Nottingham Community Network

Linking the voluntary sector and neighbourhood renewal

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Be involved with V involved

V is a new and exciting national project which aims to involve young people in volunteering and offers them the chance to get training, qualifications and experience, get skills and make friends and benefit their community. Find out more.

Very photogenic

An exhibition of photographs showing positive news stories around Nottingham and the difference One Nottingham is making to people's lives is on display from Monday 28 April to Friday 9 May. It's at South Nottingham College and is open Monday to Thursday 9am to 8pm and Friday 9am to 4pm.

The photographs, showing the people behind the statistics, were taken by Toby Neal, who is currently a student on the Higher National Diploma in photography at South Nottingham College. Find out more.

You are also invited to the launch event One Nottingham is holding in partnership with the college on Tuesday 29 April from 5pm. Details here.

Small Steps

Small Steps food co-op are recruiting volunteers. They would like to make the co-op self sustaining and need volunteers to make this happen. You don’t need to commit every week but enough people are needed to form a rota and to make decisions about the running of the coop. What's the food co-op?

Read the flier and contact Fiona on 0115 941 9525 or email cew@dunkirkandlenton.co.uk

Voice of the Patient

The Patient Experience Group is a forum for patients, carers, members of the public, and voluntary and community groups to talk directly to the Primary Care Trust about their concerns and issues, and work together to find solutions. More info here.

The next meeting is on Wednesday 28 May, 1.00pm to 3.00pm at Standard Court (map). Read the last minutes here and contact Tracie Baker on 0115 9123320 or email Tracie.Baker@nottinghamcity-pct.nhs.uk if you're interested in coming along.

Forest Recreation Ground

The Forest Project has been set up to restore the Forest Recreation Ground on Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham to its former glory. This is a fund of £60,000 from the National Lottery to put our ideas for the Forest into practice.

The Forest Project has been running for around five years now and is led by the Partnership Council, Nottingham City Council, Neighbourhood Development Company and the Friends of the Forest – a group made up of local residents and volunteers.

Come and give your views on how the money should be spent at a public event on Saturday 26 April at Djanogly City Academy, Hyson Green, 10am to 1pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. Find out more.

Children's Shadow Board

It's the children, young people and families shadow board next Thursday, 1 May at 10.00am to 12.30pm at the Sandfield Centre off Derby Road (map). If you work with or for young people or children, you should be there - here's the agenda.

Cohesion guidance for funders

The Cohesion Guidance for Funders consultation events aim to gather your views on this guidance and how it would impact on your work. Join the National Equality Partnership in shaping the debate.

Here are details of 3 consultation events about cohesion guidance. Nottingham's event is on Thursday 1 May - contact Clare on 0115 950 8820 or clare@voice-em.org.uk for a booking form.

Deaf awareness week

Deaf awareness week is Tuesday 6 May to Saturday 10 May. Action Deafness has a whole host of events going on - find out more here.

Action Deafness is based at 135 Welford Road, Leicester, LE2 6BE.

Evidencing our work

This University of Nottingham/Third sector seminar event will take place from 10.00am to 1.00pm on Wednesday 21 May, with lunch included - the venue is Room A19 (Committee Room), Trent Building, University of Nottingham, University Park. The flier.

The event is an opportunity for the sector to discuss with the University how we can evidence the impact of our work and improve our research credibility. We will also have the opportunity to discuss with a number of University researchers how they can support our work and make their own research more relevant to us.

This seminar has been organised by Sharon Clancy who is now Head of Active Communities at the University. We will explore other partnership possibilities including volunteering of University staff and post graduates, placements and employability issues etc. A full agenda will follow - but please get this in your diary now. It promises to be a really interesting and lively debate.

Please confirm your attendance by Friday 2 May to Jill Bennett on 0115 8467720 or email to jill.bennett@nottingham.ac.uk