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activities, the charity urgently needs your support to continue to be there for people affected by breast cancer today with its specialist support services This May, Breast Cancer Now is encouraging and conduct world-class research. everyone to take on Walk 100 Miles to help change the future of breast cancer. Claire Pulford, Associate Director of Community and Events at Breast Cancer Now, said: As the charity’s flagship walking series, the Pink Ribbon Walks, have been cancelled for a second “The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest crisis that year running due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this has faced breast cancer in decades. exciting new challenge asks people to step up to the challenge of walking 100 miles in their local parks “At a time when people affected by breast cancer need our support more than ever, many of our or neighbourhoods, during the month of May. face-to-face support services have been paused Whether you walk on your own or with friends and our researchers lost over 230,000 hours in or family, over a weekend or across the month, by the lab during the first wave. We also expect a walking up to 100 miles you can help change the significant financial blow due to the pandemic, future of breast cancer – and we’ll be there every with our fundraising income projected to drop step of the way to support you with training and 35% by August. fundraising tips. “There’s never been a better time to dust off your Walk 100 Miles coincides with the Captain Tom trainers and take on a challenge and take on the 100 initiative that invites people all over the world Walk 100 Miles challenge to help us to raise vital to take on a challenge based around the number funds that mean we continue to be there to support 100, to raise funds for charity. Supporters of all people affected by breast cancer today, and bring ages and abilities are invited to rise to the challenge hope for the future through research.” and raise crucial funds for Breast Cancer Now, while at the same time celebrating Captain Tom’s The charity is asking everyone to fundraise safely generosity of spirit, the hope and joy he brought to and responsibly by following the latest government guidelines about social distancing above all else millions, and his sense of fun. when planning their event. With the pandemic having significantly impacted Breast Cancer Now’s ability to carry out fundraising Find out more and register today - walk100miles. breastcancernow.org
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BEAT THE STREET
Beat the Street is a free, interactive challenge that encourages people of all ages to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives by turning the city into a six-week game. The game is outdoors, completely contactless and players take part in their family groups or support bubbles, so has been approved by Public Health England as COVID safe. Participants are encouraged to walk, cycle, run, wheel or scoot as far as possible within the local area, with prizes of sports or book vouchers for the teams that clock up the highest number of miles. Beat the Street Sheffield is brought to you by Move More and Sheffield City Council. It is delivered by Intelligent Health, with funding from the National Lottery and Sport England, and local partners. Since it was founded, the game has been played by more than 1.2m people and has been adapted to ensure that it’s safe to play during the COVID-19 pandemic with the approval of Public Health England. Beat the Street Sheffield will be our biggest game to date and we hope that 50,000 local residents will take part. Players use a free card or fob which they hover over special sensors called “Beat Boxes” which will appear on lampposts around Sheffield. These are placed approximately half a mile apart and you simply hover your card or fob over it. It will beep and flash and will register your points!
Players can join a school or community team or you could help raise up to £500 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity by allocating your miles to the charity team. As well as encouraging people to get active, Beat the Street has been shown to get communities more engaged, less car-dependent and fitter which is vital in Sheffield’s recovery from COVID-19. More than 33,000 people played the Beat the Street game safely in various UK towns in autumn 2020 with many players reporting that it had a positive impact on their mental health at an anxious time.
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New Archive for the History Society
The Stocksbridge & District History Society has had a busy year in spite of the lockdown not enabling it to have its regular monthly meetings and not being able to open its museum. One of its long term projects is coming to a satisfactory conclusion. For the last 4 years members of the society have filtering and sorting an archive bequeathed to them by the late Trevor Lodge, the Information Officer at SES, Corus et al. Trevor was a researcher and author of many articles relating to Stocksbridge Works and was a good friend to SDHS and many other history and heritage organisations. He had researched and compiled a definitive history of Samuel Fox & Co and the works, unfortunately this important manuscript never got published.
Greg Fell, director of Public Health in Sheffield, said: “We are incredibly excited to be bringing Beat the Street to Sheffield. We know that one of the best things people can do right now for their physical and mental health is to move more and to get out into green space where possible, and Beat the As part of his bequest, SDHS received his 8 Street really helps people do just that in a safe volume draft manuscript which is used for and enjoyable way. reference; his actual finished discs for the “Beat the Street is free and it’s open to every- printers seem to have been lost. one regardless of age, ability or background. It In 2018, the executor of his will asked the soencourages you to get active from your front ciety to pick up the bequest from his home door so pick up a card and get playing!” at Grenoside where they expected around 4-5 Please keep an eye on social media or sign up boxes of material; they finished up with over for a newsletter for more information. More 32 boxes and 10 bags of photographs, docuinformation will shortly be available at www. ments and books! The society spent months beatthestreet.me/sheffield and on social me- sorting the load, contacting other local history organisations with material not deemed dia at @BTSSheffield relevant to Stocksbridge and then took the decision to digitise this archive to add to the
already substantial digital archive that is kept in the Stocksbridge Museum. The digitisation was an enormous task for the society and help was sought from the Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Partnership (SLLP) and Stocksbridge Town Council who were able to help with a small grant from the Community Grants Scheme. The grant enabled the society to purchase special book and document scanning equipment, essential for the project. Finally after 18 months of scanning by their volunteers Andrew and Elle, the digitisation is nearing completion , with over 12500 photographs and documents scanned, cropped, and being categorised. This unique archive, together with the material already in the society archive must be the most comprehensive collection of material and photographs, not only of Stocksbridge Works and Railway, but also life and people in the Little Don valley over the last 175 years. This archive will be available to the public to view, on the monitors, in the archive area in the museum in the Town Hall, when the lockdowns have finished and we can get back to the ‘new’ normality. Most of the photographs have no label of people and location in the works and the society would be pleased to have any information of names of people or places that someone might recognise. The society will be publishing a selection of photographs in the Look Local, in the coming months.
