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Knowing Me Knowing You Part II

This is the second of our get to know you series which this time features… Name: Jacqui Storey How long have you worked here ? I started at the University in the summer of 2001 as a Marketing and Communications Officer for what is now called Business Engagement and Innovation Services. After a year in that …

Knowing me, knowing you

  This blog entry, from Chris Annable, is the start in a series of posts that will give you a bit more insight into the work of the Access and Communities team. Look out every other week for entries from other team members. Name: Chris Annable What do you do? I’m the programme and partnership …

Nottingham Skillsbank

Our new blog is a guest blog written by Caroline Berrill from Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service. She writes about Nottingham Skillsbank which is a new service co-developed with The University of Nottingham’s Community Partnerships Team. It focuses on bringing together skilled volunteers and community organisations in Nottingham. Skillsbank was germinated at a meeting at the …

Cornering the Community at May Fest

The University’s annual community open day, May Fest, took place on 10th May and proved again that there really are only two certainties in life –that the Chemistry Thunder and Lightning lecture will sell out and that it will rain at May Fest. Thankfully the forecast was a little off track for those of us …

Chinese students connect with older people

It wasn’t the usual Wednesday afternoon in the office. I was going to accompany some of our Chinese students from the Nottingham University Business School on a visit to the Willows Day Centre in Beechdale. They had all volunteered as part of the Chinese Culture Sharing programme, a project which has been running in local …

Face to Face at the Clay project: a guest blog from one of our postgraduate placement students

Hello all, my name is Oliver Matias and I am a Health Psychology Masters student at the University and am fortunate enough to have been offered a Research Assistant placement through an Access and Communities project called Building Enterprise. The project offers paid placements to postgraduates within community organisations to undertake a piece of research. This …

The rewards of collaboration

Having worked at the University for 13 years in Community Partnerships and its predecessor Active Communities, I’ve had very many rewarding experiences. These have largely involved students and staff sharing their time and skills with the local community who in return have shared what they know and have to offer. There are too many highlights …