Shamshad Walker, left, and Headway Nottingham’s manager Charlotte Leask. A Ruddington digital marketing expert has raised money for a charity in crisis after moving her training sessions online. Shamshad Walker, who runs her own business in West Bridgford, started collecting cash for … [Read more...]
Portraits of Ruddington lives in lockdown
Peter McConnochie, also known as photographer UrbanScot, has been capturing portraits in his new project Portraits Of This Time: Faces of Lockdown. Tell me about yourselfI am Peter McConnochie and I live in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. I also go by the name UrbanScot for many of my … [Read more...]
Beauty out of ugliness – museum’s knitted Covid-19 set to ‘go viral’
Helen Brownett, Textile Artist & Technical Demonstrator at the Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham, has designed her own version of a Covid-19 virus – and knitted it in 3D on one of the museum’s antique circular knitting machines. Helen put the finishing touches to the blue … [Read more...]
Fundraising begins for next phase for Great Central Railway
Fundraising begins for the next section of the ambitious ‘Reunification’ project for the Great Central Railway. Two stages of the scheme to create an eighteen-mile heritage line is now complete and one hundred thousand pounds has already been committed for phase three. Plans to reconnect the two … [Read more...]
Young campaigners plant 270 trees to combat climate change
Young environmental activists from St Peter’s Junior School, Ruddington, have been planting 270 trees in the school’s grounds to help improve the environment and combat climate change. The school, in Ashworth Avenue, Ruddington, was supplied with the trees by the Woodland Trust, as part of an … [Read more...]
Young campaigners plant 270 trees
Young environmental activists from St Peter’s Junior School, Ruddington, have been planting 270 trees in the school’s grounds to help improve the environment and combat climate change. The school, in Ashworth Avenue, Ruddington, was supplied with the trees by the Woodland Trust, as part of an … [Read more...]
Ruddington Spring Fair to Support Wildlife
Love plants and want to help support wildlife on your doorstep? Come to the annual Spring Fair in Ruddington on Saturday morning 16th May. This popular event is organised by the South Notts group of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust to raise vital funds to support local … [Read more...]
Ruddington retailers join ‘The Totally Locally Fiver Fest’
From today, the south Nottinghamshire village of Ruddington is joining in with ‘The Totally Locally Fiver Fest’, a campaign to highlight independent retail’s contribution to the high street economy. This is a national celebration of small businesses and shops, and is the latest campaign by the … [Read more...]
Local man joins Team GB at this year’s Winter World Transplant Games
Team Great Britain travel to Banff, Canada to compete at the Winter World Transplant Games, Feb 23-28, 2020. Mark Brown from Grange Avenue Ruddington, will be taking part in this year’s Winter World Transplant Games, 25 years after having a life-saving kidney transplant. The 52-year-old will … [Read more...]
Cash boost for youth mentoring programme
Disadvantaged young people in Nottingham are set to benefit from a holiday club that will increase their confidence and enhance their mental health using the arts after receiving a cash boost from a local housebuilder. The donation is set to fund a February holiday club designed to provide … [Read more...]
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