They refused to leave. They refused to fail. ‘Steel City Survivors’ share their story.
Plans for a huge new Sheffield charity book project highlighting resilience, loyalty, and the city’s spirit will be officially launched later this week.
Neil Anderson’s upcoming book, ‘Steel City Survivors,’ features inspiring stories of Sheffield residents who overcame adversity and setbacks to become successful and influential figures.
The event will celebrate the project’s official debut and partnership with Roundabout. All revenues will go to the organization to help fund important programs and keep more young people from becoming homeless. The book will be published in the autumn.
Neil Anderson will conduct personal interviews with the ‘Steel City Survivors’ in the next weeks and months to capture firsthand experiences of adversity, rejection, reinvention, and endurance. Many experienced setback after setback. they persisted—and, most importantly, they chose to remain in Sheffield.
Neil Anderson is leading the new Sheffield charity book that will support the work of Roundabout.
They grew up in the stormy 1980s and early 1990s, settling in the city that shaped them.
The message of resilience at the heart of ‘Steel City Survivors’ is perfectly aligned with Roundabout’s mission, which helps young people at danger of homelessness. All proceeds from the book will go directly to charity.
The initiative is privately funded by Sheffield businessman David Slater, whose own amazing path echoes many of the concepts in the book.
Neil Anderson stated, “Steel City Survivors is about people who didn’t tow the orthodox line, often because they couldn’t. They were routinely written off at a young age, suffered struggle, uncertainty, and setbacks, yet persevered.
“There’s something really Sheffield about that endurance. These are persons who had the option of leaving, but chose not to. They stayed. They built. They contributed. And it feels perfectly appropriate that their experiences will now help raise funding for young people who require belief and opportunity in their own lives.”
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