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Advocacy (Sheffield Advocacy Hub)
Dementia day activities
All About You
Dementia referral routes in Sheffield
Age Better
Deaf Advice Service
Age UK At Home Service
Age UK Benefits Check
Age UK Independent Living Coordination Service
│ Equipment/Assistive Technology
AbilityNet
Alzheimers Society Online Shop
Amazon mobility & daily living aids
Ask Sara
City Wide Care Alarms
Clark & Partners
Disability Sheffield Info Service
Equipment and Adaptations
GPS Trackers: Techsilver
GPS Trackers: Amazon
Key Safe Information
Mediquip (fits temp keysafe, free on referral GP/OT/district nurse)
NHS Apps Library
NHS website: gadgets/equipment
Tunstall Electrical
SCCCC high seat chair/keysafe
Frozen meal delivery services
Meals on wheels
Handypersons on My Builder
Handypersons on Yell
Hoarding Disorders UK
Hoarding - LiveWell at Home
Hoarding: Magpies (Mind)
Hoarding - Sheffield OCD Support Group
Hospice - St Luke's Sheffield
Gardening - Gardeners Guild
Gardening - Yell
OASIS gardening service
Home Support - Sheffield Directory
Clean Machine
Cleaning & decluttering - Sheffield Directory
Loneliness, social isolation and befriending
Sainsbury's Assisted Shopping (orders by phone and delivered):
SCCCC Hospital Aftercare
HELP IN THE HOME:
│ Help to claim
DWP Visiting Service
Advice Sheffield
Benefit calculators
│ Out of work/in work benefits
Find a job
Jobcentre Plus
Job Seekers Allowance
Employment Support Allowance
Income Support
Tax Credits calculator
Working Tax Credit
Child Tax Credit
Universal Credit
│ Hardship
Advance on first benefit payment
Budgeting loan/budgeting advance
Cold Weather Payment
Winter Fuel Payment
│ Maternity
Maternity allowance
│ Disability benefits
Attendance Allowance
PIP (DLA)
Disability Service Benefits Helplines
Carers allowance
│ Pensions
Pension Credit calculator
Pension Credit
Pensions Service
│ Bereavement
Bereavement payment
BENEFITS:
Early Learning & Childcare
Family Court Applications
Family Lives
Family Rights Group
Match Mothers
MAST
MIND
Mums in Need (after abuse)
Parent Carer Forum
Positive Parenting programme
Startwell
Well Baby Clinics
│ Family centres
What do Family Centres do?
Darnall
Early Days
First Start
Primrose
Sharrow
Shortbrook
Valley Park
CHILDREN & FAMILIES:
│ Events and activities
Disability Sport Sheffield
Grimesthorpe Family Centre Tea and Toast
Heeley Trust
Sheffield Libraries
Low Edges/Batemoor/Jordanthorpe
Manor and Castle Devt Trust
Manor and Castle C&F activities
Museums
Off The Shelf
Parks & Countryside
Parson Cross Forum
Raring to Go
Sheffield: the Outdoor City
Sheffield: Our Favourite Places
SHU city events
Shipshape
SOAR
Sporting Memories Network
St Cuthberts Firvale
Walkley Community Centre
Woodhouse & DCF
Zest
│ Activities
Being creative meet-ups
Cycle Confidence sessions
Dance to Health sessions
Dementia Activities
Dementia Cafes
Disability Badminton Group
Gardening Group at Shipshape
GP Exercise Referral scheme
Healthy & Active Over 50s
Men's Sunday Allotment Group
Osteoporosis 2000
Re-engage (formerly Contact the Elderly)
Sage
Step Out Sheffield
Volunteering
Walking football - Age UK
Walking football-Sheffield United
Walking football-Sheffield Wednesday
Wild at Heart
│ Faith
Places of worship & community support
Faith & Culture on Sheffield Directory
│ Health
Epilepsy Action
Gender Identity Clinic
Gendered Intelligence
LD Hospital Passport
Live Lighter
Pain Clinic
Parkinsons UK
Podiatry Service
Smoke Free Sheffield
Stroke Association
│ Healthy activities
Cycle Confidence sessions
Dance to Health sessions
GP Exercise Referral scheme
Osteoporosis 2000
Sage
Step Out Sheffield
Walking football - Age UK
Walking football-Sheffield United
Walking football-Sheffield Wednesday
│ Wellbeing activities
Dementia activities and support
Sage
Volunteering
│ Combatting loneliness
Age Better
B:friend
Ending Forever Isolation
Goodgym
Re-engage (formerly Contact the Elderly)
SCCCC good neighbours scheme
SCCCC BAME befriending
The Silverline
Wave Length
Wild at Heart
HEALTH SUPPORT:
KEEPING WELL:
│ Health
Epilepsy Action
Gender Identity Clinic
Gendered Intelligence
LD Hospital Passport
Live Lighter
Pain Clinic
Parkinsons UK
Podiatry Service
Smoke Free Sheffield
Stroke Association
│ Healthy activities
Cycle Confidence sessions
Dance to Health sessions
GP Exercise Referral scheme
Osteoporosis 2000
Sage
Step Out Sheffield
Walking football - Age UK
Walking football-Sheffield United
Walking football-Sheffield Wednesday
│ Wellbeing activities
Dementia activities and support
Sage
Volunteering
│ Combatting loneliness
Age Better
B:friend
Ending Forever Isolation
Goodgym
Re-engage (formerly Contact the Elderly)
SCCCC good neighbours scheme
SCCCC BAME befriending
The Silverline
Wave Length
Wild at Heart
HEALTH SUPPORT:
KEEPING WELL:
│ Advice
Shelter
Housing+ patches and officers
│ Benefits
Housing Benefit
Discretionary Housing Payment
Council Tax Support
Council Tax Discounts
Council Tax Exemptions
Council Tax Hardship Scheme
Local Assistance Scheme
│ Homelessness
Help Us Help
Housing Solutions
NOMAD Smartsteps
Street Outreach/Framework
│ Support (tenancy/floating support)
Adullam Foundations
Livewell at Home
Roundabout
