Sneinton Business Forum

SBF Updates

The Sneinton Business Directory is now being delivered to every business and 4000 homes in the Sneinton Area.

We hope people enjoy reading through this and getting some ideas for how they could shop more locally. Also it should prove a great resource for things like doctors, police, and various other non-business organisations.

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One Talk and Biocity have been confirmed as sponsors for two of the 2008 business awards. One Talk, who specialise in trimming the fat off energy and telecommunications bills, are sponsoring the Sole Trader of the year award, and Biocity, that house over 50 small businesses, are sponsoring the Innovation in Business award.

We look forward to confirming the other sponsors soon!

Colin Slater Booked for Business Forum Annual Event

The fantastic Colin Slater MBE will be our guest on the 20th Nov talking about the history of business in Sneinton and presenting the Sneinton Buiness Awards.

Advance tickets are on sale now for £7.50. Contact Dave Jones for more details (david@sneintonbusinessforum.com, 07794 343 697)

Watch this space for more on this event coming soon!

Transition Nottingham’s Urban Harvest Festival

Come and join us for a day of celebrating Nottingham’s communal larder

Activities will include:
Bread making, foraging, wine making, apple pressing, preserving, make your own harvest basket and many more…
There will be a local market area, and food and drinks available. Stay and have a chat in the information zone
and find out how different groups are active in Nottingham. There will be something for all the family,
and you never know who might be dropping in for some tea…
For more information visit: www.transitionnottingham.org.uk/urbanharvest
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Bring your own produce for our barter area, swap your potatoes for Jam! Press your own apples on our traditional crusher and cider press.

Sneinton Dominates in Heritage Week

Nottingham Heritage Open Days starts this Thursday (11th) until Sunday (14th) with a programme of 33 events in various location around the city. To find the full list of event visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk.

Sneinton has 6 events listed and they are:

Green’s Mill
Windmill Lane, Sneinton, NG2 4QB

A grade 2 listed, fully working windmill, once home of the 19th miller and mathematician George Green. David Bent, miller at Green’s Mill for 20 years, will give an illustrated talk on how the mill was restored from a burnt-out shell to become a working windmill and popular visitor attraction. Suitable for 16+. Partial disabled access.

Thursday 11 Sept – Sunday 14 Sept
Talk: Sunday 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Open 10am – 4pm
Contact: 0115 9156878

River Crescent Apartments
Waterside Way (off Racecourse Rd), Nottingham, NG2 4RE

New sustainable development featuring a dramatic innovative design and incorporating renewable energy initiatives such as wind turbines and river source heat pumps. Full disabled access.

Thursday 11, Friday 12, Sat 13 Sept
Tours: 11am and 2pm
Pre-book: 0115 9123456

Sneinton Hermitage Caves
Sneinton Hermitage, NG2 4BS

Part of Nottingham’s widespread network of caves. The Hermitage Caves were restored by the Sneinton Environmental Society and are the remains of a large range of caves lost when the railway was driven through the area in the 19th century. No disable access.

Thursday 11 Sept
Open: 5pm – 8pm
Contact: 0115 841 3721

William Booth Birthplace Museum
14 Notintone Place, Sneinton Rd, Sneinton, NG2 4QG

Restored Regency terrace house, birthplace of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. Now a museum devoted to General Booth’s life and the work of the Army. Partial disabled access.

Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 Sept
Open: 10am – 2pm
Contact 0115 9503927

Sneinton Market Conservation Area Walk
Victoria Leisure Centre, Sneinton Market, Nottingham NG1 1DB

A walk around Sneinton Market and Victoria Park looking at the fascinating mixture of the 19th and 20th century buildings and parkland which form this distinctive and characterful area of Nottingham. Led by Ian Wells. Meet outside the Victoria Leisure Centre. Activities for children and adults in Sneinton Market Place.

