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Be A Sweet Neighbour – Campaign Launch

Today we welcome our Advantage Award student Marianne to the blog to tell you all about the launch of the Be A Sweet Neighbour campaign on Wednesday.     This Wednesday we are launching our ‘Be a Sweet Neighbour’ campaign, alongside the Nottingham in Bloom Campaign. Visit us in the Portland Building between 11 and …

Be a Sweet Neighbour – Project Update

This year, our PR Project Management Advantage Award students are working on a project to promote neighbourliness among students living in the local community. The campaign is called ‘Be a Sweet Neighbour’ and will be officially launched on 20th March in the Atrium. Today, one of our students, Catherine, talks about what they’ve been working on so …

Street Pastors

Today we’re delighted to welcome Jo Cox-Brown to the Off Campus Blog. Jo is the Chief Executive of the Malt Cross Trust, and she’s here to tell you about her work with the Street Pastors and Safe Space.   Hi my name is Jo Cox-Brown and excitingly I’ve been invited to write this guest blog. …

Additional Licensing for Houses In Multiple Occupation Consultation

Nottingham City Council is currently running a consultation on a proposal to designate an area of Nottingham for additional licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). The consultation is running from 25th February to 20th May 2013 and you can have your say about the proposal by completing an online questionnaire here. So, what’s this …

Students in Nottingham – The Chief Superintendent’s View

Today we’re very pleased to welcome Chief Superintendent Simon Nickless to the Off Campus blog to talk about students in Nottingham and how the Police are working with our communities. As Divisional Commander for Nottingham City, I’m responsible for the officers and staff working to help build a safe and clean City for the people who …

Why be a Sweet Neighbour?

This year, our PR Project Management Advantage Award students are working on a project to promote neighbourliness among students living in the local community. The campaign is called ‘Be a Sweet Neighbour’ and will be officially launched on 20th March in the Atrium. Module leader Zoe Baker introduced the module in her blog entry last …

Love Your Stuff – February 2013

The start of February brought with it the Lenton and Dunkirk Week of Action. If you live in those areas, hopefully you will have seen leaflets advertising everything that was going on, or maybe been along to some of the events. Maybe you even found one of our student ambassadors on your doorstep on a …

PR Project Management – The Nottingham Advantage Award

Hello, my name is Zoe Baker and this is the first blog I have ever written. I am a Graduate Trainee currently working in the Off-Campus Student Affairs department here at the University and as part of this role I have been given the responsibility to lead the Nottingham Advantage Award PR Project Management module. …

Grill the Police and Crime Commissioner – Without Leaving The House!

Are you interested in having your say on community safety issues?  Do you want to have a voice in the decisions that are made about policing and crime in Nottingham? A live web chat with the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping, will give you the chance to send your views and questions straight …

Welcome to the Off Campus Blog

Welcome to the new Off Campus Blog for the University of Nottingham. Off Campus Student Affairs is a department dedicated to working with and for the many University of Nottingham students who don’t live on campus and instead live within the local communities of Nottingham – principally in Lenton, Dunkirk and Beeston. We’re going to …