The Leader of Nottingham City Council is to walk the Pennine Way for charity – in just 10 days. It usually takes at least three weeks to complete the famous 267-mile trek from Edale, Derbyshire, to Kirk Yetholm, Scotland. By completing the feat in just 10 days, Councillor Jon Collins will be walking the equivalent of […]
Photo: Alex Norris MP is pictured with parents, children and staff at the Peep session at Southglade Access Centre A programme to help parents understand more about the way their children learn and develop has been praised for its work in Nottingham Children’s Centres. The Peep Learning Together Programme, developed by the charity Peeple, is […]
Hundreds of school pupils enjoyed an afternoon of fun and games at a special event to celebrate their excellent attendance. This is the fifth year that Nottingham City Council has held the Lord Mayor’s Attendance Awards, which celebrates youngsters who go the extra mile to be in school – as well as those who have […]
A city centre church is hosting an event tomorrow to try to recruit more foster carers for Nottingham City Council. Heart Church, based on Talbot Street, is inviting people along on Wednesday (13) evening to learn more about fostering. It is the latest part of a pledge from Nottingham churches to provide 100 new foster […]
Business leaders in Nottingham have balanced the books in a very different way today as part of a charity reading event. Councillor Sam Webster, Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health at Nottingham City Council, invited some of the leading firms in the city to a Business And Books – Big Breakfast. The event, […]
Nottingham City Council has been working hard over the past year to recruit more foster carers. The authority’s recruitment team, with support from senior politicians, has been out and about across the city spreading the message about the benefits of fostering – both to the child and the foster family. The fostering service is always […]
The Nottingham Young Creative Awards celebrated its tenth year with a sell-out evening of performances and awards at the Nottingham Playhouse. Kaia Lucas, aged 16, from Bluecoat Beechdale Academy, was crowned Nottingham’s 2018 Young Creative of the Year. Kaia won in the 16-18 year-old Visual Arts category by creating a series of paintings of her […]
Nottingham City Council has pledged its support for a new charity set up by a father and daughter to support foster children. Stuart Ferguson and Nicola Barber have launched My Bag, which aims to help foster children through the difficult first few days of settling into a new home. Drawing on their own first-hand experiences […]
A video has been launched today (May 14) to show how important foster carers are to the children they look after. Nottingham City Council has produced There Was A Boy in collaboration with 15 other local authorities across the Midlands for the annual Foster Care Fortnight campaign (14-27 May 2018). The storyline shows a vulnerable […]
Nottingham churches are coming together on Sunday (13 May) to spread the message about fostering in the City. Ahead of national Foster Care Fortnight, which begins on Monday, church leaders will take the opportunity to promote fostering to their congregations during a raft of Sunday services taking place across Nottingham. Nottingham churches have pledged to […]