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99% of Nottinghamshire parents offered a preferred primary school
Nottinghamshire County Council contacted thousands of parents on Monday, 17 April, with the outcome of which school their child has been allocated for either a reception or year 3 primary school place.
This year, 96.3% of Nottinghamshire children were offered their parents’ first preference school for a reception place this September (2023). That is 7,767 out of a total 8,062 that applied on time for a school place, with 99.6% securing a place in one of their preferred schools.
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Notts voluntary groups invited to apply for £750,000 worth of community-boosting grants
Voluntary organisations and community groups helping improve the health and well-being of Nottinghamshire residents can now apply for a range of financial support thanks to the Local Communities Fund.
The four sets of grants are open until Sunday 4 June.
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New Nottsbus On Demand zone to launch in west Rushcliffe
Residents in west Rushcliffe will be able to get on board a new on demand bus service from 15 May 2023.
The new Nottsbus On Demand service is the next phase of our demand responsive transport roll out following the successful trial in north and south Ollerton and Mansfield and will be operating in villages including East Leake, Gotham, Thrumpton, Stanford on Soar, Sutton Bonington, and Kegworth between 7am and midnight, seven days a week.
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£1.2 million for rural gigabit broadband for libraries and schools through devolution deal
The Government have made £1.2 million of funding available for new gigabit broadband for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derby, and Nottingham.
It means that an extra 118 rural public sector schools and libraries will be connected to gigabit broadband. When complete, it will help librarians and teachers and allow whole classes to be online at once with no interruptions.
The funding is part of early investment offered to the area as part of devolution negotiations. It is not dependent on devolution proposals going ahead.
The scheme is just one part of local housing, infrastructure, and environmental funding to benefit Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derby, and Nottingham, worth a total of £18 million, made possible through devolution.
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Council set to lead £8 million ‘gigahubs’ project to help Midlands communities be better connected.
Nottinghamshire County Council has been chosen to lead a Midlands-wide investment to bring faster internet speeds to communities who need it the most. A total of more than 350 public buildings such as libraries, rural schools and doctors’ surgeries are set to become ‘gigahubs’ with 96 due to be in Nottinghamshire.
£6.8 million has been awarded to the County Council, on behalf of the ten Midlands local authorities which have signed up to the project. This part of the funding is from Building Digital UK (BDUK) the delivery arm of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to create up to 235 gigahubs.
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Community organisations share £90,000 to help residents access affordable and healthy food
Fourteen community organisations in Nottinghamshire are to share £90,000 in funding to improve residents’ access to affordable and healthy food.
They will receive the money from Nottinghamshire County Council’s newly launched Food Redistribution Grant Scheme to enable them to set up or extend schemes to help families and households access affordable, good quality and nutritious food.
The money is the first round of funding as part of a three-year scheme, which is being delivered through the County Council’s Local Communities Fund (LCF).
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