WELCOME

Welcome to the website for the Sheaf & Porter Rivers Trust.

We are a registered charity, covering the Porter Brook from Hunters Bar down to Sheffield Station and the River Sheaf from Millhouses Park to the confluence with the River Don at Castlegate.

This website is your place to hear the latest news from the trust, learn about our many active campaigns to improve the rivers, find maps of the riverside walks, read up on our extensive research and during the summer months, book our tours.

Key pages

Headline News

The Big River Watch

This September, we’re coming together for rivers to take part in the Rivers Trust's first Big River Watch and we want you to join us. Click here to download the Rivers Trust new app and be part of a quick and easy survey helping to improve rivers for us and for wildlife!

ITV News in the Sheaf Culvert

Click here to watch ITV's Adam Fowler take Calendar news through the Porter Brook and Sheaf Culverts to the murky Megatron

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Revealing the Sheaf at Castlegate Festival

Click here to see Cathy Spiers lovely photos of our 'Paint the Hidden River' event where our volunteers highlighted the route of the River Sheaf and the Megatron by painting Exchange Street and Castlegate

Share your wildlife sightings

Please consider sharing your interesting river corridor wildlife sightings with us by sending details / photos on to our member John le Corney at johnlecorney@gmail.com

Why is sewage in our rivers?

Click here for a link to a BBC News explanation of why the UK spills sewage into rivers and the sea. Use the 'Surfers against Sewage' interactive map to see how often Sheffield's combined sewer outfalls spill sewage into the river Sheaf and Porter Brook.

Help our campaigns - Costa Coffee

Costa Coffee Developer seeking to downgrade the River Sheaf Walk on Quieens Road. Our objection is here:
https://www.sheafportertrust.org/post/costa-coffee-queens-road