We need to welcome the Neighbourhoods of nottingham and the people who live in nottingham as well as we welcome students and forest fans: shared community vision

Featured Image: Guedioura’s Welcome To Nottingham (Forest Fans) How we receive and welcome people has a massive effect on the way they perceive themselves and others. We all know this but we don’t realise how much the welcome (or exclusion and stigma) impacts on physical and mental health and wellbeing. Neighbourhood is important in Clifford […]

Spring Budget: FSB + DEC Dryden St: Learning, connecting, linking, lobbying: generating capacity in Nottingham

Featured Image: DEC Dryden Street Round Table organised by Natalie Gasson Mckinley @FSBNottsDerbys and DEC @ntuEnterprise On Friday 25th March 10 am -11.30 am members of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and tenants of the new NTU Dryden St Enterprise Centre had the most interesting welcome to the blend of advocacy, support and lobby that’s in the history of buildings, business […]

DEC (not yR End or the 15 charities set up in 1963 to provide Humane Aid in war): it’s our Dryden Enterprise Centre nurturing, Regenerating People, talent, business across our world

Featured image: The DEC NTU’s enterprise centre: Martine Hamilton Knight Dryden Enterprise Centre is the DEC. Designed by the team at Evans Vettori see Architect’s Journal article. Nottingham Trent University’s newest building on Dryden Street (Evans Vettori modernised the Waverley building in the city 1997 and the heart of the campus at Clifton and then Brackenhurst campus reception centre). Built […]

Let’s connect with working class, black and ethnic minority neighbourhoods in Nottingham the same way we we welcome students every year: new economies, opportunities, jobs for all

When you consider a place like Nottingham it’s full of locked down potential, it’s full of success and failure sitting together on the tram, in offices, in coffee bars, in doctor’s/dentist’s surgeries, shops, walking through the streets, day and night. Yet, if you look at Illustrator Becky Riley’s rebranding of the neighbourhoods of Nottingham in […]

Theo Clinkard: The Days Thurs and Fri 21st 22nd April Lakeside + Dance4 Community Workshop 15th March Thanks to Ruthba, Jess, Theo and everyone who Danced

Going to Dance4 Tuesday 15th March Theo Clinkard Workshop I normally work on an employed/self employed basis and am always looking to develop community/business opportunities and links. When I was furloughed from my job as Achievement Coach with engineering apprentices at Nottingham College, in July 2020, I rose to the challenge of multiple temping: working across […]

Why we’re still waiting for a social reconstruction that would include everyone and change things for ever

The post second world war development of state funded services is often viewed as discrete, that they’re things that brought themselves into being for us, so right and just and true that we imagine that when they were established that they were achieved because we have a democracy, because everyone voted and the political and legal system responded to the franchise. Seventy five […]

What Do We Need Now? The energy of a new kind of social fusion: a reconnecting alchemy where local, regional, national and international supply chain-metals become insightful, creative, productive relationships between people across the world: let’s map new understanding

Seeing a university student at risk of exploitation brought me up close to a personal awareness of the way the local economy in many ways mimics/mirrors/connects with larger exploitative supply chains across the world. Connecting and sharing local research with an understanding of regional, national, international stories should be delivered to everyone in society: stories about the whole world, new products, economies, culture, shared, valued […]

JOHN MILLS IS MAN AND A MERCEDES VAN: PROMPT, EFFICIENT, FRIENDLY, CAPABLE REMOVALS 0771019594382

Above: John Mills Man and Van a simple, straightforward card As children we learn from parents, relatives, friends, people who are significant to us, to value and collect things, developing an eye for the unusual, the rare, the valuable, the useful that stays with us throughout life. Having a warm eye for objects, people, relationships connects […]

Live A Little, Work A Little, Fail A Little: How Mhairi Tells It Like It Is

Above: If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane Newly published 49year old Stephen Walsh’s comment about his first book Shine/Variance on Radio 4’s Open Book is a great description of Mhairi Mcfarlane’s sixth novel that I read and really enjoyed yesterday. Mhairi McFarlane books: Last Night, If I Never Met You ,You Had Me […]

Bennet Omalu: How His Struggle To Humanise American Scientific and Medical Research In His Work On Lifetime Brain Injury In Sportspeople Has Improved The Future Of Health For Everyone

encephalopathy (CTE). Rick Friedman /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images Above: Bennet Omalu, doctor, physician, neuropathologist whose work to understand the impacts of sport related brain injury was portrayed in the 2015 film Concussion CONCUSSION -The Film was about how the pathologist paid his employer so he had time to research a hunch on the brain damage American footballer Mike […]