Weather Watch

There are few places for homeless people at weekends. Once wet it will be a struggle to get dry. Could be a miserable night.

Light Rain Shower

11° C

Light Rain Shower

Yahoo! Weather - Sheffield, UK

Winner of the Queens Award

120 volunteers for the day. Are you mad?

“You’ve done what?” the Project Manager, Tim Renshaw, said.

“I’ve had a phone call asking if we could use 120 volunteers for a day and I said ‘Yes’”.

Tracy Viner is the Funding Manager of the Cathedral Archer Project. She was not quite sure what she would do with 120 volunteers for a day but was reluctant to say ‘No’. Continue reading “120 volunteers for the day. Are you mad?” »

Homeless project get website completed in a day!

BashMash in full flow

BashMash in full flow

The Cathedral Archer Project has found its home on the world wide web. And in less than one day with the help of BashMash.

Before the Collaboration Day started, BashMash organiser, Jag Gill, said “we are a group of technology geeks with a social conscience – we get together regularly at BarCamp and GeekUp to share our digital and new media knowledge and we thought we could use our skills to benefit a local charity. The Cathedral Archer Project needs a dedicated website and we are going to give it to them at the end of our session.” Continue reading “Homeless project get website completed in a day!” »

When Rob answered the Guardian’s questions

Silent Sheffield is a website dedicated to promoting the disadvantaged through creative media.  A recent challenge was set to:

Take the Question & Answer interview questions from the Guardian magazine and interview a silent minority.

Write it up. Record it. Take pictures to represent it. Make a song out of it.  Or film it.Here’s one [...]

Schools Trends exceed challenge for Archer Project

Part of the haul

As a company School Trends has a development day annually and this year theydecided to give something to poeple in the community.  They chose the Cathedral Archer Project which offers food and essentials also advice to homeless people.

It was decided that the 120 employees would be split into [...]