Aspire Community Enterprise Sheffield

23/09/2026

🌹⚽ Proud to sponsor Ecclesfield Red Rose Junior Football Club! ⚽🌹

We like to keep our ear to the ground for opportunities to support people across Sheffield. So when Ecclesfield Red Rose, just a stone’s throw from our base, approached us about sponsoring the team for the next two years, we were delighted to say yes.

At Aspire Sheffield, we see every day what an opportunity can do for a young person. Our work gives people facing barriers to employment the chance to build skills, confidence and friendships through real work experience. A football club can offer young people those same precious things: a place to belong, teammates who look out for one another, and the confidence to keep growing.

This sponsorship feels especially close to home. Through our team, trainees, supporters, donors and customers, we have so many connections across our local community. It’s a pleasure to back a local club that gives its young players the chance to enjoy the game and thrive together. ❤️

The lads are already off to a cracking start! We wish the players, coaches and everyone behind Ecclesfield Red Rose every success this season and over the next two years. We’ll be cheering you on all the way! 👏⚽

Come on, Red Ecclesfield Red Rose JFC! 🌹

17/09/2026

🔧✨ Expanding horizons, learning new skills and stepping outside our comfort zones! ✨🔧

Some of our newer trainees, alongside existing members of the Aspire team, recently decided to take on a completely new challenge: learning the basics of micro soldering and PCB repair. 🖥️🔬⚡

To make sure everyone had the right guidance, we teamed up with FoneFunShop, where Mike, their Senior Technical Manager, designed and delivered a fantastic hands-on training course tailored perfectly to our team. 👏

It proved to be an incredibly successful, enjoyable and rewarding experience for everyone involved. Our trainees gained confidence, our team broadened their technical skills, and even our time-served electronics engineer came away having picked up a few new tricks! 😄🛠️

There was plenty of concentration, plenty of learning and, naturally, plenty of fun!

A brilliant example of what can happen when people are given the opportunity to try something new, challenge themselves and learn together. 💚

A huge thank you to Mike and the team at Fonefunshop.com for helping us make it happen. 🙌

https://www.fonefunshop.com/training

09/09/2026

♻️ BUSINESS IT COLLECTION – TURN YOUR OLD TECH INTO SOMETHING POSITIVE! 💻🖥️
Got old, unused or unwanted IT equipment taking up valuable space in your business?
Aspire Community Enterprise can help.
We collect a wide range of business IT equipment, including laptops, desktop PCs, servers, monitors, networking equipment, mobile phones, printers, peripherals, hard drives and other data storage devices.
🔒 Your data security matters.
Aspire Community Enterprise is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, helping ensure data is handled and erased securely and responsibly.
By choosing Aspire, you're not just clearing out old equipment — you're helping us:
♻️ Reduce electronic waste
🌍 Reuse and refurbish technology
💙 Support vulnerable and socially excluded people
🧑‍💻 Create training and employment opportunities
🤝 Make a positive difference in our local community
🌐 aspire-sheffield.co.uk
📍 SOAR Works, Knutton Road, Parson Cross, Sheffield, S5 9NU
Clear out your IT. Help our community. Support local. Change lives. 💙

01/08/2026

🌟 What an absolute joy it is working with the brilliant team at Club 61! 💙

Club 61 provides specialised day care and support for men with learning disabilities, focusing on community-based outings, participation in local groups, and a range of social, recreational, and physical activities such as team sports and tennis challenges. 🎾⚽ With a strong emphasis on inclusion, personal development and meaningful community engagement, the organisation takes a person-centred approach that meets recognised care standards and helps the men they support lead active, fulfilling lives. 🙌

💡 A little while ago they approached us with a fantastic idea - to create a real-life, work-based workshop full of meaningful activities for the guys. From that conversation… the Wednesday Workshop was born, and it’s been one of the most socially rewarding projects we’ve been part of. 💚

🛠️ We set them up with the tools, instructions, and material they needed, and every Wednesday the lads get stuck into proper recycling jobs: carefully recovering PCBs from old routers and switches, unpacking and preparing items for recycling, and skilfully recovering wire by cutting the gold edge connectors from ethernet cables. ♻️🔌

