Nottingham Creative Community News

Fancy Taking Part in a Global Nature Challenge?

Nottingham is taking part for the first time in an annual event to document nature and needs your help...

5 Best Places for a Picnic in Nottingham

It’s time to dust off your picnic blankets and lollop around the park with a tasty cob. Lucky for you lot, we’ve scouted out the grandest spots...

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...

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...

Artist Tristram Aver is Raising Awareness of Austerity and Autism Through His Native British Trees Series

30 October 18

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…

A History of the Bramley Apple Tree

15 May 18

Sometimes, Nottingham’s history can lead you down unexpected rabbit holes. This is one of them. Stretching from a young lady’s garden in the 1800s to the suburbs of modern-day Japan, right into a utopian future straight out of science fiction, this is the story of Nottingham’s most successful fruit: the Bramley apple.

Help Crowdfund a Wildlife Photography Documentary with Nottingham's Jack Perks

09 March 17

You might remember a lovely photograph of a wild herring we proudly displayed in our print magazine. Mr Jack Perks was the man behind it, and he’s been photographing British wildlife for yonks. He's putting together a TV pilot for a documentary, and he needs your help...