Volunteering Opportunities

JANUARY 2024
We have volunteering opportunities available at Beacon South Yorkshire based in Barnsley and Rotherham:⁣
  • Are you fed up of doing nothing productive?
  • Are you a good listener, empathetic, caring or non-judgemental?⁣
  • Have you ever been in a caring role and understand the impact it can have on you physically and mentally?⁣
  • Would you like to make a difference to someone’s life?⁣
  • OR would you like to build YOUR own confidence and improve your mental wellbeing by becoming part of a fantastic, supportive team?⁣
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If you answered YES to any one of these why don’t you come and join us here at Beacon South Yorkshire?⁣
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All the information you need is on the poster below.

Rotherham Branch Open Day

SEPTEMBER 2023
In September we had our Rotherham Branch open day and what an amazing turn out we had!
The Rotherham Team would like to say a special thank you to the Mayor of Rotherham and all the other organisations and carers that joined us on the day.
Thank to our Chair of trustees and the Barnsley team that came along to help out on the day too.
It was a great day to raise awareness, network and meet some fantastic people.
Rotherham BSY is officially on the map!

Rotherham Branch Opening

JUNE 2023

We are delighted to announce that thanks to 3 years of funding from the Henry Smith Charity, Beacon South Yorkshire have been able to expand our services and have a new branch opening in Rotherham.

Beacon’s Annual Christmas Meal

We are currently planning our Christmas Meal for the Thursday the 9th December. 

If you would like more information or to find out how to book a place please call us on 01226 814012 

Beacon Beam Autumn 2021

Welcome to our very first ‘Beacon Beam’ newsletter. In these newsletters we will be keeping you up to date with all things happening at Beacon. 

Our Day at FullCrumb Kitchen

Lynda and Abigail were invited to a training day at Full Crumb Kitchen at FareShare South Yorkshire.

BSY works closely with the amazing team at FareShare to distribute to carers weekly. Statistics state that almost 1 in 8 people in the UK are struggling to afford to eat and upset to learn that 2.7 million tonnes of food is wasted by the food industry every year in the UK.

This is why we were blown away by what the FullCrumb Kitchen are doing, which is teaching local communities and charities how to get the most out of their FareShare deliveries by introducing recipes and creative ways to use their food parcels.

The charming Chris Clyburn looked after us and demonstrated how to get more fruit and vegetables into our everyday cooking (without the arguments from little mouths) He taught us how to create healthy and nutritious base sauces from which we will be able to create a range of different dishes.

The sauces he taught us were curry, tomato and a white sauce. The kitchen smelled incredible, my tummy was rumbling all the way through. We even learned some knife skills – don’t worry I made sure I was far away from Lynda.

Our biggest take away from the day was how we can use this in the future to help carers get the most out of their food bags, BSY can now share this knowledge moving forward

BSY would like to say a huge thank you to Chris and the FareShare team for a fantastic day and for all the work you do.

Group Sessions Update

Here at Beacon South Yorkshire we are pleased to announce that our ‘Drop In’ sessions are back! Our drop in sessions are a chance to chat with likeminded others, who may share similar experiences and stories.

Also with the success of our Coffee Morning reopening we have decided to make these a drop in service as well.

Here are the dates our ‘Drop In’ drop on:

24th August 2021 (10:30 – 13:30)
7th September 2021 (10:30 – 13:30)
21st September 2021 – Coffee Morning (11:00 – 13:00)
5th October 2021 (10:30 – 13:30)
19th October 2021   – Coffee Morning (11:00 – 13:00)
2nd November 2021 (10:30 – 13:30)
16th November 2021 – Coffee Morning (11:00 – 13:00)
30th November 2021 (10:30 – 13:30)
14th December – Christmas Coffee Morning (11:00 – 13:00)

 

We look forward to seeing you all very soon!

Thank you Leeds Building Society Foundation!

Here at Beacon South Yorkshire we would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to the Leeds Building Society Foundation for their very generous donation!

Without wonderful funders like these we would not be able to be the service we are today.

Thank you again,
All the BeaconSY Team

Group sessions are BACK

Here at Beacon South Yorkshire we are very excited to announce that our in house group sessions are back.

Please note that due to government guidelines we do have limited spaces for our sessions so please ring the office (01226 814012) to check availability and secure your place.

There will be a regular posting of what group sessions are running that month with dates and times, this will give our carers quite a bit of notice so they can book onto the groups and (hopefully) avoid missing out