{"id":69764,"date":"2026-03-26T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=69764"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:13:57","slug":"sheffield-childrens-hospital-charity-campaign-launched-to-boost-community-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/sheffield-childrens-hospital-charity-campaign-launched-to-boost-community-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity campaign launched to boost community harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new Pride of Yorkshire campaign in support of Sheffield Children\u2019s Hospital Charity has seen 150 lion cubs distributed to community groups and schools across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project aims to push art, community spirit and creativity back to the forefront of local communities, whilst raising awareness and funds for the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lu Watkins, an Outreach Officer with the Watch Page Hall Grow group, said that the initiative is about \u201cengaging the whole community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve brought the lion cub to several different spaces around Page Hall and achieved some real growth, getting input from everybody and making something together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each group received one blank lion club, sponsored and funded by businesses across Sheffield, to be decorated however seen fit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Page Hall cub, that is yet to be named, has been coloured with a series of fingerprints, added by community members from across the area, to signify unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main design for the young lion was created by a year five pupil at Whiteways Primary School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms Watkins added: \u201cThe idea was to get as many people as possible, and not just from one space, to come together and to create this image of growing together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is just one of many community projects run by the Watch Page Hall Grow organisation, many of which are funded by a National Lottery grant, called Nature Recovery Sheffield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These include weekly street clean-ups and upkeep of a fruit and vegetable garden at Oasis Community Space, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite organic in the sense that we respond to events and ideas happening in the community, like a school fair, but it’s important that we trial different things so as not to exclude anyone,\u201d Lu said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page Hall also works closely with the Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust to improve green spaces across the local area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elesha Searles, Community Nature Advisor at the Trust, said: \u201cWe\u2019re hoping the work will have a massive impact on people\u2019s mental health and wellbeing and increasing people\u2019s knowledge about nature in the spaces around them\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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