End of Year Yuletide Bulletin
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One Nottingham Board Update
For a little while, it felt like all change for us.
We got a new chair of the ON Board. In the summer Jane Todd stepped down after 3 years as chair and made way for Professor Kevin Shakesheff. Kevin had been a member of the Board for two years before becoming chair. Kevin’s day job is the Pro Vice Chancellor for Science at the University of Nottingham. He is a member of a number of medical and pharmaceutical bodies, internationally and in the UK. He will be leading the city into a new long-term vision.
We had some new members throughout the year. Archdeacon of Nottingham Phil Williams joined the Board in the summer, Councillors David Mellen and Rebecca Langton both joined the Board after the local council elections in May. Eliza Larmond and Natalie Robinson joined as the two new Youth Cabinet members.
Archdeacon Sarah Clarke left to become the Bishop of Jarrow, Audra Wynter, Sajid Mohammed and Councillors Neghat Khan and Leslie Ayoola all moved on from the Board.
Our thanks go to all of those who went on to new challenges in 2019.
December ON Board - the December meeting of the Board was cancelled due to the election and has been rescheduled for the 31st January.
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The September ON Board and the 2050 Vision
The September meeting was a packed and lively meeting as we considered the first steps to developing the 2050 Vision for Nottingham. Cllr Rebecca Langton outlined how one of the pledges in the new Council Plan is to work with the voluntary, business and public sectors to build a Vision for Nottingham for 2050. It is the partnership’s ambition that the vision will represent the aspirations for the whole city. Discussions are taking place on how to make sure we have buy in from the whole city; from the bottom up and down again.
The question for all partners is how will we all contribute to developing the vision and how do we make the process inclusive?
We are still in the early days of designing the engagement for developing the vision. In the New Year we will be publishing information on how partners and communities can get involved in this process. Our big prize will be to create a vision which we all can say we had a hand in; then for us all to move collaboratively towards its achievement.
There are currently two vacancies on the Board.
Recruitment is advanced for our new business representative. Watch out for news on the process for appointing to the vacant faith representative post in the New Year. A full list of ON Board members is on the ON website.
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The Board also heard updates on two key areas of work
Read On Nottingham
Emily Landsborough gave an update on Read On Nottingham, which is now 18 months old and is a Literacy Trust initiative based in the city. The aim is to support young people to improve their literacy; and in Nottingham the need remains very high. The focus is literacy for the key transition moments in a child’s life: starting school, moving from primary to secondary school and getting into work, by equipping them with the literacy skills to reach their ambitions.
A lot of the work is joining up initiatives, encouraging local ideas to develop and bringing more funding and new ideas into the city.
Successes so far:
Early Words learning at two, improving parental engagement to bring learning from nurseries into the home.
The Scavengers programme in Clifton will embed into secondary schools that reading for pleasure is possible. The author of Scavengers will work in these schools to assist this initiative.
The overarching campaign is to encourage reading for pleasure and enjoyment. Research has proven that the more children access books, and the more their parents read with them, the better chances they have in life. Campaigns include giving books away and engagement with schools through the Big Reader, Big Future programme. The Literacy Champions programme finds people who want to read on a voluntary basis in their community.
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Active Together
Amanda Chambers updated the ON Board on the Active Together Nottingham programme, which came out of the Sport England local delivery pilots.
For a lot of people, achieving healthy levels of activity can be really challenging. Amanda provided data on activity rates in Nottingham, which showed an improvement from November 15/16 to November 17/18. The increase in activity is predominately from women doing more, with the assistance of the This Girl Can campaign.
We know that people from the most deprived communities are massively overrepresented in the inactive group, 80% of people from black and Asian communities and people with long-term health conditions are twice as likely to be inactive. Sport England has recently launched the We Are Undefeatable Campaign, which is aimed at people with long-term conditions moving more.
Currently Active Nottingham are in discussions with SSBC on how to develop children’s physical literacy.
Amanda reiterated that the campaign is not just about sport, it is about moving more and physical activity finding its role within the whole place ambition.
How do we create an environment for it to be easy to do?
What are the barriers to helping people to move more and how to we bridge that gap?
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Board Members also provided updates from around the city:
Stephanie Sirr from the Nottingham Playhouse, informed the Board that the Strategic Cultural Partnership are currently recruiting a chair and a person to lead on the 1 year development of the cultural compact.
Donna Lawton from Notts Police, updated the Board that Operation Sceptre has launched a one week knife amnesty campaign, which is taking place in a number of locations and some voluntary sectors have helped host the bins.
Operation Guardian is run regularly with uniformed and plain clothes officers with drug dogs. City Council staff have come out with the Police on some of these nights; and it would be really beneficial to have some young people taking part. Nottinghamshire Police have started to encourage young people into work experience with the police, and it is not restricted to being a police officer.
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Save the Date
One Nottingham and NCVS Budget Consultation
Jointly hosted event for all partners, on the Nottingham City Council Budget Consultation
Wednesday
29 January 2019
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Cecil Roberts Room, Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham, NG1 6HP
Voluntary sector and One Nottingham partners are invited to come and hear from Councillor Sam Webster, Portfolio Holder for Finance, Growth and the City Centre about the proposals for the Nottingham City Council budget 2020-2021, ask questions and discuss proposals.
Refreshments will be available, watch out for invitations and registration details, coming soon.
