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We’ve got a story in the Nottingham Evening Post (13th Oct) about the work we’ve been doing with local families and the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.

Families who attend our play sessions have been working with artists from the Contemporary to make games and activities for other families to use – to help them enjoy playing in the woods at Bulwell Hall Park.

Families have also helped to make a special Play and Learn Trail for the Contemporary – which will be launched at the gallery on Saturday 22nd October.

The Trail includes hands-on play activities and interactive maps to help families explore the gallery.

Eventually, the Trail will be handed back to us, so we’ll be able to use it in Bulwell as well.

If you’d like to come along to the Contemporary on the 22nd, please feel free to let us know.

We’ll let you know more details about the launch very soon!

We’ll also let you know how you can get your hands on our wonderful new games and activities!

Read the story in full in the Nottingham Evening Post

Please help us to win £6,000 worth of funding to help keep our Girls’ After School Club running next year by voting for us!

The money is up for grabs via NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative and we’re just one of many organisations competing for the funding so we really need your help.

Vote for us online or call 0800 2100 246. Anyone with hearing or speech impairments can contact CommunityForce on Minicom number 0800 0155 545.

Voting closes on 23rd October and you’re allowed to vote 3 times.

As you may know, our girls’ club gives girls aged from 9 to 13 the chance to get involved in activities after school such as arts, crafts, games and discussions about things that they choose.

Many thanks for your support – it’s always appreciated.

Just a reminder that our term-time play sessions for children begin on Monday 12th September with a couple of changes to our usual timetable.

The ‘Play on the Wildside’ nature-inspired outdoor play sessions for little ones aged from 0 to 5 will now take place on Tuesday mornings at Bulwell Hall Park (behind the toy library’s offices) instead of Wednesday afternoons.

The outdoor play sessions replace the family learning sessions, which have now ended.

Click here for a full list of play sessions for children aged 0 to 5

If you have older children, please note that our after-school session at the Crabtree Community Centre on Tuesday is now for children aged from 5 to 8 years only (as we were getting over 70 children at this session!)

Click here for a full list of term-time sessions for older children aged from 5 to 13

Please feel free to give us a call on 0115 975 3898 for more information.

We had a story in Thursday’s Evening Post about our campaign to find funding to keep our girls’ after school club running next year.

You can read the story in full on the Evening Post website.

If you’d like to vote for us to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative you can vote from 26th September by calling 0800 2100 246  or online via the CommunityForce website.

Many thanks for your support!

Just a reminder to let you know that our regular term-time play sessions start again on the 12th September.

To find out more about all our services including play sessions for children aged from 0 to 14 please visit the Services section of the website or feel free to get in touch.

Many thanks

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service has kindly given us a ‘plug’ on its website – asking people to vote for us to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative – to help keep our girls’ club running next year.

Read the story in full on the NCVS website

We’re asking everyone to vote for our girls’ after school club to win funding from NatWest bank’s CommunityForce initiative, so that we can keep the club going next year.

As you may know, our girls’ club gives girls aged from 9 to 13 the chance to get involved in activities after school such as arts, crafts, games and discussions about things that they choose.

The club is just one of hundreds of charities and projects that are competing for funding from CommunityForce nationally and there are just three awards of £6,000 each up for grabs in each CommunityForce region – so we really need your votes!

Voting opens on 26th September and you can vote online by visiting the CommunityForce website or by calling the CommunityForce helpline on 0800 2100 246. Anyone with hearing or speech impairments can contact CommunityForce on Minicom number 0800 0155 545.

Voting closes on 23rd October.

The three projects with the most votes in each CommunityForce area will win the awards – each worth £6,000 so please help us make sure that one of those projects is our girls’ club – by voting for us to win!

Many thanks for your support – it’s always appreciated.

If you’re looking for a way to entertain the family this Bank Holiday Weekend, the Nottingham Contemporary in town has lots of free events for families and children of all ages – including the chance to star in a movie, free ice-cream and a giant zebra!

You can find out more on the Nottingham Contemporary website

We’re currently working with artists from the Nottingham Contemporary to create free resources for families – designed to help you explore, play and make the most of the woods at Bulwell Hall Park.

We’ll let you know when the resources are ready!

Today is Playday 2011 – the national day for play across the UK and to celebrate we’re holding an event at Bulwell Hall Park today from 11am to 3pm.

Come down and join in with loads of activities including inflatables, baseball, football and crafts, plus lots more!

The event is being organised by play organisations around Nottingham and in keeping with Playday, it aims to be a real celebration of play!

There’s lots of similar events going on around the country, so it’s great to know were part of a much bigger campaign to highlight the importance of play in children’s lives.

Come and join in the fun today or get out and play where you live – happy Playday!

We’ve got a story in today’s Nottingham Evening Post about the free resources we’re creating with families and artists from the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery.

Click here if you’d like to read the article in full

As the article mentions, these resources should be ready by October and will be available for families to borrow free of charge from the toy library.

The idea behind the resources is to make it easier and more fun for families to play in their local woods – like the ones we use at Bulwell Hall Park.

The resources are part of our Play on the Wildside project – which includes free play sessions for children aged from 0 to 14 and also monthly family sessions, designed for the whole family.

Yesterday, artists from the Contemporary worked with 9 families with children aged under 5, to make storygazers – which they then used to search for stories in the trees. As you can imagine, it was a wonderful way of bringing the woods to life for little ones.

Click here to find out more about our Play on the Wildside sessions