Change Lab Sheffield

15/05/2026

Biodiversity action group in partnership with HERB threw a street party last Sunday in Broomhall to celebrate and share the amazing work they have completed this past year! 🏘️🍃🎉

There were lots of delicious baked goods, homemade drinks and an amazing atmosphere with the change lab students and the community in Broomhall!

There were educational pamphlets and posters about HERBs work and information about the green-roof bin storage that student volunteers have co-designed and built (as seen in slide 4!)

It was a brilliant event and a perfect way to celebrate all the hard work of the students and the action group as a whole ⭐️

09/04/2026

We have some exciting updates from the HERB 25/26 action group! Throughout semester 2 the group have worked hard designing green roof bin storage.

Student volunteers have completed amazing work painting, lining, landscaping and constructing bin planters and bin storage for the local community.

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Our film screening of ‘Power Station’ on the 23rd of April will will be joined by Polly Blacker founder of Helping Environmental Regeneration in Broomhall (HERB), asking all about her experiences, and the challenges and successes of community-led change.

This is a ticketed event so make sure to grab your free tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eWqXcbpa

We hope to see you there, for more information and the film trailer click here - https://power.film

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26/03/2026

DEMOCRACY ACTION GROUP CITIZEN ASSEMBLY 🏠🗳️

Earlier this week, or Democracy Action Group facilitated an amazing citizen assembly raising issues around student housing - advising attendees on the Renters Rights Act.

The event started with an introduction from project leader Katherine, followed by an informative chat with councillor about Crookes’ housing situation and the Landlord Licensing Scheme. Activities throughout then ensured discussion remained participatory and inclusive, for example sticking post it notes of the changes to housing students wanted to see on a paper house.

In true citizen assembly fashion the meeting ended with a group vote on the actions they wanted to take moving forward… what do you think of introducing a compulsory university module to know your rights as renters?🤔

We are so proud of the group, thank you to all those who joined us!

20/03/2026

We have a very exciting film screening coming up next month and are inviting all University of Sheffield students to come along and see ‘Power Station’. 🎬

This film explores two artists in Walthamstow who set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution. ⚡️

Power Station began in the depths of lockdown with the question ‘’what could we do from where we live, with the people around us, to build power - of energy and imagination?

The screening is from 12-3 on April 23rd, in the Digital Commons in the IC where there will be popcorn and drinks📍

12:00 - Doors will open
12:30-14:00 - Film screening
14:00 - 15:00 - Q&A and discussion

This is in collaboration with Change Lab and the Digital Commons.

This is a ticketed event so make sure to get your free tickets here: https://su.sheffield.ac.uk/events/id/14418-power-station-12a-screening-and-q/16149

Find out more information about the film including the trailer here: https://power.film

12/03/2026

We are inviting all University of Sheffield students to a free screening of “Savages”. The film explores themes of deforestation and Indigenous land rights.

“This beautiful, funny and heartwarming film from an award-winning director is about a young girl’s quest to rescue a baby orangutan from loggers in the jungles of Borneo.”

This screening is in support of the “Planet over Profit” campaign pushing for a new UK law to hold UK companies legally responsible for preventing harm to forests, wildlife, and communities in their supply chains.

The screening is from 7pm to 10pm on Thursday the 26th March 2026 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in Sheffield Students Union and includes a Q&A!

The itinerary is as follows:
7:30pm - Film Screening
9:00pm - Q&A panel session featuring and
10:00pm - End

Swipe to the end for the QR code to grab your free tickets! 🎟️

26/02/2026

Mid-term Change Lab update!

We have two updates from our Sheffield Community Land Trust action group and our Herb Biodiversity Action group.

This week our SCLT group held a session with Ranmoore Rainbows! They discussed community, shared spaces and used their workshop materials to engage with the group and educate the kids about community land.

Herb have also been up to a lot out in the community, helping out and getting involved with gardening activities at herb. The project they are focusing on currently is designing new bins storage, and through engaging with local residents they have managed to get residents to agree to new green roofed storage bins, the group are in the process off designing these and making them themselves.

Well done to all our change lab groups for all your hard work.
We are looking forward to seeing what the other groups are getting up to this semester!

19/02/2026

It was great to see all of you at the Change Lab Refresh session at the start of February 😊

There were inter-group discussions about students experiences of change making and local community work, and their achievements being apart of change lab!

Afterwards our partner organisations arrived and discussed their projects and timeline.

Finally the groups discussed their final outputs for the year.

Thank you all for attending, we’ve got some exciting events coming up in the next month so keep an eye out for these

26/01/2026

The Change Lab refresh session is on February the 6th from 12-3, it is compulsory so please make sure you can attend.

Also don’t forgot to rsvp to the calendar invite all change lab students have received!

If you are unable to come please pop us a message or email us!

Also, we have our first social of the semester after the refresh session from 4-7. There will be pizza and drinks, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Keep an eye out on your emails and the instagram as we have many exciting events and opportunities coming up this semester.

Many thanks from the Change Lab team 😊

18/12/2025

As semester one draws to a close, we would like to share the amazing progress from our action groups this term! 👏

This year we have 5 wonderful action groups who are making brilliant progress! We are joined by 50 students this year who are making up our 2025/2026 cohort, we are extremely proud of the progress all the groups have made this term.

We want to say a huge thank you to all students involved and our community partners! 😊

We hope you all have a relaxing break, and a happy new year. We look forward to seeing how your projects develop in semester two! 🎉

27/11/2025

Here is what the Biodiversity Action group with Herb have got up to in the past few weeks!

They’ve got really stuck in with their activities and involved within the local community and environment which we love to see!

Just a reminder to the other actions groups to share any pictures from your activities with us, we look forward to hearing about what you’ve been up to with Change Lab in the past few weeks!

Change Lab Team 🍂🌳

27/11/2025