Affiliates

The following organisations are affiliated to Burngreave Community Action Forum. If you are a local organisation that wants to be part of a mutually supportive network, and ensure that your voice is heard in decisions made about the future of Burngreave, get Affiliated to BCAF.

Activity Sheffield – North East

Address: 2-10 Carbrook Hall Road, Sheffield. Postcode: S9 2DB

Telephone: 0114 273 4266 email: activity.sheffield@sheffield.gov.uk

Website: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/activitysheffield

Description: Offers a range of physical activity, play and sport sessions. Aims to get people more physically active.

Adal Voice of Eritrea

Address: 1 Spring Close View, Sheffield. Postcode: S14 1RJ

Telephone: 07944687764 email: Adalvoice@googlemail.com

Website: http://adalvoice.wordpress.com/

Description: Sheffield based Radio Show catering for the Eritrean Community worldwide – braodcasts weekly on a Sunday from 10am-12pm on Sheffield Live! 93.2fm

Agency for Culture & Change Management (ACCM)

Address: Sorby House, 42 Spital Hill, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7LG

Telephone: 0114 272 8780 email: izela.barlow@accmsheffield.org

Website: http://www.accmsheffield.org

Description: Raising Awareness on FGM/c, Law and Policy and Health related issues. We promote action against all forms of gender-based violence and discrimination, promote gender equality and empowerment, and promote positive social change as a foundation for a strong sustainable community.

Alamen

Address: SYAC, Business & Enterprise Training Centre, 120 Wicker, Sheffield, S3 8JD

Telephone: 0114 2232100 / 0750 6691 773 email: alamenproject@gmail.com

Website: http://www.alamenproject.com

Description: – Our vision is to educate and empower girls and women, its not just about what women need, but what women need to know!

• Our mission is ‘Empower and inspire women to achieve more’

• Our goal is to increase membership and bring women together to create a forum for minority women to empower and educate themselves while inspiring other women. To create opportunities for women to network with other women. To pool resources of women's organisations and businesses of interest to women. To focus on leadership development for girls and teens. To bring women-owned businesses into the consumer spotlight.

ASSIST (Sheffield)

Address: c/o Victoria Hall, Methodist Church, Norfolk St, Sheffield. Postcode: S1 2JB

Telephone: 0114 275 4960 email: admin@assistsheffield.org.uk

Website: http://www.assistsheffield.org

Description: Supports destitute Asylum Seekers in the vicinity of Sheffield. Education of the public about the asylum process etc.

Burngreave Ashram

Address: 84-86 Spital Hill, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7LG

Telephone: 0114 270 0972/ 0114 243 6688

Description:

• A complex of small community facilities available for local community groups and indivudals to develop activities relevant to the area.

• As an Ashram, a place for personal and group spirituality, open to all people of all religions and none, with its base in the radical Christian tradition.

• Includes a New Roots shop, selling vegetarian, vegan, Fairtrade, organic and wholefood products, run by volunteers.

Burngreave Advocacy Now!

Address: 99-103 Spital Hill, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7LD

Telephone: 0114 275 0262 email: project@advocacynow.org.uk

Website: http://www.advocacynow.org.uk

Description: Generic advocacy provision for Burngreave residents to assist with Social Welfare issues. Language needs are catered for by use of bilingual advocates and interpreters.

Burngreave Mens Activity and Conversation Group (BMAC)

Address: c/o 257 Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9AQ

Telephone: 07931355071

Description: 1. Practice spoken English 2. Socialise via indoor games and activites 3. Occasional outings to the countryside and coast.

Burngreave Messenger

Address: Abbeyfield Park House, Abbeyfield Road, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7AT

Telephone: 0114 242 0564 email: mail@burngreavemessenger.org

Website: http://www.burngreavemessenger.org

Description: The Messenger tells stories and celebrates the success of our diverse community, promotes access to services and consultation for residents, and publicises activities and businesses in the area. We aim to empower residents to engage in community activity.

Volunteer residents interview members of of the community, report on events, gather the views of the community on local activities and services, ask questions of decision-making bodies, write articles and take photographs – raising matters that directly affect themselves and their neighbours.

