dreams on the walls at westminster

News As Art: Art Is News: From The Neighbourhoods of the UK Featured Image: Ramsay Macdonald addressing parliament in 1937 The Rushcliffe Committee operated within parliament for a year between May 1944 and 1945. It was a very important committee and produced its report in 1945. Ostensibly about practically considering how legal aid could and should be […]

From Lutterell Hall WB to Lutterell Court WB: It’s all in OUR community: Joan, rose, cheri and Asia

Featured Image: MTVH’s Lutterell Court community centre Platinum Jubilee party June 2nd 2022 Rose Bradford organiser, with the platinum celebration cake Rose Bradford and Joan Picker are at the heart of regular community activities at Lutterell Court West Bridgford NG2 7LN just off Uppingham Crescent, West Bridgford. After long working and family lives and living […]

Getting to know the West bridgford vegan Market Traders (3)

Featured Image: UnStudio’s Reinventing Spaces: Placemaking Through Participatory Culture The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust came to the vegan market at Lutterell Hall on the junction of Church Drive and Bridgford Road in West Bridgford on 21st May to present the success of two projects: placemaking in Nottingham with their successful petition to green the Broad Marsh […]

WB vegan market At Lutterell Hall West Bridgford Get to know the traders (2)

Featured image: Why Market Traders Are Vital To Regeneration Steve Taylor: Taylors Free From Our products are vegan: savoury pies free from the top 14 allergies Steve and his wife, Toni went vegan when she realised she was pregnant. Their ethical reason was to do their bit to safeguard their new life and the world […]

review of vegan market 21st May Lutterell Hall: get to know the traders (1)

Featured Image: Rainbow Monkey Events set up to promote Vegan Fairs by Entrepreneur/Creative Sam Brundish: (next Lutterell Hall markets 30th July, 3rd September and 1st October 2022). Lutterell Hall is a great venue for events in West Bridgford. On the junction of church Drive and Bridgford Road it’s like a tardis room: a place where […]

Secrets of the ssh…. course (just one of many for new/existing business) at dec….dryden st hooray!

Formula: Adrian and Liz + Dryden Enterprise Centre plus entrepreneurial undergraduates/post graduates: Dhavri, Ini, Anastasia, Emily, Giselle, David, Ollie, Max, Will, Shadrak, Emily(2), Jake, Rianne, HayleyJoelMax, Samaya= Potential Business Energy released for Nottingham….how? Well, we all attended the NTU Dryden Enterprise Centre’s Saturday Side Hustle course on two Saturdays May 7th and May 14th. It […]

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 […]