November 2017

Interesting to Know......

A rail freight terminal being built next to Airport which will create thousands of jobs has been launched to the market. The 700-acre inland port which will take advantage of links to the M1 and airport will directly create 7,250 jobs, 900 construction roles and 3,000 indirect jobs. The interchange will include a 50-acre rail terminal and extensive road improvements that are designed to give the best possible connectivity to the 10 plots presently being developed.

The Office for National statistics has reported that employment rose by 94,000 between June and August to 32.1 million. Women accounted for 78,000 (83%) of the increase over the summer months. Unemployment is at a 42 year low of 4.3% - it is half the 9.5% in France.

According to Money Advice Service and CACI, 21.9% of people living in are likely to have problem debt. The overall UK figure is estimated at 15.9%.

Nottingham has been named as one of the best and safest places for a night out in the UK. The city has retained Purple Flag status for the eighth consecutive year - an accolade which recognises areas that offer an entertaining, diverse, safe and enjoyable evening out.

Sir John Peace has been appointed as the new chancellor of Nottingham Trent University.

Nearly 300 jobs could be created in Newark after dessert manufacturer Bakkavor revealed plans for a £20 million extension at its factory in the town. Bakkavor has lodged plans with Newark and Sherwood District Council to expand its plant at Jessop Way. Around 1,800 people already work at the plant, which produces desserts for supermarket own-label brands.

Work is expected to start some time next spring on an 85 flat development on the former Shell Garage site near the BBC roundabout on London Road. In the meantime planning permission is being sought for another three storey building that will have 67 ‘high quality’ one bedroom studio flats on vacant land alongside.

More than four million people in Britain spend at least half their time working from home.

Parcel delivery company DPD has unveiled plans for a £12 million purpose built distribution centre. It will be at Blenheim Park, in Bulwell. When fully operational in spring 2018 the new facility will create 100 new jobs for the area.

Students at the city’s universities add over £884 million to the local economy every year.

Trent Vineyard church has 2,000 people attending services every week. The Christian church has been in the city for 20 years and started with eight adults and two children. Plans are in hand to expand its Lenton Lane buildings to accommodate even more people. The ’s previous vice chancellor, Sir David Greenaway, is to be made Honorary Freeman of Nottingham.

In the smart phone age, only 5% of the average person’s attention is devoted to news on their device.

Ford dealers across the UK are hiring 1,000 technicians to support the push into self-driving cars and electric and hybrid engines.

Nottingham City Council is to spend £8 million on a fire safety programme for its 13 high rise blocks of flats.

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Nottingham Workplace Chaplaincy Insight Meeting These meetings have the objective of informing people about different aspects of the day to day workings of the city. Key people join us to give an ‘INSIGHT’ into their areas of responsibility and interest. Wednesday 22nd November

Craig Guildford – Nottinghamshire Police’s Chief Constable Changing World - Changing Police

The world around us is changing and the interaction of local policing with local people is being affected by significant changes on multiple fronts. The police workload is becoming more complex and dealing with the problems of the community more difficult. All this has to be managed and the person that has that job in Nottinghamshire is our Chief Constable, Craig Guildford. At this meeting Craig will give an INSIGHT into managing local policing in what are indisputably challenging times.

We will meet in the Congregational Centre, 6 Castle Gate, Nottingham, NG1 7AS (Near M&S) at noon and we will be finished by 1.30 pm at the latest. A buffet lunch, sponsored by solicitors Rothera Sharp, is provided.

To help with the catering arrangements please email: [email protected] to confirm your attendance. THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO ALREADY HAVE.

The number of people in the UK aged 100 and over doubled between 2002 and 2016. Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show there are almost 15,000 centenarians in the country, while the number of people aged 90 and over has hit a record high of 571,245. Dining out in has never been easier with a new online quiz which recommends the perfect places to eat – all depending on what you fancy and the time of day. The It’s in Nottingham Food and Drink Finder was launched last month. Visit www.itsinnottingham.com/tastefinder

Nottinghamshire YMCA has pledged up to £1.5 million in order to launch the Sports and Community Village in Newark. This is an £8.5 million project, for which Newark and Sherwood District Council has selected Nottinghamshire YMCA as its partner.

The Big House programme at Nottingham Business School provides support to creative and digital SMEs in Nottinghamshire and they have grants of between £1,050 and £2,250 for buying in freelance expertise on any project related to the growth of the business. They can fund up to 30% of the overall cost of the project.

Nottingham City Transport is the 5th biggest private employer in Greater Nottingham – the top 4 are all multi- national organisations.

Nottingham Council House clock was designed in 1928 by Copes, a long-established local jewellers and clock-makers. The main bell is . It is 10.5 tonnes and on a clear day you can hear it seven-and-a-half miles away down the Trent valley.

On average 25 to 34 year -olds have credit card, car finance and personal finance debt equivalent to half their annual income.

A new campaign called ‘More After 4’ has been launched in a bid to encourage late night shopping, entertainment, and eating and drinking within Nottingham city centre. The scheme, which is being run by It’s in Nottingham, sees on-street activities and later opening hours every Wednesday.

