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Sheffield Environment Weeks 2018

th th 28 April to 10 June 2018

Programme of Events

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Sheffield Environment Weeks 2018

Welcome to the Sheffield Environment Weeks Programme of events. Our thanks to the many volunteers and community groups in Sheffield who support Environment Weeks and put on wonderful events for us all to enjoy.

Special thanks to our sponsors who make the printing of this programme possible:

People’s Postcode Lottery Hagg Lane and District Gardeners' Sheffield Conservation Volunteers Allotments Society Friends of Chapel Friends of Woods and Group Friends of the Friends of the Botanical Gardens Industrial History Society Beauchief Environment Group Hunter Archaeology Society Bank Allotment Society Norfolk Arms Walking Group The Victorian Society, South Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Group Yorkshire Group

Key to the symbols

Art Guided walk Talk

Built Environment Local History Suitable for Families

Display/exhibition Natural History Suitable for Wheelchair users or pushchairs Fun Open Day Suitable for Gardening Practical Activity families but not for wheelchair users or pushchairs. General interest Sustainable Development

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Saturday April 28th 10am - 4pm Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists A visual exploration of the urban edgelands and 8:30am unofficial countryside. An exhibition of painting, Magnificent Walk 2018; Friends of the Peak District drawing, print, photography, media and textiles by Our annual Magnificent Walk will start and finish in members of Pennine Artists, to celebrate Sheffield the picturesque village of Holme, near Holmfirth. 20 Environment Weeks, 28th April - 10th June. beautiful miles from Holme - via the Pennine Way, to Meet at: Library, Manchester Road, the large mill town of Marsden - then follow the Stocksbridge, S36 1DH Friends Peak District Boundary Walk back to Holme [email protected] around the northern-most tip of the National Park via www.penineartists.co.uk the spectacular Royd Edge and Digley Reservoir. A 15 mile route also available. Support the invaluable work of the Friends of the Peak District to protect our national park. 10:30am - 12:30pm Meet at: Fleece Inn, The Village Holme near Plants: History, herbs and folklore; Friends of Holmfirth, HD9 2QG Bus route: WY Metro 314 from Huddersfield A gentle stroll looking at some of the planted species Julie Gough on 0114 279 2655 in Wardsend cemetery, as well as the self-sown [email protected] 'weeds' and the stories they can tell us about local http://www.friendsofthepeak.org.uk/whats- heritage. With Christine Handley, local history and on/events/2018/04/28/Magnificent_Walk_2018 heritage enthusiast for over 30 years. Unfortunately this event is unsuitable for wheelchair users or people with mobility difficulties. Suggested donation £2.00 Meet: Bottom of the steps up to the cemetery behind Stadium and Mondolez(Bassetts), across the 9am - 12pm bridge at the bottom end of Livesey St. Use S6 2ET for Blackamoor Nature Reserve Walk; Norfolk Arms SatNavs. Small car park in front of the cemetery as Walking Group well as on street parking before the bridge Livesey St. A 5 mile walk which will take around 2.25 hours to Howard Bayley on [email protected] complete. The first part of the walk takes us through www.friendsofwardsendcemetery.btck.co.uk Blackamoor Nature Reserve on our way to the outskirts of , from where we take Moss Road on to Totley Moor and Brown Edge for our return to the start. There's a tricky downhill section on the way out, 11am - 4pm and a steepish uphill stretch to get us on to Totley Woolley Wood Bluebell Festival; Wincobank Hill Moor. There could be mud on Blackamoor and there Connects is often standing water on Totley Moor. There is a £10 Celebrate the Bluebells of Woolley Wood Local Nature charge for the walk payable to the pub which includes Reserve Various wildlife, history, art based activities tea/coffee before and after the walk, and a meal on and refreshments Bluebell walk round Woolley Wood our return too. Meet: Woolley Wood walk up the path from car park Meet at: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS by the Children's playground Road, S9 1NW Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group Bus route: 3, 36 Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 Penny Rea on 07980 143776 [email protected] [email protected] www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php http://www.wincobankhillconnects.btck.co.uk

1pm - 3pm This is the halfwaymark, and walkers can either re- Craft Session - Adventure Playground trace their steps to Schubert Bridge or continue on to Environmental Craft Session for Children aged 8-13 at Calcium Corner to look at the Reedmace Pool. From Pitsmoor Adventure Playground. The craft session will there we plan to stagger up the steep path to the have an environmental theme and utilise salvaged Edge to admire the panoramic view, before following materials to upcycle into new playground parts. All the Bridleway back to the starting point children will be encouraged to follow their creative Meet: Schubert Bridge (grid ref: SK 41997 85300) instincts and play will be used as a vehicle to develop This is on Beaver Hill Road, just below and opposite the adventure. Children under 8 must be supervised the Fire Brigade Training Centre. There is a bus stop by a parent/carer and should wear clothes they don't nearby for the 52/52a service, and a small amount of mind getting messy in. Suitable for families. car parking available on the grass verge by the Supported by Sheffield Green Spaces Forum Shirtcliffe Woods access gate. Meet at: Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, on the [email protected] corner of Melrose Road and Burngreave Street, www.friendsofshirtcliffe.co.uk Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN Bus route: 75,76 Patrick Meleady on 0114 2737121 [email protected] www.pitsmooradventure.org Sunday April 29th

9am Sail at Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats 2pm - 4pm and Scale Models); Sheffield Ship Model Society Afternoon Tea at Greave House Farm Trust Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats and Call in for tea and cakes and find out what plans we Scale Models) Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday have for the Care Farm and what we've achieved morning, usually from about 9am we tend to finish already. Includes a guided tour of the farm. Not very once the paddle boats start coming on (ours and suitable for wheelchair users - yet. theirs don't mix!) During the year we will be having Meet at: Greave House Farm, New Hall Lane, yacht racing, these will be on Thursday mornings, not Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 4GH every week and not when the kids are not at school, Bus route: SL1 or SL1a to the top of Cedar Road then a this is to allow the paddle boats to have maximum 15 minute walk. No 57 to Stocksbridge Community time as it normally takes a couple of hours when we Leisure Centre then a 10 minute walk start at 10am (we normally get a good crowd Barbara Bristow on 07724505911 watching us) All are welcome to bring a boat down (it [email protected] is a public pond) and we are very happy to give advice www.greavehousefarmtrust.org.uk Meet at: Pond, Abbeydale Road South, Sheffield S7 2QQ [email protected] www.sheffieldshipmodelsociety.co.uk 2pm - 4pm Shirtcliffe Valley Annual Bluebell Walk; Friends of Shirtcliffe Annual Shirtcliffe Valley Bluebell Walk with leader Pat 9:30am - 4pm Howells. Why not join us on this popular event we Practical Conservation Project; Sheffield are hoping for a really good show of Bluebells, and Conservation Volunteers other Spring flowers. We will stroll through the Come and join us for a days practical conservation Ancient Woodland and out along the Valley Bottom to project. No experience necessary. Please bring warm Severnside Meadow. There, with a bit of luck (despite work clothes, stout footwear, a packed lunch and the damage caused by quad-bikers), there should be waterproofs. Tools, hot drinks and on-site training (if Red-Listed Adders Tongue Ferns popping through. necessary) will be provided. Meet at: City Hall Steps, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 the cemetery and some of those interred there. Also Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 installations by the artist in residence - Victoria Smith. [email protected] Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose road, www.sheffieldconservation.org Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN Bus route: 1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 Friends of Burngreave Chapel and Cemetery www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk 10am - 2pm Rivelin Valley Litter Pick; Rivelin Valley Conservation Group Join the RVCG Task Team on its annual sweep of the 2pm - 3:30pm Rivelin Valley. Gloves, litter pickers and bags will be Walk in ; Sheffield Woodland provided which can be left at the side of the road for Connections collection. Gain confidence in identifying trees and woodland Meet at: Havelock Dam Car Park,Rivelin Valley Road plants? Interested in woodland habitats and how between Hollins Lane and the Fire Station, S6 5FE people have shaped them through history? Find out Bus route: 81, 82 or Super Tram to then more about how volunteers are managing the 10 min walk woodland today? Join Sheffield Woodland Keith Kendall on 114 2307144 Connections as we guide interpretive walks through [email protected] Ecclesall Woods. We will reveal the magic of the www.rivelinvalley.co.uk largest ancient semi-natural woodland in South Yorkshire. This walk is a free event. Maximum 25 people per walk. The walks will be approximately 90 minutes long and will stick to marked footpaths. 11am - 4:30pm Sensible footwear is a must as paths are muddy. All Wortley Top Forge Open Day; South Yorkshire are welcome but the walks are not aimed at young Industrial History Society children, although kids with a passion for learning 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and about nature are encouraged to join us. Please meet two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old us 10 minutes before the start time outside the metal working machines, steam engines and Woodland Discovery Centre. exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. Nature Meet at: J.G. Graves Woodland Discovery Centre, Trail with free guide. Miniature railway runs in Ecclesall Woods, Abbey Lane, Sheffield S7 2QZ afternoon. Onsite parking. Entrance fee: Adults £3.00, Fran on 07974404967 Children 50p, Concessions £2.00. [email protected] Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, www.sheffieldwoodlandconnections.co.uk S35 7DN G. Parkinson/T. Young on 0114 281 7991/ 01226 763896 [email protected] www.topforge.co.uk Monday April 30th

9:30am - 12:30pm

Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group - Redmires 11am - 2pm A walk of just over 4 miles, will take around 2 hours to Weekly meeting; Friends of Burngreave Chapel and complete. After a steady climb there are great views Cemetery from the top of Rud Hill, before we cut through a The friends of Burngreave Cemetery meet every boggy area known as White Stones to reach the Sunday between 11am and 3.00 pm to help visitors Redmires Reservoirs. Walking around all 3 reservoirs locate particular graves. There is a permanent display on good paths is followed by a short sharphill to take of information and photographs about the history of us on to a disused quarry and back to the start. Meet at: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Road, S11 7TS 10:30am - 2:30pm Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group The Bluebells of Bitholmes and the Wantley Dragon Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 with Walking Out in Sheffield [email protected] No stiles but possibly muddy natural paths with some www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php ups and downs on this spectacular short bluebell walk through Bitholmes Wood, owned by the Woodland Trust. We'll cook our lunch with the hot breath of the Wantley Dragon and enjoy the view. 4 miles linear - 10am - 5:30pm moderate. Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Meet at: Meet outside WH Smith in Pond Street th See Saturday 28 April for more details. Interchange at 09:50 to catch 57 to , Bus route: 57

Rob Haslam on 07761 922047

[email protected]

