Thousands of older and vulnerable people in Sheffield are being supported to stay physically active during the coronavirus lockdown as part of a partnership project led by academics at Sheffield Hallam University. The Active at Home booklet has been designed in partnership with Age UK, the Centre for Ageing Better, Sport England and the Chartered [...]

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UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park staff and students have donated urgently needed personal protective equipment to the NHS. The technical school has given 100 disposable aprons, 60 pairs of safety glasses, 20 pairs of goggles, seven boxes of gloves and one visor to Riverside Health Partnership, which has surgeries based in North Nottinghamshire and South [...]

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UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park has received national recognition for being one of the highest performing schools in England for technical learning. The UTC has won a Schools, Students and Teachers (SSAT) network award for ranking in the top 10% of non-selective schools for student attainment at post 16 in applied general subjects. The SSAT [...]

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The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park has welcomed the first start-up business to its £900,000 Wellbeing Accelerator programme. Footfalls & Heartbeats, a Nottingham-based intelligent textiles business, will access state-of-the-art laboratories, business support packages and specialist facilities to help bring its products to market and improve people’s quality of life. Based [...]

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Sport England is making up to £195 million of funding available to help the sport and physical activity sector through the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The money will help partners, clubs and community organisations cope with the short and long-term impact of the pandemic. The package, which is a combination of National Lottery and government funding, is [...]

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