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14 feature - love2b 2008 City strips off steely image to reveal red-hot heart It may have been cold outside but temperatures soared in Sheffield during February as the Steel City revealed its heart of gold. The Love2B festival painted the town a romantic shade of red during nine sizzling days and nights of city-wide celebration that also raised thousands of pounds for charity. Over 100 events showed off why Sheffield is the most passionate place on the planet. The city’s famous sporting fervour was represented by athletics golden girl Dame Kelly Holmes who gave a lecture in Sheffield Hallam’s Pennine Theatre and talked about her fond feelings for the city. The University also reinforced Sheffield’s love affair with culture by screening the northern premiere of Breda Beban’s internationally acclaimed film, The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha. Other events included a Valentine’s Fair, a bachelor auction in aid of St Luke’s Hospice, a chance to cuddle up with lambs at Whirlow Hall Farm, a Wall of Love at the City Library where romantics penned literary love notes for their sweethearts, and city-based sex entrepreneur Julia Gash offered lessons in love at her famed lingerie store. The major venues for art, theatre, music and shopping all asked for events taking place during the festival to be included in the Love2B love-in. So Ronan Keating and Strictly Come Dancing stars were also part of the fabulous February fling. Last year’s festival, which had glamorous TV couple and dancing duo Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova as stars of the event, raised thousands of pounds for charity and was shortlisted as the best community event in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Awards. Love2B in Sheffield was coordinated by Sheffield Hallam University and sponsors this year included the First Group, Meadowhall, Crystal Peaks, Westfield Health, The Moor, Chamber of Commerce, Creative Sheffield, Yorkshire South, Sheffield City Council and Halliwells. You can see everything that went on by visiting www.love2b.com. Sheffield Hallam students took the message of love to London. Cuddling up to cute lambs at Whirlow Hall Farm. The National Blood Service joined the Love2B celebrations to encourage more people to give blood. Pink banners decorated the city during the festival. Wall of Love - Literary love notes at the City Library. The Valentine’s Fair was a big hit with children of all ages. 15
16 A new e-communications foundation and honours degree is going onlline thanks to the Sheffield College and Sheffield Hallam University. The course will enable people to study in their own time, meaning they don’t have to interrupt their working lives. Funded by the South Yorkshire e-learning partnership, the course will provide a skills boost to the region and benefit the economy. Julie Hooper, course manager at the Sheffield College, said, ‘Every workplace wants employees who can write text to the highest standards and have expertise in digital technologies. ‘We have 25 local people starting on the course soon. Most are low paid workers in South Yorkshire and will take their skills back to their workplace. ‘The beauty of this is that these students can go on to get a degree and even onto an online masters degree - all from their homes and workplaces. They do not have to physically attend college or university at all.’ As well as learning to write text professionally, students will learn how to produce web pages, brochures, make promotional video and audio clips, organise web-conferencing, social networking and develop company wikis. A University wide programme to improve the student learning experience is proving to be a big hit. Shared Futures, led by the Learning and Teaching Institute, is an innovative approach to engaging with student feedback. The internal change academy focuses on how to actively make use of student feedback on their learning experiences to improve and prepare for future students. A programme of professional development and support has enabled teams of colleagues to put into action a number of ideas that will improve the student experience. It is the first time this approach has been tried at the University but similar projects Heritage, Innovation and Enterprise The first fully online e-communications course in the UK is being launched in Sheffield. New distance learning course to help boost workplace skills have proved successful at other universities and the Higher Education Academy’s Change Academy. This academic year five projects are being supported in three faculties, the Students’ Union and Learning and IT Services. They range from smoothing the transition between student personal development planning and continuing professional development; developing and establishing a student Digital Fluency Associate role to support peers and staff; and developing and applying a model of student engagement. Student involvement is key and bids were asked to demonstrate how their idea linked to student feedback. Students also played a central part during a two day intensive residential course for all the teams by facilitating an activity Kevin Bowman, who co-ordinates the degree at Sheffield Hallam, said, ‘This course is created by experts in the field of e-learning. The quality of the content Sheffield College make available to students is the highest I have come across for an online course.’ For more information call course administrator Cathy Cotton on 0114 2603212, or visit http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/onlinecollege/onlinecourses/foundation. Innovation takes centre stage at Sheffield Hallam’s Change Academy which involved making a five minute film about each project. Feedback showed that student participation in the teams and the collaboration with the Students’ Union added a powerful dimension throughout the Shared Futures process: increasing the energy and creativity and ensuring that an authentic student perspective was central. The call for bids to take part during 2008- 09 will be announced shortly. More information can be found by visiting the Learning and Teaching Institute’s intranet (https://staff.shu.ac.uk/lits/lti/sharedfutures. asp) or by contacting Abbi Flint (a.l.flint@shu.ac.uk), telephone 0114 225 4724. Eager entrepreneurs compete for a head start in business Enterprise Challenge 2008 is launched! Money doesn’t grow on trees but it does grow from ideas - that’s the key message behind this year’s Enterprise Challenge. The University has launched its annual search for the very best business brains in Sheffield and entries have been flooding in from the next generation of entrepreneurs. Sheffield Hallam has an unrivalled reputation for encouraging all students to explore their potential. The Enterprise Challenge is designed to help give students and graduates a chance to kickstart their ideas. The Enterprise Centre acts as a guide through the process of setting up in business, offering valuable free support and resources which would normally cost thousands of pounds. Sheila Quairney, business and enterprise manager at the Enterprise Centre, said, ‘We have students and graduates from all kind of backgrounds entering our annual business start-up competition, the Enterprise Challenge. Our winners have gone on to achieve great success in their chosen fields through taking advantage of the free support and advice, plus access to funding, to develop their own businesses.’ The competition is judged by a range of regional companies, with prizes awarded for businesses with the best potential. £5,000 in cash is up for grabs, plus advice and support from a range of companies to help get the individuals or teams going for real. Entrants will go through a number of stages to put their ideas to the test, culminating in an awards dinner in October for all the finalists. This year, the Enterprise Challenge is sponsored by Omnia Offices, Hart Shaw Chartered Accountants, Footprint Tools, UK Steel Enterprise, Inspiral, Sheffield Technology Parks and South Yorkshire Investment Fund. A grand total of £9,000 will be available for the sponsored cash prizes, plus another £10,000 of in-kind support. For further information about the competition, and how Sheffield Hallam supports student enterprise, please contact the Enterprise Centre on 0114 225 5000 or e-mail us at enterprise@shu.ac.uk The Enterprise Challenge is also open to over 16s in colleges within our Associate School and College Partnerships Scheme. To find out which colleges are part of the Associate School and College Partnership, please contact the University on 0114 225 5000 or visit www.shu.ac.uk/study/ug/schools Past entrants to the Enterprise Challenge have seen their budding businesses take off Winners’ gallery Glenda Kirby Glenda won the top prize of £5000 in cash and £3000 of office space from Omnia Office last year with Chariband. Her socially driven enterprise aims to sell reusable carry bags to raise funds for charity. The idea came after Glenda’s son was in intensive care and this became her way of saying thank you to the hospital for their help. The colourful bags are now a feature all over the city. Glenda graduated in 2004 with a BA in Packaging Design Jamie Chaplin-Brice Jamie took second place last year winning £2500 in cash. His innovative and eco-friendly venture aims to design and manufacture sustainable furniture using local materials. You can read all about his business in a special feature on pages 18 and 19 of newview. Allen Holland and William Parsons The first prize in 2006 was scooped by Allen and William and their company Wares Ltd. Wares is an independent product design consultancy which has gone from strength to strength since their Enterprise Challenge success. Allen graduated in 2006 with an MA in Industrial Design Innovation and William graduated in 2005 with a BA in Product Design. Emma Killilea Emma’s business Delicious Alchemy took the top prize in 2005. The company offers a range of gluten free and lactose free products designed to meet the needs of people on restricted diets. The accolades have been flooding in ever since with an Excellence in Food and Drink award and first place in the prestigious UKSEC (United Kingdom Science and Enterprise Challenge) National Business Plan Competition. 17
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