Nottingham Creative Community News

Saving the Sherwood Library Cherry Trees

A week is a long time in activism. This time last week Sherwood’s glorious array of flowering cherry trees seemed doomed. Today –...

Broadmarsh Big Conversation Results See Loud Calls For Nature and Heritage

08 April 21

Since covid struck and knocked Intu’s shopping centre plans for six, the future of Broadmarsh has become a hot topic in Nottingham. Today marked a step forward in the citywide discussion, as the key findings of Nottingham City Council’s Big Conversation were released...

Nottingham Is Getting its Own Tiny Forest Thanks to Green Hustle

24 March 21

The city's first tiny forest will be planted on Woodthorpe Grange Park...

Season's Greenings: How to Have a Sustainable Christmas This Year

02 December 20

This December, Carbon Neutral Nottingham are sharing green-fingered tips with the help of local businesses...

Hockley Hustle Presents Green Hustle: The Digital Festival Celebrating All Things Sustainability

13 September 20

A highlight in our calendar comes every October when, on the last weekend of the month, the streets of Hockley are taken over by musicians, poets, street performers, food vendors and punters for the annual Hockley Hustle festival. For obvious reasons, it won’t be returning for its fourteenth year, but that doesn’t mean Team HH are taking a (probably well-deserved) break. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, they’ll be treating the people of Nottingham to a few different projects. The first of those is Green Hustle, a digital festival celebrating, promoting and exploring all things green in our city…

Nottingham City Council Wants the City to Be Carbon-Neutral by 2028

29 July 20

Since 2005, Nottingham has reduced its carbon emissions by more than double the target goal first laid out by Nottingham City Council. But now there is a new target – to become the first carbon-neutral city in the UK by 2028. Ahead of the launch of their 28 day challenge, taking place on social media throughout August, we speak to Sally Longford, Deputy Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder Energy, Environment and Democratic Services about how they intend to make it happen…

Living Sustainably in Nottingham

17 May 18

Loads of folk are working tirelessly to make our city a greener place. Here are some ways to help reduce your negative impact on the environment, and the local organisations leading the sustainable way…

Will There Be Fracking in Sherwood Forest?

31 January 17

Sherwood Forest has become the latest battleground for fracking, as chemical firm Ineos target the area for a seismic survey...

Poet and Smallholder Di Slaney Talks Writing About Chickens

05 January 17

After appearing on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, rescuing a whole bunch of farmyard animals, running her own small farm and publishing her first poetry collection, Di Slaney must be about ready for some down time over the festive period...

UK Green Film Festival

03 June 13

As our only national environmental film fest, The UK Green Film Festival is in its third year and will span sixteen cities. Broadway will be part of the festival, showing films that focus on local and global environmental issues. We spoke to the festival’s co-founder, and Nottingham resident, John Long, about the festival’s ethos and rapid growth…

Sowing Sneinton: Guerilla Gardening

20 February 12

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t get alarmed now. It’s probably Donya Coward and Suzannah Bedford – collectively known as Sowing Sneinton – who have taken up the cause of guerilla gardening in order to improve the neglected flowerbeds and public spaces of their broken fridge-encrusted neighbourhood…

Ecoworks: Nottingham’s first permaculture organisation

17 February 12

If they were any greener, Robin Hood would be wearing them. Part community project, part landscape design consultants, part catering service, part suppliers to Notts cafés and restaurants, 100% local produce champions, they’re on a mission to turn the entire city onto home-grown produce, as Business Development Manager John MacDonald points out….

Interview: Patrick Smith of Veggies

06 June 11

If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, backin the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the SumacCentre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ratcliffe-on-Soar debacle, and Mark Kennedy…

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