Saturday 13 Sept
Walk: 10.45am
Contact: 0115 9504464

Sneinton Walk
Notintone Place, Sneinton Road, Sneinton, NG2 4QG

A walk through a fascinating area of Nottingham which uncovers the layers of its history and explores its wealth of architecture, streets and personalities. Meet at the William Booth Statue, Salvation Army Complex, Notintone place.

Sunday 14 September
Tour: 2.30pm
Contact: 0115 9502444

Heritage Funday on Sneinton market

There will be a Free Heritage Fun Day at Victoria Leisure Centre 10am – 4pm on Saturday September 13th organised and funded by Save Victoria Baths in partnership with Sneinton Alchemy and Nottingham Civic Society. It is part of the Heritage Open Day programme.

There will be :

• Free Swimming (12pm – 4pm)

• Stalls – food, art, goods etc

• An exhibition of stories, photos and memorabilia drawing upon local people’s experiences of the baths from before the Second World War to the present day. There will also be the chance for people to tell their stories to the curators who will be making recordings of people throughout the day.

• Side Stalls – coconut shies and play items for sale

• A Puppetteer

• A walk that will be led around Sneinton Market and Victoria Park by Ian Wells of Nottingham Civic Society looking at the fascinating mixture of 19th and 20th Century buildings and parkland which form this distinctive and characterful area of Nottingham . The walk is open to all ages and will start from the Market at 10.45am.

We need folk to help out on the day – helping with the Save Vic Baths stall and putting up/taking down stalls. Whatever time you can spare, please let Fidel know via the yahoo group.

But more than that – WE NEED YOU THERE. Come on down!!

Local Issues Meetings

Your local councillors invite you to meet and discuss your local issues at the following meetings:

BANCA
312 Sneinton Dale
Thursday 11 September 2008 at 6.30pm

Sneinton Library
Sneinton Boulevard
Monday 22 September 2008 at 6.30pm

What’s the meeting for:
It’s a chance for you to get involved and influence how Nottingham City Council and partners work to improve local services.

What can I do?
Come along and tell us about your local concerns – we want to act on what you tell us.

What difference will it make?
Problems will be sorted, services will get better and you will know what is going on.

What if I can’t come?
Call your local Neighbourhood Management team on 915 0379 or email: myvoice.eastarea@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

You can also contact us to find out about future meetings or visit www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/area6/yourvoice

The Sneinton Winter Wonderland Festival

“To Whom It May Concern,

This year sees a new pilot festival for the sneinton area. The winter wonderland Festival is a V Project and Trent FM sponsored event which aims to create new volunteering opportunities for young people aged between 16-25 years old. The festival has been established to allow all sections of the community, regardless of age, background or belief, to come together to help organise and develop the event, as well as to participate in all its activities. It celebrates both the area and the participants themselves, whether through education, arts, performance, display or sports. It also allows people from all the different cultures and with differing experiences, to meet at its workshops and social events cumulating in a final winter carnival day.

We will be recruiting young volunteers to work on a wide range of opportunities associated with a pilot winter festival using young people’s own interest, we will enable them to work with us to deliver the event then go on to mentor even younger people for the summer sneinton festival, work will be wide ranging from arts, music, drama, heritage, event management, catering, sports, costume making, lighting etc.

The coordinator will work closely with the existing youth groups as well as schools and with the neighbourhood team of the city council and the detached youth team, taster sessions will be offered in the various arts and programmes being developed. The coordinator herself is aged 22 and from a disadvantaged background, who over the years has built up an impressive portfolio with the creative arts industry, who will be able to mentor the various youth groups to encourage and to develop creative, organisational skills and in the future to work with the younger age group 11-16. Sneinton diverse population is the in the top 5/10 of disadvantaged communities, we aim to work with the increasing numbers of Eastern European as well as the Indian Pakistani and black groups.

