Nottingham City Council Leaders take on Climate training 🌍
A combination of 13 Councillors and Officers at Nottingham City Council undertook Carbon Literacy Training this month, a course designed to inform attendees about the causes and impacts of climate change and how they can take action to reduce emissions in their own organisation.
Led by an experienced trainer, the Council Leader and Deputy Leader were amongst
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The valuable knowledge gained from this course will empower Nottingham City Council leaders and staff to continue vital work on reducing the Council’s organisational emissions.
Read more on the story here, and to find out more about Carbon Literacy Training visit this link.
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Streetwise Opera 🎵 🎭
Join the award-winning homelessness charity, Streetwise Opera, at their 'Nature' performance where voices join together calling for urgent action on the climate crisis.
People with lived experience of homelessness in Nottingham have been working over the past five months to raise their voices for climate justice through singing. As a result, they’ve produced a brief opera performance, Nature, that invites audiences to experience the climate crisis not as an abstract issue but as something deeply personal.
This 20-minute pop-up performance celebrates the natural world while urging us to take urgent action to protect it. Inspired by the research and reflection that participants have done about nature, the environment and the climate emergency, it features music by composers like Handel, Delibes, Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov and Britten.
People who are more vulnerable, such as those experiencing homelessness, are more likely to be exposed to the effects of climate change. Events like heatwaves, which are set to become more common with climate change, are a weather extreme that people experiencing homelessness are going to be disproportionately affected by.
Join this FREE and un-ticketed event, details below!
📅 Tuesday 18 March
⌚ 1pm
📍 Lakeside Arts Outdoor Amphitheatre University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD.
🔗 Book here
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 Nottingham's Green Heart in running for a national award 🏆
Nottingham's new Green Heart has been shortlisted for a national award, competing against four other cities in the 'Public Spaces' category of the Pineapple Awards 2025, run by the Developer Magazine.
The Green Heart, which opened in September 2024, sits where once stood three lanes of busy traffic and the part-demolished shopping centre. It has a marsh, ‘rain garden’ to collect water during heavy rainfall, more than 30 new trees, footpaths and an assortment of benches and natural rock spaces to sit.
Having more green space in our city centres can provide a habitat for wildlife, and can create a cooling effect to help keep temperatures lower in summer heatwaves which will be hotter and more frequent with climate change.
The new space was made possible through the Department for Transport's Transforming Cities Fund. Read more on the story here!
Join Nottingham Trent University for a screening of 'Overheated' 🎬
As part of Nottingham Trent University's Green Week, a screening of the documentary 'Overheated' is being shown at the Confetti X events venue in collaboration with Mammoth Climate Action Cinema.
The documentary sees "activists turning climate anxiety into action", and the screening will be followed by a discussion with academics from the university who specialise in climate science, global policy and sustainability in the creative industry.
The documentary looks at how climate change is likely to worsen growing inequalities, and impact the most vulnerable people the most. It covers insights from activists and also looks a the impact on indigenous communities around the world.
📅 Tuesday 11 March
⌚ Doors open 5pm for the screening start at 5.30pm, until 7pm.
📍 Confetti X, 15 Nile St, Nottingham NG1 1AT
🔗 Book your FREE spot here
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Are you a small food related business? You can access FREE carbon training 💡
The Carbon Literacy Trust is providing free access to the globally recognised Carbon Literacy Training for UK SMEs. Specifically, those who are in the food value chain with an annual turnover of less than £5million.
This training will support SMEs to become part of the movement towards a low-carbon economy, can help to future proof your organisation against climate-related risks, save money, cut carbon emissions, and improve stakeholder relations.
Click this link to find out more, check your eligibility and apply.
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Join the Great British Spring Clean 🚯🌷
Keep Britain Tidy are running their annual Great British Spring Clean from the 21 March - 6 April, where you can show that you love where you live by pledging to pick up a bags worth of litter (or more!) around your neighbourhood.
You can choose to pledge as an individual, group or school by visiting their pledging page.
Not only is litter an eyesore in our communities, it can also be very harmful to wildlife 🦔 🐤 Animals like hedgehogs and birds can accidentally eat pieces of litter, or get tangled in it, trapping them and preventing them from finding food. Any litter dropped on the street can end up being washed into rivers, carried downstream, and eventually find its way to the ocean 🌊.
If you want to do even more to remove litter in your neighbourhood, you can get involved with Nottingham Clean Champions and become part of a growing community of dedicated volunteers, all making a difference right from their doorsteps. Click the link to find out more!
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Nottingham Wildlife Walks 🌳🦢🌼
Park Rangers from Nottingham City Council's Parks and Open Spaces Team are holding a series of wildlife wellbeing walks at nature reserves and local wildlife sites across Nottingham.
Join them for a walk where you can spot a range of wildlife and elements of nature according to the season.
The walks are always FREE, and are held twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Friday.
The events will showcase the wonderful parks and nature reserves in the area, and give you opportunities to socialise with like-minded people, get exercise, discover new places and immerse yourself in urban wildlife.
You can find out more about the walks and reserve your spot by visiting this link.
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Don't bin it, fix it at the Repair Cafe! 🔨
In last months newsletter we shared information about the repair cafes available around Nottingham.
Here is the next upcoming date for your diary:
📅 12 April - Sherwood Methodist Church, Mansfield Road, NG5 2EN
Follow Nottingham Fixers here, or the Victoria Repair Cafe for events in West Bridgford.
Repairing what we already own is much more sustainable than binning and buying new. Not only is it good for the planet 🌍...it's a lot cheaper too 💰!
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