What's On Out There? 🚶🏽🦫🏃🏽🦉🚴🏻 Early Spring 2026

The news, links and listings post for Sheffield and the northern Peak District.

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What’s On Out There? (This week or so)

March

Sat 7th - CTC Cycle Ride

Sat 7th - Parkwood Springs conservation morning

Sat 7th - SRWT Volunteering - Blacka Moor

Sat 7th - CycleBoost cycle confidence & Learn to Ride cycle training at Greenhill

Sun 8th - CTC Cycle Ride

Sun 8th - Wolf’s Pit fell race, Shatton (£10)

Sun 8th - History/International Women’s Day tours at Sheffield General Cemetery(£8.50+)

Sun 8th - Yorkshire Rose women’s cycle rides

Mon 9th - Fri 13th - Daily health walks in parks and green spaces from Step Out Sheffield, 10 am start

Mon 9th - Whirlow Brook Park volunteer morning

Mon 9th - SRWT Volunteering - Centenary Riverside (Rotherham)

Tues 10th - SRWT Volunteering - Carbrook Ravine

Tues 10th - South Yorks Orienteers - Kelham Island (£6)

Weds 11th - Longshaw Social Walk

Weds 11th - Sheffield RSPB Bird Walk - Blacka Moor

Weds 11th - Shire Brook Valley - Volunteer Session

Weds 11th - Sheffield Ramblers Walk - Moss Valley (10m)

Thurs 12th - Green City Action Grimesthorpe community allotment

Fri 13th - SRWT Winter Wild Wellbeing - Shirecliffe

Sat 14th - CTC Cycle Ride

Sat 14th - CycleBoost cycle confidence & Learn to Ride cycle training at Greenhill

Sat 14th - South Yorks Orienteers - Shire Brook Valley (£5)

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Also Out There (Links in headline, usually)

⛔️Bikes on Trams: Not yet - South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard has posted on FB that his team have demonstrated how our current trams can’t accommodate standard bicycles. But he says bikes will be carried on the new tram fleet (arriving from 2030). “These will be designed with space for bikes because I know a bigger, better tram network has to be accessible to dogs, cyclists, and anyone else who wants to use it, right across South Yorkshire,” he posted. We’ll be chasing this up.

New Bird Book for Sheffield - Sheffield Bird Study Group are about to publish their spectacular New Birds of the Sheffield Area compendium of all 300 birds seen around here. (We’ll have more on this soon).

Nature’s Calendar - The Woodland Trust run a citizen science phenology project to try and map our climate-changed seasons. They’re asking us to record early flowers, bird song and frogspawn, for example, and you can view previous years’ results. Full subscribers can read our phenological interview with author Joe Shute here.

E-Bike Loans - We covered the approaching unofficial Sheffield Year of the E-Bike for full Sheffield Tribune subscribers here. One undersung e-bike hire scheme is here already: CycleBoost, supported by the council, offer you a free month’s trial of an e-bike and secure cycle parking hubs at the city centre and Meadowhall, with a per-month charge thereafter (£75 + £5 for parking access) to keep the scheme sustainable.

Sheffield Storeys - Our own Muddy Mother’s new Substack is very much worth a look too, not just because she’s my daughter. Our Storeys is about homes and home renovations, and how to cope with trying to build an extension while avoiding tripping over your dog, rendering your baby and losing your toddler in the wall cavity.

Between 6 & 16 Miles - The next issue of the beautiful “fell-running, nature, art, philosophy and psychogeography” zine by local artist & writer F. Thomas Green is out now. Our feature on winter running by the author is here.

Winter Wellbeing - Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust are offering free monthly nature-based sessions to help us feel better in the cold dark months with the help of some of the wilder urban spaces of South Yorkshire (thanks to South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’s ‘Health and Growth Accelerator’ Fund).

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Our full listings for the next month or so (below) are for full subscribers only, who’ll be able to reload in their browser and get a bigger and prettier edition later today. (We can’t fit all the full member’s post into one free email).