Feeding the Brinsworth community BRICS by BRICS

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)...

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Signals Festival returns for 2024

Signals Festival returns for 2024

Amp up your February half term by getting involved in Signals Festival, Rotherham’s youth music festival taking place between Saturday 10th and Sunday 18th February with free music events taking place across the borough.

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Beat the winter blues with Rotherham United Community Trust

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,...

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Lottery funding a Pivotal step towards improving health and wellbeing

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...

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Rotherham’s Crossroads Care calling for more volunteers

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...

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Free art and design sessions for Rotherham teenagers

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...

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Fashion fundraiser tops £4,000

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,...

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Lest we forget the Rotherham poppy appeal volunteers

Lest we forget the Rotherham poppy appeal volunteers

The poppy has become the symbol of remembrance, a way for us to honour the armed forces community past and present. But we must also not forget the volunteers who give their time each November to run the poppy appeal on behalf of the Royal British Legion. The Rotherham, Rawmarsh...

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An exhibition of epic proportions arrives at Clifton Park Museum

An exhibition of epic proportions arrives at Clifton Park Museum

This autumn, step into the world of giants as a new exhibition at Clifton Park Museum celebrates the titans who have had a huge impact on Rotherham’s story. Giants of Rotherham is a free exhibition that runs until January 2024. The upper floor rooms at Clifton Park Museum have been...

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Rotherham pensioner flies Spitfire younger than he is

Rotherham pensioner flies Spitfire younger than he is

There’s no age limit on adventure, as Rotherham’s Peter Foster has found out once again. To celebrate both his 84th birthday and 60th wedding anniversary, which fall on the same day, Peter took to the skies for a once-in-a-lifetime flight in a Spitfire. This was yet another item ticked off...

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