Shelter
Shelter drug & alcohol service
│ Housing options/rehousing
Property Shop
Mutual Exchange
SCC Housing: Downsizing
Medical Priority Rehousing
Sheltered Housing
Extra Care Housing
Residential and Nursing Homes
SCCCCs - Placement Support Scheme
│ Support services
Mediation Sheffield
St Vincent De Paul
Besom
Emmaus
Hoarding - LiveWell at Home
Hoarding Disorders UK
Hoarding - Magpies (MIND)
Hoarding - Sheffield OCD Support Group
SCC tenant repairs and handyperson
Equipment and Adaptations
Pest control service
Sheffield Directory housing advice:
Sheffield Directory homelessness:
Safeguarding Adult
Safeguarding Child MACF
DASH and MARAC
Domestic Abuse
Mums in Need (after abuse)
Hate Crime
Herbert Protocol
Safe Places
Alert Cards
Home Safety Check
│ Modern slavery and human trafficking
STAYING SAFE:
Anger Management Course
Big Ambitions
CALM
Epic Friends
Firvale Community Hub
Flourish
Flourish - activity calendar
Flourish CAST (Creative Arts)
Flourish OASIS
IAPT
Let's Talk Directory
Live Lighter at Mind
Mental Health Guide
MIND
NO PANIC Sheffield Self Help Groups
Rainbow Heron Café
Sage
Schools Toolkit
Sheffield Futures counselling service
Sheffield Support Hub - Mental Health Matters
SHSC ACMH SPA
SHSC Trust A to Z of services
STH CAMHS
Springboard Cafes
The Art House
MENTAL HEALTH:
Sheffield Money Support website
Advice Sheffield
Archer Project
Cheap broadband and phone
Charity shops
Christians Against Poverty
Citizens Advice: help to pay energy bills
CISWO coal charity
Money Saving Expert website
Emergency help leaflet: Help Us Help
Emmaus
Free to use library computers
Foodbanks
Foodcycle Broomhall
Foodcycle Parson Cross
Foodworks Sheffield Kitchen Just Meals Market
Food Hall Project cafe food delivery
Freecycle
Green Doctor
Heat or Eat energy vouchers
Heeley Energy House
Jubilee Money
Local Assistance Scheme
Making a Will
Money Helper
Money Saving Expert - cheaper wills
Moneywise leaflet
National Debtline
NeighbourGood Warm and Welcoming Places
NOW Church Woodhouse Food Hub
Pay as you feel cafes and markets
Scams: Not born yesterday
SCC Debt problems advice
Sheffield Credit Union
St Marys Social Supermarket
St Marys Debt Support
St Vincent De Paul
Warm and Safe Homes (WASH)
Water Bills
│ Refugees and asylum seekers
Assist
City of Sanctuary
HARP: Health Access
│ Money management
Manage your money guide
Council Money Management Service
Sheffield Directory: Payroll and Money Management Providers
│ Power of Attorney/Deputy/Appointees
Deputy advice on Gov.UK
Office of the Public Guardian
Power of Attorney advice on Gov.UK
Court of Protection
Find a Solicitor
│ Specialist PoA advice
Cancer
Marie Curie
MacMillan
Carers
Carers UK
Sheffield Carers Centre
Learning Disability
Mencap
Sheffield Mencap
DOSH Financial Advocacy
Mental health
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health & Money Advice website
Sheffield MIND
Older people
Age UK
Independent Age
Solicitors for the Elderly
Alzheimer's Society
Dementia UK
Physical disability
Disability Law Service
Scope
Disability Sheffield
Sensory impairment
RNIB
SRSB
RNID
Citizens Advice Deaf Team
FINANCIAL ADVICE & SUPPORT:
Bags of Taste
Big Ambitions
CTS Training
ESOL classes
SAVTE
Free computer classes
Sheffield Online courses
FACES adult learning courses
Groundworks Sheffield
Learndirect
Manor & Castle courses
Manor MaTReC
Opportunity Sheffield
Parent & Carer: Works for Me
Parson Cross Learning Zone
Sheffield4Jobs Hub
Sheffield College
Sheffield Futures
SYHA - Good Work
Skills Made Easy
SOAR employment support
SpectrumE
Teacake Club
The Suit Works
WEA
WEST Skills
Woodhouse Hub
Working Win
Yes2Ventures
Zest learning and training
Zest for Work
ADULT EDUCATION:
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING:
Our VFC has key information about the most important services and support covering a range of topics people are often looking for whether to share with someone else or to contact when developing a plan of activities and support for someone.
Each entry has a link you can follow to get more information about the service/event/activity. Hover your mouse over this to get a bit more information about what they do, any age or particular client groups they support, any specific parts of the city they cover etc. You'll then find icons for key information such as:
Telephone number
Email contact
Referral form
Leaflet, guide, poster
SMS Text contact
Facebook page
Click the phone icon to start a call to this number. Click the email to start an email to the service. Click the form icon to open the service referral form or their contact us form on their website. Click on the leaflet icon to open a flyer or brochure about the service you can print or email to someone.
At the bottom of each drawer we've included a link to the full list of all entries on the Sheffield Directory - so to see more options or find a specialist service you can use these to quickly switch to all the details we have on the directory.
We'd love to hear from you. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions about how to improve this page, please contact Heather Baxendale (0114 273 4763) or Mike McEnery (0114 273 5925). Or email information@sheffield.gov.uk.