On 26 June, we welcomed representatives from Sheffield’s voluntary and community sectors to the Circle and invited them to take part in a unique exercise. We looked at neighbourhoods across the city a...

Protesters gathered outside the Hallamshire last Thursday to express their opposition to the Trump-linked firm.

Festival of Debate and DocFest are screening All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea in Sheffield this Monday.

Sheffield Music Office – sector briefing – Zoom, Wed 14 Oct 2026 - Sheffield has a broad and diverse music ecology, encompassing artists and musicians, venues and promoters, studios and music business...

Ahead of Sheffield's ultimate Kylie quiz later this month, we have an exclusive extract from a new book about how Australia's greatest export came to redefine 21st-century pop.

Sheffield Swift Network is trying to make our city a place where swifts can continue to breed and return year after year. A visit to Five Rivers Cohousing showed me why they're losing their nesting pl...

Thomas Haywood of Doncaster band The Blinders is back with a psych-drenched new group.

The annual one-day celebration of alternative music returns to venues across Sheffield.

We chat with the acclaimed improv duo ahead of the Sheffield date of their new tour.

We chat with Irish-born, Brighton-based author Chloe Michelle Howarth about her latest book Heap Earth Upon It and about her upcoming event in Sheffield with Juno Books.

Landmark building could be reshaped for decades to come, as council prepares to unveil plans for library, archives and Graves Gallery.

Doors at 7pmAt a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond, Deviants and Tra…

Returning to Sidney & Matilda (S&M) next month, the development of the much heralded one-day indie fest resulted from a deep seated passion for grassroots music.

Doors at 7pmAt a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond, Deviants and Tra…

The Sheffield-based social enterprise hopes Carver Fields will lay the groundwork for a different food system for the city.

We speak with ecologist Joe Freer to find out what’s next for an ambitious project to restore Sheffield’s hidden rivers to good health.

Titas Halder’s minimalist production represents a welcome return to first principles, but it’s Ian McDiarmid’s performance in the title role that has the audience transfixed.

There is something revealing about a high street. Look at the shops and you see the story of a place: what people can afford, what businesses think they can sell, and whether a town feels it has a fut...

At Opus, we recently joined dozens of organisations across the city by pledging to provide a safe space for trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming people as part of a campaign led by Safe Space ...

Opus works to create and support responses to achieve urgent systemic change. We do this by telling stories, bringing people together and demonstrating alternatives. If you'd like to receive updates ...

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Unflinching campaigner for women’s and civil rights who galvanised a generation of activists

We catch up with the famed Sheffield visual artist before she moves down south, reflecting on her working history in the city and what's still in store for her practice.

Despite the party chairing the Housing Committee since 2022, progress on a city-wide scheme has ground to a halt.

The latest edition of the Sheffield and Rotherham-based festival puts local talent on an equal footing with international stars.

Doors at 7pmAt a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond, Deviants and Tra…

Sidney & Matilda's inaugural curation promises a bold and eclectic full-day celebration of the very best in alternative music.

Rebecca Jane Morgan shares an exclusive extract from her new book, Deviants and Trailblazers – A History of Trans Activism in Britain, ahead of her talk at Sheffield's Festival of Debate in September.

Taking place from 18 to 20 September, Rebel Amulets will offer up poetry, bands and performances – and a place to talk.

Organisations in the business of radical change necessarily come into contact with harmful systems every day – whether that’s neoliberalism, patriarchy, deep-rooted racism, or a combination of all thr...

Naomi Abel-Hirsch is the director of Rose's House, a short documentary that premiered at Sheffield DocFest in June. Here, she tells the story of a forgotten corner of the city's queer past.

Author Jo Cheetham talks to Now Then about helping to end page 3 and how struggling to pay the bills inspired new novel Love and Rent.

To create 'Ceasefire' - a large-scale reinterpretation of Picasso's 'Guernica', painted in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Not content with making first-rate ice cream, Our Cow Molly are now exploring how methane from their cows can help power their farm.

Welcome to August's newsletter, where as ever we have exciting updates from the UBI Lab Network and news of Basic Income's forward march around the world.