Mansfield Building Society has donated £2,500 to Sherwood Forest Foodbank based in Mansfield Woodhouse, to purchase essential food and toiletries for people in need as the economic impact of the pandemic is felt across the region. Reports suggest that a record number of people used foodbanks during the first month of lockdown.  The Trussell

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The News Journal reports: Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society has received £11,000 funding from Ashfield District Council as part of its plans to open the area’s first planetarium. The money will support the society’s bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop a Victorian underground reservoir into a visitor centre and associated planetarium. The reservoir,

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Mansfield and Ashfield 2020 have been running stories about those businesses/organisations out there helping out in the community since the beginning of the COVID-19 situation. We have recently learned that Mansfield Rotary Club are out in force helping as much as they can. Here are just a few of their contributions: So far, they have

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A foodbank in Mansfield Woodhouse that quite literally offers tonnes of help to those in need will itself get a helping hand when people put their house on the market with a local estate agency. Award-winning estate agent BuckleyBrown, in Leeming Street, Mansfield has announced that it will donate £100 of the selling fee for

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Mansfield Building Society has donated £2,500 to the Mansfield Community Response Network Fund to help voluntary groups and charities support vulnerable people in the district who are affected by the social distancing measures introduced as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The fund was launched by Mansfield District Council to support vulnerable people who may

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Shacklocks employees have created and taken part in a variety of imaginative and fun experience days to raise £700 for local not-for-profit initiative TenFifty. TenFifty is a night club initiative, exclusively for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, held on the first Monday of the month in Mansfield. TenFifty supports people to experience the night club

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  Mansfield Building Society has raised a grand total of £17,243 for Macmillan Cancer Support over three years – trebling their original £5,000 fundraising target. The money raised by the Society will go to help people in Mansfield, Ashfield and Chesterfield by providing financial, practical and emotional support to individuals and families affected by cancer.

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West Nottinghamshire College’s Revive hair salon was the venue for the second time this month for a charity fundraising initiative. Joel Martin, from Langwith, was the second person to undergo a head shave, following college employee Andrew Spencer’s recent act of kindness. Joel, who is a former hospitality and catering student at the college, took

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Students from Vision West Notts College  rolled up their sleeves over the festive period in the Asda Superstore, Sutton in Ashfield, raising much needed funds for us.

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When the business community gets together – great things happen!

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Pre-Christmas, local recruitment agency TurnerFox ran a charity campaign to collect sleeping bag donations from other local businesses, to help homeless people within the Mansfield area.

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Portland College attended the prestigious Autism Hero Awards ceremony which took place at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel on 9th November, having been shortlisted for two awards; Leading Business and Lifetime Achievement.   The Autism Hero Awards showcase and celebrate the excellence taking place in the world of Autism, and increases awareness and acceptance.   We

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TurnerFox Recruitment has teamed up with the Salvation Army to donate as many sleeping bags as possible to the homeless this Christmas in the Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire area. They are asking for help from local business’ to help keep homeless people in Mansfield and surrounding areas warm and dry this Winter! Please click to

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National regulations governing how council tax arrears are collected are inflexible, push people further into debt and need to change, says Citizens Advice Ashfield.

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Portland Pathways is looking forward to a bright future after receiving a generous £150,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund this month.   The grant will provide funding of £50,000 per year over three years, to support the running of the Pathways Programme.   This will enable us to continue providing the much-needed support

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West Nottinghamshire College had a visit from the nation’s favourite yellow bear as he helped out with the popular Children in Need fundraising activities on Friday 15 November.

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Portland College in the place to be on December 1st.  It’s Festive Fun and Shopping for all the Family time on December 1st from 10am.

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Join Portland College for an evening of Christmas celebrations as hundreds of lights are turned on across Portland.

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Mark Cawar from Feather Partnership is looking for people to help with the Rotary Club of Kirkby in Ashfield’s Santas Grotto at Reuben Shaw’s Garden Centre.

