Wentworth Woodhouse CEO awarded an OBE
As part of the King’s Birthday Honours, the CEO of Wentworth Woodhouse, Sarah McLeod, was awarded an OBE for services to the heritage sector. Sarah, who joined Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust as CEO in May 2017, has been pivotal in steering arguably the UK’s greatest heritage restoration challenge of a...
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)...
Beat the winter blues with Rotherham United Community Trust
Did you know just 30 minutes of activity a day, a good old chat and a smile from a stranger can all help to lift your mood and pop that spring back in your step. Rotherham United Community Trust have a wide range of activities for adults ranging from badminton,...
Lottery funding a Pivotal step towards improving health and wellbeing
Rotherham’s Pivotal Health and Wellbeing CIC are offering free health and wellbeing sessions across the town after securing over £150,000 in lottery funding. The Eastwood-based organisation was awarded a grant of £153,788 from The National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund. This will fund a three-year project to deliver new sessions to...
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...
Free art and design sessions for Rotherham teenagers
Teenagers in Rotherham are invited to take part in free weekly art and design sessions at Rotherham College as part of the National Saturday Club. This is a great opportunity for young people aged between 13 and 16 to develop new skills, make new friends, achieve a Bronze Art Award...
Fashion fundraiser tops £4,000
We’re delighted to announce that the charity fashion show we hosted at Wentworth Woodhouse in September raised a whopping £4,131,67. The event was a sell-out, with 200 people packing out the grand Marble Saloon. We invited four of our fashion boutiques to showcase their collections on the catwalk: Pink Boutique,...