On Thursday October 21st, Notts County Unison organised a demonstration at County Hall, West Bridgford against the cuts advocated by the Tory-led authority. Coming the day after the Coalition Government's "Comprehensive Spending Review," the event attracted around 500 people, a mixture of council workers, service users, campaigners and local residents.

4.00pm Monday 18th October, Market Square, Nottingham



Say no to pay cuts for school support staff. Around 5-600 gathered to protest these cuts.

An (incomplete) overview of how the age of austerity has affected Notinghamshire over the last week or so.

Nottinghamshire County Council announced plans to cut their adult social care budget by £72m over 4 years this week. The Tory-led Council said the cuts would be made to residential care homes, sheltered housing, women’s refuges and personal budgets for vulnerable people, and that the welfare rights service will be axed.

Newswire: Fuck austerity! Fight the cuts! | County Hall Attacked | Not…

International day of action against McDonald's

ICC (International Community Centre), YMCA, 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FN

Notts County Council are currently holding a "Big Budget Conversation". It all seems a bit like Turkeys voting for Christmas but it would be good if people could increase the amount of anti-cuts messages on

this. The council will also be revealing further cut plans this week.

Old Market Square, Nottingham

Here are confirmed local anti-cuts meetings and events coming up. There are other events planned with details still to be announced - take a look at the Notts SOS website or Indymedia group and events listings for updates. Also a Notts SOS Facebook Group has been set up.

Campaigners from Friends of Bramwell have presented a petition with 2,500 signatories to Nottinghamshire County Council opposing the proposed sell-off The Bramwell Centre near Beeston. (BBC article)

Old Market Square, in front of the Council House, Nottingham

245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX

As cuts in services begin to bite, resistance is springing up across the country and Nottingham is no exception. Locally there are a number of campaigns around a number of issues. A well attended meeting organised by the Trades Council was the catalyst for the emergence of a new anti-cuts coalition called Notts Save Our Services.

On the newswire: Notts Save Our Services is launched | Budget cuts:…

Ecoworks delivers community environmental projects in Nottingham, particularly targeting those experiencing disadvantage. We have been providing environmental, educational, and health promoting activities from our community allotment gardens in St Ann's (the oldest and largest site of its kind in England), for 18 years.

We are currently recruiting for two positions, Finance and Admin Co-ordinato…

ICC (International Community Centre), YMCA, 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FN.

County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7QP

Notts SOS was launched on 29th September 2010.

We aim to oppose cuts to services, job losses and cuts in benefits.

We aim to support workers organisation, service users, community groups in fighting cuts in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.

We hope to inspire confidence to think, meet and act.

Website: http://nottssos.org.uk

International Convention Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2

Following a well attended anti-cuts meeting in the New Mechanics last night we read the following report on the Nottingham & Notts Trades Council website, Thursday, September 23, 2010: Packed meeting of Trades Council condemns cuts and calls for united resistance.

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We handed out this leaflet at the meeting: AREN'T LABOUR AS MUCH TO BLAME AS THE TOR…

The Mechanics institute, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham.

Healdswood Community Centre Mansfield Road, Skegby, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 3EE

Unison are vocal in their condemnation of the cuts announced yesterday by Tory-run Nottinghamshire County Council. What they're rather less clear on is what (if anything) they're proposing to do about it. Dave Prentis states, quite correctly, "People must campaign against these cuts," but there's no mention of industrial action, let alone strikes.

Meeting to resist cuts in public services

7.3opm Wednesday 14 July 2010 New Mechanics Institute, North Sherwood Street

Everyday prejudice: The Nottingham Post and migration

The Nottingham Post is, through the majority of its reporting, its embedded relationship with police and UKBA sources, and the platform it provides racist commenters, promoting an anti-migrant discourse.

On Tuesday 17th June 2010, the Anarchist Federation, the Industrial Workers of the World and other activists and people on benefits put on an event entitled ‘Defend Welfare' at the Chase community centre in St. Ann's.

On Tuesday June 22nd, ConDem Chancellor George Osborne revealed the contents of the “emergency budget.” As expected, this included a pay freeze for public sector workers (except the lowest paid) along with cuts in housing benefit and an increase in VAT. Trade unionists and others demonstrated outside the Council House.