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Macmillan Cancer Support in Nottinghamshire received a boost as they were presented with a cheque for £2500.00. Receiving the cheque for Macmillan is Katherine Booth, and in attendance were Sarah Maude and the Radio Mansfield rabbit Warren, Keith and Sylvia Johnson, and Rais Uddin from the Naaz Restaurant.   The money was raised by Keith

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Rhubarb Farm is wanting to fill a SUPPORT WORKER post (full-time, term-time only) and a TRAINING MANAGER post (full-time) both from January 2020.

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A community initiative aimed at helping to spot the signs of infection and sepsis in people with a learning disability is looking to go worldwide, thanks to a West Nottinghamshire College staff member’s idea.   Employability and work placement co-ordinator for creative industries, Julie Hough, together with nurses from Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

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Mansfield’s local payroll experts Livepay are organising a special Fundraising Event- a 10 pin bowling tournament at Mansfield’s Superbowl, Stockwell Gate, Mansfield NG18 1LG. It’s in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research so why not join in the fun and help raise money for Macmillan. Please support the event with all the details available here.

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Local Payroll experts, LivePay, are holding a fundraising event on 9th September, when they are taking over the Naaz Restaurant in Mansfield Woodhouse.

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Local Payroll experts, LivePay, are holding a fundraising event on 9th September, when they are taking over the Naaz Restaurant in Mansfield Woodhouse.

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Full Phat Design are delighted to be supporting the
2019 Mansfield 10k & 5k events for a fifth consecutive year.

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CITIZENS ADVICE successfully launched their new Scams Action service – a free, confidential and independent service to help victims of online scams.

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NIDAS are expanding the support services they can offer following securing new grant funding.

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Clifton Masonic Lodge N° 4753 proudly invite you to take part in their charity golf day on Friday 6th September 2019. Taking place at Ramsdale Park Golf Course, Calverton, rated one of the best golf courses in Nottinghamshire. Join them for an enjoyable day of golf, food, raffles and competition prizes whilst raising money for

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NIDAS, our local family based charity for people who are living with or have experienced any form of domestic violence or abuse, have some fantastic news to announce! They’ve managed to secure another 3 years of Lottery investment to the tune of £466,000!!! This funding allows them to continue to support families for the next

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6 in 10 in the East Midlands have been approached by a scammer in the last two years finds Citizens Advice Ashfield. Worryingly, of those targeted, only 13% of people spoke to anyone about it.

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On 1 June 2019 the ban on tenant fees came into force in England, initially applying to new tenancies (including renewals) entered into after that date and with the ban applying to other existing tenancies from 1 June 2020. Kathryn Stacey CEO of Citizens Advice Ashfield says ‘This is something that Citizens Advice has been highlighting

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Mansfield’s Armchair Club are organising ‘the dinner event of the year’! Click here to see all the details and info for a BIG FUN NIGHT OUT!

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RHUBARB FARM will be open to the public on Wednesday 3rd July from 10.30 to 4pm as part of Nottinghamshire National Gardens Scheme, because of our role in therapeutic horticulture. Visitors can look round the Farm, meet our volunteers and staff, look at all our facilities and enjoy cream teas, cakes and drinks served on

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Mike Farley wants to say thank everyone for supporting him on his 100k London 2 Brighton Challenge fundraising this year in memory of my beautiful Cazi, Read his story here……..

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Citizens Advice Ashfield wants people to be part of the next 80 years of its history by volunteering with them. The Citizens Advice service started almost 80 years ago on the eve of the Second World War and is supported by 22,000 volunteers across England and Wales As part of Volunteers’ Week, which runs from

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Local Rugby League club Sherwood Wolf Hunt are delighted to announce a new partnership with Mansfield based Hall-Fast Industrial Supplies. 

