BUILDING SOCIAL FIRMS
Yes2Ventures is a Social Firm development agency based in Sheffield. For close to 20 years, it has been creating employment and training opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market.
Successful projects include Yes2Work, a New Deal for Disabled People job broker; Viewpoint Research, a telephone-based research service; Buster’s Coffee Company, which boasted cafés in Doncaster, Leeds, and Sheffield; and a successful Travel Support service.
Whether you are looking to re-enter the labour market, want to learn new skills, or just need some help overcoming some of the barriers that are holding you back from doing what you want to do, Yes2Ventures might be able to help you.
Click here to learn more about our current workshop sessions.
Yes2Ventures provides a travel support service for individuals as an alternative to taxis and council transport, with named regular drivers.
Learn more about our recent work delivered with support from Sheffield City Council and the European Social Fund.
Yes2Ventures Recruitment 2022
Following a management review, The Yes2Ventures Board sees that the time is right to expand its work to meet increasing social needs in innovative ways. We are therefore recruiting a variety of roles
Leave only Footprints: Paintings by John Wilkinson
Sheffield artist and Kelham Island Arts Collective member John Wilkinson has created narrative paintings drawn from the relics of our past endeavors. Now on exhibition at theSocial.
Yes2Ventures is Framed!
Our new framing workshops are now well underway at our Unit in Neepsend with the finished products, manufactured by our workshop attendees, now appearing on walls around the local area!
theSocial: On the Pumps 1st September
theSocial, our new venue on Snig Hill in central Sheffield, is open and has had a successful first full operating week. Here’s a run down of what’s on the pumps this week.
Urban: The City in Flux
Following on from Paul Dearden’s successful exhibition Masked, artSocial at Snig Hill presents its next exhibition: Urban – The City in Flux.
Masked: Paul Dearden
The second exhibition at The Social is well under way. Paul Dearden presents a new collection of paintings made during the pandemic.
Topping the Bar!
Work is progressing nicely with our new barSocial project, due to launch month or so. We’ve finally got the beer pumps and bar top in place. Now just to fill in the gaps!
Planters for the Summer
Yes2Ventures craftSocial workshops have been busy for the past few weeks constructing high-quality planters for sale to the general public.