Your Community Your Neighbourhood

Sheffield City Council sent this bulletin at 29-07-2021 03:01 PM BST

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Issue 2 July 2021

Your Community, Your Neighbourhood will continue to focus on Tenant and Resident Associations (TARAs) community activities and engagement across Sheffield. We will keep you up to date with events and community stories. We will include more information which may be relevant to SCC tenants and residents and introduce performance information for relevant topics.

If you have a story to tell or something you would like to see as a feature please contact us by emailing getinvolved@sheffield.gov.uk

Lower Wincobank TARA is back for Breakfast

TARA Chair Ann Bentley who organises the breakfast club

After eighteen months some TARA activities are making a comeback. There is still an air of caution and social distancing is still in place in many community settings. The activities, for the time being at least, will be on a smaller scale than before the pandemic.

Ann Bentley Chair of Lower Wincobank TARA couldn't wait to get back in to the TARA kitchen for the Tuesday morning breakfast club. Ann started the breakfast club before the pandemic and has a number of regular customers. Throughout the pandemic Ann has been concerned for those who are more socially isolated and missing the company activities like this provide. Although not back to full strength yet, with restrictions on numbers, Ann is happy that she can at least start serving breakfast again.

Housing and Neighbourhoods Partnership Group (HNPG)

HNPG on Zoom

If you want to know more about the services you receive as a Tenant or Leaseholder this is the meeting for you. HNPG focusses on different topics each month. It covers the whole range of services across Housing and Neighbourhoods including Repairs, ASB and how the Rent collected is spent in Sheffield. HNPG welcomes SCC tenants and Leaseholders from across the city.

The July meeting featured the consultation on the Allocations policy and also the Older Person's Independent Living Service which has a new scheme under construction in the Parson's Cross area and other schemes in the pipeline.

If you have a question regarding the service featured but are unable to attend email it to us at getinvolved@sheffield.gov.uk and we can ask on your behalf and email the response.

If you have difficulties accessing Zoom we can also help with that. We work with Heeley Trust and currently fund a number of free classes online, alternatively a member of our team may be able to assist you initially. Zoom can work from a computer, a tablet or smart phone. If you would like to join us but need assistance with Zoom email getinvolved@sheffield.gov.uk or leave a message on our answer machine 0114 2735566 and we will get back to you.

Details of the topic and the Zoom link for the September meeting will feature in our next bulletin at the end of August.

Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH)

Welfare Reform Survey 2021

We have published the results of this year’s ARCH/NFA Welfare Reform Survey. Our report, “Heads Above Water” finds little increase in council housing debt but detects symptoms of a less obvious and worrying pandemic impact that may soon drive up rent arrears across the social housing sector.

Click here to read the full article

Premier League Grassroots Defibrillator Fund

Did you watch the European Championships? It almost came home, penalties again, but what a great achievement for a relatively young England Team in their first major tournament.

There was also the real life drama during one of the early games in the tournament with the collapse of Danish footballer Christian Eriksen. The provision of a defibrillator at the ground no doubt helped save his life. The Premier League has launched a fund for grassroots clubs to help them provide defibrillators at smaller grounds including Sunday / Amateur league facilities. For details about the fund click on the button below.

Click here to find out more

Free web platform for community organisations and activities

The Co-operative provides an online community centre for voluntary groups and local activities called Co-operate.

Co-operate offers local organisations a free, permanent platform to which they can add their group, their activities, promote themselves and ask for support. It's completely free. The information about a group is controlled by the group themselves, and they can regularly update their own platform with up to date activities.

For many groups, their page on Co-operate can act like a small website, without any of the maintenance requirements or costs.

More information: https://co-operate.coop.co.uk/address=Sheffield%2C+UK&radius=8047

or click me for the link

SYFAB

South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau (SYFAB) can help you find useful information about funding, learn the skills to become a successful fundraiser, and get specific help with your funding. We provide information, advice and training on funding and fundraising to community and voluntary organisations. If this email has been forwarded to you and you'd like to sign up to our Funding News mailing list and get access to our Funding Search and Funding KnowHow services as well, visit www.syfab.org.uk for more information. You can also book places on our training courses and events covering a range of fundraising topics.

Sheffield Directory

Due to continuing restrictions our Tenants and Resident Associations (TARAs) have been unable to carry out their normal activities such as coffee mornings, craft clubs, bingo etc. TARAs registered on Sheffield Directory provide information regarding activities and forthcoming events.

Click here to go straight through to the TARA pages

Housing and Neighbourhoods is on Facebook

Click here for Housing and Neighbourhoods Facebook page

Star Letter

This is something new that we want to introduce to Your Community, Your Neighbourhood. We would like you to tell us about your community. Has someone gone out of their way during the pandemic to look out for people in your community? Have you got a particular project in your area that you're involved in and enthusiastic about? Have you got involved in a new group that has started up as a result of lockdown? Do you want to say thank you to a group or a neighbour who has helped you or your community before or during the pandemic? We would love to hear your stories. We will feature as many as we can in our bulletin. We know there are some amazing people out there. There was a quote from someone at a meeting I attended several years ago "Sheffield, City of Steel, Heart of Gold." We are sure this has been even more relevant during the pandemic.

Send your stories to getinvolved@sheffield.gov.uk