Tuesday May 1st

9am

Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats 6pm - 8pm and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society History of ; Bolsterstone Archaeology See Sunday 29th April for details and Heritage Group A guided walk of approximately 3 miles in and around

the ancient village of Bolsterstone. 10am - 5:30pm Meet at: Lych gate of St Mary's church, Bolsterstone, Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists S36 3ZN See Saturday 28th April for more details. Bus route: 57, 57a, SL1, SL1a, Middlewood tram Ruth Morgan on 0114 2882640 [email protected]

10am - 12:30pm Park Walled Garden morning volunteers; Friends of Tuesday Morning Volunteers help to maintain the 6pm – 8pm Walled Garden and the Wildlife area. A list of typical Houndkirk Moor Walk with Norfolk Arms Ringinglow tasks and the risk assessment is on our website. Walking Group Please wear appropriate clothing, including sturdy A circular walk of just over 3 miles, should take 1.5-2 footwear and gardening gloves. We organise two hours to complete. The route takes us down towards Open days each year in April and September (at the Dore Moor and then on to Houndkirk Moor via Wood start and end of the normal weekend opening season) Clough Nature Reserve before returning to the start we have permanent plant sales from the greenhouses along Houndkirk Road. Quite a tough walk with a between 12 and 1pm, 6 days a week and we also couple of short sharp climbs, it also includes walking ensure that the Garden is open on Sunday mornings through bogs and marshes and on some uneven throughout the winter months for ad-hoc activities. tracks. There is a charge of £10 of this walk payable to Meet at: Meet at The greenhouses in Hillsborough the pub which includes tea/coffee before and after Park Walled Garden off Middlewood Road, S6 4HB the walk, and a buffet meal on our return. Bus route: 35, 57, 85. Tram Route - Blue Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS Andy Chaplin on 0114 2344348 Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 [email protected] [email protected]

Wednesday May 2nd Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 [email protected] 10am - 12pm www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php Botanical Gardens Volunteers Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener you are welcome to join our team of volunteers who work with the Curator and Gardens' staff to keep the Gardens looking beautiful. Come Thursday May 3rd along on a Wednesday Morning and sign on in the big greenhouse next to the Dorothy Fox Education 10am Centre. Please wear appropriate clothing for the Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats weather, including sturdy footwear and gardening and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society th gloves, tools are provided. See Sunday 29 April for details Meet: Greenhouse at Thompson Road end, Botanical

Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield, S10 2LN

Bus route: 81. 82. 83 12:30pm - 6:30pm - Pennine Artists Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Default to Wilderness [email protected] See Saturday 28th April for more details. www.fobssheffield.co.uk

4pm - 5pm 1pm - 4pm Animal mask making The Writes of Spring! Part of a series of activities for children Stocksbridge Find encouragement to write creatively about the Library are running during Environment weeks world of nature at our beautiful community allotment Meet at: Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Rd, with writer and artist Sue Shaw. Come to one or all Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 1DH sessions. Free event for the over 50s, refreshments 0114 273 4205 provided. Bus route is the 52, or the tram stop is [email protected] Woodburn Road. Some on street parking space too, but no dedicated car parking. Meet at: Plots 26 &27 Ouse Road Allotments, Drink Wise Age Well, Allotment Plots, Sheffield S9 3AD To book call: Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 6:30pm - 8:30pm [email protected] Friends of Wincobank Hill monthly meeting www.drinkwiseagewell.org.uk Regular monthly meeting Refreshments served from 6.30pm. Meeting starts at 7pm Open Committee Meeting when members and local residents can come

and share their thoughts about the hillfort and ancient 5pm - 7pm woodland along with any concerns or suggestions. Houndkirk Road Walk; Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Admission £2 which includes refreshments and a Walking Group raffle ticket, and help pay for the room hire. A three mile walk which takes us just beyond the site Meet: Upper Wincobank Chapel, Wincobank Ave, of the old Badgers House pub, before we return along S5 6BB Bus route: 3, 3a the same route to the start. One small incline at the Penny Rea on 07980 143776 start, very little mud, no stiles and decent tracks make [email protected] this quite an easy 90 mins. walk. £10 charge to the http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk pub includes tea/coffee before and after the walk, a buffet meal at the end of the walk. Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Road, S11 7TS Friday May 4th 9am - 12:30pm Ringinglow Walking Festival 10am - 2pm 'A Tale of 2 Rivers' 2 of Sheffield's 6 rivers have their Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists source at Ringinglow, and this pleasant 4 mile th See Saturday 28 April for more details. woodland stroll takes us from the Norfolk Arms pub along parts of both of these rivers, with stories along the way of exactly how over the years they affected

the lives of ordinary Sheffield people. Although the 1pm - 4pm walk takes place on mainly good paths, there are Printing Nature quite a few stiles to negotiate and there could be Use lovely inks and the plants and fruits to hand on muddy sections following rain. There are also 2 steady the allotment site with the help of the ever popular inclines along the way. Meet at 9.00 for registration artist Jan Flamank. Make pictures you can take away. and to order a meal for after the walk. A charge of £10 Free event for the over 50s, refreshments provided, to is payable to the pub and includes food, and book call 0114 3491888. tea/coffee before and after the walk. Meet at: Plots 26 &27 Ouse Road Allotments, S9 3AD Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Rd, Sheff. S11 7TS See ‘The Writes of Spring’ Wednesday 2nd May for Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group more details. Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 [email protected]

www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php Saturday May 5th

5am 9:30am - 4pm Parkwood Springs Dawn Chorus Walk; Friends of Tool Sharpening Course; Ecclesall Woods Craft Parkwood Springs. See the sun rise and hear the Course. Learn to sharpen tools effectively (£65.00) - songs and calls of a range of birds, including recently Tool sharpening for green woodworking tools, ie axes, arrived migrants. John Robinson of the RSPB will lead drawknives, billhooks, turning tools, chisels, slashers. the walk around this amazing wild space, only one Learn techniques using various sharpening equipment mile from the city centre. Join members of the Friends in Ecclesall Woods Sawmill. If you have tools which of Parkwood Springs for breakfast afterwards. are giving you problems - bring them along for Dave Meet at: Cooks Wood Road Car ParkCooks Wood to look at - he will either help you get them sharp or Road, Sheffield, S5 8XB advise you what to do. (please restrict to 2/3 tools as [email protected] you will only have time to work on a couple) All www.parkwood-springs.org.uk materials and tools are provided for you on the day. You will need to bring a packed lunch - drinks are provided! Wear suitable clothes for working outdoors. 6am - 8am Meet at: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre Dawn Chorus Walk through Ecclesall Woods; Friends Ecclesall Woods Abbey Lane Sheffield S7 2QZ, of Ecclesall Woods 0114 235 6348 A guided walk through Ecclesall Woods identifying [email protected] bird calls and taking about 2 hours. Led by Paul www.ecclesallwoodscraftcourses.co.uk Medforth. Booking not required Meet at: Entrance to Wood 3, opposite the bus stop for Gardens, Abbeydale Rd. South, 9:30am - 4pm Bus route: 97, 98, 217 Carving Explorations - sculptural wood carving from Paul Medforth on 07968 092032 split log sections – wood carvingfor adults www.friendsofecclesallwoods.org.uk Learn to use traditional carving tools with local woodcarver Jason Thomson - wood, tools and thirty years carving know how provided. (£85.00) Carving 10am - 12pm Explorations - sculptural wood carving with seasoned Bluebell Walk Ecclesall Woods; Friends of Ecclesall sculptor Jason Turpin Thomson. Bring your idea or Woods work intuitively on the day. All materials and tools are A walk through Ecclesall Woods to see the bluebells provided for you on the day. Bring a packed lunch - and other flowers. Led by Julie Riley and taking about drinks are provided! Wear suitable clothes for working 2hours. No need to book outdoors. Contact prior to book. Meet: Outside Graves Woodland Discovery Centre, Meet at: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre, Woodland Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane, S7 2QZ Ecclesall Woods, Abbey Lane Sheffield S7 2QZ, Julie Riley on 07982720669 Ecclesall Woods Craft Courses 0114 235 6348. friendsofecclesallwoods.org.uk [email protected] www.ecclesallwoodscraftcourses.co.uk

Sunday May 6th

9:30am - 2:30pm 5am - 7am Vegetable & Bedding Plant Sale; Hagg Lane & Dawn Chorus Walk across and Loxley District Gardeners’ Allotment Society Common; Wadsley and Loxley Commoners Annual Allotment Society plant sale by members to raise funds for further allotment site improvements. Dawn Chorus Walk on Wadsley led by John Robinson. We have a large range of vegetable plants, fruit, An early start - meet at 5am, Circular walk around 2 herbs, bedding plants and gardening supplies . hours, but you can return to the car park at any time. Refreshments available. Meet: Rural Ln Car park, off Rural Ln Wadsley, S6 4BL Meet at: Hagg Lane & District Gardeners' Allotments Bus route: 57 Society Trading Hut, Back Lane, , Sheff. S10, hannah isherwood on 0114 2335331 Bus route: 51 [email protected] Mr Peter Kettleborough on 0114 266 4657 www.wadsley-loxley.org [email protected] HaggLaneAllotments.blogspot.com

6am - 8am Dawn Chorus Walk - Salmon Pastures Nature 10am - 4pm Reserve; Don Catchment Rivers Trust. Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Join naturalist Julie Riley on a gentle Dawn Chorus th See Saturday 28 April for more details. walk along the River Don in its industrial heartland. Aimed at beginners, we will try to use sight and sound

to identify the birds that make the river their home,

while learning a little bit about the history of the area. 10am - 3am Male songbirds sing loudly on spring mornings to Blacka Moor Volunteer Work Day; Sheffield and defend their territories and attract a mate it really is Rotherham Wildlife Trust worth the early wake up call! Bring binoculars if you Blacka Moor Volunteer Work Day Join us to help care have them and wear a pair of sturdy boots and for this beautiful moorland reserve on the western clothes suitable for the weather. If you would like to edge of Sheffield. join us on the walk please email [email protected] to Meet at: Stony Ridge car park, S11 7TW book a place Free. 0114 263 4335 Meet at: Norfolk Bridge, [email protected] 0130 2796173 [email protected] wildsheffield.com/whats-on www.dcrt.org.uk

