Wosskow Brown News
The first ever Team UK Invictus Games Trials will take place in Sheffield this month ahead of next year’s sporting event for wounded, sick and seriously injured veterans, which will take pace in The Hague, Netherlands. The purpose of the Invictus Games is to use sport, competition and teamwork to help boost the recovery...
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This is the story of how local lad, Hugo Russell, has grown his modern cleaning company ‘NowThen Cleaners’ with help from the Wosskow Brown Foundation. Hugo was born in Sheffield and has now obtained a degree in Management from the University of Leicester. Four years ago, he moved back to his home town of...
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Later this month, Tramlines Festival 2019 will take place at Hillsborough Park in Sheffield for a weekend of music and entertainment. This year marks the 11th anniversary of the festival and it really just keeps getting bigger. For its 10th year, it transferred to the grand Hillsborough Park and saw an unbelievable amount of...
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22 acres of land in Sheffield’s Attercliffe area are up for sale and set to become a housing estate. Nine firms are showing interest in bidding for the land. The development of a new housing estate really highlights the positivity and ambition of Attercliffe; an area which is hoping to regain its vibrancy. The...
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Nicholas Saunderson is a name not too well-known by most people nowadays, but this could be changing soon. The Yorkshire-born Scientist and Mathematician could be getting his face printed on the new £50 notes to acknowledge and appreciate his outstanding work in the 1700s, despite a serious disability. Who is Nicholas Saunderson? Born in...
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On Monday, we packed up and headed down to the FlyDSA Arena car park to take part in the Move More Month launch! Move More Month will run for the duration of June 2019 and the aim is to get the people of Sheffield doing more physical activity. Monday 20th May marked the launch...
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Move More is a Sheffield-wide strategy aiming to transform our city into the most active in the UK by 2020. Providing various physical activity opportunities throughout the Steel City, the overriding goal is to see significant improvement in health, well-being and quality of life of Sheffield residents. June 2019 is ‘Move More Month’ and...
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Yes, the idea of going from renting to owning is great. What’s even more exciting to people is the idea of buying a shiny, new build home and becoming freeholders. However, this is somewhat over-ambitious in many ways. So, unfortunately for leaseholders, the dream of freeholding may be crushed. They own the leasehold property...
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All new cars sold in the UK and Europe from 2022 will have speed limiters installed to automatically prevent drivers exceeding the speed limit. The new vehicle safety rules were provisionally agreed by the EU. The Department for Transport confirmed that the rules will also apply in the UK, despite Brexit. Alongside the speed-limiting...
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The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee recently published the report from its inquiry into leasehold reform. Ban on selling new builds as leasehold The report, which the Committee published last month, made several recommendations to the government. One of these recommendations is banning the sale of new leasehold houses; the government has already committed...
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