Residents across Nottingham are being called on to back the bid for Nottingham to be European Capital of Culture in 2023. Follow the bid on social media @Nottingham2023 and use #Nottingham2023.

Nottinghamshire’s visitor economy is worth £1.755 billion and the number of visits to the county increased by 3.4% to 35.43 million in 2016, new research has revealed. Overnight stays were valued at £617 million in 2016, increasing by 3.4% with the average spend per overnight stay growing to £179.67.

Our universities are major employers of Nottingham people – over 12,000 people work there.

The Derby-Nottingham Metro Project will include developing a report which identifies new ways in which the two cities can collaborate to deliver growth and prosperity. The report will identify the economic potential for the Metro area, policies and the ways in which this potential can be realised.

Emmanuel House Support Centre is an independent, and the only open access day centre within Nottingham City, for homeless people. They have around 70 visitors each day and last year they supported 1457 individual people. Over the past 12 months the official number of people rough sleeping on the streets in Nottingham has more than doubled.

The huge Boots ‘stores service’ at the Boots campus in Beeston sends out millions of products to all its 2,500 UK stores every day. Measuring 850,000 sq ft, it stocks and handles every single non- pharmacy product that is sold in Boots stores and online. About 2,200 staff work there.

At Christmas 1991 a major national electrical product retailer used a full page newspaper advertisement to promote 13 separate items. Today every one of them is available on an iphone. They are: radio – telephone - clock – calculator – tape recorder – word processor – music player – scanner – answering machine – voice recorder – camera – video recorder – speaker.

Nottinghamshire Police has adopted the national online crime reporting tool which allows victims of crime to report crimes and incidents that do not require an immediate police response and track their investigations through to its conclusion.

After eighteen months of extensive public consultation and engagement a new vision for the role of culture and creativity in the life of Nottingham as a city has been outlined in the Cultural Statement and Framework for Nottingham document.

About one million pupils are educated in more than 4,700 Church of schools. The Arboretum, the city’s oldest public park, has a new attraction - the Arboretum Café. It is in the restored 19th Century lodge at the park entrance on Waverley Street and is open from 9.30am- 4.30pm daily. Nottingham Business School has announced details of their 2017/18 Business Leaders Lecture Series. On Thursday 23rd November 2017 John Jeffcock, Chief Executive, of Winmark will give a presentation on ‘Career Networking All The Way To CEO’. email: [email protected] for further information. The city council has over 200 fixed cameras and 50 deployable public spaces cameras available.

A new festival for Nottingham, Beat the Streets, will take place on Sunday 28th January with more than 80 national and local acts playing in venues across the city centre. The event is in aid of improving the lives of homeless people in Nottingham with tickets and merchandise proceeds going to FRAMEWORK.

It is the two hundredth anniversary of the first smuggled lace loom being put to work in Calais, France. It was disassembled in Nottingham at the end of 1816 and reassembled in Calais early in 1817. By going to live and work in Calais, a number of lace-makers circumvented the obstacle of high duties on imports to France. Nottingham newspapers regularly provided news about the industry in Calais, including advertisements for jobs in the French lace industry. Between 1815 and 1860, 270 British lace makers created 230 different businesses in Calais.

Robin Hood Energy and Nottingham City Transport have both been named as two of the country’s top publically owned companies in this year’s Local Public Ownership Awards. Energy is providing low cost energy for 10,000 city customers.

The ’s commercial and development executive director Nicola Burley has become interim chief operating officer of both the museum (previously named the Galleries of Justice) and now CEO Tim Desmond has left to take up a similar post at the National Football Museum in Manchester. Nottingham is one of the least congested cities in the UK. Traffic is lighter than anywhere except Birmingham according to a new study.

A third of under-fives now have a tablet device of their own, a recent survey has revealed. Parents upgrading their own devices hand old ones down.

A 60’s built office block in Clarendon Street will be converted into accommodation for 21 students if the city council agrees a planning application recently submitted. Nottingham has the highest number of student households of any of the core cities, as a proportion. 8.6% of Nottingham households claim student exemption. In Birmingham it is less than 3% and in Liverpool its 4.5%.

This year the Nottingham Business Improvement District will once again be distributing 50,000 copies of It’s in Nottingham Christmas magazine which features information on events, products, competitions and festive content to encourage consumers to visit Nottingham for their Christmas shopping and socialising. has been named as UK's best club venue - in the 800-plus capacity section of the Live UK Music Business Awards - and its owner is the best national promoter. DHP Family has over 10 years’ worth of experience in producing, promoting and managing all aspects of major indoor and outdoor festivals, national tours and standalone shows across the UK. Staff levels have grown to 400-plus with the main operation in Nottingham and a growing team based permanently in London.

This year’s Nottingham Workplace Chaplaincy Carol’s after Work service is on Thursday 14th December in St Peter’s Church (near M&S) starting at 6.30 pm. Carols are accompanied by the Salvation Army Brass Band. Come and join us for a simple service of familiar carols and music for Christmas that will be followed by hot drinks and minced pies.