The University will be closed from the afternoon of Wednesday 24th December and will re-open at 8:45am on Monday 5th January. However, the Learning Centres will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Christmas Day! For more information on Learning Centres see here.
If you need urgent support while the University is closed, please find below a list of organisations’ contact details:
◾Samaritans: 08457 90 90 90 or jo@samaritans.org
◾South Yorkshire Police: 101
◾Salvation Army Sheffield (Homeless Centre, 126 Charter Row) 0114 272 5158
◾Advice Sheffield (benefits and debt advice) 0114 205 5055 or www.advicesheffield.org.uk
◾Sheffield Alcohol Support Service: 0114 258 7553 (closed Sat, Sun and bank holidays)
◾Shelter: 0344 515 1515 (closed Sat, Sun and bank holidays)
◾Sheffield and Rotherham Sexual Assault Referral Centre: 01709 427327 or SARC@rothgen.nhs.uk
◾Women’s Aid: 0808 2000 247 or helpline@womensaid.org.uk
Online self-help
Student Wellbeing will be closed over the Christmas break from Thursday 25 December to Friday 2 January. They will be open as usual from 8.45am on Monday 5th January. Please see the Student Wellbeing shuspace page for a range of free, online resources.
Big White Wall
With Big White Wall you can get support, take control and feel better. It has 24/7 peer and professional support, with trained counsellors online at all times, plus a range of wellbeing tools to help people self-manage. It is safe and anonymous, so no one will know you have chosen to use it unless you tell them.
Visit bigwhitewall.com/university and log in with your university email address.
Finally, please see our earlier post here for ideas of things to do in Sheffield over the holiday period.
We wish everyone a safe and peaceful time while the University is closed. If you have an urgent query during the closed period, you can contact any of the organisations or websites above.
To contact us direct you can email guidance@shu.ac.uk and someone will get back to you before 25th December or when we re-open in January. Or please call us on 0114 225 3813 outside our closed period.