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Nottingham Development Set To Be A ‘UK First’
IMAGES of a ground-breaking, multi-million ‘cohesive use’ scheme for Nottingham have been revealed showing hotels, co-working space, apartments, green space and leisure. The scheme – which is the flagship of The Island Quarter development – has been lodged with Nottingham City Council’s planning team. Hailed as a ‘UK first’, the development will lead the way in terms… Read more
Broadmarsh: The Big Conversation – Nottingham Partners Event Update
If Nottingham city centre was a 1,000 piece jigsaw, the Broadmarsh area would be the middle pieces; tricky to find but absolutely crucial to the overall picture. We were delighted to host a virtual roundtable discussion on the future of Nottingham’s Broadmarsh site on Friday 27th November. We welcomed our members to hear the perspectives of key stakeholders, property developers and architects and their thoughts on… Read more
An Update on Nottingham’s Environmental Strategy – Event Recap

An Update on Nottingham’s Environmental Strategy We were delighted to host the first Nottingham Partners event of November on Zoom on Friday 13 November. We welcomed members to hear Councillor Sally Longford and Wayne Bexton give an update on Nottingham City Council’s Environmental Strategy and hear about their plans to create a Carbon Neutral City… Read more
Let’s talk Broadmarsh! Council launches Big Conversation on future of key city centre site
The future of the one of the most important parts of Nottingham city centre is the subject of a Big Conversation being launched by the City Council today (20 October) to get people talking about what they would like to see happen there. Council Leader Councillor David Mellen has described it as a once-in-a-generation opportunity… Read more
New Partner brings award winning COVID services to help Nottingham Partners
The award winning KuKu Connect joins the Nottingham Partners, bringing an array of free pandemic support services to help businesses, venues and charities in Nottinghamshire and they are already supporting thousands of organisations every day during the pandemic. KuKu Connect are an established and hugely successful regional business membership networking organisation, who provide a range… Read more
Welcome to Black History Month in the UK – a blog by Cllr Leslie Ayoola
It’s October again and another chance for individuals and society to have a closer look at the amazing contributions that black people (people of African descent) have made and continue to bring to our society and our great city of Nottingham. It would be remiss of me if I did not mention that black entrepreneurs… Read more
Expert Insight – Specialist Tax Adviser Adam Rollason (Smith Cooper) on the planning opportunities for company shareholders ahead of 2021 Spring Budget
With the effects of Covid-19 pushing UK national debt to a record high, I think we can all agree that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be under intense pressure to increase the tax revenues in 2021 and beyond. Speculation continues to mount as to how this will be achieved, a strategy for which is expected to… Read more
Impression launches new service with raft of new appointments
Nottingham-based digital marketing agency Impression has launched its new service specialising in conversion rate optimisation (CRO) with the additional appointment of five new members of staff to the business. The launch of its CRO department follows increased service demand from the agency’s existing clients and will be headed up by CRO Consultant Richard Chapman, previously… Read more
An Update from the Nottingham Economic Growth Board – Event Recap

Friday’s Nottingham Partners event, we introduced the Nottingham Growth Board to our members. We were pleased to welcome the Chair of the Nottingham Growth Board, Nick Ebbs, and the Chair of Nottingham One, Kevin Shakesheff to outline the work being done by the Growth Board to plan the economic recovery and renewal strategy for the… Read more
An Update with Nottingham City Council and an introduction to new CEO, Mel Barrett – Event Recap
We were delighted to welcome Nottingham City Council’s new CEO, Mel Barrett, to our latest online Nottingham Partners event. Our event was Mel’s first public appearance as CEO so we were honoured to introduce him into Nottingham’s business community and offer our members the exclusive chance to ask him questions. The event, ‘An update with… Read more