Burngreave New Deal for Communities

Address: Sorby House, Spital Hill, Sheffield.

Telephone: 0114 231 2300 email: martinsmith@bndfc.co.uk

Website: http://www.bndfc.co.uk

Description: Burngreave Regeneration Programme

Burngreave Streetworx Project

Address: 204 Verdon Street. Postcode: S3 9QS

Telephone: 0114 272 3628 email: bev.paul@sheffieldfutures.org.uk

Description: Streetworx is the most innovative Project working with young people in the Burngreave Area. At its core is a young locally grown, energetic and dynamic team engaging with the most hard to reach and vulnerable young people aged 13-19 years at all levels. We offer constructive activities and issue based workshops to identify and address any issues that young people may be facing.

Carwood TARA

Address: 17 Carwood Close, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7FB

Telephone: 0114 261 1065 email: sheffmichelle@yahoo.co.uk

Description: Tenants and Resdients Association for the Carwood Area.

Christ Church Pitsmoor Parochial Church

Address: 257 Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield Postcode: S3 9AQ

Telephone: 0114 2757240 email: office@christchurchpitsmoor.com

Website: http://www.christchurchpitsmoor.com

Description: Christ Church Pitsmoor is the Anglian Parish Church serving the people and area of Pitsmoor and Burngreave. It has been in the area since 1850.

Its mission is to be a church that exists to help people grow in their relationships – with God, with other Christians, with the wider community and the world.

Church of St Peter, Ellesmere

Address: Lyons Close Postcode: S4 7EP

Telephone: 0114 243 6305

Description: St Peter's is a local Anglican/Methodist partnership Church serving the Pitsmoor, Carwood and Ellesmere neighbourhoods.

Ellesmere Youth Project

Address: 210 Abbeyfield Road Postcode: S4 7AZ

Telephone: 0114 243 5854/07886777068 email: j.tibbles@ukonline.co.uk

Description: We are a detached youth work project, primarily working in the Ellesmere and Carwood area.

The aim of the project is to improve life opportunities for young people, aged 10-18, in the Ellesmere area of Burngreave. The ethos of the Ellesmere Youth Project (EYP) is to reach out to local young people by providing activites and groups in which to foster relationships, build a sense of community and encourage the values of acceptance, respect, co-operation, equality and love. Our focus is on building long-term relationships with young people and also on encouraging young people's participation in the planning and evaluation of our work. Activities include street-based youth work, holiday acitvities, informal education programmes and dance & performance work.

Ethnic Minority & Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS)

Address: Bannerdale Centre, 125 Carterknowle, Sheffield. Postcode: S7 2EX

Telephone: 0114 2506886 email: basil.sage@sheffield.gov.uk

Website: http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/education/services-to-schools/emtas

Description: The Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service works with schools, service districts, family of schools, voluntary organisations, communities, parents, children and young people.

• Raise ethnic minority achievement and attainment to close the gap with similar groups nationally

• Build capacity amongst stakeholders in all settings to maximise outcomes for pupils with EAL

• Promote the engagement and participation of children and young people, parents and community groups

• Meet the needs of new groups and changing demographics

• Promote Community Cohesion and social inclusion between different cultural, religious and ethnic groups.

El-Nisah

Address: Firvale Centre, 2nd Floor, Earl Marshall Road, Sheffield Postcode: S4 8LA

Telephone: 0114 2560933 email: amohammed@ycasheffield.co.uk

Description: Supports and empowers women from Yemeni and North African backgrounds. Provides nursery education to children through an established project at Firvale preschool.

Firshill Tenants and Residents Association

Address: 11 Firshill Glade, Sheffield Postcode: S4 7DX

Telephone: 0114 2560337 email: firshilltara@talktalk.net

Description: We look after the housing and community needs of tenants and residents of Firshill

Furnival Burngreave Community Projects

Address: The Furnival, 199 Verdon St, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9QQ Telephone: 0114 2727497 email: rickard@thefurnival.org.uk

Website: thefurnival.burngreave.net

Description: Supporting and developing projects to enhance community cohesion and capacity, especially around health and well-being.

