Because Jayline is Closing: this is why I write this blog: DIY SOS Can you help?

Featured Image Professor Kim Cassidy press release Nottingham Trent University Professor Kim Cassidy, Professor of Services (Retail) Marketing and academic director of the National Retail Research Knowledge Exchange Centre (NRRKEC), will be working with former Nottinghamshire County Council chief executive, Mick Burrows, and Timothy Richmond OBE, an experienced entrepreneur and Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Kim […]

Housing: build a system that works for everyone: you can’t expect small landlords to have all the answers

Above Nick Murphy: Chief Executive of Nottingham City Homes Inside Housing recently featured in Inside Housing NCH recently set up a registered subsidiary to build private rented sector homes. What’s wrong with owning a home? What’s wrong with owning a second home? What’s wrong with owning a small portfolio? What’s wrong with a medium size […]

Sneinton is for all of us: let’s hear more stories from more lives more of the time

Do you know anything about Sneinton? Bring your photos, memorabilia to Unit 5 Sneinton Market between 4th and 18th March

7 or is it 8 million people have dropped off the electoral register in Britain?

Source: Seven, or is it eight million people have ‘dropped off’ the electoral register in Britain? October 2015 article on the wonderful PoliticalSift blog Seven, or is it eight million people have ‘dropped off’ the electoral register in Britain? World population 7 billion (source, United States Census Bureau) Now if seven, or eight million people had drowned… […]

Focus Gallery: they don’t invent the wheel for artists, art and object, they just keep it spinning: Antonia and team

Recycled Gold and Silver Jewellery workshop, learn to design new from old….

After the mathematics of social and spiritual detachment: the work of Steve Hewlett to understand the NHS will never be forgotten. Rest in Peace Steve…you did a great job for all of us

Featured image Impressionism produced by the wonderful agency YOKE for the Art for Life project in the NHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etSbOs3aUqI Steve Hewlett, Media Show broadcaster, he of the high belief in solutions to problems died on Monday 20th February 2017. The BBC said he’d died on Monday morning while listening to Bob Dylan with his family […]

Is this art? Nottingham Unesco City of Literature: we write and we re-write stories: art, history and culture is ours Museumand Part 1

Featured Image: Museumand logo designed by John Daniel Art John is an original and exciting graphic designer who works, thinks and consults across boundaries and media. Perfect for the Museum without Walls….. Above: Din un tres belle negresse 2012 Mickalene Thomas Rhinestones, acrylic, oil and enamel on wood panel (permission sought from the artist) Is this […]

Aretha Franklin ‘retiring’ but will never retire: Charles Blake’s the same: 40 years a painter and decorator, great work still to do….

Above: R.E.S.P.E.C.T Aretha Franklin (she received the Freedom medal Feb 9th 2005) who is ‘retiring’ but to take her career to a new level on Broadway. And we all want to do that, we all want to feel that our lives are progressing. Like Charles Blake. I met Charles when he was painting a shop front […]

A Sense of local place: how we think about our Neighbourhoods in Nottingham can bring regeneration

In Nottingham we want everyone to get on and be able to make a useful living and feel part of things all of their lives. In market and social speak (meaning the language of funders and social descriptors), we want what’s called social inclusion. Above, women at Nottingham Contemporary Museumand event 15th and 16th Feb congratulate […]

Charles Blake: In the Spring time of the year: great painting and decorating

You know how when you see someone doing a really good job, they’re engrossed and connected. Happy, if you like. Well I was on my way to work and I spotted that moment and I walked past it. And then I went back to say: “You’re really doing a great job. I had to say, […]