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Weekly News Digest
Wednesday 24th April 2024
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Green project tackles waste and food povertyAn initiative has been launched across Mansfield and Ashfield that aims to recycle offcuts of wood, help learners gain new skills, teach young people to grow their own food, and cut food poverty. Gardens of Giving is a community interest company, ...
Coffee club wants to encourage more social interactionPEOPLE who receive support in their own homes from a family-run homecare company are benefiting from a new community-based initiative aimed at combating loneliness and social isolation. Caremark (Mansfield & Ashfield) ...
Macmillan support centre given new look The Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre at King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton. now offers more information and support thanks to a £50,000 refurbishment. The work, supported by Macmillan Cancer Support and Sherwood Forest Hospitals ...
Celebrating birds at new Mansfield Museum display Mansfield Museum has a new permanent display, A World of Birds, which reinterprets its rich collection of 3,000 bird specimens, including some species that are on the brink of extinction. A World of Bird features 600 exhibits spanning 500 species ...
Local talent wanted to take to The Full Shebang stage Artists and performers from Mansfield and Ashfield are being invited to be part of this year’s The Full Shebang, the annual one-day festival in Mansfield town centre. Applications are open for the likes of singers, musicians, cabaret performers, ...
Helping athletes to succeedMansfield mayor Andy Abrahams has donated £500 from his 500 Fund to the Armchair Club Sports Foundation Ambitious Athlete Scheme, which works to benefit talented local young people in need of support. Geoff Waller, one of the trustees of ...
Grants available for waste, reuse and recycling project Community groups, schools, and charities have been invited to apply for a share of funding for initiatives that focus on waste reduction, reuse, or recycling. Veolia and Nottinghamshire County Council’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Fund aims to ...
Rotary backs transatlantic Oar Blimey rowers againWhen Mansfield brothers-in-law George Nelson and Russ Davis announced they were going to row across the Atlantic Ocean unsupported to raise funds for dementia charities, a local rotary club was among the first to donate to the challenge ...
More than £8,000 visitors experience Luminarium in Mansfield Thousands of visitors experienced Mansfield’s first luminarium. The 10-day art installation event at Chesterfield Road Park, put on by Mansfield District Council, attracted almost 8,500 people, including visitors from as far as Cornwall and Pontefract ...
Teenagers perform on West End StageThirty-five performing arts students from Razzamataz Mansfield and Nottingham were given the chance to appear on a West End stage. They were among young people from 13 Razzamataz schools who had a full-day’s insight into the professional ...
Young bakers, growers and makers invited to showcase talents at County Show Organisers are hoping for a bumper crop of entries into Nottinghamshire County Show’s popular rural crafts competition after they contacted schools across the region inviting ...
In the Mood For Summer at the Old Meeting House The Old Meeting House Unitarian Chapel in Mansfield is inviting people to a coffee morning and lunchtime concert, In The Mood For Summer, on Saturday, 25th May. The coffee morning starts at 10am and the concert — featuring Ukrainian pianist ...
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