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DANIELLE’S EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:27:08 +0000

Local teenager Danielle Greaves is about to undertake an experience of a lifetime by volunteering to join a special conservation project in South Africa. This fantastic experience will be invaluable in following her dream of attending university, where she will study Environmental Biology.
Danielle told The Local News: “I would like a career to work with African people and show them the importance of conserving and living in harmony with the wildlife they see around them.”
The project is going to cost Danielle £2,500 and considering she is only 17, this is quite a tall order. However, help has been at hand in the form of Dawn’s Cards of Clifton and her customers, who are helping to sponsor Danielle in her project.
Dawn told The Local News: “She is a very passionate young girl and I have known Danielle and her family for many years. We should encourage this sort of enthusiasm as there’s so much bad press labelled on young people these days.
“Danielle is a shining beacon amongst her peers and she has the determination rarely seen in most people these days. So it is nice to be able to try and help make her dream come true.”
Any donations can be left at Dawn’s Cards, which is located next to Boots on Southchurch Drive in Clifton.
Danielle added: “I would like to thank all the people of Clifton who have helped by giving donations already. I am very grateful and hope to reach the target of the full amount in the next couple of weeks.”
Danielle leaves for her trip to South Africa on Tuesday 17th August.

WISE RECYCLING AT WHITEGATE

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:25:18 +0000

Whitegate Primary School in Clifton has been recognised by Nottingham City Council for completing ‘Nottingham City Council’s Waste In School Education Project (WISE)’. The WISE project offers help and advice to schools on waste. Practical support is also provided through exciting activities on reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling of waste.
The school have successfully completed pledges looking at how to reduce, reuse, repair and recycle and have participated in activities set by the Sustainability Education Officer at Nottingham City Council.
The school has successfully reduced the amount of food waste and have created ‘love food hate waste’ posters for dining areas to encourage children to eat all their lunchboxes or food on their plates. To run alongside this they held a ‘waste free lunch’ challenge day in the school by holding a competition between classes by collecting and weighing waste to see which class produces the least.
Whitegate Primary School also mentioned their involvement in Wise in the schools newsletter and on their website and has incorporated the national recycling logo and strap line into the school letter.
To continue the behavioural change across the school, targets have also been set in the WISE action plans to revamp paper recycling by introducing new recycling monitors and recycling bins in classrooms; to reduce the contamination of the recycling bins and to reduce the amount of organic waste generated from fruit by deciding on the best location for new compost bins and order caddies for fruit waste to be transferred to compost bins.
Councillor Katrina Bull, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change at Nottingham City Council, said: “Everyone at Whitegate Primary School has worked hard to achieve the objectives set out in the WISE project and have made a real difference to their environment.
“We hope projects like WISE will encourage young people to take ideas and activities home to their parents or carers so the whole family can be educated about living in a more environmentally friendly way.”

PARKLIFE 2010: FREE ACTIVITIES

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:24:19 +0000

Parklife is a series of fun free community events which offer a range of exciting activities in the parks and open spaces in Nottingham.
This year’s Parklife events will be fun-filled family days, bringing together local organisations and partners to offer an array of activities.
These include:

Climbing wall
Bouncy castles
Obstacle course
Skateboarding activities
Cartoon drawing
Face painting
Circus skills
Puppet show
Dancing activities
And many more

Bring a picnic and make a day of it. The event in Clifton will be held on Tuesday 17th August on Clifton Playing Fields on Farnborough Road (post code: NG11 8JU) from 11am-4pm.
Jade Gresham, active communities development officer for Nottingham City Council, said: “We all know how difficult it can be to get involved in your community and find out what’s available, but by coming to a Parklife event near you you’ll be able to find out exactly what’s available in your area.
“You’ll be able to pick up lots of tips and ideas on how to become more active and how to lead a healthy life. There are heaps of fun and exciting ways to keep fit and healthy.”
For further details please call 0115 915 2740 or email sportandleisure@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

SUMMER READING SCHEME

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:22:27 +0000

Clifton Library, located on Southchurch Drive, will be running an exciting Summer Reading Scheme in the school holidays, called Space Hop. Anyone can join for free, read six books and then win lots of goodies and prizes.
Those finishing the Space Mission will be invited to a special award ceremony on Saturday 4th September to collect their medals and certificates.
On Tuesday 10th August, there will be an animal party, with all kinds of animals for children to meet. You will need to obtain a free ticket for this. For more details call the library on 0115 915 2945.

BARTON BEER FESTIVAL

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:20:45 +0000

The fourth annual Barton Beer and Wine Festival takes place on Friday 24th, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th September. There’s lots of beers, ciders and wines
to enjoy. On Friday 24th September from 7pm (cost £8), there’s live music and a fish and chip supper (order by 8.30pm).
On Saturday from noon (cost £10), there’s live music (evening) and a BBQ (afternoon and evening). On Sunday from 1pm there’s hot roast cobs. All weekend admission is £12.50, to include commemorative glass and first drink. Visit the website bartoninfabis.org.uk or send an email to bartonvh@gmail.com.

