Snowsport for Sheffield was born out of the success of the British team at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Sochi was Team GB's most successful Winter Olympics (at the time) with five medals won over the course of the competition.

With no less than three competitors James Woods, Dom Harrington, and Katie Summerhayes all considered locals to the slope. It is also claimed that `over half of the freestyle skiing team` trained there at some point in time.

After the Winter Games a group of three working professionals (myself included) met at a Sheffield pub the campaign was born. 

At one point the facebook group had over 16,000 views.

# Here's a list of our achievements:

• 03 March 2014 Facebook group and petition launched:
  https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/snow-sport-for-sheffield
• 07 March 2014 petition reaches 3000 mark
• 14th March 2014 we'd received video messages of support from: 
  Katie Summerhayes, James and Rob Machon, Andy Bennet, Ed Leigh, Dom Harington, Ed Blomfield, Mr Motivator and Eddie the Eagle Edwards
• 24 March 2024 representatives of Snowsport for Sheffield met with Sheffield City Council
• 26 March 2024 our official campaign launch 
• 14 May 2014 - The lease holder to the Sheffield Ski Village land, plans for homes was put on ice
• 3rd June 2014 our passionate speeches at a local planning meeting prevented the lease holder preparing the land to build homes on 
• 28 May 2014 - we reach our 5000 target 
• 1 June 2015 - our principle champion - Terry Di Stassi from Britton Engineering and Snowflex talks on BBC Radio Sheffield 
• 18 August 2016 - The lease is handed back to Sheffield City Council 
• 09 December 2016 - Plans to redevelop the former site are announced

See the full list here: 
https://www.snowsportforsheffield.co.uk/highlights