Up The Charlies: What Alston, Drew and Chaplin Have To Offer: September 2020

Above: painter, sculptor, botanist Charles Alston’s image of African American research scientist surgeon Charles Drew, founder of Blood Banking for Britain in 1940 highlighted in author, writer, dramatist and activist Naomi Alderman’s Science Stories. Charlie Chaplin, as Kathleen Turner noted in the BBC programme Icons Of The 21st Century was actually talking about how he really felt […]

Why We Need To Understand The Stories And Detail Of The Post War Period To Transform Our Economy In 2020 and Beyond

Featured Image: Jacob Lawrence: The Prisoners From The Migration Series We have socialised prisoners to believe they’re not worthy of a vote/representation/a job even when they have served their time. We have shamed ex-prisoners into accepting that stigma as the reason why they can’t work, build skills, opportunities that will address the reasons why communities […]

Tiger Textiles Community Interest Company: “I Think It’s Fair To Say That It’s Been a Strange Few Months for Us: Toni Jarvis Director

Above: Toni Jarvis, Nottingham Face Mask Shop Manager 38 Carrington Street, Project Manager, Director, Teacher, Innovator of Tiger Community Interest Company “When the pandemic first began we were completely thrown, especially as a small social enterprise whose main focus is engaging with our community. Our first instinct when lockdown began was to temporarily shut down […]

38 Carrington Street: Understanding The Potential Of Everyone Who Lives In Nottingham To Inform And Shape An Extraordinary Future…

Do you know 38 Carrington Street Nottingham? It’s next door to a betting shop but the connections and opportunities that architects, economists, teachers, lawyers, charity workers, business people, skateboarders, artists, social workers, community workers are generating in Nottingham are moving our city away from the old idea of building an empire by exploiting structured inequality into offering […]

Give Each Life The Right To Shine And Save The Planet On The Way: Connect the Micro, The SME, Medium, The Largest Company And Create New Kinds Of Business, Training, Education And Skills Across The Lifespan: Everyone Matters

Featured Image: Last week’s International week of tiger awareness with special days and events: (and the welfare of our planet is on our mind when we consider the billions of animals killed in the Australian bushfires). We’re really sensitive to the local global connection as we tentatively mask up, socially distance and can see a connection between […]

“I think Covid 19 can be compared to an earthquake, a volcano: a disaster: what can be salvaged? Are NHS staff valued enough?” Cool, Black and Exceptional Professor Dame Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu DBE FRCN, nurse, health care administrator, lecturer, and Emeritus Professor of Nursing at University of West London

Featured Image: When They Said 2020 Would be The Year of The Nurse They Weren’t Joking: Royston cartoon if you’d like a print contact the artist The depletion we all feel since the avalanche of Covid19 hit Britain and expressed in Clive Myrie’s brilliant, local bulletins from the Royal London hospital is in some ways given balance […]

Sharp And Tasteful: Rally Champ Sarah And Husband Mick Reinvent The Barbering Space Post Lockdown Appointments: Sharrowvale Barbers 07783 629062

Above: Sharrowvale Sheffield Barber and Yorkshire Motorsport’s Harewood, Gurston Hill Climb, Prescott Gold Cup, Midland Speed, Curborough Sprint Champ Sarah Bosworth in her beautiful Lotus Elise People run, cycle, climb and drive across the landscape and the communal is a sign of a living, breathing, culture. As we slowly come out of lockdown, those dreams, achievements, skills […]

Transformations Are Us: More Than The Pub Opening: More Than Our First Post Lockdown Haircut….

Featured Image: BBC Journalist Chris Mason hams up his hair before live “Trimdependence” Saturday 4th July 2020 Above: 4th July haircut for BBC Presenter Chris Mason The connection between community, skills and the economy is alive when you think about the skills of barbers and hairdressers. They wake up the high street and our going out […]

4th July West Bridgford, Nottingham, UK, America, Palestine, South Africa: People Who Care About An Inclusive, Restorative, Healthy Economy: Black Lives Matter: Black Health And Longevity

4th July 2020 102 year old actor Earl Cameron died today (above Earl at 91 receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace in 2009) Earl’s life, like Dame Vera Lynn’s life, really mattered. Above: Never Again: by John Heartfield produced in 1940 but not printed until 1959 and As In the Middle Ages, so In […]

Re-Use, Repair, Recycle: Now Miele Are Pretty Good Washing Machines, So Why Not Reconditioned In Nottingham? Contact Paul: 07593163859

Featured Image: Miele WEA025 7kg 1400 rpm A+++ Energy rating £579 Our washing machine stopped working unexpectedly: it was old and although you can replace bearings, apparently easily, I wasn’t at that stage of environmental development and started looking online: John Lewis, Homesource4U, Gumtree. I wanted a Miele washing machine because they’re reliable and efficient but […]