The Inclusion Project, Chilypep

Address: 200 Remington Road, Parson Cross, Sheffield. Postcode: S5 9AG

Telephone: (0114) 246 3897 ext 204 email: laura.poole@chilypep.org.uk

Website: http://www.chilypep.org.uk

Description: The inclusion project works with hard to reach young people such as BME groups, refugees and asylum seekers, LGBT youth and other groups across the city. The project works to ensure young people are represented and involved in decision making processes, and that these processes are designed to help this happen. One successful method has been to train young people as peer researchers, who then access the views and opinions of other young people.

NOMAD Tenancy Support Burngreave

Address: 12-14 Burngreave Road, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9DD

Telephone: 0114 2727037 email: g.mathieson@nomadsheffield.co.uk

Website: http://www.nomadsheffield.co.uk

Description: Our project is funded by Supporting People. We aim to provide tenancy to individuals and families living in the Burngreave area who are struggling with their tenancies. We provide support around budgeting, benefits, and addressing rent arrears. We can help if someone has just got their tenancy and needs supporting in setting up utilities or getting furniture.

Pakistan Advice and Community Association

Address: 127 Page Hall Road, Firvale, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 8GU

Telephone: 0114 261 9130 email: pacfirvale@aol.com

Description: An advice centre offering impartial, confidential, free advice to all members of the community on a wide range of issues. Also a community association representing the needs of local people and helping them amke this area a better place. Additionally, we run projects as identified by our local management committee members as being needed in the local area, including a Lunch club for sommunity elders and the Jeevan Project for young Asian women with learning difficulties.

Pitsmoor Adventure Playground Users Group

Address: 67 Firshill Rise, Sheffield Postcode: S4 7BW

Telephone: 0114 2618195 email: blossomcounty@yahoo.co.uk

Description: Users Group of Pitsmoor Adventure Playground

Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau

Address: 30 Spital Hill, Sheffield Postcode: S4 7LG

Telephone: 0114 23 8838 email: chiefexec@pitsmoorcab.cabnet.org.uk

Description: We provide advoacy and advice services to the Burngreave area and beyond.

• Advocacy services provided through Burngreave Advocacy Now!

• Specialist advice for immigration, benefit and debt problems

• Generalist advice services also available

• We have paid staf with community languages – as have the large volunteer team

Rainbows End Burngreave

Address: c/0 257 Pitsmoor Rd, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9AQ

Telephone: 07954 149297 email: flossy_48@hotmail.com

Description: We are a charity shop providing good quality second-hand merchandise. We also aim to give confidence in retail skills to local people and to provide a safe space where people can build relationships with each other. All profits made are used to support local activities that benefit Burngreave and local residents. The shop is run on an entirely voluntary basis.

SAGE Greenfingers

Address: Minna House, 30 Minna Road, Burngreave, Sheffield Postcode: S3 9AZ

Telephone: 0114 2743651 email: sagegreenfingers@yahoo.co.uk

Website: http://www.sagesheffield.org.uk

Description: SAGE Greenfingers is a therapeutic horticultural project based on Grimesthorpe allotments and offering Gardening and related activities to adults keen to improve their mental and physical well-being. We have sessions 4 days a week – Women only on Tuesdays.

Sheffield Sports Foundation

Address: c/o BCAF, 82 Spital Hill, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 7LG

Telephone: 07877 852 899 email: akary101@hotmail.com

Description: Increasing ethnic minority involvement in sporting activities, through reserach, encouragement, training, cooperation and coaching. Rasing awareness of sports in the local community, exploring talents and expanding training programs by working with relevant bodies.

Sierra Leone Friendship Association

Address: 80 Verdon Street, Sheffield Postcode: S3 9QR

Telephone: 07956 434831 email: babakuyateh@yahoo.co.uk

Description: The objectives of the assocation are:

• to seek the welfare of its members

• to give assistance to its members in times of need

• to encourage others to join the association

• to encourage and promote all form of sport, social and recreational activity for its members

• to benefit disadvantaged individuals and social groups in South Yorkshire with the help of other organisations

• to provide a meeting place for lone parents and their children

• to develop trading opportunities for its members

• to support and promote social enterprise

• to provide information and training services in relation to social enterprise.

