Wanted: Arts Supplies
Please help us to make Easter 2026 extra special for our clients!
We urgently need to replenish our much-depleted art and craft materials!
Every week, up to 30 clients register to attend our Monday / Tuesday sessions - to improve their personal wellbeing and maintain their recovery journeys. These sessions are extremely popular, and the benefits gained by clients from creative exploration, cannot be overstated.
We are therefore reaching out to you this Easter and asking for your help on behalf of our clients. Please would you provide any of the following art / craft items which are now running very low.
Large packs of multi-coloured felt tips
Large packs of multi-coloured colouring pencils
Large Pritt sticks
Mindful colouring books
Paint by Sticker Books (sticking by number)
Easy Paint by Numbers
Soft sketching pencils and soft colouring pencils
Watercolour and sketching paper
Please be assured of our heartfelt gratitude for all donations and offers of help that we receive - and especially at this time when we are under even greater pressure.
All donations can be brought to The Centre, Monday to Friday (9.00am – 4.00pm). Please would you telephone 0114 255 5720 in advance of arriving, so that staff are on hand at the time that best suits you.
Thank you for your generosity and we take this opportunity to wish you a very happy and peaceful Easter.
Our 35th Anniversary!
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the opening of St. Wilfrid’s Centre. We will be celebrating throughout the year, but especially on St. Wilfrid’s day in October. Come and join us then for what will be a great event and help raise funds for the Centre. More details to follow…
St. Wilfrid’s repair and restoration of the Ecumenical Cross
In January St Wilfrid’s was commissioned to repair and restore the famous Sheffield Inner City Churches Cross.
The Ecumenical Cross
The Ecumenical Cross is a massive (10 metre high) steel cross that is erected outside the Sheffield Town Hall during Holy Week as a public, ecumenical symbol of the Easter festival. The cross serves as a focal point for Christian witness and community prayer in the city centre. The cross stands from Palm Sunday through to Easter Saturday for Ecumenical public worship service. Volunteers from City centre churches offer prayer and conversation with passers-by during 11 am – 3 pm. A sandbox is placed around the cross, where over 1,000 "prayer sticks" are often placed by members of the public. On Good Friday a guided prayer walk brings worshippers to the cross at noon and on easter Sunday the cross is adorned with cloth.
Over a period of six weeks, clients, staff and metal workers rose to the challenge repairing and restoring the Cross ahead of this year’s Easter celebrations. The Cross arrived at St Wilfrid’s in a very sorry and damaged state – exhibiting many signs of metal failure / fatigue and damaged couplings. With a dedicated team working hard to bring the Cross back to its former glory, we achieved the task in good time
Here below is the story of this journey in pictures. Please come and see the Cross outside Sheffield Town Hall from Sunday 29th March 2026.
NEW PRODUCT ALERT!
We now have our St. Wilfrid’s Centre pin badges on sale on our online shop for only £2.50! What. A. Bargain.
Stick it on your jacket or bag and advertise our amazing Centre!
Tea-rrific Fundraising Ideas for Lent
You Can Brew It!
Here are a few fundraising ideas for you to try this Lent with our St. Wilfrid’s Mug available in our online shop!
Once completed, bring them along to the Centre.
Click on the picture to download the flyer and below for the St. Wilfrid’s Mug along with other fundraising ideas!
Oh, What A Night…
A Big Thank You To The Grand Plan
After a wonderful performance at Haggler’s Corner on the 23rd of January, The Grand Plan raised over £800 for the Centre!
Thank you to both The Grand Plan and Hagglers Corner for putting on such a great event.
Check out The Grand Plan’s Facebook page to learn more about this fantastic band!
Three reasons to support us
1. We're more than just a building
Without us, many of our clients would have nowhere else to go for advice, support and friendship.
2. We're experienced
We’ve been running since 1991. We know and understand the needs of our clients and can provide tailored specialist support.
3. We spend wisely
Our running costs are kept to a minimum, to ensure that every penny you donate goes where it is needed.
How Can you Help? It costs:
£1506 to run St Wilfrid’s Centre for a day
£460 to cover the cost of one Welfare Worker each week
£100 to deliver Skills for Living Sessions each day
£52 at least to heat the Centre for a day
£40 for all the 2-course hot meals each day
£25 for materials for the workshop and sessions each day
£10 to run the washing machines each week
£1 for a shower
20p for a mug of tea
Fundraising
If you are inspired to begin fundraising for St Wilfrid’s Centre, a Fundraising Pack is available to download by clicking on the button below
Please Donate
We would like you to please join us in recognising the valuable support the Centre provides and help us to raise much appreciated funds.
Thank you
LATEST NEWS
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THE PILGRIMAGE OF HOPE LIFTS UP ST WILFRID’S CENTRE’S CROSS
In the middle of November 2024, St Wilfrid’s Centre were asked if they could make a large wooden cross for the procession marking the start of the Jubilee Year.
Although most organisations might have been very concerned by the timescale and size of the project, St Wilfrid’s Centre, as always, rose to the challenge and set about designing the cross.
The workshop team and clients put aside the existing orders for mediboxes. These are made at St Wilfrid’s Centre and distributed around the country to help the work of drug support organisations.
They then began constructing and sanding the cross.
Staff and clients were very proud of what they had achieved
