Sheffield resources

Places to get stuff printed, host meetings, access and net and other useful facilities in Shefield.

Venues
This list has mostly been copied from Sheffield Mayday, some information may be out of date. Please update information on venues whenever possible.

Sheffield City Centre Venues
Croft House Settlement Garden Street, S1 4BJ 4 different rooms available 0114 249 1460

Central United Reform Church 60 Norfolk Street, S1 Has two rooms one with a capacity for 30 the other 150. contact: Mrs Wood 235-0164 / Malcolm Holland 233-4451

Quaker Meeting House 10 St James St, S1 2EW Has rooms of all size with capacities up to around 150ish? The largest room cost £20 per hour to hire with discount available to non profit groups after applying. contact: 275-7390 fax: 281-2983, office@sheffieldquakers.fsnet.co.uk

St Matthew's Church Rooms Carver St, S1 Has two rooms one for around 30/40 people the other will take 100 - 150. Cost is £36 for an evening. Book rooms through their website or contact: 2305641.

St Mary's Houlden Hall, Norfolk Row, S1 Very central, has one large room, capacity 100. Cost around £40 (reduction might be possible for certain events). contact: 272-2522

Red Deer Pub 18 Pitt St, (off West Street), S1 Upstairs room may be hired out for an evening - relaxed pub atmosphere - capacity is around 40. Cost is £10 during the week, £20 at weekends. contact:272-2890

The Grapes 80 Trippet Lane, S1 Has a small downstairs room than can be reserved for meetings (with bar!) and larger upstairs room (cap 50) which is hired out for musical events (around £80-£100 inc. PA and engineer) contact: 249-0909

Less Central Venues
Walkley Community Centre (AKA Ruskin Hall) 7a Fir Street, Walkley, Sheffield, S6 3TG Meeting rooms and small hall 07804 372255

Sharrow Community Hall John Street, off Bramall Lane. Difficult to find by a smart large room (capacity 80ish) with small kitchen. Price depends on group's level of funding. contact the Sharrow Community Forum, email: info@sharrowcf.org.uk; phone: 2508384.

The Broomsping Centre Broomspring Lane, Broomhall, S11 Close to University. Has large room (capacity around 80). Can be used for music gigs etc. that don't go on too late. contact: 272-4623

SADACCA 48 Wicker Sheffield And District Afro-Carribean Community Association has largish rooms just out of town. contact: 275-3479, 275-3915, 275-3668.

Simunye 229 London Road, S7? Cafe and World music shop that has a small but pleasant room downstairs that holds about 30. contact: 250-8190

Mount Pleasant Community Centre Sitwell House, Sharrow Lane, S7 Has rooms of various size holding up to perhaps 80. Good rates for community based meetings. contact: 260-2485

For more possible venues check the Yellow pages. Try under community centres, places of worship or public houses.

Print and Design Studio
Sharrow Vale Road. (tel: 2679402 or mail: [mailto:a.lofthouse@btinternet.com a.lofthouse@btinternet.com]) Were very good for the large A2 posters, using an offset lithograph (old fashioned ink printing) rather than digital makes two colour printing viable. Colour digi seems to be very expensive wherever you go. Example price: 250 A2 two-colour posters on quite nice paper = £80.

Juma
Wellington Street. (tel: 2720915; or mail: [mailto:juma@btconnect.com juma@btconnect.com]) Apparently very good for quick, cheap leaflet printing.

G & L Printers
Harwood St (tel: 275 4737) Large format printers, i.e. banners and things. As an example I found out that a 6' x 2' banner, with two colour artwork including logos and text would cost £50. You need really high resolution digital files and they prefer mac designed work.

Footprint
Workers co-op based in Leeds. 0113 262 4408

Internet Access
Cheap and free ways to get on the net in Sheffield.

BBC Open Centre, Shoreham St
Free internet access during office hours. They also have free courses in IT and stuff you can do in your own time from materials they have there.

Access Space
http://access.lowtech.org/

The Drum
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/index.php?page=7

ShefNet
Bringing free wireless internet access to Sheffield, http://shefnet.org.uk/ there is also an email list, http://springnight.burngreave.net/mailman/listinfo/consumesheffield