Wybourn Works is a pilot project funded by Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) and Institute for Learning and Work. We are now in year 2 which is funded by Youth Futures. Look out for activities for young people in Wybourn in 2025/26!
The project provides support to Wybourn residents in partnership with other organisations. Events and activities will take place alongside providing personalised support and financial support to enable people to take part in training, events and interviews and during the first few weeks of employment.
Anyone who lives on the Wybourn Estate who aged of 16 and over. Your employment status is not important.
You will need to have a right to work in the UK. During your registration, you will complete a consent form and asked to provide ID in the form of a passport, driving licence, Proof of DWP benefit entitlement, birth certificate, utility bill, visa or work permit or a combination of these.
Wybourn Works are at Pat Midgley Community Hub Every Monday 10am – 3pm
Tuesday and Thursday at Skye Edge Community Centre 10am – 3pm
To find out more about courses and opportunities or to book a session please contact us using:
Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th December 2025 9.30am – 3.30pm
We have a special two day workshop for a certified Paediatric First Aid course with Gold Standard Training.
If you work, or would like to work with children and babies or would like to learn a new skill as a parent or guardian, this is for you.
The course is free to you and both days must be attended to gain the certificate.
Message us to book a place.
Will be held at Skye Edge Social Centre, Skye Edge Avenue.
We look forward to seeing you!
Always an Alternative has been a resounding success for our 8 – 15 year olds.
Ant and his team have now been given another 10 weeks funding to run the popular mobile youth bus, also affectionately known as the ‘Party Bus’!
They will be based in the playground at Wybourn Primary School from 4pm – 6pm
Register children’s name and postcode in the contact form towards the bottom of this page.
Please note, there in not Youth Bus on 29 December.
Take a look at what Always an Alternative do:
Park Library, 243 Duke Street (entrance is the red door on Samson Street)
Wybourn Works have commissioned Street 2 Strength to provide fitness training to everyone in Wybourn aged 11+
Sessions are run by Aaron who is highly qualified and can offer individual advice and guidance on fitness, taking health issues into consideration.
It’s a great way to keep moving and to make new friends.
Drop in sessions, stay for as long or as little as you want.
Recent quote from one of our young participants
‘I just wanna say thank you for making Street to Strength, it has really changed my life around. Learning new stuff and really helping me to lose weight since I started Street to Strength and now I have lost 3 stone which has really made me more confident about myself, thank you.’
Find out what’s happening in your area.
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, Wybourn, Sheffield, S2 5EE
10am – 12pm
Come and have a cuppa and a chat at our Chatter and Natter weekly sessions.
Run by a local volunteer, trained by Chatty Cafe, the session is open to anyone who would like to socialise more. You will be made to feel more that welcome by the host.
Find out more about Chatty Cafe here Chatty Cafe Scheme UK – Chatty Cafe Scheme UK
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, S2 5EE
11am – 1pm
Do you need support searching for jobs and applying on line, or need support finding ‘hidden jobs’? If you are applying for lots of vacancies but not having any joy getting interviews, come and speak with us to get support and tips on how to apply for jobs.
Laptops are available and you will get support to apply for jobs while you are there.
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, S2 5EE
If you are a veteran, come and speak with Angelique to see how Help for Heroes can help you.
Pat Midgley Community Hub,331 Manor Oaks Road, S2 5EE
If you have any health queries or want to speak to Healthwatch about what you would like to see in your local hospitals or GP’s, in the community and more, come and have a chat with Healthwatch.
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield, S2 5EE
5pm – 7pm
1 December Making Christmas Tree decorations
8th December Christmas Card Making
Booking essential
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield, S2 5EE
10am – 1pm 25 minute reflexology or back and shoulder massage
Booking essential.
Skye Edge Community Hub, Skye Edge Avenue, S2 5FX
9.30am – 3.30pm
With Gold Standard Training
Certified course to learn the skill to perform first aid on Children, toddlers and babies.
Booking essential.
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield
12pm – 2pm
If you live in Wybourn and would like to have dinner in the company of others, come to our pie and pea dinner.
Booking essential
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, S2 5EE
11am – 11.45am
Come for some gentle fitness with Kellyanne.
Drop in before 11am or book a place.
Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, Sheffield, S2 5EE
5.30pm to 6.30pm
Drop in with your items which needs repairing or make small items while learning to use a sewing machine. Kelechi is a fashion designer and is on hand to teach you.
Learn to crochet with Increase who is amazing at crochet and is teaching people how to crochet as part of her Duke of Edinburgh award.
At Pat Midgley Community Hub, 331 Manor Oaks Road, S2 5EE
10am – 3pm
Do you need help with any financial support or completing documents?
Do you think you are entitled to more financial support?
Do you need help with budgeting?
Are you struggling with the cost of living and essential bills?
Come and see us or contact us on the form below to book a place with Natalia, our Financial Resilience Worker.
The Wybourn works team spent the day in Birmingham with our funders from Learning and Work Institute, DWP, Youth Futures and IES.
The other 9 pilot sites were there as well. It was great to see the work we are all doing for our communities and the amazing outcomes we are achieving.
Paul did a fantastic job talking about our work with Wybourn.
The customer reviews were amazing! It’s great to see the changes which are being made for the residents of our local areas.
We had a resounding success with Wy-Fest in August with over 300 people attending on the day.
We celebrated participants who had completed courses and had found volunteering positions through the Wybourn Works, JobsPlus project.
Children had fun playing on the giant garden games and having a go at fencing as well as doing crafts and playing with remote controlled cars.
With free burgers and ice cream for people attending and plenty of partnership organisations there on the day for the community to find our more about what is available, a good day was had by all!
Spiderman and Black Panther paid a visit too!
We had a lovely Christmas fayre with people from the local area selling gifts such as mugs, hair products, natural oils and jewellery. We had a good turn out customers enjoyed a cuppa and cake as well as buying gifts and treating themselves. We all sang happy birthday to a local resident who came to the market too.
We look forward to putting on more events in the future for our Wybourn community.
A successful event was held at Pat Midgley Community hub where lots of cake, cookies and beverages were on offer for a donation which went towards raising funds for Macmillan Nurses.
Residents enjoyed a fun game of bingo and a good natter with each other.
It was our first money raising event and we look forward to doing more events in the future.
We held our first Health and Wellbeing event at Pat Midgley Community hub which was well attend by many Wybourn residents. We had amazing feedback and everyone who attended enjoyed the day.
We had organisations offering advice from Likewise, drug and alcohol service, Green Doctors were offering energy advice and are arranging to go to people’s homes to make energy efficient changes and additions to their homes such as heat reflectors behind radiators and energy light bulbs. Manor Castle Development Trust were also offering cost of living advice.
Our very own Community Champion, Reimana, was doing a cooking demonstration of Fine Dining on a budget, healthy snacks edition, where she made smashed avocados with onions, sundried tomatoes and sweet peppers on rice cakes, which went down a storm. We had Melanie doing mystery smoothies and Karine made sugar free health bars. Community Champion, Lydia was also on hand to help people make positive pouches where they designed their own positive wording on a zip case.
The health checks, facial aromatherapy sessions and reflexology were also very popular and much needed.
We are taking feedback received from the health check to offer more health related activities in the future to help improve health inequalities in the region. Watch this space!
11/09/2024
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