9am Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats choice of meal for when we return £10 per person and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society charge payable to the pub on the day. See Sunday 29th April for details Meet at: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group Steve Murfitt on 7950962027 [email protected] 9:30am - 4pm www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php Practical Conservation Project; Sheffield Conservation Volunteers Come and join us for a days practical conservation project. No experience necessary. Please bring warm 11am - 2pm work clothes, stout footwear, a packed lunch and Weekly Meeting Friends of Burngreave Cemetery waterproofs. Tools, hot drinks and on-site training (if The friends of Burngreave Cemetery meet every necessary) will be provided. Sunday between 11am and 3.00 pm to help visitors Meet at: City Hall Steps, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 locate particular graves. There is a permanent display Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 of information and photographs about the history of [email protected] the cemetery and some of those interred there. Also www.sheffieldconservation.org installations by the artist in residence - Victoria Smith. Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose road Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN, Bus route:1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 9:30am - 2:30pm [email protected] Vegetable & Bedding Plant Sale www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk Annual Allotment Society plant sale by members to raise funds for further allotment site improvements. We have a large range of vegetable plants, fruit, herbs, bedding plants and gardening supplies . 11am - 4:30pm Refreshments available. Wortley Top Forge Open Day Meet at: Hagg Lane & District Gardeners' Allotments 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and Society Trading Hut Back Lane, Crosspool, Sheff. S10, two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old Bus route: 51 metal working machines, steam engines and Mr Peter Ketlleborough on 0114 266 4657 exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. [email protected] See Sunday 29th April for more details. www.HaggLaneAllotments.blogspot.com

10:30am - 3:30pm 12pm - 3pm Ringinglow Walking Festival; Norfolk Arms Seed and Plant Swap; Friends of Burngreave Chapel Ringinglow Walking Group and Cemetery 'Romans, Royalty and Rocks' Some ancient and not Come and share your knowledge with us to celebrate so ancient history on this 9 mile walk which has International Permaculture Day outstanding views throughout the day to go along Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose Road with the history lesson. Leaving from the pub, the Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN walk takes place on mainly good paths, but stout Bus route:1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 footwear is a must on this walk as there are some [email protected] rocky sections, and a whole load of mud if it has been www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk raining recently. There is also quite a steep uphill section. Meet at 9.30 for tea/coffee and to order your Monday May 7th 7pm - 9pm Loxley Valley Round Walk; Bradfield Walkers are 10am - 5:30pm Welcome Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Evening Round Walk in the Loxley Valley th See Saturday 28 April for details Meet at: Loxley Village Green (junction of Loxley Road, Rodney Hill), S6 0114 2337463

[email protected] 5pm - 7:30pm www.bradfield-walkers.org.uk Ringinglow Walking Festival 'Oxen and Quarrying on the Moors' Stunning views all round, prospect of a sunset over the moors, and a scrumptious buffet waiting for us when we get back to the pub, this walk is one not to be missed! This 4 mile Wednesday May 9th walk takes place on good paths throughout, with just one difficult downhill section and a steady climb back. 10am - 12pm There could also be mud after rain. There is a charge Botanical Gardens Volunteers; Friends of the of £10 per person payable to the pub on the day Botanical Gardens (FOBS) which includes tea and coffee before and after the Whether you are a beginner or an experienced walk, plus a buffet meal after the walk. gardener you are welcome to join our team of Meet at: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS volunteers who work with the Curator and Gardens'. Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 Please wear appropriate clothing for the weather, [email protected] including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves, tools www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php are provided. Meet: Greenhouse at Thompson Rd end, Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road Sheffield, S10 2LN Bus route: 81. 82. 83 Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Tuesday May 8th [email protected]

www.fobssheffield.co.uk 9am - Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society th See Sunday 29 April for details 10am - 12:30pm The Wombles of Wincobank: Coffee, Cake and Conservation; Friends of Wincobank Hill 10am - 5:30pm Help Woodland Rangers trim and tidy the paths and Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists woodland. All are welcome to come and help See Saturday 28th April for more details. including supervised children. Tools, hot drinks and biscuits provided but it is best to bring your own

gardening gloves. Please text or phone 07980 143776 10am - 12:30pm if planning to come so we can look out for you. Hillsborough Park Walled GardenTuesday morning Meet at: Outside Upper Wincobank Chapel, volunteers Wincobank Avenue, S5 6BB Volunteers help to maintain the Walled Garden and Bus route: 3,3a the Wildlife area. Please wear appropriate clothing, Penny Rea on 07980 143776 including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves. friendsofwincobankhill @ gmail.com See Tuesday 1st May for more details. http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk

1pm - 4pm 4pm - 5pm The Writes of Spring! Drink Wise Age Well Wildlife bookmark making Community Allotment Wildlife bookmark making - part of a series of Find encouragement to write creatively about the activities for children Stocksbridge Library are running world of nature at our community allotment with during Environment weeks writer and artist Sue Shaw. Come to one or all Meet at: Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Rd, sessions. Free event for the over 50s, refreshments Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 1DH, provided. Bus 52, or the tram stop is Woodburn Rd. Sheffield Libraries 0114 273 4205 Meet at: Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments, Drink [email protected] Wise Age Well Community Allotment Plots 26, S9 3AD See Wednesday 2nd May for more details

6:30pm - 8:30pm Beauchief Nature Park and adjacent bluebell woods 6:30pm walk; Beauchief Environment Group Phantom Architecture; Sheffield Libraries Early evening walk around the Beauchief Nature Park The Great Buildings That Never Got off the Drawing and adjacent bluebell woods approx 2 hrs. Afterwards Board. In his book Phantom Architecture, Philip opportunity to view inside historic Beauchief Abbey. Wilkinson discovers that some of the most exciting Good footwear recommended, dogs on lead only. buildings in the history of architecture are the ones Meet at: Beauchief Abbey, Beauchief, Abbey Lane, that never got built. A skyscraper one mile high, a Sheffield S8 7BD. Parking on Beauchief Abbey Lane dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a Bus: 76, nearest stop roundabout at Bocking Ln; 97 triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: These are and 98, nearest stop byBeauchief traffic lights at amongst the projects in which architects took junction of Abbey Lane/Abbeydale Road materials to the limits, explored challenging new 0114 2377601 ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way [email protected] towards the future. Note start time of event is 6.45pm. Booking for this event is via www.sheffieldlibraries.eventbrite.co.uk If you require more details contact the library. Meet at: Central Library, Carpenter Room,Central Friday May 11th

Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ, 10am - 2pm 0114 273 4727 or 0114 273 4712 Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Email: [email protected] See Saturday 28th April for more details.

Thursday May 10th 10am - 10am Crucible cellar; Wessex Archaeology Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats As part of this years Sheffield Environment Weeks, and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society Wessex Archaeology offers a rare opportunity to visit See Sunday 29th April for details the crucible cellars of the former Titanic Works, Malinda Street/Hoyle Street, Sheffield. This event will will provide the chance to explore a once common- place and important part of Sheffield’s industrial past. 12:30pm - 6:30pm - Pennine Artists Wessex Archaeology will be conducting four 1 hour Default to Wilderness tours of the crucible cellars, all free of charge, with See Saturday 28th April for more details. each tour accommodating up to six members of the public. The tours will include exploring all three cellars with information about the steel making process, the history and development of the site and their Monthly meeting Sheffield Branch of British Cactus significance within Sheffield. Tours will need to be and Succulent Soc. talk by John Carr. Table Show – booked in advance due to limited space within the Agave Group. Free entry, free parking to rear of venue cellars. Please be aware that the tours are not suitable Meet: Scout Headquarters, 60-68 Trippet Lane, S1 4EL for those with impaired mobility or children under the Sheffield Branch of British Cactus and Succulent Soc. age of 8 years. Suitable footwear (walking boots) is Peter Cowdell on 01709 584393 recommended. Any other protective clothing required [email protected] will be provided. www.sheffield.bcss.org.uk Meet at: Titanic Works Hoyle Street/Malinda Street Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S3 7EH Lucy Dawson 03303 133504 [email protected] www.wessexarch.co.uk/events Saturday May 12th

9am – 12noon

Rhododendron Walk; Norfolk Arms Ringinglow

Walking Group 10:30am - 12:30pm In the Redmires area of Sheffield are Oaking Clough Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural Society; and Oaking Clough reservoir. This walk takes us past Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield (FOBS) both of them whilst enjoying seeing a huge number of Speaker: Sue Biggs, Director General RHS FOBS rhododendron bushes in full bloom, whilst learning Members free Visitors £5 why they are in this remote area. A steady 4 mile walk Meet: Dorothy Fox Education Centre at south end of on mainly field paths and tracks. £10 charge for this walk payable to the pub includes tea/coffee before Sheffield Botanical Gardens Clarkehouse Rd, S10 2LN and after the walk, and a meal when we get back to Bus route: 81. 82. 83 the pub. Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Meet at: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS [email protected] Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 www.fobssheffield.co.uk [email protected] www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php

1pm - 4pm Printing Nature; Drink Wise Age Well Community 10am - 4pm Allotment Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th Use lovely inks and the plants and fruits to hand on See Saturday 28 April for more details. the allotment site with the help of the ever popular artist Jan Flamank. Make pictures you can take away.

Free event for the over 50s, refreshments provided. 10am - 2pm The bus route is the 52, or the tram stop is Woodburn Plant Sale; Walkley Bank Allotment Society Road. There is some on street parking space too, but The Annual Walkley Bank allotment 'bring and buy' no dedicated car parking. plant sales. Great value on a wide variety of Meet : Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments,Drink perennials, annuals, seedlings, fruit and flowers, Wise Age Well Community Allotments, Sheff, S9 3AD, garden supplies plus much, much more. To book: call Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 Meet at: The shop on Morley St, Morley Street, [email protected] (Walkley Bank Road end) Sheffield S6 2PL Bus route: walk from Hillsborough

Dan Bilton on 07940 965922 7:30pm [email protected] Talk 'Practical growing techniques'

