Tag: Sheffield
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REFLECTING ON YEARS 8 AND 9 … HERE COMES 10!
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Climbing for All Sheffield presents a report on its 8th year of operation, with a record number of climbing sessions. The 9th year has also been a great success, and the 10th year is being planned, now with the Foundry Climbing Centre’s new wall to enjoy. The charity is proud of its success in helping…
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SPRING TERM UPDATE – AND A ZOOM IN ON CLIMB FRIDAYS!
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Climbing for All Sheffield has successfully implemented new session formats, including Climb Fridays, SEND Saturdays and Buddy Thursdays. Climb Fridays focus on individualized climbing experiences with ample volunteer support. The team celebrates developing climbing skills, fostering inclusivity in the wider community, and enjoying climbing. See our Climb Friday climbers in action last week.
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Launching our new look, with a 3-year catch-up!
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We’ve not been posting on our website but we’ve been getting the climbing in! We set up some new sessions to make climbing even better. We’ve been running training events for our volunteers. And we have revamped our website. You can download the last 2 Charity Commission reports while we’re writing the next one.
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Reach
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“Reach” is an incredible film of our founder climber Clare’s climbing journey. Directed by Matt Lloyd, with footage from The Foundry and from Clare’s first climb at Horseshoe Quarry, it shows how climbing can get you out of your wheelchair. This film premiered at Sheffield Adventure Film Festival 2019, and won Gold in ‘Made in…
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Summing up the last 3 years?!
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Where have we been since we last dropped a blog post in December 2016?! Well, we have been a long, long way. There is a great deal to report on. Lots of climbers have climbed at our CfAS club sessions We have climbers still climbing with us since 2016, we have joiners in 2017, joiners…
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Not our most exciting post….
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We’re a registered charity, and we do things properly. One thing we need to do is to send annual reports to the Charity Commission. You can find our reports on the Charity Commission’s public portal. Or to save you the effort of finding them, here they are. These are the reports up to 31st July…
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Christmas Party
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Under construction – watch this space!! Our Christmas Party will be for all our climbers, volunteers, and their families and supporters, our Foundry instructors, and maybe some special guests too. Ticket only – ask a committee member for tickets. When we have got some!
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Climbing for All club launches in Sheffield!!
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Red-letter day – 26th September 2016! It’s our first club evening. Our six climbers turn up, plus our volunteers, the Sheffield-based committee members, and our Foundry instructors. A great time is had by all. The previous week we had our Taster Session. Eleven climbers! All of them had a climb or two, and all enjoyed…
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Fundraising success
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A big thank you to all our donors. Your donations of cash have put the club on a sustainable footing, paying for instructors, training for volunteers, and our small overheads such as affiliation costs. Special mention to our young climbing rep trustee, Clare, who impressively finished a 5km race at Parallel London, spurred onwards by her many…
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Decision to start a charity
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Climbing is too good not to share. We started the Climbing for All Sheffield charity so that we could help more children, young people and adults to climb, regardless of their abilities and disabilities. First Clare climbed, then Rafi too, and some others now and then. Nick had raised funds for equipment, and Nick and…
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