In Sheffield, over 60,000 people have been vaccinated with their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Residents and staff in all 83 care homes for elderly people have been vaccinated with their first dose.
There are 15 primary care vaccinations sites in Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have opened Sheffield Arena as a vaccination centre (open 7 days a week). The NHS are inviting people aged over 75 to book an appointment. Do not arrive at any vaccination centre unless you have an appointment as no one will be vaccinated without an appointment. Anyone who has had their first dose will be contacted by the within 12 weeks to have their second dose.
Both vaccines offer protection from the effects of COVID-19 after just one dose. It’s estimated the Pfizer vaccine offers 89% effectiveness two weeks after it is given, and the Oxford/AstraZeneca offers 74% effectiveness…
Voluntary Action Sheffield is seeking a new Chief Executive.
Are you passionate about voluntary and community action? Are you deeply committed to empowering and supporting disadvantaged communities? Do you want to play a leading role in the future development of our city? If so, this may be just the opportunity you are looking for.
Voluntary Action Sheffield leads and supports the voluntary and community sector in Sheffield. We have led the voluntary and community sector’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. We provide numerous services, including for refugees, the Healthy Holidays programme and the Sheffield Volunteer Centre. We host Healthwatch Sheffield. We seek to influence on behalf of the sector including at the Sheffield City Partnership Board, the Health and Wellbeing Board and the Accountable Care Partnership. We provide extensive conference, meeting and office space from our city centre premises. We have 50 paid staff and a turnover of £2 million.
50+ Contemporary Dance Sheffield presents Third Bite Dance.
Third Bite Dance is an exciting new online dance film project which celebrates the voices and identities of people aged 50+ in Sheffield. The project will create a new dance film to be premiered online in summer 2021.
If you’re aged 50+ and live in Sheffield, we want to hear from you!
You can get involved with Third Bite Dance by answering the following questions:
If your body could talk when it dances, what would it say?
If you were a dance, what would it be and why?
If your dance could take you anywhere where would you go?
The answers you share can be long or short, anonymous or not and will shape the creative ideas in the dance film.
Interested in performing?
We are running 4 fun and friendly online taster workshops for the project on Tuesday afternoons in February:
Action Fraud is raising awareness of another coronavirus vaccine scam, after it received a high volume of reports relating to a phishing email on Monday 25 January.
The email, which attempts to trick people into handing over their bank details, was reported more than 1,000 times in 24 hours. It appears to come from the NHS and asks the recipient to click on a link to accept or decline an invitation to receive the coronavirus vaccine. If they click accept, they are asked to input personal information and their bank card details.
The national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime has previously warned about coronavirus vaccine scams, with many people reporting receiving fake text messages purporting to be from the NHS.
How to protect yourself
In the UK, coronavirus vaccines will only be available via the National Health Services of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. You can be…
Action Fraud is raising awareness of another coronavirus vaccine scam, after it received a high volume of reports relating to a phishing email on Monday 25 January.
The email, which attempts to trick people into handing over their bank details, was reported more than 1,000 times in 24 hours. It appears to come from the NHS and asks the recipient to click on a link to accept or decline an invitation to receive the coronavirus vaccine. If they click accept, they are asked to input personal information and their bank card details.
The national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime has previously warned about coronavirus vaccine scams, with many people reporting receiving fake text messages purporting to be from the NHS.
How to protect yourself
In the UK, coronavirus vaccines will only be available via the National Health Services of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. You can be…
This week we announced that we will provide thousands of additional laptops to support children who, due to Covid-19 restrictions, are currently having to home school without access to a device.
In the face of national lockdown, further grant schemes are now in place for Sheffield businesses. More than £20 million of payments were made automatically to businesses last week thanks to our streamlined system.
Last Friday we held a Digital Inclusion Summit that brought together the public, voluntary, community, faith and private sectors to collectively address the digital divide in Sheffield. The meeting came as a response to the widening levels of digital inequality that have become worse due to the impact of covid-19.
“Further to the recent consultations on BT’s proposals to remove a number of payphones in Sheffield, the Council has now sent its final decision – the Final Notification – to BT and to the Secretary of State.
The Final Notification is attached for your information”
South Sheffield 