South Yorkshire Womens Development Trust

Address: Womens Constrution Centre, Sheffield Postcode: S4 7JQ

Telephone: 0114 273 7046 email: wintt.sywdt@btconnect.com

Website: http://www.sywdt.org

Description: South Yorkshire Women's Development Trust (SYWDT) aims to support and address women in the development of women's capacity and skills in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet their needs and participate more full in society.

These aims are met through:

• the advancement of education, training or retraning, including the provision of work experience.

• the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance or business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities in cases of financial or other charitable need through help in existing businesses or in setting up their own business.

• The creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings and the provision of recreational, educational and cultural facilities for those in need of them, including, if necessary, the provision of financial support.

• The provision of childcare support for all women involved in the organisation.

Southern E Media Education & Arts (SEMEA)

Address: the V Space, Vestry Offices, 2 Burngreave Road, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9DD

Telephone: 0114 2133803/0114 2437899/07946453629 email: arts@semea.org.uk

Website: http://www.semea.org.uk

Description: SEMEA is a not for profit organisation set up to support collaboration and capacity building between performing & media artists from Southern countries and communities in Yorkshire. As a Burngreave based organisation since 2000 we sek to draw on local talent through team building, digital arts and media training, international marketing and networking, theatre in education and theatre for development. We work in over 180 schoold throughout South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire. We intiated and pomote SOSA-XA! Sounds of Southern Africa which started in 2001, we recently relaunched Kutamba! School of Performing Arts. We have worked with Sunduza Dance Theatre internatinally for over ten years. 2008/09 events include the Burngreave Cultural industries Challenge which will incoroporate the Burngreave Electric Challenge and the Zambuko/Izibuko Cultural Corssings and the Festival of Southern Voices.

Third Sector Solutions

Address: 17 Shirecliffe Lane, Sheffield Postcode: S3 9AD

Telephone: 07984553107 email: thirdsectorsolutions@live.co.uk

Description: Third Sector Solutions aim is to support and develop VCF sector organisations so that they can become sustainable and ensure that individuals are afforded the opportunities to improve their quality of life.

In addition to working with these organisations we also support children, young people and adults of all ages to improve their quality of life by developing their confidence, empowering them to attend training programmes, assisting them to prepare for interviews, gain job search skills and enabling them to reach their potential.

We also work with public, private and voluntary sector organisations to enable them to develop their policies, procedures and training plans so that they meet the requirements of various legislation and ensure their services meet the needs of their clients.

Verdon Recreation Centre

Address: Verdon Street, Sheffield. Postcode: S3 9QS

Telephone: 0114 2491626 email: Aislin.Adams@sheffield.co.uk

Description: Community Centre based in the Burngreave area.

Wensley TARA

Address: 5 Wensley Court, Sheffield. Postcode: S4 8JN

email: gladys.newbolt@btinternet.com

Description: Tenants and Residents Association, supporting and working for the Tenants and Residents of Wensley.

Yemeni Community Association (Sheffield) Ltd

Address: Vestry Hall, 43 Attercliffe Common, Sheffield. Postcode: S9 2AE

Telephone: 0114 2611439/07722031958 email: iclifford@ycasheffield.co.uk

Website: http://www.ycasheffield.co.uk

Description: Community Association set up by the Yemeni Community. Delivers to Yemeni Community, wider BME and other disadvantaged communities. Projects include Yemeni Welfare and Advice Project, Adult Learning and Training Project, Study Support and Young People's Activites and Arabic Language School.

Youth Council Burngreave

Address: 204 Verdon Street, Sheffield Postcode: S3 9QS

Telephone: 07807 930729 email: zanumbbibi@hotmail.co.uk

Description: To take on and solve issues concerning Young People in the area.