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Why not consider: Putting your skills and experience to use and make a lasting difference to a cause you care about? Learn about the management and strategy side of charities by taking on a leadership role? Have the perfect volunteering opportunity for busy people? Work with new and interesting people from diverse background? Enhance your CV

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NIDAS are testing a new approach to engaging with people through a breakfast briefing to share a brew and a croissant whilst finding out more about the services they deliver. Services and organisations are stretched across Nottinghamshire so finding time to attend events and meetings in the daytime is often tricky for most professionals and

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NIDAS are taking part in the upcoming Nottingham Legal Walk on Thursday 16 May 2019 to raise funds for the Access to Justice Foundation and their specialist Civil and Family Court support worker.   Each year, 100’s of families contact NIDAS who are/have experienced domestic abuse and in need of some assistance to  navigate their

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Pedalfest is a family cycling festival packed with loads of exciting activities including adult and children’s cycling demos, entertainment, live music, stunt shows, clay modelling, an animal farm and food. With their huge fleet of electric bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, and kid’s bikes to try you’ll be spoilt for choice! The best part –

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GLASTONJERRY Fun Dog Festival 2019 at Newstead Abbey.  Yes, you heard it… GLASTONJERRY Fun Dog Festival is back again! This event is going to be bigger and better than ever before! Entry to the Glastonjerry Fun Dog Festival is £2.50 per person per day! Children under 5 Free. Car parking tariffs apply at Newstead Abbey

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Rhubarb Farm has won £33,339 in the People’s Projects! Read more about the People’s Project story here. We want to thank all of our friends and supporters for voting for us and making this happen. We are over the moon – it will really help our work. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

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Charity Pub Quiz held March 21st 2019 Robin Hood Inn, Edwinstowe A Great night was had by all at AW Safety’s recent pub quiz in Edwinstowe. Also a special thank you to all their donating companies below and for the Robin Hood Inn, Edwinstowe, for allowing AWS to hijack their weekly Thursday quiz night to

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Kind-hearted lawyers have donated more than £1,380 to a special charity that offers support to families with babies who have been born prematurely. Fidler & Pepper Lawyers, in Mansfield and Sutton in Ashfield, gave the money to the Emily Harris Foundation, which supports the Neonatal Unit at Kings Mill Hospital. The foundation was set up

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Citizens Advice Ashfield can now offer extra support to local people in Ashfield. Debt support can now be provided as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:30am—12:30pm. Ashfield Health and Wellbeing Centre, Portland Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, NG17 7AE. Please take with you to the Drop-In sessions details of: –  Your income  Your expenditure 

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Portland College has developed a business enterprise unit which is a fully accessible environment within their Nottinghamshire woodland setting. Based in an office development, the 10 varying sized units offer the ideal base for start-up businesses from 1 to 4 people. The Beeches Enterprise Centre is a professional, stylish and well-equipped fully accessible environment and

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Rhubarb Farm has been selected as finalists for ‘The Peoples Projects’ funded by the National Lottery, to win up to £50,000! By winning the ‘Peoples Projects’, we can get some of our volunteers back into regular work, through setting up a Garden Maintenance Team. Voting opens at 9.00am on Monday 1st April. Please click on

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A goalkeeper from Mansfield is aiming for Euro glory with the England International Deaf Football Team - but needs support to help him fund accommodation and flights. Alex Smith (29) has been picked to play for his country in the European Championships, being played in Crete at the beginning of June. Alex, who is a.....

Local engineering firm Lindhurst Engineering  have chosen Ashfield Citizens Advice as their charity of the year. This is part of the Corporate Champions Programme launched at March's Mansfield and Ashfield 2020 breakfast meeting by Ashfield Citizens Advice. The scheme identifies many ways businesses can support Citizens Advice but also provides help, advice and support to.....

The people behind an annual national initiative that uses legal knowledge about Wills to raise money for charities, have thanked Fidler & Pepper Lawyers for their fundraising. Will Aid raises money for nine charities, including Christian Aid, Age UK, British Red Cross, the NSPCC and Save the Children. Since launching in 1988, Will Aid has.....

