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Sheffield Environment Weeks 2024

Various places around Sheffield
Sheffield Environment Weeks run from Saturday 27th April to Wednesday 5th June this year (2024). Sheffield can be proud of the hundreds of activities that make up Sheffield Environment Weeks, which has run for many years. They range from talks on a range of subjects, to projects like urban agriculture and wildlife conservation. Volunteers do the hard work all year…
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Sheffield Radical Bookfair 2024

Sheffield Trades & Labour Club, 200 Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QQ
Radical Bookfair 2024 open from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with stalls, meetings/discussions and refreshments. Following on from the very successful bookfair in 2023 it moves to a bigger better venue with better access and facilities, a short walk from Sheffield Station (through Park Hill Flats).
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Miners' Strike commemoration in Doncaster

Doncaster
Doncaster marks 2024 as the 40th anniversary of the Miner’s Strike, with Arthur Scargill, (National Union of Mineworkers leader in the 1984-85 dispute) as special guest. Assemble at The Broadway Hotel in Dunscroft from 9.30am to 11am. There will be a parade along Broadway in Dunscroft, arriving at Hatfield Colliery to hear Hatfield Colliery Band. Then a rally at the Pit…
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Thomas Paine: The Forgotten Enlightenment Hero

A Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub talk by ‘Polyp’ – professional cartoonist, graphic novelist and science educator. He will be speaking about the ideas and dramatic life of Thomas Paine, the “Age of Reason” advocate of free speech, rationality, science and democracy. With illustrations based on Polyp’s graphic novel biography of Paine. Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub holds talks with invited…
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Peaceful Climate Demonstration at Sheffield City Council meeting

Sheffield Town Hall
Five years after Sheffield City Council declared a climate emergency, they have hardly made an emergency response. The Arup report, the 10 Point Plan, and now seven Route Maps to Decarbonisation, ever more words promising action. South Yorkshire Climate Alliance and Extinction Rebellion invite people to mark the anniversary with a peaceful demonstration outside the Town Hall from 1pm to…
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LGBT+ Over 50s Group

Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP
A welcoming  LGBT Over 50s group for the community held in a safe friendly environment where the agenda is set by the members. The group provides information and seeks to engage with the wider Community on issues relevant to members. Free to attend, just drop in. For more information, please email Zest or call 07543 796 782.
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