Image Feeling achy, tense or in pain? Affordable Community Massages are now offering their therapeutic and deeper tissue massages here at Regather Works. Affordable Community Massage is a socially minded enterprise using ‘pop up’ clinics at venues and homes across Sheffield to provide easy access to affordable therapeutic and deeper tissue massage. ACM keep their massage costs low by using …
Welcome to our new Veg Box Managers!
Image This week we welcomed Fran and Luke into the co-operative as new project managers for the veg box. Fran and Luke are local growers who have just moved to Sheffield to start Full Circle Farm, an organic market garden which is part of the Sheffield Organic Growers and is based up at Hazlehurst in Moss Valley, Sheffield. Both Fran …
Horn Handle Works featured at University of Sheffield Heritage Jamboree
Image On Friday 17th January Regather were pleased to take part in the first Sheffield Heritage Jamboree at St Mary’s Church and Conference Centre. The event was organised by Researching Community Heritage at the University of Sheffield. They have been working with groups across South Yorkshire to develop Heritage Lottery Fund All Our Stories projects. Resulting projects have covered topics …
Regather Replants!
Image If you’ve walked past the Regather building recently, you may have noticed a few changes. We’ve been working with Amey, Sheffield Council’s Streets Ahead contractor, to improve the green spaces in front of the Regather building on Club Garden Road. A few weeks ago, Amey employees cleared the two raised beds of their dense shrubbery and litter and now …
Digging Deep for Regather
Image On Sunday, we were joined by volunteers from the University of Sheffield who helped with planting, digging and weeding; all part of the ongoing work to improve the green spaces on Club Garden Road. Most of the volunteers were from the Sheffield Malaysian Student Association and had joined us on the community work day back in March. It was great to see some …
Co-ops Fortnight 2014
Image ‘Co-operatives Fortnight’ runs from 21st June this year and will once again celebrate the vibrant and strong co-operative sector and encourage more people to make the co-operative choice. ‘Co-ops Fortnight 2014’ falls right in the middle of what is probably our busiest period this year. Fresh from the success of this year’s ‘Peace In The Park’ Festival last weekend, …
Hands-on Handles at Regather
Image Every year on the second weekend in September Heritage Open Days recognises the importance of greater access to buildings, ancient and modern, industrial and domestic. For Heritage Open Days this year the Regather Co-op will be celebrating the industrial history of our home at the Horn Handle Works with a display of horn working tools and products. Setting up …
Youth Entrepreneurship for Sustainability
Image Regather member, Youth Discovery Ventures is currently looking for anyone aged 18 to 30 and interested in social entrepreneurship or making a positive difference through business, to join them on a youth exchange to Iasi, Romania in March 2015. “Youth Entrepreneurship for Sustainability” is a youth exchange that will bring together 40 young people aged 18 to 30 from …
Powering change
Image In October, Regather launched a new project in partnership with the social enterprise Youth Discovery Ventures Ltd, supporting grassroots groups and individuals to make their ideas for social change to become a reality. Funded by UnLtd and Esmee Fairburn, ‘Lead the Change’ is a 2 year project working in Sheffield and Rotherham to provide mentoring and funded support for …
Savvy spreads it’s wings!
Image Sheffield based Savvy make a unique range of all-natural, nutritious, sweet spreads, based on a traditional Mediterranean recipe which are currently on sale in a growing number of stores in the UK. The company are members of the Vegetarian Society and three in their spreads range are also vegan. Savvy Foods Ltd hired the kitchen at Regather for their initial production runs and after …