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Simple Word Search

Type in the name of an organisation (or part of the name) eg Age UK, Sheffield Mind, Mencap. Then click on the search button. Or you can type in 1 word (or part of a word) that you would expect to find in the description of an organisation eg drama, fishing, craft. You can type in 2 words that you would expect to find together eg line dancing, kick boxing, debt advice, reading group, support group. Then click on the search button.

Advanced Word Search

Type in a maximum of 4 words that you expect to appear in the description of an organisation or in the name of an organisation. Then click on the search button

Eg
Dancing
Fishing
Bowls
Tuition Maths English
Yoga Monday S6

If you get no or few results, limit the number of words you use (the search will expect to find every word in the description field or in the name field).

If you are searching for an activity on a particular day type in the day in full eg “dancing Tuesday”. If an organisation meets Monday-Friday this is how you will find it in the description on our website. So if your return few or no results searching on “dancing Tuesday”, try doing the same search again but “dancing Monday-Friday”, to pick up any dance classes you did not pick up during your first search.
Please note, that not every group or organisation tells us where and when they hold their activities, so it can be helpful to leave out days and postcode area (S8, S2 etc)when typing in your search.

Help Yourself is an online directory of community groups, support groups, health and social care organisations in Sheffield. Here you will find leisure activities such as dancing, drama, reading and writing groups, art, music and youth clubs. You will find sports activities such as martial arts, yoga and pilates, rambling, swimming, keep fit, cycling, cricket, boxing. You will find groups for older people, people with mental health issues, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, homeless people, asylum seekers, refugees. You will find self help and support groups for drugs and alcohol, domestic violence, carers, gay lesbian and bisexual people, people with alzheimers, dementia and other health conditions. You can also plan your care and support and find home care/home support, residential care, respite care, lunch clubs and support if you receive an individual budget or direct payment. You can also find details of places of worship whatever your faith, recycling facilities and conservation groups, community centres, Taras, venues for hire, private tutors, literacy and numeracy and so much more.

Sheffield Community Information Service, Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ,
Tel: 273 4763

The Help Yourself Database is provided on the Internet as part of a joint project between Sheffield Libraries & Information Services, Information School at The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Any comments or questions regarding the database should be sent to Heather Baxendale at scis@sheffield.gov.uk