Energy Share is a group run by British Gas, River Cottage and Friends of the Earth – we need as many people as possible to become supporters of the Energy Share group before June 30th – so get yourself to the website below and get registered!!!
Put the Mill back into Millhouses – click here: http://www.energyshare.com/millhouses-mill-buildings/widget.js
Click here for a PDF flyer that you can print out and give to all your friends: Energy Share Flyer
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Glass-House Project Support
Last autumn we applied to Glass-House Community Led Design for consideration under their Project Support programme, for help with our mill buildings project. Glass-House is a charity which helps groups like ours realise their aspirations for community buildings, and assist them with design ideas and a long term vision. After an initial meeting, they encouraged us to apply for support in the form of a three day course.
We were accepted and our first meeting took place on site last November. Here the Glass-House team listened to our plans and looked at the buildings before going away to draw up a tailor made course for us.
We then had their professional help for a further two sessions. The first, led by Leo Care of Sheffield University School of Architecture, took us through the steps we need to take in projects like ours. This session was followed by a study tour of three very different community based buildings in Sheffield. This enabled us to cherry pick ideas and inspiration for our own project as well as highlighting the things that were obviously not going to work in our case. All the sample buildings had something in common with our own building and site, either in terms of their historic importance, or their situation, i.e. sitting within a park boundary – the community aspect being all-encompassing.
Having given us some time to digest these ideas, Leo then held a follow up workshop in which, through a series of exercises, he helped us to brainstorm ideas for the future of our mill buildings.
We all agreed that we finished the Glass-House course on a high, with ideas buzzing around our heads. During the last few months those ideas have matured and many of them have been put into action, most notably in the design for our brochure and with a historic timeline poster currently in development.
It is also with thanks to Glass-House that we have had the confidence to forge our partnership with Sheffield City Council, opening up opportunities for further restoration on the site. We have started with the small building but hope that we shall eventually have the whole site back into use and forming a vibrant heritage focus at the north end of our park.
A full report on the Glass-House project can be found here: Glasshouse Report
Many thanks to both Leo Care and Hannah Gibbs, our Project Support officer at Glass-House – http://www.theglasshouse.org.uk/
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tripadvisor.co.uk has a VERY out of date set of reviews on their website for Millhouses Park and we really need people to get some good ones on there! Be honest, but it has to be better than the two reviews that are there from 2002! Reading these makes you realise how much difference the friends have made over the last few years!
Here’s the link – http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186364-d213552-Reviews-Millhouses_Park-Sheffield_South_Yorkshire_England.html
Thank you all for this!!!
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Take a look at our new map – see what Millhouses Park has to offer!
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Check out our New Improved location page: https://friendsofmillhousespark.org/location/
You’ll find all you need to get to the park. New updates include:
– Bus timetables and route information
– Driving directions
– Accessibility at our entrances and attractions
Now there’s no reason not to visit arguably Sheffield’s favourite destination park!
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Check out The Mill pages for the new episode in the story of our Mill! This month’s offering tells us all about Hallamshire under the Feudal System – a reminder of how we used to live before Sheffield became a city…
Click HERE for the new episode – why not catch up by reading the previous episodes of this fantastic story?
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The latest copy of ‘The Miller’ is now out! Click the link below to view the magazine…
Don’t forget that Millhouses Park’s very own Cricket Club will be offering a Cricket Coaching Programme this summer – make sure you don’t miss out!
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The police are running an open access PACT event in or around Millhouses Park Cafe café on Thursday 14th April between 11 am and 1 pm.
PCSO Nicola Doolan and our new area PC, Chris Wilkinson are hosting the event and it is your opportunity to both meet them and bring any matters of concern to their attention.
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Hey everyone – Splash Waterplay is now open for the summer!
Watch this space as we add even more play facilities – the cycle roadway, the outdoor gym and zip line are just some of the things we have planned!
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8.00 am Saturday 30th April
Meet at the steps into the park from the bridge on Archer Road. Several pairs of binoculars available to lend out for the walk. Everyone welcome as always.
Last April’s walk produced 33 species. In the last couple of weeks a pair of Kingfishers have been displaying along the Sheaf. No guarantees but it would be nice to get a sighting of the Park’s iconic bird which has proved elusive on recent spring walks.
For further information on finding birds in the Millhouses Park/Ecclesall Woods/ Tyzack’s Dam area look at the Sheffield Bird Study Group website at
At the end of the guide there’s a “Recent Records” link which lists everything that’s been reported in the area over the previous weeks. Worth a look.
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