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Nottingham Charity raises awareness around domestic violence disclosure with ‘Right to Ask’ scheme
Tue 27 Feb 2024Equation, a Nottingham-based charity working to prevent domestic abuse, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness for the ‘Right to Ask’ domestic violence disclosure scheme.
Beat the Streets Raised £89,500 for Framework This Year
Thu 18 May 2023Vital funds raised by DHP Family's charity festival Beat the Streets in 2023 have been handed over to Framework to support its work helping the homeless population in Nottingham...
How Maggie’s Support Centre Is Aiming to Raise Money With a Culture-Filled Tour of Nottingham
Fri 23 Sept 2022Providing care to patients and their families, Maggie’s are the free cancer support centre stationed outside City Hospital. Now they’re raising money to keep the centre running through their annual Culture Crawl - the five-mile night walk kept lively by a selection of Nottingham personalities and performers. We catch up with Maggie’s about the work they do, the celebratory nature of the walk and how to get involved…
Nottingham Artist Victoria Hayward Discusses Pysanky, the Traditional Egg-Decorating Technique She's Using to Raise Money for Ukraine
Mon 11 Jul 2022Victoria Hayward explains how she is using her artist residency at City Arts to decorate 100 eggs using a traditional Ukrainian batik dye technique, raising money for the Ukraine DEC appeal in the process
Former LeftLion Editor Bridie Squires Signs Up for Tough Mudder to Raise Money for The Tomorrow Project
Sat 02 Apr 2022Having lost their friend to suicide in April 2020, Bridie Squires is one of fourteen people undertaking Tough Mudder to celebrating the legacy of Harry McCormick, highlighting the issue of male suicide and raising vital funds for The Tomorrow Project
Hockley Hustle Have Released An Album Full of Notts' Collaborations to Raise Money for Emmanuel House
Mon 12 Apr 2021The album includes contributions from not only musicians, but local poets and artists too...
Framework's Winter Appeal Raises £232,000 to Support Work with Homeless People
Wed 03 Mar 2021The Nottingham charity's Winter appeal, which organisers hoped would raise £60,000, made £231,687.22 to support their work with homeless people...
Help Raise Funds For Framework This November By Getting Active
Tue 27 Oct 2020There are prizes to be nabbed too...
Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games Raised £90,000 in Two Days to Create a Hogs of War Minatures Game
Fri 09 Oct 2020There’s an element of risk in launching any crowdfunding campaign. If you don’t reach an audience, the failure can hang around the neck of a project like an albatross. But get it right, and the rewards can be limitless. The latter situation is one that Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games found themselves in recently, when their Kickstarter campaign for a miniatures version of classic PS1 game Hogs of War smashed through £90,000 in just two days. We caught up with co-owner Paul Allen to find out more...
Sockful of Porridge: A Series of Gigs to Raise Funds for Social and Ecological Good Causes
Mon 09 Sept 2019“Can tell you’re not a re-enactor.” I first encounter Dr. Lesley Prince – Les – outside The Broadway Cinema in the rain, having a smoke. Rain plops into his cup of tea, and when I express discomfort at the weather, this is his response. You see, Les is a battle-hardened veteran of the English Civil War Society. But this is only part of what makes up the picture of this fascinating Clifton-born academic, who is now turning his energy to organising charity events across the city…
Masked Booksellers ExLibris Return to Raise Money for Charity
Thu 25 Apr 2019Imagine turning up at your neighbor’s house, expecting little more than a cup of sugar and a natter about the local goss, only to find that it has been turned into a pop-up book store. That is exactly what the neighbours of Bob and Chris Cann can expect this weekend on their quiet suburban street in Carlton. Presenting: The Masked Charity Booksale.
We Raised £165 for Sharewear Clothing Scheme at the LeftLion Clothes Swap
Fri 01 Mar 2019Us lot over at the 'Lion were inspired by all the sustainability talk included in our February issue, so we put our bonces together and came up with the LeftLion Clothes Swap, a way to trade your trash for treasure, rags to... well, different rags. In our bid to put a finger up to the fast fashion industry, we raised £165 for Sharewear Clothing Scheme, a local charity who provide clothing to those in desperate need. Here's a few snaps from the day...
Education for the Children Are Hosting a Twelve Hour Ping-Pong-A-Thon to Raise Funds for Kids in Guatemala
Mon 25 Feb 2019Education for the Children (EFTC) is an international NGO with a local base here in West Bridgford. The foundation run the School of Hope, a primary and secondary school in Guatemala which provides education for 462 impoverished children and supports another 215 young adults in further education.
On Thursday 7 March, EFTC is hosting a twelve-hour Ping-Pong-A-Thon at Das Kino to raise money for the School of Hope. We spoke with EFTC’s fundraising officer Billie Turner about the charity’s work…
LeftLion Ran The IKANO Bank Robin Hood Half Marathon 2018 to Raise Money for Lee from The Elementz
Sat 06 Oct 2018Three lions got down to Victoria Embankment to complete the Ikano Bank Robin Hood Half Marathon 2018. It was a bit of a feat, because us lot are a lot more well trained in running our mouths over several IPAs more than anything else, but we bleddy did it, and lived to tell the tale...
Notts Musicians Join Forces to Raise Money for Emmanuel House and Framework
Wed 20 Jun 2018Dig in yer pockets, it’s all for a bleedeh marvelous cause.
Memorial Walk Planned to Raise Funds for Statue of Bendigo the Bare-Knuckle Boxer
Mon 19 Feb 2018Ryan's in this for the long run, dedicating his time to properly commemorate this underappreciated legend...
Campaign to Raise Funds for a Proper Statue of Bendigo
Fri 08 Jan 2016There's a local legend that one man from Radford wants immortalising in bronze, and he's not going to stop til he's raised the necessary cash
Don't Flop Raise the Bar in Nottingham
Fri 21 Mar 2014Don’t Flop have gone from strength to strength in the last five years to emerge as the UK’s biggest battle rap league. A forthcoming year of madness is on the cards for them and they’re dragging Nottingham into it with their newest event, Raise the Bar. Be there or be square...