Survey for local groups
financial crisis and energy costs
Nottingham CVS
This survey will remain open for responses until 30 September 2022
NCVS is aware that some groups and organisations which rent or own premises are seeing a large increase in their energy bills.
If your group/organisation supports people in Nottingham City, we would like to hear your experience of rising costs and how this is affecting your services. We know that many of you are already seeing increased service user demand due to the overall financial crisis.
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Open Auditions – Introducing Mr Charles Dickens
Stave 2 - The Road to Fame
Date – Tuesday 20th Sept
Time – 7:30 pm
Online via Zoom
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Pakistan Floods Emergency Appeal
Muslim Aid
More than a third of Pakistan has been completely submerged by the worst floods recorded. 33 million people have been affected, over 1,200 people have died, and thousands are injured.
The Muslim Aid team has launched an emergency appeal. Please donate now and help save lives!
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Protect our living legends
Sign the petition
Most of our oldest trees are not legally protected. We're urging governments across the UK to change that.
They're living legends. Pieces of history. Your heritage. They've witnessed centuries of change and been part of our landscape for generations. They're also vital havens for wildlife and important carbon stores. But our oldest and most valuable trees are also vulnerable.
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FAMILIES ARE STARVING
The world must not look away.
Devastated by the worst drought in decades; people in southern Madagascar are suffering from severe hunger.
If we don’t act now, the number of people facing catastrophe will double.
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Just a Chat - Episode 31: Ndukwe Onuoha
Creative Director, Oliver MEA - “Shut Up & Listen”
In this episode, we sat down with Ndukwe Onuoha, an advertising copywriter, spoken word poet, and Creative Director at Oliver MEA which is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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BlackCreateConnect
Episode 4
Alicia sits down with Ndukwe Onuoha, Award winning Creative and Film Director, Copywriter and Poet from Lagos, Nigeria. Ndukwe has two albums on different online music distribution platforms and performances within and outside Nigeria, his aim is to use the art form to draw attention to questions of identity and self.
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Donate to help Yemen: a large humanitarian crisis
British Red Cross
Five years into the conflict and Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. In the last year we’ve seen coronavirus emerge as a lethal threat to an incredibly vulnerable population. This is in addition to the stark reality you’ve probably heard about before:
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A new start after 60: ‘I took up hedgelaying at 65 and discovered a hidden connection with my father’
Guardian
Last November, when David Booker picked up a billhook for the first time, it felt uncannily familiar. The tool, a sort of stubby sickle, fitted so comfortably in his hand that he thought his handling of it “was there in me, ready and waiting to come out”. Now the tool has helped him to find a new sort of living – and unearthed a hidden connection with his father.
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Why bike lanes don't make traffic worse
Guardian
Cities in the UK and around the world are installing new bike lanes to help reduce emissions, but some claim they are making traffic worse. The argument goes that bike lanes means less space for cars and therefore more congestion. While this might sound plausible, it appears to hark back to outdated traffic management theory.
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Can we still protest?
Friends of the Earth
Despite strong opposition from across civil society, and weeks of back-and-forth in parliament, most of the government’s anti-protest measures have made it into the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act. Find out what this means for the future of protest.
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India heatwave
What’s it like being a builder in almost 50C?
BBC
An intense heatwave is sweeping through northern India with temperatures reaching nearly 50C (120F).
Construction workers describe what it's like having to work in such extreme heat.
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Truce Offers Chance to Steer Yemen in ‘New Direction’, Special Representative Tells Security Council, Cautions Parties against Backslide into Conflict
United Nations
Hailing the announcement of a two-month nationwide truce between the parties to conflict in Yemen, top United Nations officials emphasized the importance of continued efforts to bring about an end to the once seemingly intractable crisis that has gripped the country for seven years.
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Donate to
protect children
in Ukraine
More than half of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children have now been forced to flee the ongoing violence. Homes, schools, water supplies and hospitals have been damaged or destroyed. Children have been separated from their families, and hundreds of thousands of people have been left without clean water, food or electricity. Explosives are a daily threat to children’s lives.
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Nottingham Ukrainian Cultural Centre
Welcome to the official page of the Ukrainian Culture Centre in Nottingham, which is run by the Nottingham branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB)
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Yemen Appeal
Donate to help Yemen: we need urgent support from everyone reading this, right now.
Since 2014, Yemen has been in the middle of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, battling a crippling civil war, famine and disease outbreaks. Millions of people are starving, and there is virtually no healthcare system.
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Anti-racism charter
National Education Union
This framework has been designed to help you explore ideas around race equality and plan how to tackle racism with children, young people and staff.
It offers discussion starters in your workplace to help: Empower Black staff and pupils to explore and express what matters to them;
Support young people’s right to speak out and engage as active citizens with the issues around racism that they care about;
Challenge racial inequalities and oppressive racial norms and assumptions.
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Welcome to the Win + Welcome Weekly Lottery
International Rescue
Play IRC’s Win + Welcome Lottery for double the rewarding feeling! You’ll have the chance to win cash prizes of up to £500 every week. You’ll also support refugees to have a warm, safe welcome after they’ve fled conflict and disaster.
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Donate to help Yemen: a large humanitarian crisis
British Red Cross
The situation is desperate. But we won’t give up on people in Yemen.
Five years into the conflict and Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. In the last year we’ve seen coronavirus emerge as a lethal threat to an incredibly vulnerable population. This is in addition to the stark reality you’ve probably heard about before:
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DOUBLE YOUR DONATION
UNHCR
We urgently need your help to provide lifesaving protection to families forced to flee their homes in Ukraine.
Right now, you have the opportunity to help twice as many displaced families — thanks to a group of generous donors, all donations are being DOUBLED until we reach £210,000.
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Support Yemen This Ramadan
The Greengate Trust
Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with more than 24 million people – some 80 per cent of the population – in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children. The current level of hunger in Yemen is unprecedented and is causing severe hardship for millions of people. Despite ongoing humanitarian assistance, over 20 million Yemenis are food insecure, of which nearly 10 million are acutely food insecure, unfortunately.
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