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As part of a UK-wide consortium led by the English Federation of Disability Sport, Nottingham City Council has secured funding for an initiative called ‘Get Out & Get Active’ to support disabled and non-disabled people to take up sport and physical activity. Spirit of 2012, a charity set up with money from the Big Lottery […]
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Nottingham and Leicester city councils are combining their drama and music loans collections to offer a bigger, better service from the New Year. The new NEMPALS (Nottingham (East Midlands) Performing Arts Library Service) will be launched in January 2016 to provide a quality, sustainable performing arts loans service. This has been developed through extensive consultation […]
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Hyson Green Library is relocating to the Mary Potter Centre next month bringing a host of benefits for local people. The existing library building on Gregory Boulevard will close to the public on Saturday 7 November and, over the following fortnight, the library resources will be transferred to the existing modern and accessible Mary Potter […]
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The Dreaming House is a temporary exhibition at Newstead Abbey that pays homage to the Abbey’s history as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, where many of the personal items that belonged to the great Romantic poet are displayed. The exhibition runs 18 July – 27 September 2015. Rather than making direct reference to Byron […]
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Nottingham’s Old Market Square will once again being transformed into an urban beach, from Thursday 23 July– Tuesday 1 September 2015. The Beach attracts thousands of families, visitors and tourists from across Britain to the city and offers local people the chance to enjoy the seaside without leaving Nottingham. Now in its seventh year, the […]
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Embargoed until: July 23, 2015, 00:01am More of Nottingham’s parks and green spaces than ever will be flying the Green Flag Award this year. 22 parks in Nottingham have now been assessed by Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag award scheme as amongst the very best in the UK,. This year two additional Nottingham parks have […]
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Britain’s best archery talent will be showcased at the National Series Finals in Nottingham on 29 and 30 August and families are invited to enjoy the spectacle at Wollaton Hall. The two day event, which is free to attend and open to all, will see the stunning Wollaton Park transformed into a head-to-head archery competition […]
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Visitors to Nottingham Castle are in for a time-travelling treat this Saturday (18 July) when Nottingham’s medieval history is celebrated with a ‘Medieval Merriment’ event. Jointly organised by Nottingham City Council and York-based The JORVIK Group, operators of the world famous JORVIK Viking Centre, the event promises to catapult visitors back to the middle ages. […]
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A recent survey of the trees in the Lime Tree Avenue in Wollaton Park has identified that 20 trees urgently need replacing because they are dying or diseased. This work will begin on Monday 13 July. The survey, conducted in late June 2015 by experienced arboriculturalists, has identified an additional number of trees also suffering from […]
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