No longer on the Committee circulation list, I have received no documents since 2005. I have deleted a number of entries, the remainder constituting a kind of archive:-
Clinical Audit Patient Panel
Rethink
Sheffield Black Drugs Service
Nomad Advice Centre
Age Concern Handyperson Service
Council's Community Alarm Service
Guiding Lights
Institute for Lifelong Learning
Partnership for Health
Recycling Handbook
Sharrow Citizens Advice Bureau
Sheffield Community Health Educators
Sheffield Shopmobility
Sheffield 50+ Group
Sheffield South West Primary Care Trust
5 Old Fulwood Road, Sheffield S10 3TG
Contact: Emma Challans, Clinical Effectiveness Coordinator
It is important that we have a panel of patients or carers who can tell us about their experiences and who can ask questions about the audit work we are planning. We are looking for (a) a past or present patient/user of the Trust's health services or (b) a relative or carer of such a patient, who has an interest in helping us improve the quality of care provided to patients, who has good communication skills and who is not afraid to say what they think.
You will be provided with a training course to help you understand what clinical audit is all about — and hopefully you will enjoy being part of a team! We will reimburse any expenses you may incur while helping us.
In a similar vein, we have received details of Patient & Public Involvement Forums (PPI Forums), groups of volunteers who are enthusiastic about helping NHS patients and members of the public, to influence the way local healthcare is organised and delivered. For details, please contact Carol Cooper on 292 2450 or at enquiries@cppih.org. This last bit of information came from The Carers Federation Ltd.
Contact: Faye Batho, Service Manager84 Guernsey Road, Sheffield S2 4HG
tel. 249 3700
Email: bdp@freenetname.co.uk
SBDS is an outreach service, offering support and help to individuals who have drug problems. Membership is open to anyone aged 18 and over and from the black and ethnic communities in Sheffield. We provide a culturally appropriate and sensitive service to problematic drug users, their families and friends. Services include crack/cocaine groups, needle exchange, health care and complementary therapies.
Drop-in sessions, 2.00-4.30 pm beginning August 5th 2003, then weekly (12th, 19th, 26th August, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th September). Sessions will be held at Rockingham Drug Project Turning Point, 117 Rockingham Street. For more information please call Aziz on 249 3700 or Alison on 275 5973.
Project Coordinator: Jenny Gittins
Westhill Lane Car Park, off Eldon Street, off West Street S1 4GX.
tel. 07816 025014
Address for correspondence: Sheffield Community Transport
10 Montgomery Terrace Road, Sheffield S6 3BU
tel. 281 2377 (direct line)
Email: jennygittins@beeb.net
Website: www.sheffieldshopmobility.org.uk
This charity enable people with a mobility impairment to access city centre amenities in comfort, dignity and safety. It supplies 'scootas' and also manual wheelchairs. There is a shop unit in Waingate (Castle Markets, tel. 281 2278) and at Eldon Street (see above).
Helpers and donations would be welcome. Shopmobility also raises money via aluminium cans, coins, etc.
This is a non-profit organisation which aims to promote awareness of recycling and wider green issues in the local community. Its main activity is running a shop which relies on donations of discarded goods and material. They also conduct waste collections with their van from local businesses. They aim to recycle what they can and safely dispose of what they can't.
This information came in a handbook Recycling Matters, a new project run by SCRAP (Sheffield Community Recycling Action Programme) involving the eco-renovation of a derelict shop on Spital Hill for use as an information bureau focussing on waste minimisation, recycling and sustainable waste management. The shop refurbishment will include a roof garden and a large rooftop photvoltaic solar panel that will provide some of the bureau's electricity needs.
The handbook has detailed information on what and where goods may be recycled in Sheffield. On the penultimate page it lists nominations for "crap recyclers of the year". The list includes the Marriot Hotel in Kenwood Road because, when the old Swallow Hotel was being converted to the Marriot, they disposed of thousands of items of quality crockery in a large skip — despite protests from local observers —, declaring "they don't have the infrastructure to cope with such problems."
If you are interested please contact Nicola Freeman at SCRAP on 275 5055. There are some details about recycling on the Council page here on this website and up-to-the-minute stuff on the Sheffield Council website itself.
Sheffield has set up a training programme called Introduction to Community Development & Health (ICDH). This coordinates courses that train local people on issues around health, with the intention of empowering people and developing local skills. Aimed primarily at community development & health workers, the hope is that such members of local communities might go on to educate others and encourage them to become involved. In the light of the programme's success, Sheffield First for Health hope to extend it across the whole of South Yorkshire.
To raise awareness of these initiatives, a Community Health Educator Conference will be held in Sheffield on Thursday 10th October. Details from Elaine Goddard above.
This service provides support for vulnerable people in a crisis. The Council provides specially-adapted telephone equipment, with an alarm button and loudspeaker, which can be quickly installed in a resident's home. The alarm connects directly to trained operatives who can contact a relative, the doctor or the emergency services (police, ambulance) for them. The service also provides for carers, who know that their friend or relative can access support if necessary.
A small portable alarm button — the size of a wristwatch or pendant — is also available which can be used to activate the main equipment. (The user just has to be within 150 yards of the phone.)
Anyone who currently has a phone can have an alarm and access to this service if they wish. It usually costs £3.61 a week — but if you live in a Council home and Housing Benefit pays the rent, there is nothing to pay i.e. your Housing Benefit will pay the rent for this equipment. Installation can be arranged by ringing the Freephone number above.