Mansfield Building Society is reaching out to local groups and charities in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire area in a bid to find its 2019 Community Star. Organisations are encouraged by the Society to nominate volunteers for their commitment and dedication to improving the lives of local people. The award, which is in its third successive

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For the last two years John Morley of i-Sourcer has been speaking to children across the East Midlands about the positive and negative elements of using social media. John has done this free of charge and has reached over 8000 children.  As an acknowledgement of this great achievement he’s been given the Community Champion Award

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Mansfield Building Society has reached the milestone of raising £14,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support in just two years with all donations benefitting those affected by cancer in Mansfield, Ashfield and Chesterfield.   In December 2016, staff at the Society chose Macmillan as its Charity Partner, with a commitment to raise at least £5,000 over 2

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Over the last five years many 2020 Members have followed my story and supported my fundraising activities in aid of Cancer Research UK, together we have raised a fantastic £25,000 so far to fund ongoing research into fighting Breast Cancer in memory of my beautiful wife and soulmate Cazi for which I am truly grateful.

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Monday, 4th March 2019 – 1861 Suite at Mansfield Town Football Club.

Many of you looking at this page will be very familiar with the BBC’s A Question of Sport programme.

What you may not know is that here in Mansfield every March the Armchair Club host a successful and very professional QoS style evening.

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A DAY CRAMMED FULL OF MOTIVATION, INSPIRATION & BAD-ASSERY… 23rd FEB 2019 0900-1700 (Registration opens at 0830) ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO RUSHDEN MIND, A CHARITY AFFILIATED WITH NATIONAL MIND AND DEDICATED TO MENTAL HEALTH. You won’t want to miss our incredible line-up of speakers who are donating their time for free.. David Taylor – Naked Leader Paul

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AW Safety’s latest fundraising efforts are to assist the Lighthouse Club Construction benevolent charity. They are already donating 20% of any PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) sale profits until 31st May but are arranging a charity pub quiz in Edwinstowe on 21st March at 7.30pm in the Robin Hood Pub (please go along if you are free

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R.E.A.L. Education are unveiling plans for a new East Midlands based Construction Training Academy on February 13th. Working in collaboration with surrounding local authorities, industry partners, the CITB and other third party agencies, the new academy sets out to address the skills shortage faced regionally by the industry. They are seeking to establish collaborative partnerships

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Flexible Recruitment Partnership Ltd has joined together with Bethany Wigley, Miss Mansfield and Sherwood Forest, to support her chosen Charity Rethink Mental Illness. We are looking for support from local businesses to aid both Bethany’s chosen charity and also help the local economy and Mansfield and Ashfield people find work. Simply click on the link

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Ashfield Citizens Advice will be holding events around the district to help take the sting out of people’s fuel bills. These events will take place during Big Energy Saving Week (21 January – 25 January), a national campaign run by Citizens Advice. In Ashfield, Citizens Advice have teamed up with Nottinghamshire Energy Partnership to help

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NIDAS Families will be performing their interpretation of The Gruffalo in front of a live audience for the first time on 12th February at Mansfield Business Centre, Ashfield Avenue, Mansfield,  NG18 2AE!   Produced and directed by Libby Dove, they have been rehearsing following the success of their previous performance at our AGM last year.

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St John’s Outreach Project have purchased and decorated a new disabled toilet with help of a £500 donation and volunteering from The Mansfield Building Society. St John’s Outreach Project is an organisation established by local residents in the Kirkby area, which provides support to vulnerable people at its community centre on Skegby Road. The group

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R.E.A.L. Education are unveiling plans for a new East Midlands based Construction Training Academy. Working in collaboration with surrounding local authorities, industry partners, the CITB and other third party agencies, the new academy sets out to address the skills shortage faced regionally by the industry. They are seeking to establish collaborative partnerships with interested parties,

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West Nottinghamshire College students were seen running away from the Derby Road campus in droves on 19 December – all in the name of festive fundraising.   Over 140 runners took part in the annual 5km Santa fun run from college, to Berry Hill Park and back, dressed in an array of Christmas-themed costumes.  

