For the next couple of weeks you will be able to see the Fairness on the 83 exhibition. With interviews of people along the route, the exhibition charts social inequality across Sheffield. The exhibition is in Castle House as part of the the excellent Festival of the Mind, and will also be on Fargate this Friday (19th).
The exhibition was the initiative of the marvellous Opus Independents, who also produce the magazine Now Then, which this month has a good article about the exhibition, and inequality in Sheffield.
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Forthcoming
Sheffield Equality Group monthly meeting
Wednesday 1st October, 7pm-9pm, Quaker Meeting House
Chat and discussion of campaigns around poverty and inequality. And tea. All welcome.
Zero Budget Film Festival 2014
Saturday 20th September, 7.30pm, Burngreave Cemetery Chapel, Melrose Road S3 9DN
The fourth glorious year of the annual one-day pop-up festival of family-friendly, entertaining short films that cost nothing to make. Free entry, donations gratefully accepted. Please get there by 7:30pm as it does get full!
No More Austerity!
18th October 2014, London
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Interested in what’s on? Go to: http://alt-sheff.org/
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Another way is possible…
Poverty pay isn’t inevitable, as the cleaners of New York and their organisation into strong unions has demonstrated… (Guardian)
…nearer to home, Enfield council embraces radical housing solutions to combat inequality – by buying private housing back for the public… (Guardian)
…understandable really, caring for others is part of our nature… (IFLS)
Sheffield Equality Group 
You make an interesting comment about Now Then magazine and the ‘marvellous’ Opus Independents, and perceptions of social inequality in the Fairness on the 83 Project.
The Now Then magazine regularly uses a map entitled OUR CITY which shows one quadrant of Sheffield only. Needless to say the area of the city shown is the rich and socially well endowed western quadrant. If we don’t grasp the implications of our own innate prejudices small wonder we are struggling to get others to take us seriously.
Now Then started off in the western quadrant, so that is where the businesses they have links with are (which is what the Map is of). They are moving further afield, so hopefully the map will expand. But a good point. It’s inevitable that the majority of people who define what ‘Our City’ is are based around the wealthy areas…
Not sure about your argument. Without exception all of Sheffield’s cultural, student, liberal middle class publications, Toast, Exposed etc are written by and for us Western Quadrant folks. We are a privileged minority and the very first thing we need to acknowledge is that we are part of the problem, not part of the solution. The tone of the “fairness on the 83” narrative is written entirely in the discourse of the “Other”. “They” are the causes of the growing inequality. No, we are, so we need to do a bit of internal reflection and work from there. A handful of examples? Ran moor Village ( it could have been built in Neepsend) , West Street on a Friday night, Broomhill residents fighting tooth and nail against new house building ( only stone clad will do) ……..
Ps maps showing the same custard pie psychogeography abound, I have several.