Not only does this give everyone valuable hands-on work experience, but the sense of achievement when a job is finished is pure magic. ✨ And can we just say… these guys are amazingly fast! ⚡ Watching them work with such focus, pride and teamwork never fails to put a huge smile on our faces. 😊

👏 Huge thanks to Club 61 for trusting us with this, and an even bigger shout-out to all the lads who make every Wednesday so special. You’re an inspiration! 🌟

💚 If you’d like to help support this project – keep on donating your old cables, wires and small devices like routers, switches and modems. 🔌📡♻️

Creating Opportunities for Vulnerable & Socially Excluded People WEEE & Computer Recycling Centre

28/07/2026

💙 Support Our Charity. Change Lives. 💙

Every like, share and follow helps us reach more people and create more opportunities for vulnerable and socially excluded people in our community.
At Aspire Community Enterprise, we believe in giving technology a second life while helping people build brighter futures through training, support and community projects.

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Together we can make a real difference.

23/07/2026

🏡 Your community. Your ideas. Your chance to shape the future! 🌟

Parson Cross and Foxhill have an exciting opportunity ahead and local voices need to be at the heart of it.

Please take a few minutes to complete the Pride in Place survey and share what improvements, projects and priorities matter most to you. Every response will help build a brighter, stronger and more welcoming community for everyone. 💚

👉 Have your say before 31 August 2026:

https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/pride-in-place-parson-cross-and-foxhill

Don’t leave the future of our neighbourhood to someone else.

Get involved and help shape it! 📣

PLEASE SHARE!

12/07/2026

⚽🔋 THREE LI-IONS ON THE SHIRT! 🔋⚽

A huge well done to the England football team. What a performance! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👏

We hope everyone enjoyed the celebrations Saturday night. However, should any televisions, radios, laptops or other electrical equipment have suffered an unfortunate case of b**r damage, don’t give them the red card just yet! 🍺📺

Bring your unwanted electricals to Aspire and we’ll recycle them responsibly, helping to keep Sheffield green while you keep cheering England on. ♻️

17/06/2026

🌿♻️ Underground, overground… recycling WEEE ♻️🌿

Team Aspire Sheffield are grateful to thee!

A huge THANK YOU to the wonderful Sheffield1000 charity for their incredibly generous £1,000 donation! 💚

Here at Aspire, we like to think of ourselves as Sheffield’s modern-day recycling Wombles, quietly working away, making good use of the things that people and businesses leave behind, and turning donations into opportunity, purpose and positive change. 🛠️💻♻️

Our shy but hardworking team don’t always like the spotlight, but they absolutely deserve it today.

Every cable sorted, every computer checked, every item reused, repaired, recycled or repurposed helps keep valuable resources out of waste streams and supports meaningful work here in Sheffield. 🌍✨

This surprise donation will help fuel our very own recycling Wombles, power them on, and keep the Aspire team doing what they do best: Making good use of donated things, supporting people, and keeping Sheffield recycling. 💪💚

From all of us at Aspire Sheffield: Thank you, Sheffield1000 and especially to all the AMAZING people who fund this project. Your kindness will be put to very good use. ❤️♻️

Creating Opportunities for Vulnerable & Socially Excluded People WEEE & Computer Recycling Centre

08/06/2026

💚 Fuel for the day, made with care.

As our amazing volunteers graft through the day (building skills, confidence, and making a real difference in their community) one thing they can always count on is a hearty, healthy meal to keep them going. 🍽️✨

This is just one example of a lunchtime meal, freshly cooked and served by our brilliant onsite café team.

It’s also a lovely example of how small funds and generous grant awards make a direct difference here at Aspire. Supporting people is about more than just training and opportunity - it’s about nourishment, wellbeing, and making sure people feel valued.

Money well spent, we think. 💚

Next time you visit us or bring your recycling in, why not pop into the Atrium and grab a coffee, breakfast or butty while you’re here? You can sample some of the tasty food on offer and support a great local space at the same time. ☕🥪

Please note: the café closes promptly at 1pm.

Creating opportunities for vulnerable and socially excluded people through training projects including computer recycling and refurbishment.

15/05/2026

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