Dear readers – welcome to a very special edition of The Tribune: the first ever Good News edition. Today’s newsletter is devoted to genuine positive stories from across the region, taking you from a community garden in Ecclesfield to the innards of a historic church organ in Brocco Bank.
As you may recall, one of our campaign pledges if we reached 1,000 new subscribers by 21 June was to publish a monthly good news edition. We were thrilled to sail past that target last week thanks to the generosity of our readers, and as such, we’re now getting to work fulfilling all those promises we made to you.
Another pledge was to head into schools around South Yorkshire to talk about disinformation, and we’re keen to start getting visits lined up when term resumes in September. If you work in education and want to summon our services, then please send Mollie an email.
The garden friendship built
In 2024, when her husband Des suggested turning the overgrown, neglected woodland on the edge of Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club into a community garden, Patricia Smith could barely suppress an eye roll. Sitting at the kitchen table of their home in Beauchief, she reeled off the most obvious objections: they were far too busy, it would be far too much work and it would probably cost them an arm and a leg.
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