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2020
Nottingham Civic Service of Commemoration
Monday 27th January 2020 at 3.00pm
The Council House, Nottingham
Organised jointly by One Nottingham, Nottingham Interfaith Council, Nottingham City Homes and Nottingham City Council.
To attend RSVP to: sally.radford@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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More One Nottingham News from 2019
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The Nottingham Awards 2019
A notable group of Nottingham people were recognised at the awards in October this year, which are held annually as a part of the Goose Fair celebrations.
Dalton Stephens, is a young man who received an award for his personal leadership and determination. Dalton, from St Anns, led by example, he turned his life away from crime and became a role model and mentor for other young people in his local area.
George Akins received an award for his charitable fundraising work, in particular, for the annual music festival “Beat the Streets”, which takes place in January each year and raises valuable funds to support homeless people through Framework Housing Association. It will take place again on January 26th 2020.
Phyllis Brackenbury was honoured for her lifelong commitment to children in Nottingham. In particular, she was recognised for the groundbreaking leadership in Small Steps, Big Changes. She brought together early years education and health care in ways which will provide a lifetime of benefit for generations of Nottingham families
David Stewart was recognised for a long and successful career in education. He was renowned for his work with children with disabilities, having worked in special education in Nottingham for more than four decades. David was head teacher at Oak Field but he has always advocated for the cause of every child in a generous, determined and effective way.
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Nottingham Music Service Music Hub
What do the Nottingham Young Creative Awards and the Nottingham Awards have in common? The answer is that musicians from the Nottingham Music Service performed at them both.
The Music Service teaches Nottingham young people to play musical instruments and is one of the most successful music hubs in the country. It has a universal offer and it engages young people throughout their school career, primary school to year 12.
You can find out more about the service on their website: www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk
100 Best for Read On Nottingham in 2019
This year Read On Nottingham, the campaign led by the National Literacy Trust in partnership with Nottingham City Council and Small Steps Big Changes created a list of the city’s top 100 children’s books.
Each primary school in Nottingham received a set of postcards for pupils, where they could submit their favourite book and author for the list, and anyone else could nominate their entries by using the hashtag #ReadOnNottingham on social media, or via the Read On Nottingham website.
Every school received a copy of the final list in the form of a height chart and printed lists are available in every city library. Bluebell Hill Primary School, who submitted the highest number of entries, received a bundle of books for their school library.
The campaign also partnered with Usborne Children’s Books this year to celebrate 20 years of their bestselling touchy-feely books, That’s Not My…. The publishers provided funding towards the National Literacy Trust’s Early Words Together programme in Nottingham, which supports parents and practitioners with children in the early years, and donated hundreds of books and branded material. These were gifted to families at community events over the summer and in libraries at Christmas.
Read On Nottingham is looking to build on the Literacy Champions programme in 2020 and reach the target of 50 volunteers delivering local projects to promote reading in their communities including foodbanks, community centres, faith organisations and schools. They will also be supporting the literacy levels of children in the city’s secondary schools.
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
All year round we buy books for Nottingham children from birth to school age. Children receive books posted to them at home.
You can help support this initiative to get children reading and school ready by donating to the library at http://www.dollybooksnottingham.org/
Since 2012, when the charity came to Nottingham, over 210,000 books have been sent to 5,367 children across the city, encouraging them to read, firing their imaginations and developing their literacy skills. This is a fantastic achievement, but we want EVERY child 0-5yrs in the city to be able to receive the books. So we need your continued support to raise the necessary funds to make this happen.
Active Together Nottingham Planning for 2020
In 2019, Active Together Nottingham has been exploring the wider system that helps or hinders people to get active. The Leadership Board agreed a shared purpose which is ‘enabling happy healthy communities through physical activity’ and their aim is to tackle inactivity and shift some of the stubborn inequalities that exist around communities and people being more active.
Many factors outside an individual’s control can impact on their ability and opportunity to be active and we want to help make it easy and good for them to get moving. In 2020 the project will be working closely with trusted partners to have conversations with people living in Bulwell Hall, St Ann’s and Beechdale about how together we can create the best possible environment and social infrastructure for the whole community to be more active.
If you would like to be a part of helping each other to move more and live happier, healthier lives then please get in touch. Drop an email to amanda.chambers@onenottingham.org.uk she would love to hear from you!
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Other Nottingham Partners News
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The MyBag Charity for Children in Care Joins Forces with the Co-op
The MyBag charity that supports children in care in Nottingham has linked up with the Co-op to ensure that 1% of every pound spent in stores goes to this good cause. MyBag provides essential comfort items for children who come into care through the city council. Packed with useful things – from toothbrushes to teddy bears – the special bags aim to make life a little easier for children who arrive in care for the first time, often without even basic possessions.
The charity aims to raise enough money to pay for around 300 bags a year – each costing between £25 and £30. This will cost up to £9,000 annually.
The Co-op has chosen MyBag as one of its Local Community Charities that customers can link to their loyalty cards to ensure 1% of money spent goes to the charity, at no cost to the customer, from now until 24 October 2020.
Customers can link their cards online here: https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/42265.
It only takes a few minutes. If you are not already a member, you can join here: www.coop.co.uk/membership.
More information about My Bag is available at www.mybagcharity.co.uk including how to get in touch to make a donation.
City Centre Strategy
Nottingham City Council is consulting on new strategy which is planned to make the City Centre fit for the future. Details of the proposal and how to take part in the consultation can be found at City-Centre-Strategy-Executive-Summary.pdf
And to take part in a survey about the city centre strategy link here
https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=157106678594
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