The team efforts of 2019 have been amazing. A HUGE number of bags – 515 - have been collected; 495 volunteer hours. If you’re wondering what 515 bags of litter look like - see the photograph and times by 26! And of course, we must acknowledge that there are other wonderful … [Read more...]
100 trees to be planted as part of 100 years of council housing
Nottingham City Homes have teamed up with Summerwood Community Garden to plant the first 10 trees at Woodthorpe Grange in Sherwood. The 10 fruit trees, which were grown by Summerwood at their Clifton plot, were planted on Woodthorpe Park, close to the council owned tower blocks and new extra care … [Read more...]
£5 million restoration of The Old Rectory in Clifton Village
Works are due to begin on the restoration of the iconic Grade II Listed building The Old Rectory, in Clifton Village, Nottingham – with Midlands contractor G F Tomlinson at the helm of the anticipated construction project. The £5 million development, titled Rectory Gardens, will see the historic … [Read more...]
Kieron Kicks Cancer
Kieron Tatham 47 from Gotham Nottinghamshire, a life long keen martial artist who has been training with PKA Kickboxing in Clifton since January 2012. Whilst training for his Brown belt in February 2017 he found a lump in his throat and got the dreaded news after having a biopsy that it was … [Read more...]
New Flagship Care Home development for Silverdale
On the site of the former Clifton Bridge Inn at the intersection of the A52 and A453 now sits a stunning new 83-bed contemporary care home. Built by Wynbrook Limited and designed by Rayner Davies Architects, the scheme has created around 50 new jobs and has been greatly welcomed by the local … [Read more...]
Clifton Fireworks display
Come along to the Annual Clifton All Whites Firework display, bonfire and funfair night taking place on Saturday 9th November 2019! Gates will open at 5pm, the mini fireworks display, perfect for the younger family members, begins at 6:30pm and the main display will be at 8:30pm. The evening is … [Read more...]
NG11 Clean Champs take on Clifton A453
On the 9th October the NG11 Clean Champions joined with Highways England for another incredible and successful collaborative event, cleaning up the Clifton A453 and beyond with Poppies! Yet again with the sun on our backs, 45 wonderful NG11 Clean Champions plus 7 fantastic junior litter … [Read more...]
The Clifton Good Companions are searching for volunteers
Clifton Good Companions is a charity supporting isolated, vulnerable and lonely older people in the Clifton, Wilford and Silverdale areas of Nottingham. We have been in operation for almost 20 years and now provide 4 drop-in friendship groups around Clifton each week plus we offer a home-visiting … [Read more...]
Clifton Doves WI
On a warm summer evening in July 2017, around 40 women gathered at Clifton Village Hall and expressed an interest in forming a new WI group. Much of what I knew of the WI came from my frequent viewing of Calendar Girls (I suspect I was not the only one), but the diversity of the women there that … [Read more...]
New initiative supports Clifton pupils’ transition to secondary school through the joy of reading
Read On Nottingham has teamed up with the leading independent children’s publisher in the UK, Usborne Books, to gift every single child starting Year 7 at The Nottingham Emmanuel School and The Farnborough Academy a copy of Scavengers by Darren Simpson. The literacy-focused project aims make … [Read more...]