Queer dance and movement workshops for all abilities from Ghetto Fabulous and Andro & Eve
The Old Workshop is a fully vegan bar, with all their beers, wines, cocktails and other drinks suitable for vegans, including a constantly changing guest keg beer list.
A practical workshop designed for start-ups, small business owners, and anyone looking to improve their online presence. By the end of this session, attendees will understand the essentials of SEO, have the confidence to use free tools, and leave with a clear step-by-step plan to improve their website visibility.
See Sheffield’s knife grinding history brought to life at Shepherd Wheel Workshop.
Calling all female entrepreneurs! Take your business to new heights with our exclusive workshop designed just for you. It’s time to rethink and discover the undeniable link between personal wellness and professional achievement. Meet Farah, a Sheffield based Clinical Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and Wellness Practitioner and the powerhouse behind Interlude Hypnotherapy, as she equips you with essential wellbeing strategies.
Fancy an uplifting day of singing? Join us for a feel-good choral workshop. No auditions. No pressure. Just a really good sing.
Struggling to define your target market? Understanding your brand values, mission, and identity is essential. Learn how to pinpoint your audience by asking the right questions and discover why appealing to everyone is never the goal. Join our free branding workshop to build a brand that truly resonates with your ideal customers.
Learn how to craft key messages, authentic copy, and compelling images that resonate with your audience. Discover how to communicate your brand’s benefits, avoid clichés, and create visuals that truly reflect your brand’s personality. Need guidance? Our Beginner’s Guide to Marketing workshop covers this and much more.
Join local artist Jenny for a relaxing and hands-on workshop introducing the practice of nature journalling.
Join local artist Jenny for a relaxing and hands-on workshop introducing the practice of nature journalling.
Discover how to break through psychological barriers hindering your success with Farah, Sheffield based Clinical Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and Wellness Practitioner and founder of Interlude Hypnotherapy. · Gain Clarity: Clarify your vision and propel your business forward. · Empower Yourself: Break free from the negative mindset and reclaim your power. · Conquer Fear: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity and step out of your comfort zone. · Embrace Success: Shift your perspective…
A full day of inspiration and information about the craft and business of creative writing.
This workshop explains the rights available to businesses and how you can use them to your advantage. The benefits intellectual property rights can give are more than just protection to your ideas. They can also impact taxation and even immigration.
This workshop explains the rights available to businesses and how you can use them to your advantage. The benefits intellectual property rights can give are more than just protection to your ideas. They can also impact taxation and even immigration.
This interactive workshop is designed to help founders and small businesses understand how to build sustainability into everyday business planning in a practical and achievable way. Rather than theory, the session focuses on real business decisions and hands-on tools you can apply straight away.
A successful website is the cornerstone to a lot of businesses’ online presence. This workshop looks at UX, site structure/navigation, understanding searcher intent, basic onsite SEO, creating content that counts, and also touches on Google Search Console and Analytics
Feeling overwhelmed by marketing? Our 7-step guide for small business owners will help you start strong and target your ideal customers effectively.
Creating a marketing plan starts with defining SMART goals—specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Learn how to set clear objectives, choose effective strategies, and map out actionable steps for growth. This guide will help you build a customized plan to keep your business on track and moving forward.
In this workshop you’ll learn how to deal with the gatekeeper, how to open-up the conversation with the decision maker, and how to set appointments. Full of tips, advice and real-world examples from a successful, seasoned telephone pro, you won’t find scripts or cringey patter here. Nor will you find any hard-selling, but you will discover how to make cold-calling productive, stress-free and enjoyable!
Join us for this dynamic workshop where you’ll learn how to craft a unique and memorable brand that truly represents your business. We will take you on a journey to understand your target market and position your brand correctly. We will do this through a series of guided exercises that will help you work through all the components of your brand, so you can develop a cohesive, powerful brand that really connects with your audience.
Marketing is like a slow-running tap filling a bucket with a small leak—it requires consistency to keep your business growing. Learn why regular, manageable marketing efforts are essential to retain customers and maintain stability, and discover practical tips for implementing a sustainable marketing plan
Did you know it costs 5 to 10 times more to acquire a new customer than to sell to an existing one? Loyal customers also spend around 67% more per order. Learn the 3 essential steps to maximize your existing customer base: staying connected, expanding business share, and showcasing your full range of offerings. Treat your current customers like the valuable assets they are
In a constantly changing world, standing still can leave your business behind. Learn how regular SWOT analysis and market research can help you stay competitive and anticipate industry changes. Discover practical tips to keep up with customers, competitors, and market trends for ongoing success.
