Get your festive fitness fix with the Barnsley Hospice Elf Run
Dust off your jingle bells, pull on those pointy eared hats, and lace up your curly-toed shoes – it’s time for Barnsley Hospice’s annual Elf Run! This family-friendly festive event is a magical way to support your local hospice and spread joy where it’s needed most while encouraging you to...
Support older people in Barnsley with Age UK Barnsley’s £1 raffle
Winter can be particularly challenging for older people, with colder temperatures, darker nights and the risk of loneliness and isolation making an already difficult time of year even harder. To help fund the crucial support they offer for people over 50, Age UK Barnsley is bringing back its Win Christmas...
Charlotte’s Cards celebrates 5 years of kindness
While most children spend the lead up to Christmas writing their wish lists, one local teenager spends hers thinking about someone else’s. Since she was ten years old, Charlotte Oram has been designing and making Christmas cards to raise money for the Rotherham Toy Appeal. What started in 2021 with...
Spread some joy, donate a toy to the Rotherham Toy Appeal
For many children, Christmas morning means the excitement of waking up early, racing downstairs and discovering presents waiting beneath the tree. But for families experiencing financial hardship, making Christmas feel magical can be an enormous challenge. The Rotherham Christmas Toy Appeal has been helping to change that for local families...
Making space for dementia support in Rotherham
If you spend your days caring for someone with memory problems, confusion, or dementia, you know how much love, patience, and strength it takes. But you also know how easy it is to forget about yourself, especially at this time of year when everything feels busier and the world seems...
Adoptapaws UK Rescue urges public to adopt not shop
With a growing number of animals waiting for their chance of a forever home, the family behind a Rotherham animal rescue charity is urging people to consider adopting instead of buying from breeders. Adoptapaws UK Rescue has rehomed almost 6,000 animals since 2017 and, like most animal rescues, they’re seeing...
Royal recognition for Rotherham Families First
The charity behind Rotherham’s Christmas toy appeal has been given the royal seal of approval with the King’s Award for Voluntary Service. Out of 281 charitable organisations to receive the award in 2024/25, Rotherham Families First is Rotherham’s only recipient of this prestigious honour, which is the equivalent of an...
A never-ending story at Grimm & Co
Mortals and magical beings assemble! Grimm & Co’s bamboozling new Emporium of Stories is open at long last to let the wild rumpus start. It’s not in a kingdom far, far away or some far flung corner of an undiscovered galaxy. You won’t need a pumpkin coach, flying carpet, portkey,...
