Lyle: Facing Unreality: My Experience with DPDR
It’s an April evening in 2024, spring is in full swing, and dark winter skies have given way to drawn-out...
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The Big Community Survey!
We're looking for people to tell us how being involved with Sheffield Flourish (from using the website to attending an...
Rob Barnett: Making Sheffield a more mental health friendly city event
Talking benches, a wall of gratitude, a wellbeing festival and a carers support network. These were the ideas discussed at...
Competition Shortlisted Entry: ‘Tiny Moments of Everyday Victory’
WHAT? This project is a celebration of the positive things we can easily overlook in day to day life....
James Poulter: "Recurrence"
A 3 foot block of ice does not melt in one day, Nearly 18 years of mental health problems do...
Top 10 Sheffield Food and Gardening Projects
As the weather warms and plants start to shoot up, it’s the perfect time to check out Sheffield’s flourishing food...
Competition Shortlisted Entry: ‘Freeskilling: The Great Reskilling of Society’
In order to make Sheffield a more mental health friendly city I propose we create a gift economy in practise....
Clare Rishbeth: Competition shortlisted entry: ‘A bench-full city’
Clare’s idea is a graphic combination of pictures and words, but for anyone who has limited sight we’ve also transcribed the...
Dave Luck: What’s So Manly About Manning Up?
On Friday Piers Morgan tweeted: “I'm not convinced by this new trend of male public soul-bearing. Time for our gender...
Marie: What I learned from being in a toxic work environment
When I was 21, I graduated from college. I was so excited, as anyone new to the world of career...
James Poulter: Sad day for SORT
Today was the day NHS funding cuts finally hit one of Sheffield Mental Health’s most cherished institutions - the SORT...