Vote for your favourite park – and help a Sheffield green space to win the UK...
Members of the public are being asked to vote in the Green Flag Awards’ annual People’s Choice prize, to find the UK’s favourite park. And with more Green Flag Award-winning parks than any other...
View ArticleSecond Sheffield International Economic Commission comes to The Outdoor City
Thursday 8 October 2015 It was launched earlier this year as an innovative and ambitious drive to engage the best brains from around the world in driving the city forward. And now the second of three...
View ArticleMagnificent cyclists take to the seven hills
2 February 2017 Just walking up Blake Street or Hagg Hill is enough of a test for most hardy Sheffielders. But when The Magnificent Seven cycling event returns for a second time in March, cyclists will...
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Tour de Yorkshire: Wheels in motion for bike businesses and clubs
31 March 2017 With the Tour de Yorkshire now just a month away, Sheffield City Council is looking at how Sheffield is building on its Le Grand Depart legacy. First, we look at the biking businesses and...
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Parkwood: Deadline extended after strong interest in former Ski Village site
A very strong demand in investors expressing an interest to develop Parkwood, incorporating the former Ski Village site, has led to Sheffield City Council agreeing to a short extension for potential...
View ArticleRun Routes – meet leader Laura Inglis
1 June 2017 “Running is a fabulous thing to do in Sheffield – and the new Run Routes make it even better.” That’s the view of Laura Inglis, 31, a qualified running coach who will be leading sessions on...
View ArticleCommunity digging plans for better Woodseats playground
Release originally from Friends of Woodseats Playground Friends of Woodseats Playground: Graves Park has announced the very first Community Dig Day at Woodseats Park on Sunday 15 October. With support...
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Test your cycling skills out on Sheffield’s steepest hill
Blake Street in Walkley is not only the steepest street in Sheffield (at 1 in 6) – it’s said to be one of the three steepest urban streets in England. So why not ride up it as fast as you can on a...
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Racing to put city centre cycling routes back on the map
The 90 participants rode multiple laps of a course including the ups and downs of the Don Valley Bowl terraces and hills, along with sprints and twisting chicanes around the Legacy Park site. Eventual...
View ArticleTen-year vision for Parkwood unveiled
The Council is launching its 10-year draft masterplan for the Parkwood Springs site, which includes Wardsend Cemetery and the former Viridor Landfill site. The consultation on the draft masterplan,...
View ArticleSheffield Hallam to survey park runners about health and wellbeing
Sheffield Hallam University is to undertake a major study with parkrun about the impact of parkrun participation on participants’ health and wellbeing. More than three million people in the UK and...
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International athlete Dot in our midst
Runners in Ecclesall Woods sometimes catch their breath as a famous 32 year old sprints past. “Was that Jess?” they whisper. Some say they should watch out for a small grey haired woman too: 66 year...
View ArticleParkrun total almost at 2,000
One of the UK’s largest parkruns broke its attendance record on Saturday when 868 people ran three miles round Endcliffe Park. “We’re really excited to have smashed our attendance record of 804, set...
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The unique experience of fostering in the Outdoor City
As you may know, small children like mud. Ours likes to throw it and sit in it. “You like going out to the Peak District?” exclaimed the social worker who assessed us for fostering. “That’ll be...
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