A City Council programme is giving unemployed Nottingham adults access to online learning to gain new skills during the pandemic. The Community and Family Learning programme provides short courses and webinars to all residents of Nottingham City, aged 19 years old and over, and requires no previous knowledge or skill levels. Some of the learning […]
City councillors will be asked on Monday to formally approve a new plan to tackle hate crime in Nottingham. The Hate Crime Strategy, announced in October last year, has been written with partners from across the city, including Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire Police, The Police and Crime Commissioner, Nottingham City Homes, Nottingham City Hate Crime […]
Councillor David Mellen, also Portfolio Holder for Schools, said: Covid infection levels in Nottingham currently remain below the national average and infection levels among primary school children are lower still. We nevertheless understand the anxiety for both parents and school staff about tomorrow’s planned return to school for primary pupils and we know what a […]
More than 3,000 responses have been put forward ahead of a New Year’s Day deadline for how Nottingham’s Broadmarsh Centre site might be re-imagined. 2021 will see the ideas shaped into a masterplan for one of the most significant city-centre development sites in the country. At the start of 2020, good progress was being made […]
The Deputy Leader of Nottingham City Council has reiterated the authority’s carbon-neutral aims as she prepares to sign up once more to a global commitment. Councillor Sally Longford, pictured, will make the Council a signatory again on the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCM), which it first signed up to in 2008. GCM is a worldwide […]
The Leader of Nottingham City Council has paid tribute to legendary mountaineer and Freeman of the City, Doug Scott, who has died at the age of 79. Doug Scott, pictured left, was born in Nottingham in May 1941 and became a Freeman in 1976, the year after he made history by scaling the summit of […]
The Christmas market was closed today (Sunday 6 December) while we assessed the first day of phased opening on Saturday. Following ongoing meetings, including observing strong city centre footfall again, we have made a joint decision not to reopen Nottingham Christmas Market this year. A wide range of measures had been put in place to […]
Nottingham City Council is in the running to be named the best local authority in the UK. It has been shortlisted for The Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) Service Awards 2020 Overall Council of the Year in Service Delivery. This is in addition to six further nominations for specific areas of the authority’s work. […]
A warning about illegal fees has gone out to students in Nottingham as their thoughts turn to accommodation for the next academic year. It has come from Nottingham City Council’s Trading Standards team and, while the advice applies to everyone, it is particularly timely for students seeking a place to live in 2021/22. The aim […]
Following our announcement yesterday, we’d like to respond to concerns made on social media channels, and offer local residents further reassurances about the Christmas market. We fully understand that giving the go-ahead for an event this year may appear to send mixed messages. People in Nottingham have been working so hard, alongside the Council and […]