10am - 12:30pm specialist equipment which is used to safely observe The Wombles of Wincobank: Coffee, Cake and the Sun. You only have two eyes. Look after them. Conservation; Friends of Wincobank Hill Meet at: Sheffield Botanical Gardens,Thompson Road Help the Woodland Rangers trim and tidy the paths or Clarkehouse Road entrance, Sheffield, and woodland. All are welcome to come and help Bus route: Thompson Road entrance 81, 82, 83, 88 including supervised children. Tools, hot drinks and [email protected] biscuits provided, best to bring your own gardening www.sheffieldastro.org.uk gloves. Please text or phone 07980 143776 if you are planning to come so that we look out for you. Meet at: Outside Upper Wincobank Chapel, Wincobank Avenue, S5 6BB 1pm - 3pm Bus route: 3,3a Environmental Craft Session; Pitsmoor Adventure Penny Rea on 07980 143776 Playground [email protected] Craft Session for Children aged 8-13. The craft session http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk will have an environmental theme and utilise salvaged materials to upcycle into new playground parts. All children will be encouraged to follow their creative instincts and play will be used as a vehicle to develop 11am - 2pm additional equipment for the adventure playground. Parkwood Springs Forest Garden; Children under 8 must be supervised by a This is a productive permaculture project. It is a parent/carer and should where clothes they don't young forest garden developed by Sheffield City mind getting messy in. Suitable for families Council in association with local volunteers. It has Supported by Sheffield Green Spaces Forum been designed to need only a small amount of Meet: Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, located on the external input. It requires weeding, mulching & corner of Melrose Rd and Burngreave St, S3 9DN pruning, the compost pile needs managing and Bus route: 75,76 spreading and best of all, there is often a lot of Patrick Meleady on 0114 2737121 harvesting to be done. We meet in the car park on [email protected] Cooks Wood Road at 10.45am and walk over to the garden for 11.00am. We have a break at 1.00pm, you can bring your own drink and snack or food to share. We usually make a hot drink too. We finish at around 2.00pm. All tools and appropriate training are 1:30pm - 3:30pm provided. Wear sturdy shoes, warm clothes in winter, Picturing Paradise An art workshop inspired by and come and join us. Episode Four of BBC Civilisations; Sheffield Libraries Meet: Cooks Wood Road Car Park, Cooks Wood Road, Join Ignite imaginations for a fun and friendly session Sheffield S6 3NJ exploring nature in art, and produce your own locally [email protected] inspired work using different collage techniques. An event for adults. £5 per ticket Booking for this event is via www.sheffieldlibraries.eventbrite.co.uk If you require more details contact the library. 1pm - 4pm Meet at: Central Library Reading Room, Central Sungazing! Sheffield Astronomical Society Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ Join us in the Botanical Gardens where you can use 0114 273 4727 or 0114 273 4712 the Society's specialist solar observing equipment to Email [email protected] or safely view Sunspots, Prominences, Filaments and [email protected] other features of out closest stellar neighbour! Remember folks - safety first. DO NOT OBSERVE THE SUN DIRECTLY UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Sheffield Astronomical Soc. operates Sunday May 13th 11am - 2pm What's happening at Wharncliffe? Wharncliffe 9am Heathlands Trust Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats A chance to stroll around the nature reserve with and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society some of the trustees discussing current management th See Sunday 29 April for details plans, while enjoying the birds and the bluebells. Open to all but please remember to wear stout footwear.

Meet: R Don Bridge,Station Road, Deepcar, S36 2SQ 9:30am - 4pm Bus route: Supertram Link/57 Practical Conservation Project; Sheffield Dave Buttle on 07515106966 Conservation Volunteers [email protected] Join us for a days practical conservation project. No www.wharncliffeheathlandstrust.org.uk/index.html experience necessary. Please bring warm work clothes, stout footwear, a packed lunch and waterproofs. Tools, hot drinks and on-site training (if necessary) will be provided. 11am - 2pm Meet at: City Hall Steps, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 Weekly Meeting Friends of Burngreave Cemetery Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 The friends of Burngreave Cemetery meet every [email protected] Sunday between 11am and 3.00 pm to help visitors www.sheffieldconservation.org locate particular graves. There is a permanent display of information and photographs about the history of the cemetery and some of those interred there. Also

installations by the artist in residence - Victoria Smith. 10am - 2pm Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose Road, Plant sale; Walkley Bank Allotment Society Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN The Annual Walkley Bank allotment 'bring and buy' Bus route:1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98, plant sales. Great value on a wide variety of www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk perennials, annuals, seedlings, fruit and flowers, garden supplies plus much, much more. Meet at: The Shop on Morley Street (Walkley Bank Road end), S6 2PL 11am - 4:30pm Wortley Top Forge Open Day; South Yorkshire Bus route: walk from Hillsborough or Malin Bridge Industrial History Society Dan Bilton on 07940 965922 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and [email protected] two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old metal working machines, steam engines and exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. Nature

Trail with free guide. Miniature railway runs in 10am - 12:30pm afternoon. On site parking. Entrance fee: Adults Dry Stone Walling - Family Muck in Day; £3.00, Children 50p, Concessions £2.00. National Trust Longshaw Estate Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, Learn this ancient and fascinating art from the Eastern S35 7DN Moors ranger team, and help us repair a section of dry GordonParkinson/Ted Young on 0114 281 7991 stone wall near the pond. No need to book, please 01226 763896 come dressed for the weather. Contact [email protected] [email protected] for more information. www.topforge.co.uk Megan Carroll on 01433 637904 [email protected]

2pm - 5pm Open Afternoon at Zion Graveyard ; 7:30pm - 9pm Friends of Zion Graveyard, Attercliffe The Making of our Local Landscape and Scenery - the Open Afternoon at the Graveyard for the General geology of the Eastern Dark Peak - Sheffield area; Public, for visits and reflection, family activities and Wadsley and Loxley Commoners occasional music. Supervised children Welcome. A talk about the geology of the area around the Meet at: Zion Graveyard, Lawrence Street / Zion Lane Wadsley and Loxley Commons by a local member of Attercliffe S9 3RG the Wadsley and Loxley Commoners. £3.50 or Bus route: 52, X1 Nearest tram stop is Attercliffe on members, £4 for non-members, cake and Meadowhall route refreshments included. Penny Rea on 07980 143776 Meet at: Wadsley Church Hall, Road, Worrall [email protected] Road, Wadsley, S6 4BA http://www.ziongraveyard.btck.co.uk Bus route: 57 Hannah Isherwood on 0114 2335331 [email protected] www.wadsley-loxley.org

Monday May 14th

10.00am – 12.30pm 7:30pm Crabtree Ponds Volunteer Work Day; Sheffield and Making of Painted Fabrics talk; Bradfield Historical Rotherham Wildlife Trust Society Join us to help care for this small urban reserve near Monthly meeting of Bradfield Historical Society. Talk the Northern General by Malcolm Leary - non-members welcome Meet: Crabtree Ponds, Crabtree Close, Sheff. S5 7BJ Meet at: village hall. The Hall is located between Herries Rd and Barnsley Rd, just south of the on The Sands, a small lane opposite the village post Northern General Hospital. Main entrance to the office. Parking is available around the village green as reserve is on corner of Herries Rd and Crabtree Close. well as the car park at the back of the cricket pavillion. Contact: 0114 263 4335 [email protected] Address: The Sands, Low Bradfield, Sheffield S6 6LB, wildsheffield.com/whats-on 0114 2337463 [email protected]

10am - 5:30pm Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists See Saturday 28th April for details. Tuesday May 15th

9am 7pm - 9pm Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Soil degradation - an unfolding global disaster and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society Speaker: Prof. Duncan Cameron, University of See Sunday 29th April for details Sheffield. FOBS Members free Visitors £5 Meet: Dorothy Fox Education Centre at south end of Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Rd, S10 2LN Bus route: 81. 82. 83 Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield (FOBS) 10am - 5:30pm Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists [email protected] See Saturday 28th April for details. www.fobssheffield.co.uk

10am - 12:30pm Bus route: any bus or tram to the city centre Hillsborough Park Walled Garden Volunteers 0114 230 7693 Tuesday Morning Volunteers help to maintain the [email protected] Walled Garden and the Wildlife area. Meet at the www.victoriansociety.org.uk/south-yorkshire greenhouses. A list of typical tasks and the risk assessment is on our website. Please wear appropriate clothing, including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves. 7pm - 9pm See Tuesday 1st May for more details. Rivelin Valley Evening Walk; Rivelin Valley Conservation Group Join Roger Kite for an evening circular walk starting at Stephen Hill Church and via the little visited ancient 10:30am - 1pm woodland at Jacky Bank (near Clough Field stables) Morning Round Walk in the Upper Loxley Valley; and returning via Clough Fields (near Hagg Lane). Bradfield Walkers are Welcome Meet at: Stephen Hill Church Car Park, Round Walk in the Upper Loxley Valley, start from 547 Manchester Road junction Benty Lane, Crosspool, Church Gates, returning around 1-00pm Sheffield S10 5PL Meet at: Stannington Church Gates,School Lane, Bus route: Line 51 to Crosspool then 5 mins walk Stannington, Sheffield S6 6DD Roger Kite on 07980 086341 0114 2337463 [email protected] [email protected] www.rivelinvalley.co.uk www.bradfield-walkers.org.uk

7pm - 6pm to 8pm Green Belts and why we need them; CPRE South Limb Valley Walk; Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Yorkshire Group Talk by CPRE planning officer, Andrew Wood Tickets: Enjoyable 3 mile walk, good paths in one of Sheffield's £5 each (free to members) Tea, coffee, nibbles best known areas. £10 charge for this walk payable to the pub includes tea/coffee before and after the walk, included and a meal when we get back to the pub. Meet at: Victoria Hall, 37 Stafford Road, S2 2SF Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS [email protected]. Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 www.cpresouthyorks.org.uk [email protected] www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php

Wednesday May 16th

6.30pm to 8.30pm 10am - 12pm A Walk round Sheffield’s Victorian City Centre; Botanical Gardens Volunteers; FOBS South Yorkshire Group, Victorian Society Whether you are a beginner or an experienced A walk round Sheffield’s Victorian City Centre People gardener you are welcome to join our team of sometimes say there is nothing left to see in the volunteers who work with the Curator and Gardens' centre of Sheffield. This is far from the truth; much of staff to keep the Gardens looking beautiful. Come its Victorian centre survives, as do older along on a Wednesday Morning and sign on in the big developments. This walk looks at the way the town greenhouse next to the Dorothy Fox Education and city grew and the visible legacy of its history. Centre. Please wear appropriate clothing for the Some short stretches of the walk are on steep and/or weather, including sturdy footwear and gardening cobbled surfaces. gloves, tools are provided. Meet: front steps of Town Hall, Pinstone Street Meet at: Greenhouse at Thompson Road end, 0114 263 4335 Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, S10 2LN [email protected] Bus route: 81. 82. 83 wildsheffield.com/whats-on Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 [email protected] www.fobssheffield.co.uk 10am - 1pm Wardsend Cemetery Volunteer Day; Don Catchment Rivers Trust 11:30am - 1:30pm Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work. We Plant A Seed! Drink Wise Age Well Community will be doing vegetation clearance and litter picking. Allotment Meet: Wardsend Cemetry, 1A Club Mill Rd, S6 2FH Join our team to plant seeds to take away, or why not Matt Duffy on 07825911973 start yourself a strawberry plant and have some ready [email protected] for Wimbledon fortnight! Free event for the over 50s, http://dcrt.org.uk/events-calendar refreshments provided. The bus route is the 52, alternatively the tram stop is Woodburn Road. There is some on street parking space too, but no dedicated car parking. 10am - Meet: Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments, Drink Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Wise Age Well Allotment, Sheffield S9 3AD and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society th Drink Wise Age Well Community Allotment See Sunday 29 April for details See Wednesday 2nd May, Writes of Spring for more contact details.

