Appeals, Campaigns and Opportunities News

Introducing Community Champions

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) is working in partnership with the Nottingham City Council Public Health team and local NHS services to develop a team of Community Champions.Are you interested in a new volunteering opportunity or would you consider taking on additional volunteering to complement your current volunteer role?We are actively seeking volunteers to join a new network… Read More

Introducing Community Champions - photo of people wearing 'Volunteer' t-shirts
New alcohol & drug support service - Recovery Links Nottinghamshire

Double Impact Services, the drug and alcohol recovery charity, has been awarded £479,805 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, to be used over a period of four years. The funding will support people in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire with alcohol and drug issues. It comes as welcome news to the charity, who have worked in the city… Read More

Recovery Links Nottinghamshire
Bid for new PDU e-learning resources

The Practice Development Unit (PDU) is seeking contributors from specialist organisations to work together in developing new e-learning resources exploring gender responsive and culturally sensitive approaches in working with people facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage (SMD). The work has been commissioned by Nottingham City Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), to raise awareness… Read More

Practice Development Unit (PDU) Nottingham
Additional income for your organisation

We're working in collaboration with fundraising website easyfundraising to provide you with a simple way to generate additional income for your voluntary and community sector organisation or group.Easyfundraising, which has been running since 2005, enables people to support charities simply by shopping online. It does this by turning everyday online shopping into free donations for a nominated… Read More

Easyfundraising turns everyday online shopping into free donations for your charity.
Loneliness Awareness Week 2021

This week it's Loneliness Awareness Week (14-18 June 2021), hosted by Marmalade Trust. The campaign aims to raise awareness of loneliness and get people talking about it. After a year of lockdowns, social distancing, and restrictions, more of us are experiencing loneliness than ever, which is having a big impact on our wellbeing. The theme for this year's campaign is… Read More

Loneliness Awareness Week 2021
New book launched by The Windrush Project

A new book about a Windrush passenger who came to Nottingham is being launched by Bishop James Stapleton and his daughter Esther Stapleton-Stone. James is the Chairman of the Windrush Awards. The organisation acknowledges people who have served by promoting unity and understanding in Nottingham City's communities. William Chong was one such individual who received a special lifetime award… Read More

The Life of William Chong a Windrush Passenger
GreenSpace has launched in Nottingham

The new Green Social Prescribing Programme for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire has launched. The two-year programme, called GreenSpace, looks to improve the mental health and wellbeing of communities hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, by connecting local people with nature-based activities and green community projects and initiatives in the city and county. Nottingham was selected as one of… Read More

GreenSpace, a partnership approach to green social prescribing
A green boost for mental health

Next week sees the launch of the new Green Social Prescribing Programme for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The two-year pilot programme aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of communities hardest hit by coronavirus, by connecting people with nature-based activities and local green groups and projects. Monday also sees the start of Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May 2021),… Read More

Mental Health Awareness Week
Nottingham High Sheriff Award winners named

Charities and Community Interest Companies (CICs) in Nottingham are celebrating after receiving a prestigious High Sheriff Award 2021 from Dame Elizabeth Fradd (DBE DL), the High Sheriff of Nottingham. The awards are presented each year to individuals and community groups across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, in order to recognise and honour the important work they do to… Read More

High Sheriff Award for Base 51
Funded places available on Breakaway Futures programme

The Breakaway Futures programme has funded places available until November 2023 for anyone who is unemployed, over the age of 16 and lives within the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area which includes Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Breakaway Futures is run by local charity Transform Training which specialises in emotional education supporting participants' emotional literacy and… Read More

Breakaway Futures programme has funded places available