Changing Futures
Our Changing Futures service increases the influence of people with lived experience on Sheffield’s strategy and services. We offer training, workshops and peer support to over 70 co-production associates, and create opportunities for them to share and build their experiences, skills and talents.
Our associates have worked with local organisations, including Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire Police, to co-design, co-deliver and co-evaluate services across the city.
These include a Domestic Abuse Community Service specification, women’s specialist accommodation, and our Positive Activities Fund. On the Changing Futures Sheffield website, you can find out more about our team’s brilliant achievements.
If you, or your organisation, would like to get involved, please contact Kate Walsh, Programme Manager, on k.walsh@syha.co.uk
Our new Peer Support Workers
We recently welcomed Calum and Poppy to our Changing Futures team. They’re both bringing fantastic skills and talent to the service, and told us more about why they were interested in the role.
Positive Activities Fund
We’ve worked with the Sheffield Drug and Alcohol Coordination Team to distribute grant funding to organisations offering activities for adults facing multiple disadvantages in Sheffield.
We’re working with amazing local organisations to create a diverse range of activities, including poetry, music, hair and beauty, gardening and DJing. The activities have been created to support adults in recovery to do something they love, connect with others, learn new skills, and more.
Good Work
Our Good Work team have continued to work with amazing people across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to find, stay and thrive in employment.
From June 2022 to June 2023, our Good Work customers achieved over…
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Ella’s story
Ella worked with Bobbie, her Senior Employment Specialist, to identify her interests and skills – this boosted her confidence, knowing that she had lots of brilliant talent to offer. She wanted to support older people in a creative way and, in just a few weeks, secured a job offer in a local care home as an Activities Co-ordinator.
Taking part in Good Work
If you’re looking for work, or would like help to develop your skills or stay in your job role, you can sign up for free. We can support people living with severe mental health conditions to achieve their employment goals, and work with local NHS primary care teams to provide a holistic service.
On the Good Work website, you can find out more and get in touch with the team.
Working Win
Over the last six years we’ve worked with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and local NHS partners to support people with health conditions to find or stay in employment.
Since 2017, Working Win has:
- Worked with over 6,900 people
- Helped more than 3,700 people with a health condition or disability to find or stay in work.
84% of the people we worked with have stayed in their role for 13 weeks or more.
In June, we welcomed Mel Stride, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to find out more about Working Win and meet some of our customers, team and partners.
We would like to thank everyone who has played a part in the huge success of the programme, and wish Working Win all the best for the future.
Welcome home
We’re created new homes in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire. This includes 10 affordable homes in Pilsley, as part of a 30 home development programme with Forge New Homes, and three shared ownership homes at Cross Lane in Barnsley. In Sheffield, we converted a property into a four bedroom home, which was designed to meet the needs and preferences of our racially and ethnically diverse customers (find out more about how we’re meeting our Race Action Plan commitments). We were also successful in securing investment to bring additional homes into South Yorkshire for people with a history of rough sleeping, adding another six new homes for our customers.
SYHA Enterprises
SYHA Enterprises grows profit-making activity that supports our purpose and values. Here are a few highlights from the organisations they work with.
- Crucible Homes are continuing to do great work supporting people across South Yorkshire to buy, sell, rent, or let out their homes. They’re also working with some brilliant organisations including regional developer Forge New Homes, Willmott Dixon on the Trilogy Collection, and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.
- Forge New Homes is our joint venture with Great Places Housing Group, Yorkshire Housing, Together Housing Group and The Guinness Partnership. Lots of progress has been made developing 98 new homes at The Hedgerows in Pilsley – including homes for affordable rent – with over half of the homes being sold.
- Co-create continues to work with clients in the healthcare sector and beyond to improve the way they work with people who use their services.
- Viewpoint have been collecting our customers’ feedback in the new Tenant Satisfaction Measures survey, which is requirement by the Regulator of Social Housing for social housing landlords. Viewpoint also continues to strengthen their partnerships with the private sector, including taking part in a growth and leadership programme designed to increase work within the construction sector, and have welcomed new researchers into their team.
Supporting people seeking sanctuary
We’ve collaborated with local partners to welcome and support people seeking sanctuary in South Yorkshire.
We have worked with Home from Home Hallam, a volunteer group that supports asylum seekers moving to Sheffield. We helped to find a suitable property, supported the family to move into their new home, and shared information about tenancy agreements and legal requirements. Home from Home Hallam worked with the family to settle in their new home and community.
Thank you to Home from Home Hallam, and the local people and partners who have offered their time, donations and support.
We are a Homes for Cathy organisation and committed to ending homelessness for everyone – including refugees, asylum seekers, and people with no recourse to public funds.
Find out more some of the other ways we’ve offered homes, services and support for people seeking sanctuary, and our ambitions for the next 12 months, in our new report.
Read the report
Good Practice Mentors
The Good Practice Mentor (GPM) programme is a new and innovative project that brings
together legacy, learning and resources from Ageing Better – a seven year project that worked to reduce loneliness, and create opportunities and connections, for people aged 50+. It engaged more than 150,000 people in over 366 projects.
We’re collaborating with Age UK Camden, Leeds Older People’s Forum and Torbay Communities on the GPM programme, and are looking forward to working with organisations who want to increase their engagement and support of older people.
Each GPM partner brings a unique set of learning and skills, and together we offer free training, bespoke support for your organisation and resources.
Find out more about their free support, or get in touch with the team at gpm@syha.co.uk
