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Get on Yer Bike with Nottingham Bikeworks

This month saw the launch of the Nottingham Bikeworks Month of Giving, a drive that promises every cycle purchased through the...

Christmas Without Abuse and Violence: A Campaign for Midland Women’s Aid

07 December 18

Midland Women’s Aid are running a campaign to raise funds for Christmas presents that'll go to 26 children escaping domestic abuse…

A List of Food Banks in Nottingham

30 November 18

We’ve made a list of all the registered food banks in Nottinghamshire, to make it easy for you and yours to donate this season...

Nottingham Forest FC and Framework Housing Association Have Formed a Charity Partnership

19 November 18

The leaves have started to fall from the trees, and while it might be a beautiful sight, it’s a sign of the inevitable impending added pressures that come with being vulnerable and homeless in winter. In a move that could help to power services, Nottingham Forest FC and Framework Housing Association have been making moves to form the first official charity partnership of the football club...

Celebrate Tree Charter Day This November

24 November 18

Tree Charter Day is Saturday 24 November. Sign the Tree Charter to show your support for a world that we can breathe happily in...

Framework, Forest, Rain and Feet: A Poem for Nottingham's Homeless Community

23 November 18

With the new charity partnership between Nottingham Forest FC and Framework Housing Association, Nottingham's High Sheriff Nick Ebbs commissioned LeftLion Editor Bridie Squires to write a poem about the relationship, and how it might help our city's homeless community going forward...

Celebrating 100 Years of Women Gaining the Vote with Midlands Suffragettes

23 November 18

6 February 2018 marked 100 years of 8.5 million women gaining their right to vote. Although it will be another decade before we celebrate 100 years of all women gaining the vote, it was a huge milestone in the step towards women’s rights being achieved...

Emmanuel House: Spread The Love This Winter

21 November 18

We Went for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at The Nottingham Oxygen Centre

15 November 18

Notts Hosts 2018 Games of Remembrance

11 November 18

Many of you will know the story of the Christmas truce, where both British and German soldiers temporarily cease-fired to play a football match during World War One. Perhaps it’s fitting that with 2018 marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, that a football match between British and German soldiers took place.

The Creative Perambulations of Sherwood Forest

08 November 18

Back in medieval and early Tudor days, coppers strolled along the official – although often confused and disputed – boundary of Sherwood Forest, checking for robbers and the like. In more recent times, poets, photographers, and sound artists have traced the olde steps, now running through tarmaced ex-mining towns, looking for inspiration on the Creative Perambulations of Sherwood Forest...

The Wrong Side of the River: Meadows vs West Bridgford

07 November 18

The Trent. Starting in Staffordshire and slicing through Nottingham, is it a mark of social division in the city? Jasmin Pacey-Devlin reflects on her time living on both sides…

Giuseppe Garibaldi: The Italian Freedom Fighter Who Inspired Nottingham Forest FC

05 November 18

For many, the word “Garibaldi” conjures up thoughts of a curranty biscuit, but it was once a household name for other reasons. In Victorian times, Giuseppe Garibaldi was the celebrated freedom fighter who, with his intrepid band of volunteers, united Italy. Garibaldimania spread across Britain and even influenced Nottingham life; especially in the football department...

Forest Ladies Host Windrush Knees Up

23 October 18

On Sunday 28 October a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush is taking place at the City Ground. Nottingham Forest Ladies FC are taking on the Jamaican national team, the Senior ‘Reggae Girlz’ with a 3.00pm kick off, but the day will be a festival of much more than just football.

We're Celebrating National Stammer Awareness Day

22 October 18

The British Stammering association have estimated that around 700,000 people in the UK have a stammer, yet so many people are not aware of it. International Stammering Awareness Day happens every year on the 22 October, where stammering associations, individuals, and groups around the world organise events to mark the day and raise awareness for people who stammer...

What's Going Down at Hockley Hustle This Year?

18 October 18

Nottingham Comic Con Mastermind Kevin Brett on the UK Scene

15 October 18

Kev Brett is the mastermind behind Nottingham Comic Convention, and the artist behind Piddley Pix and The Monkey and the Mouse, to name a couple. Ahead of his fifth consecutive Comicon which, according to his book The Making of a Comic Con, should have given him roughly five heart-attacks by now, Kev answered a few questions for LeftLion…

Hoodwinked Trail: Farewell to the Flock and The Grand Auction

12 October 18

DHP’s Women In Music Discussion Panel at Rescue Rooms

12 October 18

Goose Fair 2018 in Photos

10 October 18

Jam & Chutney Session with Just Grow Project

04 October 18

Last Tuesday, Windmill Community Gardens hosted a jam and chutney making workshop and gee whiz it was a real treat! 

Our Nottingham Things

04 October 18

Clearing The Gap: Nottingham Skateboarders on Why Age Means Nowt

24 September 18

On the face of it, skateboarding can seem scary; like some secret club you can only join with a kickflip password. But it’s for anyone and everyone, no matter how old you are. There’s no line that says you can’t be a part of the culture.

Non-Stop Sports and Forty Two: An Ode to the Skateboard Shops of Notts

20 September 18

We take a fond look at Non-Stop Sports and Forty Two Skate Shop... 

The Nottingham Women Ending the Gender Skate Gap

16 September 18

Skateboarding holds all kinds of stereotypes, but most people associate the sport with a group of lads utilising any block of concrete they can find as assets to their impressive activities. There’s a gender association that comes with skateboarding that needs correcting.