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Lottery funding secured to restore Victoria Embankment Memorial Gardens

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Nottingham City Council is celebrating after receiving the news that its £1.7m bid to develop Victoria Embankment Memorial Gardens has been successful. £1.1has been awarded through the National Lottery Heritage Fund and will be used to improve facilities, create a visitor centre and jobs on the … [Read more...]

Beat The Streets Festival announces artists for 2022

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DHP Family have announced that charity fundraiser festival Beat The Streets, renowned locally for the vital funds it has raised in support of Framework Housing Association and awareness it has brought to the rising homelessness crisis in Nottingham, will return to venues in the city on 30th January … [Read more...]

Every one welcome at the Race for Life in Nottingham

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People are being invited to kick start the New Year by signing up to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Nottingham.   The charity’s much-loved events are returning to the city and anyone who joins this January can claim a special 50 per cent off the entry fee as part of the half-price sale by … [Read more...]

ALDI donates 14,800 meals to charities in Nottinghamshire over Christmas

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Aldi has supported local charities, community groups and food banks in Nottinghamshire by donating 14,800 meals to people in need this Christmas. The supermarket paired up its stores with local organisations to make the most of unsold fresh and chilled food after stores closed on both Christmas … [Read more...]

Sock company donates over 1000 pairs of socks to emergency workers at QMC this Christmas

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Sock-company - Orrsum, based in Wilford, Nottingham has gifted 1200 pairs of socks to the staff working in the emergency department of the Queens Medical Centre. The socks, offered as a Christmas thank you gift to all emergency workers was initiated by Ali Lomas, a Sister at QMC managing the … [Read more...]

Young Seren from Mapperley raising money for cancer charity

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A pupil from a junior school in Mapperley has helped raised over £750 for a cancer charity.   Seren Sweetman who is in year 3 at Westdale Junior School, which is part of the Nova Education Trust, has been fundraising for Young Lives vs Cancer. The charity helps children, young people and their … [Read more...]

A fantastic family panto for everyone to enjoy!

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Local News designer Mark Taylor and his son Olly, give a raving review of Dick Whittington and his Cat at Newark Palace Theatre. ‘It was epic!’ these were the words that flew out of Olly’s, my 6 years old’s, mouth at the end of a brilliant performance. On Saturday 11th December, me, my wife and … [Read more...]

Nottingham’s iconic statue gets festive

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It seems that even a seven foot, half inch thick bronze statue can’t escape the Christmas spirit... Although technically not a jumper, more of a festive tunic - the fun has been carried out by the organisation behind great city centre initiatives such as Halloween, The Magic of Christmas, and Light … [Read more...]

Wildlife Trust welcomes exciting ‘Green Heart’ Broadmarsh vision

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Wildlife Trust welcomes exciting vision of Nottingham's new 'Green Heart' with potential to transform development decisions across the city. The Charity that called for former shopping centre to be re-imagined as greenspace keen to ensure vision for more than three hectares of greenspace and … [Read more...]