Festivities all year round

Nottingham offers entertainment by the quiver-ful, with something going on year-round. But coincide your visit with one of its many festivals and enjoy activities on tap.

The Spring Bank Holiday offers a pinch of international seasoning with One City, One World. Four days’ of dance and music celebrates Nottingham’s cultural diversity, with live entertainment from artists from countries as far-flung as Hungary, Japan, India and Ireland.

The same weekend plays host to City Pulse, a free music festival on Old Market Square paying tribute to genres including swing, ska, pop, soul, blues and rock and roll and bringing street music and live performances across the city. You’re planning to go clubbing anyway, so why not tie-in your late-May visit with the Dot To Dot Festival, which takes over various venues to introduce up-and-coming bands and international DJs?

For something a little higher-brow, the Nottingham Festival runs from late May to early June with a packed programme of opera, orchestral, chamber and jazz concerts, recitals, plays and film screenings at the Castle, Royal Concert Hall and Theatre Royal.

If summer’s a bit grey, liven up your July by coming to the two-day Caribbean Carnival, with its music tents, stalls and colourful parade of soca, reggae and steelpan sounds.

Steer your Nottingham adventure to the city’s famous waterways for the Riverside Festival in early August. This event is dripping with activities including Dragon Boat Racing along a one-mile stretch of the River Trent.

If you’re feeling energetic, coincide your visit with the Robin Hood Festival of Running; Nottingham’s biggest mass-participation sporting event at the start of September.

If you skip lunch you might be here in time for the Food and Drink Festival later that month. Taste-test regional and speciality fare on Old Market Square and at a sprinkling of participating establishments.

Unsurprisingly, Robin Hood is at the centre of the lion’s share of city events. The Robin Hood Beer Festival at the Castle in early October lays-on record numbers of real ales as you digest live entertainment from the Victorian bandstand. Two weeks later our famous outlaw returns to throw his Pageant. This two-day celebration recreates the medieval encampment where our hero crossed paths with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Make like a Merry Man surrounded by artisans, jesters, wandering minstrels, storytellers and live jousting tournaments.
If you’re a fan of the arts, NottDance festival in mid-October breathes life into the month with an international programme of artists and choreographers that will put the spring back into your step even after a heavy night!

The end of the month sees the arrival of GameCity Squared. This unique homage to videogames and interactive entertainment hacks into venues across Nottingham. Pick your guilty pleasure and let the games begin!

For something more light-hearted, the Nottingham Comedy Festival takes over nine venues at the end of October and start of November and showcases slapstick from dozens of talented comics.

You may arrive here as one of a small group, but join in with Nottingham’s packed festival programme and you’ll leave feeling part of something much bigger.

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Fostering People, the Independent Fostering Agency, celebrates its 10 year anniversary in September this year, following a decade of sustained growth.

The Nottingham based fostering (http://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/fostering-information ) agency will be hosting a range of activities and events to mark the occasion, drawing together foster carers, looked after children and young people, birth children and staff.

The main event, a special celebratory day to be held in September, has been organised by a focus group at Fostering People. Along with a range of games and activities, the day will host special long service awards for young people, carers and staff who have been with the agency throughout its duration.

The 10 year anniversary marks a significant milestone in the company’s development. Originally set up to provide fostering services in the East Midlands, the agency has since expanded to offer its services across Central England, the North West and the North East of England. To date, Fostering People has over 115 foster carers registered with them, with over 190 children and young people in placements.

Its growth has been recently boosted by the launch of a new carer recruitment focussed website, providing an extended amount of information about fostering children (http://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/ ) and targeted at recruiting foster carers across Central and Northern England. The website also supports the agency’s ongoing expansion to provide a service for fostering in Manchester (http://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/fostering-in-manchester ).

On the 10 year anniversary celebrations, John Platt, Fostering People Operational Manager, commented: “We are delighted with how the plans are taking shape for our 10 year celebrations – it is a culmination of a lot of hard work by our carers and staff. We want to plan an event that our young people and everybody else involved in the organisation will enjoy.”

There are already considerable plans in place for further expansion over the forthcoming decade, as John Platt explained: “We have really positive plans for the future. Fostering People is a growing agency because we work hard to provide a quality service for Local Authorities, in order to improve outcomes for children and young people. We are very excited about what we can achieve – we have plans to utilise modern technology, including digital media, to move us forwards. As we look to build upon our foundations of the last 10 years, we aim to go from strength to strength.”

The 10 year anniversary celebrations complement the agency’s ongoing carer recruitment campaign, in a bid to plug the gap in the shortage of foster carers in England, as well as other roles such as Form F (http://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/Form-F-Assessors ) Assessors.

About Fostering People

Fostering People, part of the Core Assets Group Ltd, is an Independent Fostering Agency (IFA) based in Nottingham, England. It provides foster care services across the East Midlands, West Midlands, Yorkshire, the North West, including fostering in Lancashire (http://www.fosteringpeople.co.uk/fostering-by-region/fostering-in-the-north-west/fostering-in-lancashire ), and the North East of England. Working in partnership with Local Authorities, Fostering People provides a wide range of placements. The agency currently looks after over 190 children and young people, and has over 115 foster carers registered.

Fostering People PR Contact:

Rob Bloom

Online Copywriter    

Core Assets

Malvern View

Saxon Business Park

Hanbury Road

Stoke Prior

Bromsgrove

B60 4AD

01527 556480

www.fosteringpeople.co.uk

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Best reply by Ted:

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Best reply by bodom_rule1990:

ye i had to do that this year (would have rather camped again).
i cant remember what the hotels name name was but was at back of station, theres a few hotels right near derby station.

and a shuttle thant goes to and from the bus stop outside derby station to download. this runs every 15mins or somin(id hate to be bus driver lol).

anyways have fun, know i will lol. x