At the end of November, Footprints’ Charity Patron Richard Whitehead MBE visited Jesse Gray Primary School in West Bridgford. He was there to meet Billy, who was the winner of Footprints’ competition to design the blades which Richard ran in at the recent Robin Hood Half Marathon. Billy’s design … [Read more...]
Successful 2024 for Local Clean Champions in Clifton East & West
Nottingham Clean Champions - Clifton East & West rounded off an effective 2024 with more volunteers joining teams throughout the year. As of the 7th December, a total of 1,583 bags had been collected including 159 bags from the Wilford team. Some of the areas covered included: Wilford, … [Read more...]
Toot Hill pupils ranked in top 10 per cent of worldwide computational thinking challenge
Students from Toot Hill School in Bingham - which is part of the Nova Education Trust - have been ranked in top 10 per cent of pupils in a national computational thinking challenge. The Bebras Challenge introduces computational thinking to students and takes place in schools all over the world in … [Read more...]
Farnborough Spencer Academy Partners with NTU
Farnborough Spencer Academy has teamed up with Nottingham Trent University (NTU), funded by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, to launch a Youth Leadership Team as part of the Safer Streets Five initiative. This initiative, which also involves Nottinghamshire Police, is designed to … [Read more...]
Student Community Leaders at Farnborough Spencer Academy
Students at Farnborough Spencer Academy are encouraged to get involved in leadership opportunities both inside and outside of the Academy. The Academy have over 50 student Community Leaders who volunteer to get involved in a wide range of community activities. Recently students were joined by … [Read more...]
Clifton school welcomes Amazon books donation
A team from Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Kegworth has visited a primary school in Clifton to spend time with the pupils and encourage fun reading in partnership with National Literacy Trust. The visit to Milford Academy was part of a partnership between Amazon and National Literacy Trust. The … [Read more...]
Clifton parkrun celebrates parkrun’s 20th Anniversary
On Saturday 5 October, Clifton parkrun celebrated parkrun’s 20th anniversary. It was Clifton parkrun’s 229 event, with exactly 50 people completing the course. Afterwards, their was a pop-up cafe and plenty of cake for everyone to enjoy. Participants came dressed in bright colours, tutus and … [Read more...]
Footprints Transformation of Highbank Community Centre
In the August edition of the Local News, we announced the exciting relocation of Footprints Conductive Education Centre to a new site in Clifton. The Nottingham based charity is moving to what was formerly the Highbank Community Centre and which will become the new home of Footprints Conductive … [Read more...]
Nottingham Community Housing Association moves to Clifton
Building work began in spring 2023 on the old college site on Farnborough Road and the end is now in sight, as Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) plan to move there in the next few weeks. The newly named ‘Clifton Place’ will offer a workspace for NCHA, seeing the relocation of their … [Read more...]
Local man celebrates 100th birthday with family and friends
On 20 July 2024, Dr Rev Bernard Holt celebrated his 100th birthday at Lark Hill Retirement Village with a party alongside his daughters, grandchildren, great grandchildren, family and friends. Dr Rev Bernard Holt was born on July 20 1924 in Gaythorne Street, Salford, Lancashire. After school in … [Read more...]
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