12:30pm - 6:30pm

Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th 1pm - 4pm See Saturday 28 April for details. The Writes of Spring! ! Drink Wise Age Well

Community Allotment

Find encouragement to write creatively about the 2pm - world of nature at our beautiful community allotment David Attenborough and Chris Watson: The with writer and artist Sue Shaw. Free event for the Longplayer Conversation; Stocksbridge Library over 50s, refreshments provided. Bus route is the David Attenborough and Chris Watson: The 52, or tram stop is Woodburn Road. Some on street Longplayer Conversation A recording from the British parking space too, but no dedicated car parking. Library The 2017 Longplayer Conversation brought Meet: Plots 26 &27 Ouse Road Allotments,Drink Wise together long time collaborators, sound recordist Age Well Allotment Plots, Sheffield S9 3AD Chris Watson and naturalist and broadcaster Sir David To book: call Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 Attenborough. A fascinating conversation informed by See Wednesday 2nd May for more contact details their shared interests and experiences as sound recordists in the natural world. Originally recorded

autumn 2017. Booking for all this events is via Thursday May 17th www.sheffieldlibraries.eventbrite.co.uk If you require more details contact the Stocksbridge library. 10am - 3pm Meet at: Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Rd, Blacka Moor Volunteer Work Day; Sheffield and Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 1DH Rotherham Wildlife Trust 0114 273 4205 Join us to help care for this beautiful moorland [email protected] reserve on the western edge of Sheffield. Meet at: Stony Ridge car park, S11 7TW, 2.00pm – 4.00pm 0114 263 4335 Kenwood – A Victorian Garden Suburb; [email protected] Neighourhood Group Website wildsheffield.com/whats-on A guided walk exploring the development of the Kenwood Park estate (between and Nether Edge) since the 1850s. We'll start beside the bench at the Montgomery Rd/ Rundle Rd mini-roundabout and 10am - 2pm finish at the Kenwood Hall Hotel, S7 1NQ with a walk Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th around its grounds. Traditional Afternoon Tea See Saturday 28 April for details. available in the hotel at 4pm for the special price of

£10 - booking preferred via Chris Venables

Meet at: Montgomery Rd/ Rundle Rd mini- 1pm - 4pm roundabout.opp. Moncrieffe Rd, S7 1LR Printing Nature; Drink Well Age Wise Bus route: 3 (Rundle Rd) Use lovely inks and the plants and fruits to hand on Chris Venables on 07950 432487 the allotment site with the help of the ever popular [email protected] artist Jan Flamank. Make pictures you can take away. http://www.netheredge.org.uk Free event for over 50s, refreshments provided. Bus route is 52, or the tram stop is Woodburn Rd. Some

on street parking space but no dedicated car parking. 4pm - 5pm Meet at: Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments,Drink Wise Owls Wise Age Well Allotment, Sheffield S9 3AD, Wise Owls - part of a series of activities for children To Book: Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 Stocksbridge Library are running during Env. Weeks [email protected] Meet at: Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Rd, www.drinkwiseagewell.org.uk Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 1DH,

0114 273 4205 [email protected] 8.30pm – 11.00pm Batty about Newts: Wharncliffe Heathland Trust

A crepuscular meeting to explore the inhabitants of 7pm the dam pond and the bats that feed over it. Bat The Friends' 200-mile Peak District Boundary Walk detectors, torches and pond dipping equipment will Talk By: Julie Gough, Tickets: £5 each (free to be available with qualified and licensed ecologists to members) Tea, coffee and nibbles included help us find and identify the beasts of the night. Meet at: Victoria Hall, 37 Stafford Road, S2 2SF Suitable for family parties to attend, please bring your Friends of the Peak District own torch and wear solid footwear and clothes that Julie Gough will keep the chill (but hopefully not the rain) out [email protected] Meet: River Don Bridge, Station Rd, Deepcar S36 2SQ www.friendsofthepeak.org.uk Dave Buttle 07515106966

Friday May 18th Saturday May 19th

10am - 3pm 9:30am - 4pm Woodhouse Washlands Volunteer Work Day; Blackburn and Charlton; Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust Sheffield C.H.A. Rambling Club Woodhouse Washlands Volunteer Work Day Join us Blackburn and Charlton Not a football match, but a to help care for this important wetland reserve linear walk from Meadowhall to Chapeltown via Meet: Meeting point varies see website for details, Woolley Wood, Ecclesfield Church, Whitley, Barnes Green and Burncross. We pass bluebell woods, the 11am - 2:30pm Minster of the Moors, a reminder of the battle of Plant Sale; South Pennine Group Hardy Plant Soc. Trafalgar, and a historic hall. Bring a packed lunch, We are once again holding our popular two-day Spring drink and waterproofs. Wear walking boots or similar. Plant Sale in the Botanical Gardens on Saturday 19th Reasonable level of fitness required although there 11.00-2.30 and Sunday from 10.00-1.30. Free are break-off points along the route, 8-9 miles admission, refreshments available and our friendly, Meet at: foyer at foot of experienced members will be on hand to advise and escalators, welcome you. A wide and varied selection of hardy Bus route: X1 or X78 or Supertram to Meadowhall plants, both familiar and the more unusual, at very John Harker on 07929 051978 reasonable prices are available, all grown locally by [email protected] our members, so withstand our Sheffield climate and www.sheffield-cha.org.uk conditions. Help us reduce the use of plastics and bring your own bags to carry your plants home. Jute bags available to purchase at low cost. The Porter Brook Art Group and Northern Soc. for Botanical Art 9:30am - 2:30pm are also exhibiting each day, 10-5. Vegetable & Bedding Plant Sale; Hagg Lane & Meet at: Sheffield Botanical Gardens, nearest District Gardeners’ Allotments Society entrance Thompson Road, Annual Allotment Society plant sale by members to Bus route: Buses 81, 82, 83, 88. Buses stop at Berkley raise funds for further allotment site improvements. Precinct, (Tesco) opposite Thompson Rd We have a large range of vegetable plants, fruit, Jean Gater on 0114 230 6133 herbs, bedding plants and gardening supplies . [email protected] Refreshments available. www.southpenninehps.btck.co.uk Meet: Hagg Lane & District Gardeners' Allotments Soc. Trading Hut, Back Lane, Crosspool, Sheffield S10 Mr Peter Ketlleborough on 0114 266 4657 [email protected] 11am - 12pm www.HaggLaneAllotments.blogspot.com A Walk Around the Old Town Hall; Friends of the Old Town Hall (FOTH) The Old Town Hall in Waingate has been empty and neglected since 1995, and is now in a poor state. 10am - 4pm Efforts are under way to try to save it. We can't get Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists inside but the building's history is visible in its th See Saturday 28 April for details. exterior, and on this short walk, led by the Friends of the Old Town Hall, you'll hear about why it's there,

how it developed and what might happen to it in the

future. Please note there is a lot of traffic and part of 10am - 12:30pm the route is steep and cobbled. Parkwood Springs Conservation Session; Friends of Meet at: Top of Exchange Street, junction with Parkwood Springs Waingate Exchange Street, Sheffield S3 8LT We work with a City Council Ranger on a variety of Valerie Bayliss on 0114 230 7693 tasks, eg maintaining our Lowland Heathland, [email protected] developing wildflower meadows, making sure paths sheffieldoldtownhall.co.uk are unobstructed and the area is clean and tidy. We have a break for a drink and a chat at about 11.15.

Meet at: Cooks Wood Road Car Park, Cooks Wood Road, Sheffield, S5 8XB 1:30pm - 3pm [email protected] Heritage Song on the Don with Scott Russell; Don www.parkwood-springs.org.uk Catchment Rivers Trust

Walk along the 5 weirs walk and other locations. A Annual Allotment Soc. plant sale to raise funds for musical interpretation of the river and it's history Join further allotment site improvements. We have a large Scott Russell for a musical discovery of the river Don! range of veg. plants, fruit, herbs, bedding plants and An afternoon walk, lasting 1.5 hours, along the river. gardening supplies. Refreshments available. We will be stopping at points of interest to listen to Meet: Hagg Lane & District Gardeners' Allotments Scotts musical interpretation of the river and its Society Trading Hut, Back Lane, Crosspool, Sheff. S10 history. Free event but booking essential - email Bus route: 51 [email protected] to book a place or find out more. Mr Peter Ketlleborough on 0114 266 4657 Meet: contact [email protected] for information, [email protected] 01302796173 [email protected] www.HaggLaneAllotments.blogspot.com www.dcrt.org.uk

10am - 1:30pm 1:30pm - 3pm Plant Sale; Hardy Plant Soc. South Pennine Group Parkwood Springs Tree Walk; Friends of Parkwood We are once again holding our popular two-day Spring Springs Plant Sale in the Botanical Gardens. Free admission, Join Tim Shortland, City Council Community Forestry refreshments available and our experienced and Manager, for a tour of some of the interesting and friendly members will be on hand to advise and unusual trees on Parkwood Springs. welcome you. Meet at: Cooks Wood Road Car Park, Cooks Wood For more details see Saturday 19th May Road, Sheffield S5 8XB [email protected] www.parkwood-springs.org.uk 10:30am - 1pm A Walk Round Burngreave and Pitsmoor; South Yorkshire Group, The Victorian Society We will begin by looking at Burngreave Cemetery Sunday May 20th where the Chapel containing several exhibitions will be open. We will then look at two Board Schools, 9am several chapels and a row of Georgian villas, finishing Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats at Burngreave shopping centre. and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society Meet at: Junction of Barnsley Road and Scott Road - th See Sunday 29 April for details almost opposite Firshill School, Scott Road, S4 7BE Buses from Arundel Gate, stands AG 4 to 6, 1/1a, 3, 39, 20, 75, 76, 88, 97, 98.

