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There are plans to create 10 new Super Kitchens in Nottingham, making the city the UK’s first social eating city. Nottingham City Council is working with the Super kitchen project to create community eating spaces and tackle food poverty using surplus supermarket produce. Super Kitchen was established in 2014 in Sneinton and quickly grew from […]
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City residents have the chance to have their say on proposals to make £27m of savings following more Government cuts to the council’s budget. Feedback on the City Council’s 2017/18 budget proposals can be given through an online survey at https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/yourcityyourservices or downloading a copy of the survey from the page and emailing it to […]
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Entries are now open for the Young Creative Awards 2017. The Nottingham Young Creative Awards 2017 give young people the chance to show off their creative work, network with future employers and gain valuable industry experience and mentoring. The theme this year is ‘Nottingham, Future City’. Judges want young people, aged 13 to 24 who […]
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The £30m construction of the new BioCity building is almost complete, with final works and finishing touches taking place throughout the start of 2017. The building, which will host Sygnature Discovery over three of its four floors when construction finishes in March, sees the expansion of BioCity in Nottingham and new space for scientific […]
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Robin Hood energy, a not-for profit company set up by Nottingham City Council is taking on the Big Six energy companies to help the poor heat their homes. Instead of raking in massive profits from the sale of gas and electricity, Robin Hood Energy buys electricity from the National Grid and sells it on at a […]
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Thousands of people have been helped into work and training in Nottingham in the last year, thanks to Nottingham City Council and its partners. The total of 4,809 includes 2,300 local residents who were helped into employment and 915 young people into apprenticeships supported through the council’s Nottingham Jobs Hub. Since April 2016, 830 unemployed […]
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A Nottingham care home which looks after elderly people with dementia has been rated as ‘good’ by regulators. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an unannounced inspection at the Cherry Trees Resource Centre, in Bestwood Park, at the beginning of December and found it to be performing well across all areas. The Chippenham Road […]
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Nottingham City Council is preparing to set next year’s budget against a backdrop of £130m of cuts to its Government grant since 2010 and a national shift towards local taxpayers footing the bill for services. Shifting the burden to local taxpayers includes the Government’s proposed additional 3% social care precept as a way to address […]
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Nottingham has seen the biggest fall in unemployment of any of England’s Core Cities, according to latest figures. Unemployment in Nottingham City fell by 2.9% in the month of October and by 6% in the previous 12 months. Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and Leeds saw lower reductions while Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle saw unemployment increase. Figures […]
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