Wosskow Brown News
This weekend the Sheffield Waterfront Festival 2019, hosted by the Canal and River Trust, will be held at Victoria Quays. This year’s festival is set to be bigger and better than before; as 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal’s opening. About the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal The Sheffield and Tinsley…Continue reading
A recent study has revealed Sheffield and Bristol to be the two best cities to be a female entrepreneur in the UK! These findings come from research by Yorkshire Bank (CYBG plc), which gathered the attitudes and opinions of 2,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs, from a variety of sectors across the UK. In Sheffield,…Continue reading
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 of…Continue reading
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 Sheffield…Continue reading
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 talent…Continue reading
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 22-acre…Continue reading
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 Thurlstone,…Continue reading
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 of…Continue reading
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 partners…
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 for…Continue reading