Rockingham Trophies develops braille medal for blind athletes
Winning a medal for a sporting achievement is always an honour. But for athletes with sight loss, there can be a sense of injustice that medals aren’t always made accessible for the visually impaired. To solve this problem, South Yorkshire’s family run Rockingham Trophies has created a new braille medal...
Feeding the Brinsworth community BRICS by BRICS
Lottery funding has enabled the big-hearted volunteers at Brinsworth Community Trust to provide 230 free freshly cooked meals a week to vulnerable residents in the community. In January, the trust was awarded £47,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund. The money helped establish the Brinsworth Residents In Crisis Support (BRICS)...
Harley’s Cynthia Shaw receives MBE
It was the crowning glory to a wonderful year for Harley’s Cynthia Shaw as she was formally presented with her MBE from King Charles III at an investiture in December. After being told she had been awarded an MBE for services to the community in Rotherham as part of last...
Free first aid course to help you save a life
Would you know how to help someone having a medical emergency? Someone has a heart attack every five minutes. One in five of us will witness someone needing CPR after collapsing. But most people don’t act on it. Only 30 percent of people receive bystander CPR. That hesitancy is often...
Rotherham’s Crossroads Care calling for more volunteers
If you find you’ve got more time on your hands in 2024, could you use it to support Rotherham’s unpaid carers? For the last 35 years, Rotherham based Crossroads Care have been providing a range of services to give unpaid carers a break from their caring responsibilities. One in five...
Thorpe Hesley Brass Band receive High Sheriff award
They’re not the type to blow their own trumpet. But Thorpe Hesley Brass Band have been presented with an award from the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire, Lt Col Mac McPherson, for their services to music. The High Sheriff Award was formally presented to the band on Saturday 25th February...
Celebrating 20 years of RSPB Old Moor
As part of South Yorkshire’s biggest nature hotspot, RSPB Old Moor has been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year for the last two decades. Avid birdwatchers flock in their droves to see some of the most rare and elusive birds that have made RSPB Old Moor their home....
Rotherham pensioner says tanks for the memories
Bold age adventurer, Peter Foster, has ticked another item off his bucket list. And he’d love to see other mature people embrace the freedom that old age brings to try new things. With previous exploits doing a wing walk, taking on the world’s longest zip wire, and riding a penny...
Learn, laugh, live with u3a
The dawning of a new year offers an exciting opportunity to make changes to your life and a chance to develop a new fulfilling hobby for 2022. Spending time engaged in an enjoyable activity is great for your mental health and starting a new hobby could even help you reach...
Saving the Mill of the Black Monks
We look back at the history of one of Barnsley’s oldest in-use buildings, the Mill of the Black Monks and the future plans of its owner Malcolm Lister.
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