Plus... A blooming wonderful project | National award win for council?s plant shop | Nottinghamshire Pride | Nottingham Green Festival
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Your Covid jab is waiting for you. There?s still time?
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We?ve been hearing a lot this week about whether secondary school children should be vaccinated against Covid-19 ? and also about when older and more vulnerable people will be offered a third ?booster? jab for winter. Regardless of whatever happens next, the vaccine is still available now for everyone over the age of 16. That hasn?t changed. There is still time for you to go along to a local vaccination centre and walk in, without appointment, to get your Covid jab. Having two doses of the vaccine, eight weeks apart, will give you the best protection against the virus. It?s not too late; you haven?t missed out if you?ve yet to come forward. All of the vaccination centres have health staff who can talk to you more about the jab, so feel free to ask any questions you might have. I would urge you to go along today and keep yourself safe from Covid-19. You can find your nearest vaccination centre here: www.nhs.uk/grab-a-jab [ [link removed] ]
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A blooming wonderful project
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It?s wonderful that we have been chosen as one of three ?Blossom? cities by the National Trust as part of their Blossom Together Project [ [link removed] ]. St Mary?s Rest Garden in St Ann?s and Lenton Recreation Garden have been chosen for this project and we hope that new beautiful blossom spaces will give people areas for hope and reflection as we move forward from the pandemic and the chance to celebrate the beauty of spring year after year.
Work will start at St Mary?s Rest Garden at the beginning of October where the council will be planting 20 ornamental semi-mature cherry trees. We also aim to create a path to connect St Mary?s Rest Garden with the adjacent Victoria Park. Our landscaping team will then move to Lenton Recreation Ground at the beginning of November where we will see 28 ornamental mature cherry trees planted. They will be planted along a newly constructed pathway that follows an existing walkway through the park. These blossom trees will enhance two of our lovely parks which have proven so important for people?s health and well-being over the last 18 months.
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National award win for council?s plant shop
APSE 2021
I?m absolutely delighted that our brilliant Woodthorpe Plant Shop and Nursery [ [link removed] ] won the prestigious Best Commercialisation & Entrepreneurship Initiative award at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Service Awards [ [link removed] ] last night. The plant shop and nursery has grown over the last six years when we began selling surplus plants to the general public.
Its roots are in the nursery at Woodthorpe Grange Park that the City Council has managed since the 1920s to grow plants for local displays. In addition we have branched out to supply to other councils around the country ? growing 800,000 plants this year. As well as the shop, which is open seven days a week, we also provide an online service and deliver our high quality, locally grown and affordable plants and great gardening products all over the city. The nursery now covers all its own costs and ended 2021 with a surplus which gets ploughed back into the running of our parks.
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Nottinghamshire Pride
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It?s going to be fantastic to see Pride back in Nottingham tomorrow, after the organisers were forced to move it online last year because of the pandemic. It promises to be a great occasion, which I am very much looking forward to attending. The Pride march, in support of LGBTQ+ rights,?is always a wonderful celebration in our city. It brings visibility to our LGBTQ+ community and encourages people to come together and embrace the diversity that Nottingham is so well known for ? we celebrate equality, inclusivity and respect here. We want everyone to feel supported and are proud of our LGBTQ+ residents and the City Council has put a banner and flag on the Council House to show our support. The parade will start from Albert Street by St Peters Church as it winds its way to Hockley. If you wish to join the parade, please begin to gather from 10am ready to start at 11am. Or, watch the parade in what is always a joyous, colourful, and celebratory spectacle of the city's diversity. Find out more [ [link removed] ]
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Nottingham Green Festival
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This Sunday the Arboretum will host the Nottingham Green Festival, this is set to be a celebration of all things environmentally friendly and ethical. The event is organised and run by volunteers and this year will be a completely vegan event with everything powered by renewable energy. With the IPCC?s report on the climate emergency fresh in many people?s minds, this is a timely event which will hopefully capture imaginations and lead to even more local action to reduce our impact on the environment.
The festival is free and runs from 12-6pm ? more information here [ [link removed] ]
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What else is on this weekend
Nottingham MELA
Nottingham Mela 2021 ? The New Art Exchange will be the hub of Mela activity, with a full weekend takeover of the building from 11-12th September. Find out more [ [link removed] ]
Victoria Embankment stages two events this weekend ? the last performances of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night on Saturday (more here [ [link removed] ]) and the Maltby Miner?s Welfare Band on Sunday ? more here [ [link removed] ]
There?s more besides this - for more information about other local events visit What's On [ [link removed] ]
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Remembering 9/11
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Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a dark day for America and western democracies which terrorists attacked in ways that even two decades on still feel unbelievable and tragic. We cannot and must not forget the thousands of innocent people who died and the bravery of those who risked their lives for others on that terrible day. The values of freedom and fairness that the terrorists sought to destroy remain as important today as they were twenty years ago, and this September 11th, we must hope that compassion, tolerance and understanding will endure for a more peaceful future.
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