Word On The Street

DETAILS

Word On the Street (WOTS) is a day long session held on Mondays and is located in our Bamforth building. It’s a medium sized group (approximately six-eight clients with two staff members). The focus of this session has morphed over the years (originally starting as a Burton Street newspaper – hence the name) but more recently has become project-based. We look at topics that interest us and investigate! Sometimes these are ‘one-off’ ideas that last for only one week whilst other topics engage us much longer. We like to learn through conversation, internet research, looking at books, doing art and craft, going on trips or inviting visitors to come and share their knowledge with us! We try to be as client led as possible, everyone is encouraged to share ideas and make suggestions about how we spend our time. We aim to be a supportive and social group and wellbeing and relationships are important to us, sometimes incorporating meditation into our sessions.

Some topics / projects we have covered in the past:

• Sheffield local history (e.g. floods, gangs of the 1920s,mining , war memorials)
• The history of medicine
• The Romans
• Diwali
• Chinese New Year
• Ramadan
• Dream holidays
• Researching accessibility in venues across Sheffield
• National women’s day – conducting a poll with the public to see which woman inspires people most
• Prime Ministers of Britain
• Wellbeing and meditation
• Interviewing people about their jobs
• First aid
• Creative writing
• Drawing
• Create a treasure hunt for others to follow

Some trips we’ve done or visitors who’ve been to see us:

• Ethel barge trip
• Visit form the police
• Bowling / centertainment
• Sheffield Christmas markets
• A+E doctor visit
• Hillsborough park
• Millenium Galleries / Winter gardens
• Swann Morton surgical blades factory