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Animals at a rescue centre in Radcliffe-on-Trent are getting gifts of food, bedding, toys and treats thanks to the efforts of animal care students from West Nottinghamshire College.   The college’s annual shoe box appeal saw over 30 boxes and parcels donated and festively wrapped by two classes who are learning all about animal welfare.

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AW Safety Management, a H&S Consulting and Training company based in Edwinstowe, have once again come together with the help of the local community to collect Christmas goodies and treats for the local food bank in Ollerton.   With the help of Edwinstowe House Business Community, St Mary’s Church and both St Mary’s and King

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Mansfield based national interior fit-out specialists, Jephsons Shopfitters, brought some early Christmas cheer to Portland College with the manufacture and installation of a brand-new bar in the College’s Eastwood Suite.  Jephson’s Commercial Director, Ian Jephson, unveiled the new bar to a gathering of business owners and managers at the Mansfield and Ashfield 2020 networking event

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More than 13,000 problems with purchases in England and Wales on online marketplaces were reported to the Citizens Advice consumer service last year. Online marketplaces – websites where traders and private individuals list and sell products – are becoming increasingly popular for people trying to find the best deal.   As customers turn to online

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Students welcomed some cute, loyal and very intelligent special guests to West Nottinghamshire College last week.   Supported by Guide Dogs’ community fundraising development officer,Nichola Bonsall, guide dogs Jingle, Fudge, Jeanie and Darby,  visited the students at the college’s Derby Road campus with their owners and trainers.   For a small donation, students could meet

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Pictured Above left to right: Pete Coleman of The Business Integrity Group and Classic Print Ltd, Danielle Shaw and Adrian Kirkby of AWSM Ltd, Lindsey Marsh – Deputy Head, Amanda Neuville – AWSM Ltd Training Centre Manager and Year 6 pupils Josh Farish & Sylvain Pennington.   A fundraiser which topped more than £900 in

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Asking businesses to think about raising awareness about domestic violence (DV) with their employees often raises some common responses – “we don’t have an issue with domestic violence here” or “what happens outside of the office is not our concern”. Depending on an organisations’ awareness, approach and response to DV in the workplace may vary

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In our continued support of our “Giving back to the community” campaign and recognising the ongoing needs of the Ollerton Food Bank AW Safety Management, Edwinstowe House Business Community, St Mary’s Church and both St Mary’s and King Edwin Primary Schools invite our School, Church and Business community members to spread some cheer this Christmas.

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Nottinghamshire Independent Domestic Abuse Service (NIDAS) hosted a celebration AGM for families and key stakeholders at the Create Theatre, WNC on Wednesday 7th November 2018.  Over 40 people, including local businesses and charities, crown prosecution service, law firms, staff, volunteers and friends of NIDAS attended an evening of dance, drama and music performed by families

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Citizens Advice Ashfield has said some disabled people in the area could be around £300 a month worse off under Universal Credit compared to the previous system. The new benefit – which rolls 6 legacy benefits such as Jobseeker’s Allowance into one monthly payment – is set to be rolled out in Ashfield in November A

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People who are putting off making a Will are being urged to get them written during November – as they could be helping raise money for charities at the same time. Will writers at Fidler & Pepper Lawyers are once again supporting Will Aid, an annual initiative that runs throughout the month of November that

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There is £10,800 to share out and local good cause have until 7 December apply for grants of up to £2,000. Mansfield District Council established the local lottery to give to bring additional funding to the community. Now applications are being sought from local groups, organisations and charities for a share of the Robin Hood Lottery Community Fund.

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Local trampoline park, i-Jump, has announced their partnership with national charity, Family Action, this Christmas.   i-Jump will donate at least 20 stockings full of gifts to the charity, who’s local base is at the Mansfield Woodhouse Children Centre. Family Action will distribute the stockings to local children who otherwise may not receive any presents

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Pinxton Amateur Boxing Club (ABC) has received a total donation of £500 from Mansfield Building Society’s Community Support Scheme to purchase new gloves, ropes and punching bags. The club is an inclusive group with both males and females taking part from the age of 5 and has grown to be a successful local organisation, drawing

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