Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group

06/11/2026

Sounds like a fantastic opportunity to get some really good skills and accreditation. Plenty of opportunities out there to link with local projects too.

🎥 Calling all 15-24 year olds in Birley, Beighton, Mosborough and Woodhouse! 🎨📱

Looking to boost your digital skills, get creative, and gain an accredited qualification? Join the FREE 8-week "Our Voice, Your Place" Digital Project starting this November at Westfield Community Centre.

You'll have the chance to learn:
✅ Graphic Design
✅ Video Editing
✅ Content Creation & Digital Media Skills
✅ Business Start-Up Skills
✅ Mentoring and personal development

This course is a fantastic opportunity to gain new skills, build confidence, meet other young people, and create meaningful content.

Westfield Community Centre, Sheffield, S20 8ND
Starts November 2026
Wednesdays 9.30am-11.30am

Places are free but limited, so register today using the QR code on the poster or via the link below:

🔗 https://forms.gle/h28tYsBnkuhcn4ALA

Please share with young people, parents, carers, home education networks, colleges, youth groups and community organisations who may be interested. 🙌

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05/11/2026

Our wonderful local photographer Kevin Steel has captured a shot of a willow emerald damselfly. These damselflies only came to the south of England in 2007 and have slowly been moving north. This is the first time we have seen one at Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve. They lay their eggs in the bark of willow or alder that is overhanging ponds.

04/11/2026

This sounds like a great gift idea!!

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04/11/2026

These look like lovely activities to join if you fancy getting creative.

04/11/2026

Today we were at Wickfield. We cut back the paths, maintained the bee bank, chopped down a large laurel tree and made a dead hedge round the pond. Not a bad day's work!

21/10/2026

We were at Beighton Marsh today with the volunteers and Sharon's wonderful flapjack! We scythed and raked the meadow by pond 2. We laid some alder trees into a hedge to let light into the pond, but also keep dogs out. We cut back lots of overhanging branches over the path, and we found some great fungi and a harvest mouse nest.

18/10/2026

Volunteers came to Richmond Park today to help around the SUDs pond. We scythed all the vegetation from around the pond and took it away. This will make it better for wildflowers next year, as we've removed all that rotting material. We also pulled the typha out of the pond - if we leave it, it would take over and we wouldn't have as much water. We found a vole, a dragonfly nymph, lots of water spiders and somethings we thought might be snail eggs? Thank you to all the volunteers for your help in the park. Next volunteer day is Saturday 14th November at 10am.

15/10/2026

The meadows you see around Shire Brook Valley don't just appear naturally- they take work! These last few weeks we have been scything, raking, scarifying and seeding to maintain and improve them. Meadows are fantastic habitats for lots of creatures, especially pollinators like bees, butterflies and hoverflies. But they're also great for wood mice, field voles, frogs and many birds to come and grab something to eat or to shelter from a predator. Then in turn the animals in these habitats feed predators like foxes, owls, sparrowhawks and snakes. It's a fabulous food chain going on every day.

07/10/2026

Last week the volunteers collected apples from a tree in Shire Brook Valley and we had an apple pudding making competition this week! Luckily we had a lot of scything, raking and sawing to do so we needed a lot of energy from cake! We scythed a few meadows, cut back paths and tidied up a fallen tree. And ate cake!