Case Studies
Living @ Roundabout
“when I first moved in I thought Get Me Out Of Here, now I dont think it as bad, especially when you get to know everyone. I had christmas dinner, which was good but there wasnt much to do and I didnt have any money. Its the longest two weeks ever!” Paul “Its not too [...]
Watch Our Video Tour Of St Barnabas Rd Emergency Hostel
Curious about what the hostel is like on the inside? Check out our five minute film here: Tour of Roundabout Hostel, Mellow edit (Richard Hawley) from Justine Gaubert on Vimeo. Tour of Roundabout Hostel from Justine Gaubert on Vimeo. This film was made by the residents of Roundabout with the help of Silent Sheffield. [...]
My new training by Fiona
I went for a walk with Shauna to talk and ended up at Heeley city farm and saw a sign which said ‘health and social care course’. Shauna rang them up and arranged an appointment with YASY and they rang me back and arranged an appointment for Monday and ever since then I’ve been doing [...]
My time at Roundabout by Abdellah
I like all of roundabout staff and all the guys here. I am happy. When i first moved in it was hard. I was alone but staff tried hard to help. I want to say thankyou to the staff for helping build a relationship and making me feel welcome. I’ve enjoyed the activities thankyou, football, [...]
H.I.V candle vigil by Dean and Paul .h.
Before we looked at H.I.V I thought if you got it, you just died and Paul thought it was incurable. What we found out was any one can be unlucky and get infected. The main thing we realised could protect you from getting H.I.V is using a condom. The atmosphere was respectful and I saw a [...]
Sheffield City of Culture youth event by dobz (Paul)!
The event was basically for youths from around the city and roundabout young people were invited. They want Sheffield to become a city of culture, so they asked us what we thought about “my place”, “my spaces” and another one that i can’t now remember! They asked us basically what we thought culture was – [...]
Football Results
Sadly, we didn’t take home the trophy having come third place (one point off second) in the NACRO PITZ four week tournament. The lads gave a tremendous effort rivalling the top team right up to the last matches but it sadly wasn’t to be on the final day. Congratulations to all who took part though, [...]
Young People attend Youth Civil Rights day in Leeds
On Tuesday 17th Nov I went to a conference with Roundabout. The day was about getting the young people of West Yorkshire together to talk about civil and human rights. At the conference there were 5 very interesting speakers : Mike Mansfield QC- who was by far the most loved man of the day in my [...]
Football Tournament…week 2
We are on week 2 of the 4 week football tournament for the homeless we are currently in 3rd place and 1 piont behind 2nd place. The teams that we played in the tournament are…. Arches, Salvation army, sheffield foyer, SYTG, Healthy cross, and The Roundabout Rascals. CMON ROUNDABOUT!!!! WE CAN TAKE HOME THE GLORY!!!! [...]
Roundabout set to make a new film
UPDATE ON THE FILM: Hi everyone, well the planning was great, young people decided that one of the things to address in the film was that new residents thought that hostels were full of drug taking wild people who slept on floors! So, with this in mind, they decided to shoot the film all around [...]