From suntrap terraces to cobbled courtyards in former cutlery workshops and even the odd rooftop, explore our guide of great places to enjoy outdoor drinks and fantastic food in Sheffield.
Join local artist Jenny for a relaxing evening of painting inspired by the beautiful Hillsborough Walled Gardens. Let the tranquil setting inspire you, enjoy a drink with friends and learn to use watercolours to paint spring blooms and botanical shapes.
From guided tours led by friendly local experts and adventures in our great outdoors, to tasting your way around the city or even getting hands-on with a masterclass/workshop, Sheffield is full of fantastic unique experiences for visitors.
Join local artist Jenny for a full-day course introducing you to the art of lino printing.
Artist Tina Ramos Ekongo will guide participants of any level of experience through the process of creating a portrait, from sketching the facial features to painting a finished image in acrylic.
Hosted by the Children's University each year, the Festival of Fun offers a huge programme of activities and workshops for children across Sheffield to get involved with throughout the summer school holidays.
Opened in 2016, La Biblioteka is an award-winning small bookshop, kiosk and cultural space in Sheffield city centre.
Sheffield's largest second-hand bookshop, located on Shalesmoor near Kelham Island since June 2018.
Bike Garage offer bike repairs, hire and sales from their workshop in Bamford, Peak District.
Hangingwater Studio is a working artists’ studio found in Fulton’s Yard, a part of the Victorian workshops on Nether Green Road.
Waterstones is a large national bookshop chain. The Sheffield branch can be found in Orchard Square in the city centre and sells a wide range of books.
Fulwood Old Chapel was built in 1728 on a green just outside Fulwood village as a meeting place for those who felt the restrictions and dogma of the Church of England too much but still wanted a place to meet and worship.
Bricks and Bits Toy Shop is an official stockist of LEGO, Playmobil, Games Workshop and Orange Tree Toys. Based in Sheffield the stock a huge variety of games.
Sheffield Print Club are an independent, screen printing, not-for-profit, social enterprise. The Club runs group workshops, private classes, bespoke sessions and offer a wide range of services to members including studio hire. They can also provide external workshops, such as school visits, and demonstrations as part of a larger event.
Manor Oaks House offers a distinctive heritage space perfect for meetings, workshops, training events and small conferences of up to 60 people.
Considering starting a business? Have no clue where to start? Join our specialist Start Up Business Advisors as they take you through the basics, to help get you going.
Whether you need advice on record-keeping, business structure, year-end accounts or tax issues, you'll get up to 45 minutes of FREE support and guidance in a virtual one-to-one session with experienced Accountant and Tax advisor, Adrian Dunkley of MGRW Accountants.
Do you have legal questions around contracts, leases, partnership agreements and more? Not quite sure what documentation you need in place for your business? Speak to a professional and get the advice you need, in a FREE 45 minute virtual 1-2-1 consultation with a representative from leading law firm, Wake Smith
If you're in need of ideas to keep the kids entertained, Our Favourite Places have pulled together their cultural holiday highlights for a creative summer in Sheffield.
Unlock your true potential and elevate your business with our dynamic workshop designed for entrepreneurs and business professionals. Discover how to conquer imposter syndrome, dismantle self-limiting beliefs, and build a powerful business mindset.
So much happens in Sheffield every week! This is our comprehensive event listings page for every single event that gets submitted to our website, from small workshops to citywide festivals.
The Art House Charity provides a range of pottery and art courses and workshops with two Galleries plus spaces to rent. They also deliver Well-being Creative Classes for people needing support in the community.
Based in Sheffield, Woodland Wellbeing facilitates courses and workshops for businesses, communities and families - designed to encourage a deeper connection to nature for positive mental health and to encourage a deeper care for the environment.
Waleswood caravan and camping site is located in 12.5 acres of land overlooking and with access to walk into the 750 acre Rother Valley Country park.
Business Sheffield are thrilled to announce a brand new series of 7 Business Start-up Power Hour workshops! In these FREE hour long in-person sessions you will be given the opportunity to ask questions and really learn about the main aspects and tools you will need to start up your business. You can book into one or more workshops in the series, depending on your needs.
Following on from the Top Tips and Business Planning & Marketing workshops. This session looks at what it means to be self-employed, covering business structure and registration, start up plans, cashflow, taxation, HMRC obligations, and forecasting. Culminating in development and completion of your own sales and cashflow forecast.
