From blow-dries to birdsong
A former hairdresser from Rotherham has swapped taming metaphorical bird nests for monitoring physical ones – turning a hobby for bird watching into a fledgling ornithology career. As a licensed bird ringer, a wildlife photographer and a story developer for BBC’s Springwatch, Harriet Day is a lesser spotted female in...
Rotherham’s Beer Festival is Baa’ck
After a year’s absence, one of Rotherham’s most beloved beer traditions is making a welcome return to Magna this spring. A familiar fixture on the local calendar since the early 1990s, Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival is coming baa’ck this year with a fresh approach that feels very much...
TV’s Our Dementia Choir comes to Greasbrough
From tackling corruption on Line of Duty to tackling isolation through song, Vicky McClure’s impact off-screen will be heard in Rotherham this March when her Our Dementia Choir performs a special fundraising concert in Greasbrough. The concert is being organised by Rotherham Rotary Club who hope the evening will not...
Have your say on shaping the future of physical activity in Rotherham
What makes it easy to get out for a walk, join a fitness class or kick a ball around the park? And what makes it harder than it should be? The Yorkshire Sport Foundation team is inviting Rotherham residents to share their experiences, views and ideas about physical activity in...
The Empire Strikes Back
Yoda famously said “Do or do not. There is no try.” That same mantra – to fully commit to anything you do, win or lose – could be as much a line from the McGrail Memoirs as it is the Skywalker Saga. The McGrail family’s protagonist, Mark, is a force...
A Valentine’s Weekend in Rotherham that hits all the right notes
This Valentine’s weekend, Rotherham is celebrating the thing it loves most: the creativity and musical skill of its own people.
Catch the music BUG with Bramley Ukulele Group
There’s a good kind of bug going around in Rotherham this winter – and once it bites, it’s hard to shake. Bramley Ukulele Group, or BUGs as they’re affectionately known, is new group that is all about catching the joy of making music together. With just four strings and a...
Rockingham Kiln no longer at risk
Where once world-renowned porcelain and pottery was made for royalty and aristocracy, Rotherham’s Rockingham Kiln has been thrown a lifeline thanks to grant-funded repair works. The Swinton-based kiln is one of 12 heritage sites in Yorkshire that has been taken off Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register following extensive structural...
Donate new toys to the Rotherham Toy Appeal
Every child deserves to feel the magic of Christmas. You can make sure no child in Rotherham wakes up without a gift on Christmas morning by donating to the Rotherham Toy Appeal. The annual toy appeal has been providing gifts to Rotherham’s most vulnerable children and young people for over...
Buy a Christmas card to support the Rotherham Toy Appeal
Making other children and families happy at Christmas has inspired a teenage girl from Rotherham to design her own range of Christmas cards. This will be the fifth Christmas that 14-year-old Charlotte Oram, from Kimberworth, has raised money to buy gifts for the Rotherham Toy Appeal. She started drawing, making...
