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Nottingham Resident Diala Isid Talks Us About the Current Situation in Palestine and How She Started a Palestinian Running Campaign
Tue 23 Apr 2024Marhaba! I’m Diala Isid and I’ve been living here in Nottingham for around four years. I moved from Palestine to do my masters at the University of Nottingham and then found a job at a Renewable Energy Company in Beeston called EvoEnergy. I decided to make Nottingham my second home because it felt like one!
Peggy's Skylight Campaign To 'Buy More Time' Appears To Have Worked. For Now.
Mon 09 Jan 2023Nottingham jazz club Peggy’s Skylight's building was scheduled to be auctioned next month as part of Nottingham City Council's debt-reducing measures. However, we have since received word from Nottingham City Council that the building will not be sold next month. But that it will be at some point later on this year...
How the A-Z of Consent Campaign Is Helping to Keep Students in Nottingham Safe
Thu 15 Sept 2022Consent is incredibly important, but it’s a topic that’s often overlooked or shied away from. Not in Nottingham, though - the Consent Coalition is making sure it’s at the forefront of our minds. Here’s everything you need to know about this crucial campaign, and how it’s helping to make our city a safer place…
Local Campaigner Kedijah Eaves-O’Connor Shares How We Can All Do Our Bit to Protect the Environment
Thu 11 Aug 2022Starting off as a geography student, Kedijah Eaves-O'Connor quickly shifted to environmental science upon learning more about the scary reality of climate change. Now the young activist is committed to sustainability and getting more people of colour involved in the environmental sector…
Framework Powers Up New Gaming Fundraising Campaign to Help Fight Homelessness
Wed 03 Aug 2022Fancy topping off some aliens, growing your own virtual utopia, or maybe sitting down for a game of Magic: The Gathering with your mates, but want to raise money to help fight homelessness at the same time? Local charity Framework have just the answer you're looking for. Introducing their new gaming-oriented campaign, Power Up
Notts CrossFit Athlete and Coach Lucy Campbell Discusses Women in Strength Training and Putting Two Fingers Up to Stereotypes
Sat 21 May 2022Combining strength training, gymnastics and high intensity workouts, Nottingham’s CrossFit box has attracted quite a cult following. We caught up with CrossFit athlete and coach Lucy Campbell to talk about women in strength training, the camaraderie of group workouts and letting go of weight-loss goals…
Campaigners Launch Petition for Safe Active Travel Route From Sherwood to West Bridgford
Fri 13 May 2022Nottingham’s North-South travel route - stretching from Sherwood to suburban West Bridgford - is notoriously geared towards motor vehicles, with safety concerns and pollution deterring many wishing to use more environmentally friendly options. As a result, campaigners have launched a petition this week calling for a dedicated safe route to make it safer for those. Catherine Mayhew, one of the locals behind the calls, explains why it’s so important…
How Notts Photographer Lucie Nechanická’s Book I Didn’t Ask For It Is Breaking Stereotypes Around Sexual Harassment
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Tired of the victim blaming narrative around sexual harrasment, photography student Lucie Nechanická created I Didn’t Ask For It - the photobook chronicling sexual harrasment in Nottingham. We chat to the budding photographer about breaking stereotypes, better sex education, and her process behind making the book…
The Wolfpack Project Launch Campaign to Combat Winter Loneliness
Wed 08 Dec 2021They are encouraging young people to open up about their mental health...
Emmanuel House Launch T-Shirt Designed By Nottingham Trent University Student
Wed 08 Dec 2021Sales of the t-shirt will help to raise money for the charity's Winter Appeal...
"When you have community, you have hope." How Notts Campaigners Saved Mature Trees in Newark-On-Trent
Wed 08 Dec 2021When the council planned to cut down four mature trees in Newark-on-Trent, the local community stepped up to save them. Emma Oldham, one of the movement’s campaigners, tells us all about it…
Why COP26 Campaigners Will Be Demonstrating in Nottingham
Tue 19 Oct 2021During COP26 in Glasgow, Nottingham will host a mass environmental demonstration on Saturday 6 November. Those taking part tells us why they're getting involved...
#LetsGoNottingham: New Campaign from It’s In Nottingham Aims to get People Back Spending in the City
Fri 11 Jun 2021#LetsGoNottingham, the new campaign from It’s In Nottingham, sets out a digital campaign to get the people back spending in shops, restaurants, bars, and independent businesses after COVID...
YMCA Calls for Your Memories for 150 Stories Campaign
Wed 28 Apr 2021The Nottinghamshire charity is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 Stories, an exhibition curated from your memories and experiences...
Crowdfund Campaign: Build A Better Primary
Mon 19 Apr 2021Primary, the artist-led contemporary visual arts organisation based in Radford, are looking for help to transform their building into a warm, welcoming and sustainable place for Nottingham’s creative community and beyond...
No Fake Orgasms: The 30 Day Merch Campaign Raising Money for Sex Education Charity Fumble
Fri 02 Apr 2021Frustrated by the lack of education for young people around consensual and pleasurable sex, artist and fitness coach July Styles has created No Fake Orgasms, a clothing collection designed to shout loudly and proudly about her effort to de-stigmatise not climaxing...
Notts duo launch campaign to fund animated sitcom
Mon 22 Feb 2021A pair of Notts creatives have launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund an animated sitcom.
Double Impact's CEO Graham Miller on Its Run, Roll or Ramble for Recovery Campaign
Wed 17 Feb 2021This February, drug and alcohol recovery charity Double Impact have been running their Run, Roll or Ramble for Recovery campaign to encourage people to get fit, build awareness for the work they do, and raise some money. We speak to the charity's CEO Graham Miller about Double Impact and about the event...
Double Impact Is Encouraging People to Run, Ramble, or Roll For Its Virtual Fundraising Campaign
Thu 28 Jan 2021Dust off your trainers for this wonderful cause...
Campaigner Dr Lisa Mckenzie on Why Nottingham Needs to Stop the Gentrification of Sneinton Market
Thu 05 Nov 2020Having spent six years fighting against gentrification in London, working class academic and Notts lass Dr Lisa Mckenzie returned to her native city to find the same happening here. With more development plans tabled for Sneinton Market, including the demolition and replacement of extensions to Gedling Street and Boston Street to create retail and commercial space, as well as more student flats, she explores the potential impact of gentrifying the area will have on the past, present and future of working class communities...
More Nottingham Eateries Join Marcus Rashford Campaign
Fri 23 Oct 2020More Nottingham eateries will be providing free meals for children in a nationwide show of support for Rashford's campaign to end child food poverty
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...
BelieveMe is Aiming to Create a Safe Space for Victims of Bullying in Nottingham
Mon 24 Aug 2020Being forced into lockdown has seen Notts’ creative cohorts turn their hands to all sorts of projects, from live-streaming music to socially-distanced filmmaking. But for seventeen-year-old Alice Lynn, lockdown provided the opportunity to create something personal. We caught up with her to find out more about BelieveMe, the new project aimed at creating a safe space for victims of bullying...
Author Rich Fisher Reflects on His Involvement with the Brian Clough Statue Fundraiser
Fri 05 Jun 2020As we celebrate the genius of Cloughie through LeftLion’s #CloughChallenge campaign, Rich Fisher explains how Nottingham’s Brian Clough statue came to exist…
BioCity Company Launch ‘Masks For The Masses' Campaign
Wed 29 Apr 2020A company based at Nottingham’s BioCity, has launched a ‘masks for the masses’ campaign...