Rockingham Lane: Mon, Tues, Thur 10am - 3.30pm
Telephone advice: Wed 1pm - 3.30pm
Outreach Sessions at Moorfields: Tues 2-4pm
Archer Project: Wed 12noon - 2pm.
NOMAD is a registered charity offering advice and a support unit for people who are homeless, inadequately housed or threatened with homelessness. It has an advice centre in Sheffield and a 22-bed residential project in Moorfields, Rotherham. Advice is offered both face-to-face and over the telephone.
Its 2001 Annual Report notes that roughly 200 vulnerable people contact the Advice Centre every month. Families represent just under half clients seen, including 22% who are single parents. Anyone wishing to volunteer to help should contect Nina Pratchett on 275 0400 or email nomad_volunteers@hotmail.com.
The City Council's Winter Warmers, January 2002, has a lot of useful information, including the contact telephone numbers listed below. The back page gives a few details of the Sheffield 50+ Group, for anyone aged 50 or over, for which you can receive a wide range of information including
- Lifelong learning
- Community safety
- Health services
- Advice on how to keep healthy
- The local environment
- Transport
- Sport and recreation
- Housing
Next year the Group will be holding elections to the Elders' Congress for Sheffield, which will have responsibility for contributing to and monitoring Council planning. If you are interested, contact cheryl.barrott@sheffield.gov.uk or ring 273 5426.
Other contact numbers:-
SCC Direct Services Call Centre: 273 4567
South Yorkshire Police: 220 2020
NHS Direct: 0845 4647
Crimestoppers: 0800 555 111
Yorkshire Electricity: 0800 375 675
Gas - Transco: 0800 111 999
Yorkshire water: 0845 124 2424
Bogus Callers Official Advice Line: 0500 510 999
NHS Smoking Helpline: 0800 169 0169
We are currently recruiting for volunteer receptionists and admin workers. Make a difference to your community!
- No experience necessary
- Full training given
- Travel, carer or childcare costs provided
- Disabled access and hearing loop scheme
Are you getting benefits you're entitled to? Government figures show 1 in 3 pensioners are missing out.
If your weekly income is less than:
YOU could be entitled to an Income Support top-up.
- £92.15 if you're on your own
- £140.55 if you're a couple
- and your savings are under £12,000,
Do you need extra help because you're disabled?
Do you have difficulty looking after yourself at home, e.g. with washing or dressing? If you are over 65, Attendance Allowance could increase your income by £37 or £55.30 per week (savings/other income doesn't affect this benefit). If you get Attendance Allowance a carer could get an increase in their benefit.
Sharrow Citizens Advice Bureau can help you make a claim. They can also advise on cold weather payments, grants for heating, or anything else you want to talk about.
Coordinator: Mike Wing
Age Concern, 10 Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FS.
tel. 242 4999
Age Concern in Sheffield "works with and for older people" in the city. Their Handyperson Service offers to carry out small DIY type jobs for people who don't have friends or family who are able to help. It is available without charge for labour, the only payment required being for materials used. There is no 'call out' charge. All participants have been subject to a police record check; all carry identity cards and are directly responsible to Age Concern
The partnership provides information about community and voluntary sector organisations working around health and wellbeing themes.
If you are interested in more information about this please contact:
Karen Webster
Partnership for Health, Health City Team, c/o Sheffield City Council, Old Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 2HH
tel. 273 5869
Email: m.gamsu@sheffield.gov.uk.
174 Sharrow Lane, Sheffield S11 8AR
Enquiries: tel. 250 9109
E-mail: sheffield.breakaway@rethink.org
rethink is a volunteer respite and befriending service, funded by the carers special grant through Sheffield Social Services. It is the operating name for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and is one of the largest mental health organisations in the UK today. It supports people with mental illness, their carers and their families, aiming to reduce the social isolation experienced by sufferers and carers alike.
Volunteers provide a 'listening ear' and a consistent friendship to someone with a mental health problem. If you would like to volunteer please contact the coordinator. You will need character references and training.
The Institute offers a part-time degree by evening part-time study. It is a BA Honours degree in Combined Studies (Social & Political Studies), open to mature students of all ages and from all social, ethnic and political backgrounds. Each module lasts 12 weeks, usually one evening per week. No formal qualifications are required.
Among the many options available in Combined Studies is Women's Studies. The various modules on offer in Level 1 comprise:
- Contemporary Feminist Issues
- Foundations of Feminism
- Gender & the Social Construction of Sexuality
- Gender & Work
- Gender, the Media & Popular Culture
- Women & Language: Power & Position
- Women & Religion: Historical & Contemporary Issues in Christianity
If you, or someone you know, is interested, contact Darren Webb, the Programme Director, at the above telephone number during working hours. E-mail contacts are: d.webb@sheffield.ac.uk or the Course Secretary j.k.goode@sheffield.ac.uk.
This is a new volunteer service being developed by Sheffield Social Services in conjunction with Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind. It will complement existing services and aims to improve the quality of life of people who feel isolated by their disability but who are determined to retain as much independence as possible.
Volunteers are needed to assist with:
You don't require any experience as appropriate training will be given as necessary. All you need is a caring disposition and a willingness to help. Please contact either Louise or Colin (above) for more details.
- Correspondence
- Gardening
- Driving
- Guided support
- Befriending
- Day Care Centre activities