RELEASE DATE 26 February 2007
TITLE CLIFTON SHOPPERS EXPERIENCE THE WORK OF LOCAL TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS
 

Most local residents and users would agree that the Varney Road shopping area in Clifton near Nottingham has long been in need of some improvements. This month will see those improvements start to happen thanks to the hard work of Farnborough School's technology students, with the help of local regeneration charity, Groundwork Greater Nottingham and support from Nottingham City Council.

Using initial funding from Toyota as part of its Schools for Sustainable Development Programme, the students worked with staff from Groundwork Greater Nottingham to put together a wish list of improvements for the area. Officers from Nottingham City Council then brought together funding from 21st Century Towns, Area Capital Fund, and Neighbourhood Services to enable the works to go ahead.

The result of this cooperation is that the area will be repaved, with new benches, bins and trees installed to create a modern, green shopping area. Artist Nathan Bainbridge is also working with Farnborough School's year 9 students to create a large-scale artwork showing local scenes that will be installed on the Co-op building opposite Dovecote school.

The scheme was particularly commended by Councillors Tim Spencer and Chris Gibson, who commented: “It’s so refreshing to see what can be achieved for our communities through working together”

For more information, contact Angela Ganss on 0115 9788212.
 
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Please note that all our projects involve people and communities and many have to be seen to be believed. They each have very different real life stories of transformation, they are very photogenic, and in order to continually improve our communities, we will be delighted to share more of these with you, including fielding interviews and making visits available to you

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

GGN has been established for 14 years

In a typical year we Groundwork Greater Nottingham works with communities to:-
· Develop and deliver at least 100 new projects
· Deliver over 4000 person days of youth activity
· Engage with over 200 local businesses
· Work in partnership with at least 80 schools
· Deliver 40 locally significant environmental improvement schemes
· Deliver 2 regionally significant conferences a year

Nationally, Groundwork is one of the UK’s leading social and environmental partnership organisation’s, working with people, local authorities and businesses to promote economic and social regeneration by improving the local environment. Through it’s network of around 50 Independent Trust’s around the UK, from Tyneside to South Wales, Northern Ireland to Hackney, Groundwork uses the environment to improve their quality of life. Groundwork is an independent charity, which involves 60,000 adult volunteers and over 120,000 school children each year in local environmental projects. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, Groundwork’s local Trust’s work in partnership with local people, local authorities and businesses to promote sustainable developments in their local area.

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T: 0115 9788212
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