Brightbox

📣We're Hiring!📣 We’re hiring someone who can take the lead on an exciting project that aims to move land and buildings out of private ownership and into community stewardship. This is part of a larger UK wide pilot project. We’re looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who understands the importance of community.🙌 You will be leading the development of a Community Development Trust in Darnall Ward, Sheffield. This project is running for the next two years with the aim of creating a self-sustaining organisation that will continue beyond the end of this funding. This project is to address the disparity of Black and brown communities accessing community assets in South Yorkshire. Our priority is to create a safe place where Black and brown people to share their experiences without needing to overexplain or further oppress. It is therefore a requirement that the person filling this post must have lived experience of being of the Global Majority/from a racialised community. This is not a remote position, expect to be working closely in person with the community, stakeholders, asset owners, developers on the ground in Darnall. 💜For full job spec go to the link in bio! #jobalert #jobsearch #communityjobs #communityjob #communityjobsuk #SouthYorkshireJobs #SheffieldJobs

Over the past month we've been busy delivering our workshops and courses with community organisations across Sheffield. These are funded by Sheffield City Council as part of their Adult Skills Fund provision. These courses focus on learning practical skills that can benefit mental wellbeing, especially when done in a safe and inclusive environment. 💜 ✨If you're a community organisation that would like to partner with us to deliver some workshops get in touch. #diy #create #makerspace #Garden #tool #Workshop #freeworkshop #southyorkshire #sheffield #mosaic #adultskills #adultskillsfund #mentalhealth #wellbeing

We're looking for someone to join our board! Are you passionate about community and know when to ask the tough questions? We're at the start of an exciting, long-term, community-led project and need someone to keep us accountable and offer strategic direction on key decisions. Want to get involved? Apply via the link in bio.

#womenwithtools #protectwildlife 🦔 🌟 Update from the inspiring Tinsley Women Chai group 🌟 Big thank you to @brightboxmakerspace for enabling and teaching this workshop. You are all incredible. The Amazing women of Tinsley picked up tools for the first time to create safe and cosy homes for our local Tinsley hedgehogs spotted on the streets & gardens in summer! 🦔💚 #teamwork #community Together, we’re not just building hedgehog homes – we’re building a more wildlife-friendly community in Tinsley. Watch this space for updates on this incredible journey led by the ladies! 🌱✨ #womenpower #peoplepower #unity #TinsleyCommunity #WildlifeFriendly #HedgehogHomes Follow @brightboxmakerspace to see more amazing community maker projects in action! @theoutdoorcity @sheffieldcitycouncil @visitsheffieldm @tnlcommunityfund

🏆 We've won an award! 🏆 We won the award for Outstanding Organisation for delivering our DIY and numeracy courses to adults and children in primary schools across Sheffield. We've loved delivering these courses, we've met so many incredible people and loved being able to watch people's confidence grow when they figure out how to do a sum or a calculation! Thank you to @multiply_sheffield for nominating us 👏🏽. @sheffieldcitycouncil

We took over the @civic_square polytunnel and turned it into a makerspace! 💪🏽 Civic Square were kind enough to host us last week for a DIY design challenge... 💥 The task: to think about our home and neighbourhood and to create something that brings joy, using only leftover materials from other projects. We love doing activities like this because seeing everyone's creativity flourishing and getting to see something get made from materials that would otherwise be thrown away is food for the soul! 🌿🌞🧠 Sharing knowledge and resources with organisations that are doing amazing work so we can all learn and grow together is a beautiful thing 💜

Did you see us on @itvnews London last night 👀? For those that didn't, here it is...our drill art makes a very brief appearance, see if you can spot us! We had a very affirming time at @festivalofthegirl over the weekend teaching 7-11 year olds how to use drills, and watching them get stuck into loads of activities we wish we could try when we were younger! If you want one of these to happen up north let us know in the comments so we can make it a reality 💪🏽👏🏽 #girlswithdrills #festivalofthegirl #drillart #fypage

📣Exciting Announcement📣 We're heading down to London next weekend for Festival of the Girl. It's happening across two days on the 5th and 6th of October. We'll be there teaching 7-11 year olds how to use drills in a fun and low pressure way. If you'd like your 7-11 year old to join in you can buy tickets to one or both of the days ✨ Head to @festivalofthegirl to get yours! #festivalofthegirl

💥We're hiring💥 You've still got 3 days left to apply to this very exciting role! The deadline is Monday 23rd September. Apply via the link in our bio or send us a DM and will forward you the details! A bit about the job; you'll be leading workshops on a range of topics from basic woodworking, mosaicking, zine making, to bigger community build projects. Some bigger community builds in the past have included a pizza oven, allotment shed, and benches! We’ll give you full training on how to teach all the skills needed in the workshops, so if you've always wanted to learn how to do basic DIY and other crafts this could be the role for you! The theme/topic of the workshops are set, but you will help create the workshop content alongside the rest of our team. You will also support with admin tasks and jump in to help the rest of the team when needed. We’re a small organisation with no departments or team leaders so we all contribute where we're needed. This is a remote position. You'll be delivering the bulk of the workshops in Darnall (Sheffield), but you'll also be working across South Yorkshire. Salary: £28,000 FTE 30 hours (we have a 30 hour work week) Hours: between 21-30 hours per week Start date: flexible ➡️Deadline for applications is 23rd September, apply via the link in our bio or send us a DM and we'll send you all the deets! #sheffieldjobs #brightbox #workshopleader #4dayworkweek

"I've realised how much better I feel after spending time outside making things." We love that we had the opportunity to give this person the space to figure this out 🌿 💜. Creating space for you to be you is one of the main reasons we do what we do! #southyorkshire #makerspace #diy #girlswithdrills #barnsley #barnsleyisbrill #brightboxmakerspace #communitygarden #fypage #foryoupage

🌟FREE Workshop🌟 We're building coldframe greenhouses! These are small greenhouses perfect for keeping your seeds and young plants safe from cold weather. We'll be using recycled/reclaimed materials for this project and you'll learn all the necessary skills to be able to replicate this in your own garden! You don't need any prior experience - our tutors will go through everything with you, one step at a time. We’ll provide all the tools, materials, safety equipment and expertise to help you learn DIY. You'll learn and develop your confidence using various hand and power tools, with the added bonus of getting to spend more time outside. 🔗 Sign up here: .uk/whats-on/girls-with-drills-build-a-cold-frame-greenhouse/ 🔗 🗓️ 21st September ⌚10.00am - 3:30pm 📍The Carers Garden, beyond the Metrodome, Queens Road, S71 1AN Looking forward to welcoming you. ☀ #diy #create #makerspace #Garden #tool #Workshop #freeworkshop #southyorkshire #books #reading #community #building #sharing #fun #friendly #reclaimedwood #recycle #play #community

Two weeks ago we were busy learning how to make clay for our community pizza oven building workshop that will live at The Carer’s Garden - Barnsley. What a glorious day we had! If you'd like to get involved we have two sessions coming up. 10th Sept, 13th Sept, 10:00 - 3:30pm Book via the 'What's On' section of our website. Sign up to tomorrow here 🌿 .uk/whats-on/girls-with-drills-build-a-pizza-oven/ Huge shout out to those who came to our #girlswithdrills session. This is an inclusive space, open to anyone who identifies as women/non-binary. #Garden #diy #community #clay #cob #earthbuilding #pizzaovenbuild