No Bounds is a multi-site festival, so you’ll get to explore loads of independent spaces around Sheffield as you explore.
Business Sheffield helped Olga & Asquith grow their brand by turning their Jamaican rum cake into a stout—through expert advice and a key introduction.
18 Bikes is a bike shop in Hope, in the Derbyshire Peak District. They are surrounded by hills that are just perfect for mountain bikes - but that’s not all they do. As a proper bike shop with on-site workshop they add lots of little extras that most retailers don’t. They tape wheels for tubeless use where appropriate, tap/face and ream frames before dispatch and any complete bikes are properly unpacked and checked before dispatch rather than sent out as supplied from the distributor.
A Different Gear are an independent, not for profit, community-owned bike shop and workshop based in Heeley. They sell new bikes and accessories with a focus on adventure, utility and cargo. As well as selling new bikes and accessories they also take in donated bikes, strip them down and refurbish them. They are then resold for a fraction of the price of a new bike. Prices in the shop are affordable, with decent adult bikes starting at £120. There's usually a good selection for kids too,…
Renuka is a medical herbalist and forager who runs public workshops, gives presentations to local groups and holds regular walks in the Peak District. The walks include learning about poisonous plants through solving a murder-mystery puzzle, exploring the historical uses of plants complete with references to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, identifying medicinal plants growing in our hedgerows and fields, learning about trees and how they can communicate with each other.
In their two studios, Yoga at the Reach offer a wide variety of yoga and classes, courses and workshops. The styles, include: ashtanga, Mysore, hatha, dynamic hatha, acro yoga, rest and relax classes, restorative yoga, pregnancy yoga, baby yoga, baby massage, post-natal yoga, yoga therapy and the yoga of healthy backs programme. They nurture and encourage everyone and help them to fulfil their personal journey and reach their highest potential.
Kelham Island has long been at the forefront of Sheffield's brewing reputation and has become a mecca for renowned real ale pubs and microbreweries. This guide gives you a rundown of the best beery places to visit on a day/evening out.
TTS Precision Engineering LTD makes close tolerance parts for a wide variety of sectors, from steel rolling mills to aerospace, rail and automotive. Andy Sorsby supported TTS to purchase new machinery to help improve lead times and future-proof the business.
The highly reputable Barclays Eagle Lab network is partnered with Kollider in Sheffield's Castlegate area to create a space for businesses and ambitious entrepreneurs to scale and grow.
Calling South Yorkshire Manufacturers seeking to improve productivity and accelerate business growth. If you machine manufacture components or products, have 10-25 employers, and an annual operating turnover of £1-£5million, then Innovation in Action’s 6-month Productivity Challenge could be for you.
Meet Rob: he’s one of our Start Up Advisors here at Business Sheffield and has the knowledge and experience to help you on your business journey.
Proposals to revive historic Leah’s Yard on Cambridge Street in Sheffield City Centre and create a social hub for creative independent businesses, have been approved by Sheffield City Council's Local Planning Authority.
Sheffield is a great place to start a business because it's big enough to feel like there's opportunity, but small enough to feel that you can make a difference. We have a strong business community with a genuine appreciation of local independents, a tech sector positioned for great collaboration and a rich manufacturing base.
ITM Power partnered with The University of Sheffield – world renowned for its expertise in energy innovation – to plan and fund a National Hydrogen Research Innovation and Skills Centre. It’s here they’ll research the safe and efficient manufacturing of hydrogen using low or zero carbon sources of energy.
As David puts it, “You know when you’re struggling with formatting in Word or Google Docs, and you end up wanting to throw your laptop out of the window in frustration? Papermill lets you focus on the content: you write what you want to, drop in other bits like images, tell Papermill what you want it to look like, and it does the rest.”
The first in our series of Top Tips for High Street Business Survival blogs with expert Clare Bailey, AKA The Retail Champion. Here Clare covers why communication with your customers is KING right now and the different ways you can keep talking to them…
Sheffield makes me cry.
Connecting the Heart of the City to Castlegate, Fargate is one of the most important areas of the city. It’s time to revitalise it and make it the destination Sheffield deserves.
Whether you’re a digital SME, artisan producer, or in the FTSE 100 you’re in good company in Sheffield. Our business community is a crucible of ideas, skills and opportunity. No matter the size of your business or ambition, there's also a whole host of FREE support services available to help you thrive here.
We know businesses of any kind need help, and Business Sheffield have the experience to do just that. We've been doing this for over 30 years and have helped more than 3500 businesses in one way or another.