Graham Hague on 0114 268 6729 9:30am - 4pm [email protected] Practical Conservation Project; Sheffield Conservation Volunteers th See Sunday 13 May for more details Meet at: City Hall Steps, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 10:30am - 12pm Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 Walk in Ecclesall Woods; Sheffield Woodland www.sheffieldconservation.org Connections See Sun April 29th for full details

9:30am - 2:30pm Vegetable & Bedding Plant Sale; Hagg Lane & 11am - 4pm District Gardeners’ Allotment Society Garden Open Day Large, mostly organic garden, vegetables, fruit and Blacka and Quieter A walk of about 5 miles to enjoy flowers on a north facing bank. Advice on growing far reaching views back over the city from Sheffield's Apricots to Zucchini. Plant sales, yummie cakes, tea corner of the National Park. Most people will have and coffee. Fundraising event for Greave House Farm gone home by the time we start, so it should be fairly Trust care farm. peaceful. Bring waterproofs and wear walking boots Meet: 280 Manchester Rd, Deepcar, Sheffield S36 2RG or similar. Reasonable level of fitness required. [email protected] Meet at: Bus stop outside Fox House pub Hathersage Road S11 7TY, Bus route: 65 or No. 272 from John Harker on 07929 051978 11am - 4:30pm [email protected] Wortley Top Forge Open Day www.sheffield-cha.org.uk 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old metal working machines, steam engines and exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. Nature Trail with free guide. Miniature railway runs in Monday May 21st afternoon. Onsite parking. Entrance fee: Adults £3.00, Children 50p, Concessions £2.00. 10am - 5:30pm - Pennine Artists Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, Default to Wilderness S35 7DN, See Saturday 28th April for details. GordonParkinson/Ted Young on 0114 281 7991 /01226 763896 [email protected] www.topforge.co.uk 7:30pm – 9.00pm Attercliffe Forge and Steel Works; South Yorkshire Industrial History Society Talk by Glyn Davies about an archaeological and 11am - 2pm historical study of an industrial site on the River Don, Weekly Meeting Friends of Burngreave Cemetery formerly water powered, which was used for metal The friends of Burngreave Cemetery meet every working for 400 years, and is now being redeveloped. Sunday between 11am and 3.00 pm to help visitors Meet: ,Alma Street, S3 8RY locate particular graves. Bus route: Shalesmoor tram stop th See Sunday 13 May for more details. Derek Bayliss on (0114) 230 7693 Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose Road, [email protected] Pitsmoor, Sheffield S3 9DN Bus route: 1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk

Tuesday May 22nd

9am 2:30pm - 4pm Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Walk in Ecclesall Woods; Sheffield Woodland and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society th Connections See Sunday 29 April for details see Sun April 29th for full details

6pm - 9pm 10am - 5:30pm Blacka and Quieter; Sheffield C.H.A. Rambling Club Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists See Saturday 28th April for details. Evening walk from Blonk Bridge along the Five Weirs Walk down the Don towards Attercliffe. End point depends on weather. Return by tram. Led by Graham 10am - 12:30pm Hague, with historical commentary. Suitable clothing Hillsborough Park Walled Garden morning and stout shoes, please. volunteers Meet at: Blonk Street bridge, S1 The Tuesday Morning Volunteers help to maintain the Graham Hague on (0114) 2686729 Walled Garden and the Wildlife area. Meet at the greenhouses. Please wear appropriate clothing, including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves. See Tuesday 1st May for more details. 6:30pm - 8:30pm A Walk Round Castlegate; South Yorkshire Group The Victorian Society Castlegate is reviving, if slowly. There is plenty to see 10:30am - 12:30pm in an area which lost its function with the end of the The weird world of plant galls; Friends of Botanical markets but is now picking itself up. We start in Gardens and end in the Wicker.The walk looks Speaker: Tom Higginbottom, British Plant Gall Society mainly at the buildings in Castlegate but there will be FOBS Members free Visitors £5 an opportunity to hear about its history too, and Meet at: Dorothy Fox Education Centre (at south end about plans for its future. of Gardens)Sheffield Botanical Gardens Clarkehouse Meet at: Old Post Office (now Institute of Arts) Road Sheffield, S10 2LN Fitzalan Square, S1 2AY Bus route: 81. 82. 83 Bus route: Any through city centre Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Valerie Bayliss on 0114 230 7693 [email protected] [email protected] www.fobssheffield.co.uk

Wednesday May 23rd Thursday May 24th

10am - 12pm 10am Botanical Gardens Volunteers; FOBS Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Whether you are a beginner or an experienced and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society gardener you are welcome to join our team of See Sunday 29th April for details volunteers who work with the Curator and Gardens' staff to keep the Gardens looking beautiful. Wear appropriate clothing for the weather, including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves, tools are provided. 12:30pm - 6:30pm Meet: Greenhouse at Thompson Road end, Botanical Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield S10 2LN See Saturday 28th April for details. Bus route: 81. 82. 83 L. Price 0114 2730839 lyndaprice46@gmail www.fobssheffield.co.uk 4pm - 5pm Grown your own; Stocksbridge Library Grown your own - part of a series of activities for 6:30pm - children Stocksbridge Library are running during By River to Attercliffe; South Yorkshire Industrial Environment weeks History Society Meet at: Stocksbridge Library, Manchester Rd, Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 1DH, 0114 273 4205

Friday May 25th

Sunday May 27th 9am to 12pm

Bronte Walk; Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group 9am - A 4.5 mile walk in the Hathersage area which will take Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats around 2.5 hours to complete. Quite hilly, plus rocky and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society underfoot throughout the walk. £10 charge for this See Sunday 29th April for details walk payable to the pub includes tea/coffee before and after the walk and a meal when we get back to the pub. Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Village, S11 7TS 9:30am - 4pm Steve Murfitt on 07950962027 Bark Craft Course; Ecclesall Woods Craft Courses [email protected] One day course £85.00). You will be shown how to www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php make cord from Elm bark bast. Cut, shape, fold and stitch Elm bark to make a container/pot. You will need

a sharp pruning knife (locking or fixed blade) and 10am - 2pm strong gloves. Bring a packed lunch - drinks are Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists provided! Wear suitable clothes for working outdoors See Saturday 28th April for details. Meet: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre, Ecclesall Woods, Abbey Lane Sheffield S7 2QZ, 0114 235 6348 [email protected]

Saturday May 26th

10am - 4pm 10:30am - 1pm Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists Bounds of Bradway walk; Bradway Action Group See Saturday 28th April for details. A free Walk of the Bounds of Bradway. This is a fairly recent annual tradition started by local amateur historian and long time resident Tony Smith. Part of the walk is on potentially muddy footpaths and is hilly 10:30am - 2:30pm in places. It will take about 2.5 hours and may be 'Eco open day' Banner Cross Methodist Church about 3 miles. Walkers will learn about the history of The event will include the following: visit our this small suburb of Sheffield, formerly part of rural allotment, plant stall - veg and flowers for sale, cake Derbyshire. They may find corners they hadn’t stall, jams and home-made produce, learn about bee- realised were there, may hear explanations of things keeping, activity - make a nest box (11am-12 noon), they’d passed many times without noticing their Activity - go on a bug hunt (1pm-2pm), Environmental significance. Walk is suitable for active people of all side stalls, Fair Trade, hot sandwiches and cream teas ages, including children with enquiring minds. & a bouncy castle! Please come and join us. Meet at: Top of Twentywell Lane beside Post Meet at: at Banner Cross Methodist Church, Ecclesall BoxTwentywell Lane Sheffield, S17 4QH Road South, S11 9PE Bus route: 24, 25 Bus route: 4, 6, 81, 82, 88 C. Morgan 0114 2369273 Sean Ashton on 07812139171 [email protected] [email protected] http://bradwayactiongroup.weebly.com www.bannercrossmethodist.org.uk

11am - 4:30pm 11am - 4:30pm Wortley Top Forge Open Day; South Yorkshire Wortley Top Forge Open Day; South Yorkshire Industrial History Society Industrial History Society 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and See Sunday 20th May for more details. two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, metal working machines, steam engines and S35 7DN exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. Nature Trail with free guide. Miniature railway runs in afternoon. Onsite parking. Entrance fee: Adults £3.00, Children 50p, Concessions £2.00. 11am - 3pm Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, INSECT BIOBLITZ at MANOR ALLOTMENTS; Sheffield S35 7DN Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Federation GordonParkinson/Ted Young on 0114 281 7991 You are invited to join in with spotting, identifying and 01226 763896 recording insects and invertebrates. Event will be led [email protected] by members from the Sorby Invertebrate Group. www.topforge.co.uk Booking ESSENTIAL: ([email protected]). ALLOTMENT HOLDERS ONLY. CHILDREN WELCOMED UNDER 16 YEAR OLD TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT. Refreshments provided. Heritage Lottery Fund project, on ‘The appreciation and protection of Tuesday May 29th wildlife heritage on allotments in Sheffield' Meet at: Manor Allotments, S2 10am - 5:30pm Bus: Blue or purple tram: Spring Lane stop. 120 bus. Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th 0773 5441669 [email protected] See Saturday 28 April for details www.sa-federation.co.uk

10am - 12pm 11am - 2pm Ecclesall Woods Half Term Wild Play; Sheffield and Weekly Meeting Friends of Burngreave Cemetery Rotherham Wildlife Trust The friends of Burngreave Cemetery meet every Ecclesall Woods Half Term Wild Play Designed for Sunday between 11am and 3.00 pm to help visitors families with young children who want to get out and locate particular graves. There is a permanent display explore the woods! Online booking essential at of information and photographs about the history of wildsheffield.com/whats-on the cemetery and some of those interred there. Also Meet at: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre installations by the artist in residence - Victoria Smith. Ecclesall Woods Abbey Lane Sheffield S7 2QZ Meet at: Burngreave Cemetery Melrose road 0114 263 4335 Pitsmoor Sheffield S3 9DN, [email protected] Bus route:1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 wildsheffield.com/whats-on www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk

Monday May 28th 10am - 12:30pm Hillsborough Park Walled Garden morning 10am - 5:30pm volunteers Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists The Tuesday Morning Volunteers help to maintain the th See Saturday 28 April for details. Walled Garden and the Wildlife area. Meet at the greenhouses. A list of typical tasks and the risk

assessment is on our website. Please wear appropriate clothing, including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves. 10am - 12pm See Tuesday 1st May for more details. Botanical Gardens Volunteers; FOBS Whether you are a beginner or an experienced gardener you are welcome to join our team of volunteers to keep the Gardens looking beautiful. 11am - 3pm See Wednesday 23rd May for full details. Sheffield Carnival Preparations www.fobssheffield.co.uk Tuesday to Friday in May half term we’ll be preparing for Sheffield Carnival crafting masks, music shakers and a money pouch. Sheffield Carnival artists will also be joining us to make parade outfits. You can also play 11am - 3pm with our outdoor games and in our giant sandpit, Sheffield Carnival Preparations; Sheffield Manor explore the ruins and get lost in the lavender Lodge labyrinth. £4 per crafter, discounts for season pass See Tuesday 29th May for full details holder. Anyone can come although the crafts are aimed at children. The discovery centre is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible. The grounds are cut grass with slight slopes. 4pm - 8pm Meet at: Discovery Centre, Carbon Footprint Drop-In; St Andrews Psalter Lane 197 Manor Lane, Sheffield S2 1UJ Church Bus route: 120, 24 and 25 What is a Carbon Footprint? Why does it matter? How K. Hughes 0114 276 2828 ext 647 Mob. 07918070507 can I work it out? How can I improve it? Can I save [email protected] money? Come and have a look at some carbon www.sheffieldmanorlodge.org footprint calculators, find out how you are doing now, and how to reduce it Meet: Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane, Sheff. S11 8YL Bus route: 4, 4A 0114 2678289 1pm - 3pm [email protected] Ecclesall Woods Half Term Wild Play; Sheffield and www.standrewspsalterlane.org.uk Rotherham Wildlife Trust Ecclesall Woods Half Term Wild Play Designed for families with young children who want to get out and explore the woods! Online booking essential at Thursday May 31st wildsheffield.com/whats-on Meet at: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre 11am - 3pm Ecclesall Woods Abbey Lane, Sheffield S7 2QZ Sheffield Carnival Preparations; Sheffield Manor 0114 263 4335 [email protected] Lodge See Tuesday 29th May for full details

