ICC/YMCA, 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FN

On Saturday March 5th, Notts SOS organised a protest in the Market Square. The demonstration was held 2 days before Nottingham City Council meets to set its budget for next, year, slashing millions of pounds of spending.

Nottingham City Council are planning to cut tens of millions from their spending in the year from April 2011. They will meet to set this budget on Monday March 7th. Notts Save Our Services (SOS) are calling on them not to adopt their cuts budget.

Actions:

• Saturday March 5th – Notts SOS Rally, Market Square, 12.30pm
• Monday March 7th – Protest outside the council’s budget meeting, Marke…

Saturday  26th February was a busy day for anti-cuts campaigning in Nottingham city centre. Activists from Notts SOS were out collecting signatures for a petition against cuts by the city council and building for the rally next weekend. Meanwhile Notts UK Uncut occupied Natwest Bank, ultimately forcing it to close early.

Nottingham City Council are planning to cut tens of millions from their spending in the year from April 2011.

International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham

New year, new cuts. After an unplanned two week break, Notts Cuts Watch is back with a rundown of the cuts and resistance in Nottinghamshire since Christmas. As ever this is probably an incomplete list and draws heavily on reporting in the local media.

Pay particular attention to the upcoming events, of which there are many, not the least of which is the Combating the Cuts event next Saturday.

Even as Christmas approached, the cutting of public services in Nottinghamshire continued. The festivities have taken the sails out of the resistance to these attacks, but I'm sure it will be back with a vengeance in the new year. (On which note, make sure you put the Combating the Cuts event on January 15th in your diary.) Until then, why not spend some of the post-Christmas lull reading up on ex…

The International Community Centre, 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FN

"Our group in Nottingham has a genuine belief the cuts could be stopped if sufficient protest was amassed locally and nationally."

Videos from the tax avoiders protest in Nottingham.

Dunkirk and Old Lenton Community Centre, Montpelier Road, Dunkirk, Nottingham, NG7 2JW

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St./73 Beech Avenue, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6HX