FOOD FOR THOUGHT Sheffield City Council and NHS Sheffield are putting together the perfect recipe for healthy and sustainable food in the city, and they want your input. The Sheffield Food Plan consultation is underway looking at seven key areas relating to food in the city and the draft plan is now available for comments [...]
4th February 2011
If you’d like to make school life a little more exciting this spring, we’d love your school to enter The Big Pedal, powered by Sustrans and funded by the Bike Hub. This FREE to enter, UK wide cycle-to-school competition has daily, regional and national prizes including Cyclepod cycle storage, two Land Rover bikes and a jaw-dropping stunt display day with the M.A.D team at your [...]
3rd February 2011
FREE Local Business Breakfast Seminar Time: 07:30 to 09:30 Date: 26 January 2011 About the event: “You don’t have to be mad to work here…….” Come along to learn more about managing staff who could be struggling due to personal or job-related related worries, financial problems and debt, or relationship breakdown. You can encourage good [...]
24th January 2011
Sheffield’s successful project get’s a mention of the Department for Transports White Paper. The Travel4Life project, in conjunction with Sheffield Let’s Change4Life features in the Department for Transport’s White Paper ‘Cutting Carbon, Creating Growth: Making Sustainable Local Transport Happen’. School travel advisers from the local authority in worked intensively with schools in targeted areas of [...]
20th January 2011
Food has a massive impact on many parts of our lives. If people’s diets in the UK followed nutritional guidelines, 70,000 deaths could be avoided a year. Around 18% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to food production and consumption and the UK’s food and drink economy employs 3.7 million people. The Sheffield [...]
18th January 2011
Altogether Better were announced as the fifth winner of the Governments Big Society Award on the 22nd December 2010, after being independently nominated by the Cabinet Office. Sheffield Well-being Consortium manages and coordinates the activities of the Sheffield Health Champions project through 19 member organisations as part of the regional Altogether Better programme. The weekly [...]
10th January 2011
In November Transport Services, in conjunction with Sheffield-Letschange4life, hosted a very successful free Health and Wellbeing Seminarand a free health MOT for all employees based at the Staniforth Road site. The seminar, presented by Professor Paul Gately from Carneigie Weight Management, Leeds Metropolitan University, covered a wide range of workplace health issues ranging from healthy [...]
10th January 2011
FAMILY COMMUNITY GARDEN FOR PARSON CROSS PARK An opportunity is now available for more families and young people to grow their own fruit and vegetables in Sheffield. The exciting initiative aims to encourage families to grow their own food and improve their health and well being has been developed by the City Council. This new [...]
8th December 2010
The Sheffield Business 5-a-side Football tournament in association with Sheffield Let’s Change 4 Life has now come to a close. Played over four Thursdays with the Final on November 4th, the tournament had forty teams enter, representing businesses of different sizes and sectors for across Sheffield. The venue’s home team, Powerleague took the winners’ trophy [...]
29th November 2010
Business Teams Encouraged To Join In Santa Jog -Nation’s heart charity offers local firms festive treat at annual fun run- The Sheffield Santa Jog is a perfect way to profile your services, participate in a team building activity and encourage your staff to get heart healthy – all in one festive package. The growing annual [...]
29th November 2010