Community action/Sheffield

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Sheffield.

• Opus independents, not-for-profit social enterprise based in Sheffield. "We work with citizens, communities, neighbourhoods, business, voluntary groups, cities, campaigns, research institutions, infrastructure organisations and governments to address the entangled ecological, social, economic, political and cultural crisis we collectively face.", added 18:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
• Transition Sheffield - May 2016: Transition Sheffield has closed down but the websites have been archived

Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.

Future Rural Voices: perspectives on the countryside’s future

Authors: Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2.35 mins.

Date: 2026-05-07

Local Power, Lower Bills: Up the Energy!

Authors: Community Energy England, 1.38 mins.

Date: 2026-03-10

Tiree - This is Community Wealth Building

Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.44 mins.

Date: 2025-11-18

Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

• Cooperation Sheffield, "The core of our strategy is People's Assemblies", added 22:00, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
• It's Our City Sheffield, added 10:44, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

• ShefFood, Sheffield's food partnership. Cross sector partnership including community organisations. added 12:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
• Food Hall, food reclaimed, city centre
• Grow Sheffield
• Heeley City Farm
• Lower Walkley Community Group
• The Real Junk Food Project Sheffield, non-profit social enterprise saving food from being wasted and making it available to the people of Sheffield
• Sheffield Organic Growers, cluster of independent organic growers, based on a 12-acre site in Moss Valley on the edge of Sheffield

Sheffield Renewables

Regather, trading cooperative based in the Little Sheffield

Citizens data initiative

• Sheffield City Council Open Data, added 16:11, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Sheffield: The Outdoor City

The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 29 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation. ^W

Wikipedia: Supertram (Sheffield)

CycleSheffield

For cycling, although hilly, Sheffield is compact and has few major trunk roads. It is on the Trans-Pennine Trail, a National Cycle Network route running from West to East from Southport in Merseyside to Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North to South from Leeds in West Yorkshire to Chesterfield in Derbyshire. There are many cycle routes going along country paths in the woods surrounding the city. ^W

Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees. ^W

Maps

• A Greenground Map of Sheffield, theoutdoorcity.co.uk, added 16:37, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Peace Gardens

The Peace Gardens are an inner city square in Sheffield, England. The Gardens themselves front onto Sheffield's gothic town hall, not to be confused with Sheffield City Hall (a concert venue), or the Sheffield Old Town Hall.

News sources

• Now Then, a magazine for Sheffield. Independent, award-winning citizen journalism since 2008, added 18:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Past events

• Sheffield Environment Weeks
• Mar 27 - 28, 2019, Wed - Thu Feeling Good in a Green City festival
• Feb 16, 2017, The Platform - 'Sheffield Re-imagined 2017: A Manifesto for a Better Sheffield
• May 24 - 26, 2014, Sheffield Food Festival

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The population of the City of Sheffield is 584,853 (mid-2019 est.) Sheffield is the second-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the third-largest English district by population. The metropolitan population of The city of Sheffield is 1,569,000.

The city is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, and the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries. ^W