The coordinator will enable 30 volunteers to deliver a small winter festival in sneinton and gain expertise in their own interests. In all cases we expect them to gain respect, confidence and a sense of belonging to a vibrant community. We wish to improve the picture for young people in sneinton, we will offer basic training in first aid and personal development and mentor in organisational skills, we will promote specialised training and accreditation for a proportion of volunteers and will be organising further opportunities, and this will lead for some to improved career opportunities. The volunteer project is designed to be a distinct part of the new winter festival, publicity and taster events are an important part of the project, we expect some young volunteers to work with us on these events and subsequently go on to further training and accreditation

Once this project proves to be successful, further funding will be sought to continue with the volunteers to deliver the sneinton summer festival 2009.

I would now like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to read the above information about our exiting new project and would like to invite you to get involved, in any way possible, if you can provide training, a taster day for our festival programme, publicity or if you just know someone who may be interested in volunteering, please do not hesitate to get in touch, as a new project we will work our hardest to accommodate any form of help and to build long standing relationships for further projects within the Nottingham community.

Yours sincerely

Holly Cassidy

Festival Coordinator

07722 142 145

Holly.cassidy@googlemail.com

"We've had a Wilde Time"

I caught up with them today to talk about how they started and the secrets of their success:

“We left school with no qualifications but went to the top of our profession, at one time having a crew of 40 men fitting huge glass panels. We have contracts with top businesses in Nottingham.

Actually when we started over 30 years ago we were doing all sorts of odd jobs before concentrating on glazing. When setting up your own business the key thing is not to pay yourself too much early on but put it back into the business so it can grow.

It’s been hard work, 7 days a week, on call 24hrs a day to do the emergency repairs. In this job we have seen all sides of life! But in that time we’re never had a complaint! However there have been more and more regulations come in over the years

We are really looking forward to retirement to do a bit of fishing, gardening and that sort of thing. We are still going to be active in the community because we are born and bred here.”

These skills are not easy to replace and Wilde Bros will be missed. SBF will keep you informed as to the buyer of their lot on the Dale and the new enterprise that is going to be created.

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Well done Becky Adlington, double Olympic Champion and World Record holder in the 800m Freestyle.

On a glorious weekend for British sport the highlight was Notts girl Becky Adlington breaking a 19 year old world record – the oldest in Swimming. Becky has been training with county club Nova Centurions 4 hours a day for the past 6 years.

To show our appreciation for her hard won achievements there will be an open top bus tour of Mansfield on Tuesday, August 26. It will leave the Civic Centre in Mansfield at 6pm and travel down West Gate to the Market Square.

But besides her perserverence of effort and the support of her family, what else contributed to her success?
The county council has invested in excess of £1m a year in Swimming. They invest far more than any other county council in the country. And young swimmers with talent are fed into high level squads to work alongside the top coaches.

Sherwood Swimming Baths in Mansfield (now to be re-named in her honour) has recently had a £4.5m upgrade. At the same time the City council was seeking to close Victoria Baths. Becky and the Nova Centurions train in Victoria Baths and Becky has said in an interview: “it’s closing in the next couple of months. So we’re having to go somewhere else.”

So could we really expect the next Becky to come from the East of the City, Sneinton or St Anne’s ? This Olympics has shown that well directed investment does produce results, so Sneinton Business Forum call on the council to either invest in Victoria Leisure Centre as a local sports facility for our youngsters or build a new one in the local area as part of the new City Academy planned for Carlton Road.

But can the City really close Victoria, an historic facility now made even more historic through it connection to one of our greatest althetes?

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Incinerator Plans going up in Smoke? Inquiry launched!

The Public Inquiry into the proposed new extension to the Eastcroft Incinerator, which would add 100,000 Tonnes per year additional capacity, is being held at the Hilton Hotel, 38 Milton St, Notts, NG1 2PZ, starting on Tuesday 9th September 2008 at 9am.

The Inspector is appointed by the Secretary of State to decide the matter and interested parties may attend the Inquiry and at the Inspector’s discretion, express their views.