Nottingham Playhouse: Understanding The Scene Of The Crime: Complicite’s Drive Your Plow… Tues 4th-Sat 8th April 2023

There’s a story simple and universal: what causes cruelties, murder, death, exploitation: interestingly what’s the scene of the crime and who’s the detective? What’s our alibi? Watching Drive Your Plow Over the Bones Of The Dead at a packed house at Nottingham Playhouse last night with my daughter who works in climate, economic and environmental […]

We’re all the seed library: Creating Beautiful communities: TPAS 28th Feb 2023

A community spirit needs to be grown and nurtured – just like a garden. King Charles has a vision of the garden of the United Kingdom that is organic, creates jobs for local people and is thus restitutative: like the churches who are realising that sharing and distributing some (100 million pounds) of history’s colonial assets can […]

A Garden is an economy: the right to root

Community Is A Garden: The Right to Root When we think of community as a garden we need to go beyond the plot to understand that to grow a community, in each of our neighbourhoods throughout the UK, we need a diverse and responsive local economy where, through great homes, education, skills development throughout the […]

Budget Day Nottingham TPAS Community Engagement Conference: March 15th 2023 9am-4pm

Featured Image: TPAS Engaging Communities Conference Crowne Plaza Hotel Nottingham 9-4 pm Wednesday 15th March 2023 Above: The Tenant Participation Learning Calendar: as well as this TPAS run Digi Training (public and in-house) webinars Events and Learning Pods and short courses on community led and driven activities such as the recent (28th Oct 2023 12.30-2.30) Creating Bright and […]

5,750,000 homes in the uk have mould: it’s not just social housing

Featured Image: Mould In A Service Family’s Accommodation Highlighted in this week’s Forces.net As we know, Britain is a draughty country containing castles and forts and moats. There’s also a massive housing stock across the social, private and military estates that desperately needs some tender, loving care. After the death of Awaab Ishak, the creation […]

New Modern work in the neighbourhood for everyone

Featured Image: The Elements Of Organic Gardening Highgrove, Clarence House Birkhall by King Charles and team Like most modern Britons I understand the continuing influence and importance of a dynamic monarch engaged in UK neighbourhoods valuing and connecting young, middle aged and old with their organic abilities to contribute and transform the economic, social, cultural […]

Replacing a boiler? Here’s some useful info from MTVH’s Heating and Property Dept

Featured image: Engineer/Customer Matrix on boiler repair and replacement scheduling via Ian Burrows Heating Manager Property MTVH who attends the MTVH regular Customer Voice meetings organised by Gareth Sears Resident Voice Coordinator and Customer Engagement Lead Nisha Aslam Above: MTVH Heating and Responsive Repairs Manager Ian Burrows A Which? survey in 2021 said that half […]

Boiler info: combi, heat only and system boilers

Info: from Which feature writer Sam Morris 2021 Which is a really useful magazine: I wanted to write about boilersTypes of boiler Combi, heat-only and system boilers. A combination (combi) boiler is the most common type of boiler the UK. Heat-only and system boilers suit a variety of situations A condensing boiler could save you […]

To Prevent mould in housing we need a neighbourhood approach

Featured Image: Unhealthy Neighbourhood Syndrome by Husam AlWaer, Joshua Speedie, Ian Cooper You’ll be as relieved as I am to hear that much work to address mould and damp is being done across the UK through university knowledge transfer projects locally, Nottingham City and County projects to alleviate damp and mould and Metropolitan Thames Valley […]

Song of Ourselves: We’re the Body Electric 1 How MTVH’s Customer Voice Framework and Customer Council’s aims are to repair and revalue homes and people, work, education and skills throughout the lifespan.

Featured Image: Proposal For A Mural by Nottingham university course award winning student Jack Chuang from Taiwan (and Shanghai!) 1.Best Final Year Individual Project on the BEng Product Design and Manufacture course 2019. 2. Head of Department Award, for being in the the top 10% of students in Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering in 2019. MTVH (Metropolitan Thames Valley) Housing has a long community history of […]