Great service: MTVH+ Aaron Services

Sometimes guttering and boiler problems are interconnected: Living across from a mature tree lined park Above: MTVH maisonette overlooking Greythorn Park (set up when one of the new residents in the 1960’s thought ‘this new estate needs a park for the children’ and organised a petition means, all these years later, in 2023, that’s sixty(!) […]

When you vote you become visible: care of the electoral process: Nottm City Council

Featured Image: Oxfam’s Your Vote Is Your Voice visual used in USA elections After working on the May elections for Nottingham City Council our team received a follow up letter after our paid electoral work experience from the Chief Exec of the council Mel Barrett. Above: Local Government Chronicle article about Mel Barrett: This Is […]

Customer+ Engineer working together to solve a problem: teach + Learn (1) Pressure

Aaron Services are the gas contractor for MTVH I contacted Aaron Services as the pressure on my boiler had dropped and the radiators wouldn’t come on. Ben explained that I could increase the pressure by removing a plate on the boiler (with a key) and turning the boiler pressure clockwise with the key (see video […]

HMRC JObs with ApprentIceships (100 across the UK -closing date 31st July 2023)

Have you ever wondered about working in government, do you have a parent, grandparent, friend or relative working for the Council or the Civil Service? Do you see your local councillors working hard in difficult situations, do you see your local MPs out in the constituency as I do and then back in parliament and […]

st George’s Medical Practice AGM WB Patient Forum 5th June 23

Featured Image: 111 Calls By Top Symptom Group: there’s also GP Level data produced by NHS Digital which looks at scheduled telephone and surgery appointments and things like telephone triage, online consultations, home visits, immunisations, enhanced access appointments. St George’s Medical Practice in WB is sensitive to the way online services can be used and […]

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 […]