GLEADLESS VALLEY COMMUNITY FORUM is a registered charity that is working to make Gleadless Valley a better place in which to live and work. It offers training courses to unemployed people in subjects such as computer technology, English, maths etc.. It has a youth advice centre giving "confidential" advice on sexual matters, as well as other matters related to growing up into adulthood. It organizes public events such as the Gleadless Valley Festival which is held annually in Herdings Park. The festival is aimed at getting as many people - tenants and residents - together as possible and having a good time. It publishes the Gleadles Valley Newsletter, which is aimed at showing everybody all that is good in Gleadless Valley. Unfortunately they are not allowed to publish what's bad about Gleadless Valley, so due to that the Newsletter becomes a "one-sided affair" that doesn't really show the reality of the Valley. On the whole it's a good organisation with really good intentions. An organisation that's worth backing. Gleadless Valley Community Forum will be ten years old on 28 May 2010. WOW!!! How time flies. read more

A community forum that's lost it's community spirit and is run like a business. Lacks a community atmosphere, with frequent rumours on how it's staff are treated. Some of them 'disappearing' without any explanation as to why, good members of staff just gone from the building without any warning. An odd mix of good ethos that doesn't quite make it to reality, with good facilities but 'jobs worths' in charge of them. It's a lottery as to whether you get a nice member of staff or the opposite, and even the nice ones rarely seem that happy. The 5* review below is clearly written by a manager. When they need to write blurb such as this, there is clearly a lack of confidence in it's own ability and merit. read more