Sheffield makes me proud to be a northerner. The things I love about Sheffield are the way people just crack on with stuff and collaborate, sharing resources and ideas.
Jane has worked with local business from start-ups to multi £m turnover concerns for the last 15 years, giving practical, no nonsense advice, training and guidance.
Meet Floyd- recent recruit to our LaunchPad Business support team looking after all things start up.
"I chose to work in Sheffield because I didn't want to leave! I have a really lovely group of friends still here, there's a great music scene and I love being able to dash off to the Peaks after work.”
The cycle routes are located in Stocksbridge, Wharncliffe, Loxley, Rivelin and Redmires. To celebrate the launch of the routes, Trek Sheffield Fox Valley have added their support and are giving a free t-shirt to people who ride all five.
If you’re a business that needs to quickly get up to speed with online selling, you may be interested in a FREE selling programme currently on offer by Shelton Associates.
Sheffield has been a nationally significant centre for online learning and educational technologies since even before the decision to site the University for Industry here in 1998. Since then, there has been a steady stream of talent and new businesses born of this activity, developing resources and platforms for learning across many different industry verticals.
Conference Ambassador Programme collaboration success! International delegates are in Sheffield for the International Stillbirth Alliance Annual Conference thanks to a meeting of minds of two of the city’s leading conference ambassadors- Marta Cohen OBE and Elspeth Whitby.
Presenting a special weekend of music, art, technology and dancing in October each year, No Bounds is Sheffield’s most innovative and experimental music festival.
Art at the Heart has been created by four Ignite Imaginations artists, who have each worked within their community to create an art installation, taking inspiration from the stories people have shared with them.
The No Bounds 2022 program leads with major pieces of work exploring new technologies, yet with a collective and collaborative approach, as well as cross continental musical dialogues. Here's Liam O'Shea, festival director, with more information.
Discover the key insights from Sheffield’s Access to Finance event, where local experts shared practical funding options including grants, loans, microfinance, equity, and more to help businesses grow.
We are thrilled to announce the expansion of the Tech Scale Up Advisors programme by Business Sheffield, aimed at supporting tech businesses across South Yorkshire. This initiative, funded by TECH SY, will extend this service to Doncaster, Rotherham, and Barnsley, providing invaluable support to local tech startups and growing companies.
Discover finance options for Sheffield businesses — from grants and loans to debt finance and investment. Read highlights from our networking breakfast.
Business Sheffield is proud to present the Launchpad Pop-Up Market, a festive initiative running from 27th November to 20th December 2025 at 108 Pinstone Street. This project, funded by the Launchpad Programme and delivered by Sheffield City Council, offers free, short-term retail space for early-stage makers and craft businesses to showcase their products, test new ideas, and engage with the community during the busy holiday season.
A former builder who dreamed of the good life has transformed the forgotten underground vaults of Kelham Island into a haven for producing organic edible produce after calling on help from Launchpad, a unique programme which provides business support to new and aspiring entrepreneurs based in the Sheffield City Region.
There are few cities in the world as synonymous with electronic music as Sheffield. For half a century the city has been producing a steady stream of game-changing music that has gone on to impact and shape the way electronic music sounds all across the world.
The Sheffield Round Walk is a 15-mile loop from the urban to the rural at the southwestern edges of the city – taking in leafy parkland, woodland streams, and pretty suburbs.
Where's good to eat, drink, relax, catch some culture or discover some nature? We thought we'd save you the hassle of lots of internet searches by giving you some suggestions for inclusive, family friendly ways of spending your time in Sheffield, The Outdoor City.
My Busy Box provide fun and educational projects that will help to develop the imagination of young people, teach them skills, and grow their confidence – all in one neat package.
Leah’s Yard, a former 19th Century mesters works and one of Sheffield’s most important heritage buildings, is set for an exciting new future that will both honour and celebrate its rich industrial heritage as part of the Heart of the City regeneration programme.
The redeveloped Grade II* Listed Leah’s Yard on Cambridge Street has now opened its doors to the public, providing a contemporary city centre hub for some of Sheffield’s finest independent businesses.
An aspiring entrepreneur who turned his back on a lucrative career in software development in a bid to do his bit for the environment has embarked upon a one man mission to transform the way we purchase everyday goods by banning plastic packaging from his eco-friendly shop.
The building comprises a HGV vehicle repair workshop with ancillary stores, reception and first floor offices. A substantial yard is also included.