Wednesday May 30th 12:30pm - 6:30pm Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists 10am - 12pm See Saturday 28th April for details Ecclesall Woods Half Term Wild Play; Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust See 29th May for full details

Friday June 1st 10am - 4pm Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists 10am - 2pm See Saturday 28th April for more details Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists See Saturday 28th April for details

30 Days Wild: Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife 10am - 3pm Trust Blacka Moor Volunteer Work Day: Sheffield and Friday 1st June Saturday 30th June All day 30 Days Rotherham Wildlife Trust Wild June means 30 Days Wild time! Do something Join us to help care for this beautiful moorland wild every day throughout June! And if you can only reserve on the western edge of Sheffield. spare a weekend, join us for The Big Wild Weekend Meet at: Stony Ridge car park, S11 7TW Family Day out at Greno Woods on Sunday 17th June. 0114 263 4335 Find out more at wildsheffield.com/whats-on Find out [email protected] more at wildsheffield.com/30dayswild wildsheffield.com/whats-on Meet at: see wildsheffield.com/30dayswild for details 0114 263 4335 [email protected] wildsheffield.com/whats-on 10am - 2pm Plant Sale: Walkley Bank Allotment Society The Annual Walkley Bank allotment 'bring and buy' plant sales. Great value on a wide variety of 11am - 3pm perennials, annuals, seedlings, fruit and flowers, Sheffield Carnival Preparations: Sheffield Manor garden supplies plus much, much more.. Lodge Meet at: The society shop on Morley StreetMorley th See Tuesday 29 May for full details Street, (Walkley Bank Rd end) Sheffield S6 2PL Tuesday to Friday in May half term well be preparing Bus route: walk from Hillsborough or Malin Bridge for Sheffield Carnival. Dan Bilton on 07940 965922 [email protected]

2pm - 6pm Creating a well dressing: Friends of Burngreave 11am - 2pm Chapel and Cemetery Hope community allotment Open Day Come and join other volunteers in the creation of this Open Day for HOPE Community Allotment in Firth years well dressing. No experience needed. Don't Park. Come along and find out more about growing dress in your best clothes! But make sure you will be you own organic fruit and vegetables. Various warm. All welcome, but children must be gardening activities at the event, also a sale of veg. accompanied by a responsible adult. and flower plants. Refreshments will be available. Meet at: Burngreave cemeteryMelrose Road Pitsmoor Meet: Plot 80, High Wincobank Allot. Site, Windmill Sheffield, S3 9DN Lane. Entrance opposite 343 Windmill Lane, S5 6FW, Bus route:1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 Bus route: 75, 76, 1, 1a, 3, 88. [email protected] Sheena Clarke on 07792605138 http://www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk [email protected] http://tradebaseallotment.btck.co.uk

Saturday June 2nd 12pm - 5pm

Cactus and Succulant Annual Show: Sheffield Branch waterproofs. Tools, hot drinks and on-site training (if of British Cactus and Succulent Society necessary) will be provided. Annual Show 2018, Sheffield Botanical Gardens FREE Meet at: City Hall Step, Barkers Pool, Sheffield, S1 admission and plant sales. All welcome, free to photo, Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 ask advice, bring plants to us for naming or advice, [email protected] free service. Stewards on hand to answer any www.sheffieldconservation.org questions etc. Meet at: Sheffield Botanical GardensThompson Road Entrance, Sheffield, S10 2LN 10am - 4pm Show Sec. 01246 231109 [email protected] Cactus and Succulant Annual Show www.sheffield.bcss.org.uk British Cactus and Succulent Society, Sheffield Branch Annual Show 2018 Sheffield Botanical Gardens FREE

admission and plant sales. All welcome, free to photo, ask advice, bring plants to us for naming or advice, Sunday June 3rd free service. Stewards on hand to answer any questions etc. 9am - Meet at: Sheffield Botanical Gardens,Thompson Road Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Entrance, Sheffield S10 2LN and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society Show Secretary 01246 231109 See Sunday 29th April for details [email protected] www.sheffield.bcss.org.uk

9:30am - 4pm Stake & Strand Basket Making: Ecclesall Woods Craft Courses 10am - 2pm £85.00 Basketry making is the weaving of unspun Plant Sale: Walkley Bank Allotment Society vegetable fibers, usually to form a container. Stake The Annual Walkley Bank allotment 'bring and buy' and Strand baskets are the 'type that you will find in plant sales. Great value on a wide variety of current 'professional' basket making. The material perennials, annuals, seedlings, fruit and flowers, used will be local willow. All materials and tools are garden supplies plus much, much more.. provided for you on the day. You will need to bring a Meet at: The shop on Morley StreetMorley Street, packed lunch - drinks are provided! Wear suitable (Walkley Bank Road end), S6 2PL clothes for working outdoors. Bus route:walk from Hillsborough or Malin Bridge Meet at: J G Graves Woodland Discovery Centre Dan Bilton on 07940 965922 Ecclesall Woods Abbey Lane Sheffield S7 2QZ, [email protected] Ecclesall Woods Craft Courses 0114 235 6348 [email protected] 11am - 4:30pm www.ecclesallwoodscraftcourses.co.uk Wortley Top Forge Open Day: South Yorkshire Industrial History Society

17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and 9:30am - 4pm two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old Practical Conservation Project: Sheffield metal working machines, steam engines and Conservation Volunteers exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours. Nature Come and join us for a days practical conservation Trail with free guide. Miniature railway runs in project. No experience necessary. Please bring warm afternoon. Onsite parking. Entrance fee: Adults £3.00, work clothes, stout footwear, a packed lunch and Children 50p, Concessions £2.00. Meet at: Wortley Top Forge, Forge Lane, Thurgoland, Monthly meeting in Low Bradfield village hall - S35 7DN, Illustrated talk by Jenny Stephenson Taps and Toilets - GordonParkinson/Ted Young on 0114 281 7991 non-members welcome 01226 763896 Meet: Low Bradfield village hall, The Sands, Low [email protected] Bradfield, Sheffield S6 6LB. The Sands, is a small lane www.topforge.co.uk opposite the village post office. Parking is available around the village green as well as the car park at the back of the cricket pavillion. 0114 2337463, [email protected]

12pm - 3pm Big Lunch and Well dressing The friends of Burngreave cemetery annual welldressing in the cemetery will be staged to Tuesday June 5th coincide with the national 'Big Lunch' event. The well dressing theme this year is 'Peace' in commemoration World Environment Day 2018 of the centenary of the ending of the great war. It will World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every be launched by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take Meet: Burngreave Cemetery, Melrose Rd, S3 9DN positive environmental action to protect nature and Bus route: 1,1a,20,75,76,88,97,98,265 the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations [email protected] Environment Programme (UNEP). http://www.friendsofburngreavecemetery.btck.co.uk http://worldenvironmentday.global

9am Monday June 4th Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society 10.00am - 12.30 pm See Sunday 29th April for details Crabtree Ponds Volunteer Work Day: Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust Join us to help care for this small urban reserve near the Northern General Hospital. 10am - 3:30pm Meet: Crabtree Ponds, Crabtree Close, Sheff. S5 7BJ Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th Ponds between Herries Rd and Barnsley Rd, just south See Saturday 28 April for more details of the Northern Gen. Hos. Main entrance to reserve is on the corner of Herries Rd and Crabtree Close

0114 263 4335 10am - 12:30pm [email protected] Hillsborough Park Walled Garden morning wildsheffield.com/whats-on volunteers The Tuesday Morning Volunteers help to maintain the

Walled Garden and the Wildlife area. Meet at the 10am - 3:30pm greenhouses. A list of typical tasks and the risk Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists assessment is on our website. Please wear See Saturday 28th April for more details appropriate clothing, including sturdy footwear and gardening gloves. st See Tuesday 1 May for more details. 7:30pm - Taps and Toilets – Talk: Bradfield Historical Society Morning Round Walk in , start 10-30am 10:30am - 2:30pm from Low Bradfield car park, returning around 1.00pm Carr House Meadows and Bolsterstone: Walking Out Meet at: Low Bradfield car park in Sheffield 0114 2337463 A hilly route with stiles, featuring the wild flowers in [email protected] Carr House Meadows Nature Reserve. 7 miles linear - www.bradfield-walkers.org. moderate. No Dogs Meet at: Meet outside WH Smith in Pond Street Interchange at 09. 50 Rob Haslam on 07761 922047 6pm - [email protected] Revolting Women - Show at Grimesthorpe Allotments: SAGE Greenfingers Revolting Women - Fight for the vote, MIKRON theatre group tells the Suffrage story through the eyes of a less well-known Pankhurst, Sylvia, who Wednesday June 6th fought for the vote alongside working women in the East End. Sylvia meets Lettie and together they push 10am - 4pm to Parliament, to bend the ear of the Cabinet. A story Art from Nature: Drink Wise Age Well of absolute commitment or dangerous obsession? Full James Brunt has appeared on The One Show, of political satire, song and more suffrage societies designed huge works of landscape art for the Tour de than you can shake a stick at. No tickets required, France, Coastival and across beaches, woods and cash collection after show, refreshments available, moors across the country. He will come to us fresh venue has disability access and toilets. Please bring from Llano Earth Art Fest in Texas! Come and create chair or blankets. your own work of art with him, learn how to balance Meet: Grimesthorpe allotments, Scott Road, S4 7BJ stones in the most improbable ways. Free event for R. Munson-Hirst 0114 273 7718 07932 927 153 the over 50s, refreshments provided. [email protected] Meet at: Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments, Drink www.sagesheffield.org.uk Wise Age Well Allotment Plots, Sheffield S9 3AD, To Book call Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 See Wednesday 2nd May for more details 7pm - 9pm Evening Wild Flower Walk on Wadsley and Loxley Common: Wadsley and Loxley Commoners 10am - 12pm Evening Wild Flower Walk, guided by Alan Smith, Botanical Gardens Volunteers: FOBS around 2 hours, return to the car park at any time, Whether you are a beginner or an experienced bring a flower book if you have one, 2348425 gardener you are welcome to join our team of Meet at: Rural Lane Car park, Rural Lane off Worrall volunteers who work with the Curator and Gardens' Road, Wadsley, S6 4BL staff to keep the Gardens looking beautiful. Bus route: 57 rd See Wednesday 23 May for full details. Hannah Isherwood on 0114 2335331 Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 [email protected] [email protected] www.wadsley-loxley.org www.fobssheffield.co.uk

