. You will get a course ingredients bag and materials, sufficient for 7 meals, delivered free to your home.The next start dates are 6th, 13th & 20th September and courses are run throughout the year.

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  • Looking Ahead with Sight Loss

    Looking Ahead with Sight Loss

    05 January 2021

    Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind and Rotherham Sight and Sound are offering a free twice weekly ‘Looking Ahead’ course, delivered by Zoom during January and February, for people who are newly diagnosed or living with sight loss.

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  • Join our Healthy Lifestyle Group

    Join our Healthy Lifestyle Group

    15 October 2020

    Do you want to lead a healthier lifestyle but aren’t sure how to get started and keep up the good work once you have managed to get going? Disability Sheffield is here to help you by offering a new online, peer-led group for disabled people who want to lead a healthier lifestyle. The group is open to all disabled people, including people with learning disabilities and autism and takes place every Friday at 10am for one hour on Zoom. The last session is on Friday 13 November and we hope to offer another course in the New Year.

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