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Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council announces retirement

John Mothersole

Chief Executive, John Mothersole, has announced that he is due to retire at the end of 2019.

John joined Sheffield City Council in 1998 to take up the role of Executive Director for Development, Environment and Leisure and then in 2008 became Chief Executive, where he has led the council through a decade of unprecedented change.

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3100 new council homes to be built

Council homes

Plans for the largest council house building programme for decades are taking shape in Sheffield. If approved, over 3,100 new council houses will be built over the next 10 years to meet the increased demand for affordable housing.

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World's most advanced child technology centre coming to Sheffield

Technology centre

Plans have been developed by Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust over the last three years, with the support of Sheffield’s Universities, the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the private sector, for the most advanced child technology Centre in the world.

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Events

Off the Shelf - 5-26 October

Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf is one of the largest and most accessible literary festivals in the UK. Every year we bring the biggest names in literature and the arts to Sheffield. A small selection of events are shown below, for full festival details click the button.

Full Festival details

• 12 Oct - Afropean, notes from Black Europe - Johny Pitts
• 12 Oct - Dog is Love, our unique bond with dogs - Dr Clive Wynne
• 13 Oct - The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood, a novel of motherhood, loss and loneliness - Susan Elliot Wright and Black Car Burning a Sheffield story of trust and trauma - Helen Mort
• 14 Oct - Sheffield's Windrush Pioneers - exhibition and meet pioneers
• 15 Oct - Tin Can Cook - Jack Monroe

Sheffield Global Village Market - 16-20 October

Global Village Market Sheffield

The popular Global Village Market is back with us on Fargate in Sheffield city centre with their amazing food, drink, crafts, plants and more. Come and pay us a visit!

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Out of this World - 27 October

Out of this World

A free event spread across the city centre celebrating all things otherworldly! All ages are welcome (fancy dress optional) to come along to this weird, wonderful and wacky event! There will be sci-fi, comic books, gaming, magic, illusion, Halloween activities and all sorts more!

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Joe Scarborough exhibition, on until 24th November

Joe Scarborough artwork

Life in the Big Village will draw together over 60 of much-loved Sheffield artist Joe Scarborough's paintings and drawings for the first major retrospective in over 25 years.

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We're celebrating adoptive parents!

As part of National Adoption Week 2019, we're holding a celebration event for Sheffield's adoptive parents and their families. 
If you've adopted a child, we're inviting you to come along to the Town Hall on Saturday 19 October 2019, at 10.30am.
There will be coffee, cake and craft activities for the children. We hope to see you there!

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