Nottinghamshire Day celebrations return to Sherwood Forest as part of the Robin Hood Festival on Sunday 25 August.

The recognised county day, now in its fourth year, is an opportunity for the county to come together to celebrate its history, heritage, identity, culture, and local traditions.

Throughout the day, visitors can enjoy a range of activities including craft making workshops, Outlaw Orienteering, poetry writing workshops - not to mention a whole lot of festival fun at Robin Hood Festival with archery, historical re-enactments, music, comedy acts, and much more.

The new regional fostering recruitment hub officially launched on 23 May. Foster for East Midlands is a collaboration between councils in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. It means anyone considering becoming a foster carer across the four areas can access a single support hub to make an initial enquiry or to receive advice or guidance about foster care.

The four authorities successfully applied last year to join the Department for Education’s Fostering Recruitment and Retention programme and secured £1.626m in government funding. The funding will also help improve the support available for existing foster carers across the region, helping them to create loving, stable homes for children who need them.

A group of Nottinghamshire foster carers have been honoured for their long service totalling an incredible 295 years at a special awards ceremony.

Carers from five households were presented with awards for devoting between 25 and 40 years’ tireless service to fostering at the event, which was held at Mansfield Town Football Club on Wednesday 3 July.

They each received flowers and a certificate from Nottinghamshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Children and Families, Councillor Tracey Taylor, in recognition of the life-changing work they have done for vulnerable young people.

Families across Nottinghamshire can travel by bus for less thanks to the launch of a new group bus ticket. 

Nottinghamshire County Council has launched the new ‘Five for £5’ ticket on selected Nottsbus Connect services, which gives up to two adults and up to three young people (aged up to 19-years-old) unlimited travel all day on the services for just five pounds.

The ticket is valid at weekends as well as during the summer and October half terms and will give families and groups a chance to explore Nottinghamshire, including green spaces.

Pioneering new research is set to map at street level where the strongest mobile phone signals are in Nottinghamshire. This comes after the completion of one of the biggest, continuous mobile data-collection exercises the county has ever seen.

After securing funding in 2022, Nottinghamshire County Council has been leading the ambitious project, known as Digital Pathfinders, working with all seven local district and borough councils as well as Birmingham City University.

For the last two years, more than seven million sets of mobile signal data have been tracked and collected - all with the help of the humble bin lorry.

At the same time household waste and recycling was being collected, so were millions of sets of real-time mobile phone data, making the most of resources.

Do you want to hop on a bus and explore central Rushcliffe at your own pace? Or maybe you fancy a night out in Newark or Mansfield without the hassle of driving or parking? Well, you’re in luck.

From 22 July Nottinghamshire County Council is introducing several new Nottsbus on Demand services across the county. This includes a brand-new Central Rushcliffe Zone, a Newark evening service and an expansion to the Mansfield service.