GREAT YEAR FOR VICTIM SUPPORT

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:19:38 +0000

The volunteers and staff of the local Victim Support were warmly praised at their recent annual review meeting held in the city.
Victim Support’s regional manager, Joe Brazil, told The Local News: “The evening provided Victim Support with the opportunity to creatively demonstrate to our friends, partners and supporters a sample of the services we provide throughout the count of Nottinghamshire.”
Joe spoke about the new National Victims Service -
a joined-up approach to assisting crime victims. He also outlined the developing one-to-one work with homicide victims, to which the government had devoted £2m this year nationally.
Four new anti-social behaviour co-workers spoke on their work within specific local communities. A victim warmly thanked the organisation for the help she and her family had received following a harrowing period due to abuse from neighbours.
Divisional manager, Olwen Edwards, said: “The committed and caring volunteers offered assistance to about 30,000 crime victims and 7,000 witnesses at Criminal and Coroner’s Courts.
“They also assisted over 600 victims with Criminal Injuries Compensation applications and 13% of their work had been with non-crimed incidents.
“We cannot get away from being a charity and one that is reliant on donations, sponsorship or grants. So we must thank those organisations that have invested in us this year.”

ROTARY AWARDS FOR LOCAL YOUNGSTERS

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:35:40 +0000

The Rotary Clubs of Bingham, Keyworth & Ruddington, Trent Bridge and West Bridgford joined together to recognise the work of young people in Rushcliffe and South Nottinghamshire, which culminated in a Rotary Young Citizen Award presentation ceremony at the Country Cottage Hotel in Ruddington
Hosted by Sandra Morrey, president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, the assembled group of candidates, parents, supporters and Rotarians, listened intently to what the nominees had achieved in our community.
Every young person received a parchment certificate to add to their school Record of Achievement, a valuable document when applying for higher education or jobs.The nominations were considered by a team of four adults with no connections to any candidate, chaired by Rotarian Trevor Greaves, who is also a magistrate. Choosing between the candidates was a major task, but three young people, Daniel Brown (16), Becky Howie (16) and Joe Wright (17), were nominated overall winners.
The achievements of the other young people were also highly commended, including Nathan Ledger (17), Olivia Cottee (14), Joanna Hudspeth (15), Tanicha Simpson (15), Keelan Barker (16), Shaun Bentley (16), Yusaf Paterson-Mosafeer (18) and Kieran Robinson (15).

BATTERY RECYCLING TRIALS IN SILVERDALE CLIFTON AND WILFORD

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:01:30 +0000

Residents across Clifton, Silverdale and Wilford can now recycle household batteries as part of a pilot initiative launched last month. Nottingham City Council has introducing battery recycling to help residents recycle more of their waste. They have supplied households with a small plastic bag to put their batteries in which they can then leave out for collection on recycling day.
Hundreds of batteries have already been recycled since the launch in early June. Nottingham residents get through nearly three-million household batteries every year, which together weighed nearly 100 tonnes. In 2009, over 99% of these ended up in either landfill or incineration.
On the day of collection, residents are asked to secure the bag and place it on the lid of their recycling bin. Nottingham City Council will then leave an empty bag when the bag is collected for further battery recycling. All common household batteries are accepted as well as button, power tool, lantern, laptop and mobile phone batteries. Car/automotive or industrial batteries or other electrical equipment such as fuses and plugs unfortunately can not be collected and recycling through this scheme.
Councillor Katrina Bull, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change at Nottingham City Council, said: “Over the last year or so, we have received a large number of enquiries with regards to batteries and how they can be recycled.
“We have listened to those voices and I am delighted that we can launch a scheme which will make it easier to recycle household batteries. Those covered by this trial have this ideal opportunity to reduce the environmental impact on the way they disposed of.”
For further information about this scheme please call 0115 915 2000 or visit nottinghamcity.gov.uk

TRAM SUPPORTERS REMAIN UPBEAT AFTER GOVERNMENT MEETING

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:58:50 +0000

Despite the Government’s recent plans to cut billions of pounds from its budget, some local politicians are still upbeat that plans for the extension to Nottingham’s tram system will go ahead. It has been thought the project would be dumped as part of cost-cutting measures by the new collation Government, but further lines to Clifton via Silverdale and Chilwell via Beeston, are still on the agenda.
A group of local Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors recently travelled to the Palace of Westminster to meet Norman Baker.
Labour’s Jane Urquhart said: “It is not just the Labour party supporting it, the tram extension has support from other parties. We talked to him (Norman Baker) about how advanced our plans were and he was positive about light rail and made it clear he was a supporter.”

CYCLE RIDE FOR CLIFTON FC

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:55:27 +0000

Members of Clifton Football Club are cycling from Skegness to the club’s Clifton premises this month. The aim is to raise money for club funds, to increase the standard of their facilities and to carry on with working with the local community. The club has a girls team, one ladies team, 14 junior teams and three men’s teams, and 16,000 children have come through their doors over the years.