Thursday June 7th 10:30am - 1pm Bradfield Dale - Morning Round Walk: Bradfield 10am - 3pm Walkers are Welcome Moss Valley Woodlands Volunteer Work Day: Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust Join us to help care for this beautiful woodland reserve in the Moss Valley. SK 377 806 Friday June 8th Meet at: Hazlehurst Lane layby, S8 8BG 0114 263 4335 9am - 12pm [email protected] Norfolk Arms Ringinglow Walking Group wildsheffield.com/whats-on Burbage Rocks. This is a 4 mile walk which will take around 2 hours to complete. The first half of the walk takes us along the top of Burbage Rocks, adjacent to 10am - Burbage Moor, with the 2nd leg taking us back to the Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats start below the Rocks on a section of the Sheffield and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society Country Walk. There arent any stiles, steep downhills See Sunday 29th April for details or uphills, but the outward path can be hard going with lots of ups and downs amongst the rocks. £10

charge for this walk payable to the pub includes 12:30pm - 6:30pm - Pennine Artists tea/coffee before and after the walk, and a meal Default to Wilderness following the walk. See Saturday 28th April for more details Meet: Norfolk Arms, 2 Ringinglow Road, S11 7TS Steve Murfitt on 7950962027 [email protected] www.norfolkarms.com/ringinglow-walks.php 1pm - 2pm Open Air Tai Chi; Drink Wise Age Well Join tutor Sandra Beresford for a chance to try the relaxing and invigorating art of Tai Chi in the open air 10am - 2pm at our community allotment. Free event for the over Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists th 50s, refreshments provided. Bus route is the 52, or See Saturday 28 April for more details the tram stop is Woodburn Road. Some on street parking space, but no dedicated car parking.

Meet: Plots 26 & 27 Ouse Road Allotments, S9 3AD, 7:30pm - To book call Andy Whitehouse on 0114 349 1888 Cactus and Succulent Society - Talk - 'Ariocarpus' [email protected] Monthly meeting Sheffield Branch of British Cactus and Succulent Society, talk by Costas Papathanasiou -

'Ariocarpus' Table show -Ariocarpus group 6:30pm - 8:30pm Free entry and free parking to rear of venue Friends of Wincobank Hill monthly meeting Meet at: Scout Headquarters, 60-68 Trippet Lane, Monthly meeting, refreshments served from 6.30pm Sheffield S1 4EL Talk starts at 7pm with Paul Richards who has been Peter Cowdell on 01709 584393 working with the Sheffield Wildlife Trust Nature [email protected] Counts project. Aim is to give us ideas on how to www.sheffield.bcss.org.uk record our own 'patch'. Admission £2, includes refreshments and a raffle ticket to help pay for room.

Meet at: Upper Wincobank Chapel, Wincobank

Avenue, S5 6BB Saturday June 9th Bus route: 3, 3a

Penny Rea on 07980 143776 10am - 4pm [email protected] Default to Wilderness - Pennine Artists http://wincobankhill.btck.co.uk See Saturday 28th April for more details 10am - 3pm Work Day on Wadsley and Loxley Common; Wadsley and Loxley Commoners Heathland Management and Bracken Bashing, all welcome to come along for any time period, all tools, gloves and training available. Meet at: Long Lane Car Park off Long Lane, between 11am - 2pm Loxley and Worrall, S6 6RL Parkwood Springs Forest Garden; Friends of Bus route: 61/2 Parkwood Springs Hannah Isherwood on 0114 2335331 This is a young forest garden developed by Sheffield [email protected] City Council in association with local volunteers. It has www.wadsley-loxley.org been designed to need only a small amount of input. Requires weeding, mulching & pruning, the compost pile needs managing and spreading and best of all, there is often a lot of harvesting to be done. Other 10am - 12:30pm than digging up weeds, it involves a no-dig approach Footpath repairs - Family Muck in Day; National to gardening. We meet in the car park on Cooks Wood Trust Longshaw Estate Road at 10.45am and walk over to the garden for Help restore and repair the much-used path towards 11.00am. We have a break at 1.00pm, you can bring the pond at Longshaw. No need to book, just meet your own drink and snack or food to share. We usually outside Longshaw Tea Room, accessible by the 272 make a hot drink too. We finish at around 2.00pm. All and 271 bus route (postcode S11 7TZ). Please come tools and appropriate training are provided. Wear dressed for the weather with sturdy footwear, we’ll sturdy shoes, warm clothes in winter. provide all the equipment you need. Please contact Meet at: Cooks Wood Road Car Park, Cooks Wood [email protected] for more info. Road, Sheffield S5 8XB Meet at: outside Longshaw Tea Room, S11 7TZ [email protected] Bus route: accessible by the 272 and 271 bus route Megan Carroll on 01433 637904 [email protected]

Sunday June 10th

9am - 11am - 4:30pm Sail at Millhouses Pond (Yachts, Fast Electric boats Wortley Top Forge Open Day and Scale Models) Sheffield Ship Model Society 17th Century forge with three early waterwheels and th See Sunday 29 April for details two heavy iron forging hammers. Plus collection of old metal working machines, steam engines and exhibitions in period cottages. Guided tours.

See Sunday 29th April for more details 9:30am - 4pm Practical Conservation Project; Sheffield Conservation Volunteers See Sunday 2rd June for further details 11am - 4pm Meet at: City Hall Steps, Barkers Pool, Sheffield, S1 History Through the Ages Battle Re-enactment; Dave Robson on 0114 2223701 Sheffield Manor Lodge [email protected] Join us for our annual battle re-enactment with www.sheffieldconservation.org Vikings, Medieval Knights, Civil War Soldiers, Napoleonic Guards, WW1 and WW2 soldiers and ARP warden. Battles commences at 11:30am There will be

living history camps, bouncy castle, face painting and the sandpit will be open for our younger visitors. Bus route: 52, X1 Nearest tram stop is Attercliffe on Adults £6 Children £3 Family £15 (2 adults, 3 Meadowhall route children) Season Ticket Holders and FOSML: Adults Penny Rea on 07980 143776 £5; Children £2.50; Family: £12.50 (2 adults, 3 [email protected] children) http://www.ziongraveyard.btck.co.uk Meet at: Sheffield Manor Lodge Discovery Centre,197 Manor Lane, Sheffield, S2 1UJ Bus route: 120, 24 and 25 K. Hughes 0114 276 2828 ext 647 Mob: 2pm - 4pm 07918070507 Meconopsis masterclass and plant sale; Friends of [email protected] the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield (FOBS) www.sheffieldmanorlodge.org Fascinated by these blue poppies? Our experts will demonstrate. Plus a wonderful selection of plants at reasonable prices. All proceeds support the Botanical Gardens 2pm - 5pm Meet at: Greenhouse near the Dorothy Fox Education Open Afternoon at Zion Graveyard Attercliffe; Centre, Botanical Gardens, Clarkehouse Road, S10 2LN Friends of Zion Graveyard Bus route: 81. 82. 83 Open Afternoon at the Graveyard for the General Lynda Price on 0114 2730839 Public, for visits and reflection, family activities and [email protected] occasional music. Supervised children Welcome. www.fobssheffield.co.uk Meet at: Zion Graveyard, Lawrence Street / Zion Lane Attercliffe, S9 3RG

Please see the website for year round events. We hope you have enjoyed participating in Sheffield Environment Weeks 2018

Hagg Lane & District Gardeners' Allotments Society, Crosspool

Our Society Shop is open to members and visitors on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year from 9.30am to 12.30pm. We stock a wide range of gardening items, including compost, fertilisers, weed suppressant fabric, seeds and seedlings.

Our 2018 Annual Plant Sales take place on May 5th and 6th, and May 19th and 20th. Visit us at Back Lane, Sheffield 10, opposite Clough Fields Riding Stables, or see our website for more details: www.hagglaneallotments.blogspot.co.uk

Beauchief Environment Group

Formed in 1988 the Beauchief Environment Group is made up of people from Beauchief, Greenhill, Bradway and many other who volunteer their time and energy to undertake practical work to help conserve the natural beauty of their local environment. The group has worked continuously in the Beauchief area of Sheffield for the past 30 years and a separate work party has met every Monday morning since 2004. Members receive a regular newsletter, printed or by email.

The Work of the Beauchief Environment Group

* Undertaking practical and conservation tasks including:-

Path construction and maintenance - approx 4 km of public footpaths/rights of way reconstructed and improved. Major work completed on the Sheffield Round Walk in the Beauchief area. Building/maintaining steps - approximately 300, majority built into the steep slopes of Parkbank Wood and Ladies Spring Wood. Installation of numerous benches - Regular litter clearance - Hedgerow planting/maintenance - fence construction/ maintenance - Dry stone walling New wildlife meadow created, orchard planted and paths constructed and maintained at the new Beauchief Nature Park, Beauchief Driver.

* Surveys of flora and fauna to identify species and monitor changes.

* Habitat management: tasksto maintain diversity of wildlife. Management plans agreed with Sheffield City Council and DEFRA. * Acts as a pressure group on matters of environmental concern in the Beauchief area

Membership is open to all, See the website www.beauchief-environmentgroup.co.uk

WALKLEY BANK ALLOTMENT SOCIETY Hut/Shop on Morley St.(Walkley Bank Rd end). S6 2PL [email protected] Open to all allotmenteers and gardeners. Probably the best and cheapest Allotment Society in Sheffield.

Plant sales 2018 Sat, Sun May 12th & 13th and 2nd & 3rd June 10am-2pm. Allotment and Garden provisions shop usual opening hours : 10-12 Every Sat and Sun. or by appointment. Proud to be associated with Sheffield environment weeks.

HUNTER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Society is over a century old and was established to preserve and share the precious heritage of South Yorkshire and north-east Derbyshire. It is named after antiquarian Joseph Hunter (1783-1861) who was born and raised in Sheffield; he was the founder of our present archiving system and a prolific writer on genealogy and heraldry.

Society members enjoy talks and social events through the winter months, held in the Humanities Research Institute on Gell Street in Sheffield. We also organise a range of walks and visits to excavations and sites, as well as opportunities for practical work.

If you are interested in any aspect of archaeology or heritage, you are very welcome to come and join us – just drop in to any meeting or you can join for £15 a year at https://sites.google.com/site/hunterarchaeologicalsociety/ (this includes regular newsletters and a copy of the Transactions every couple of years). If you want more information, please contact [email protected] or 0114 2882640. We look forward to meeting you.

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