Triangle

 

Community campaigns

We promote a variety of different campaigns at key points during the academic year. Our campaigns centre around several different themes but all of them give you the opportunity to tackle community issues, educate and empower yourself, and have a safe and enjoyable time whilst living off campus. Many of these campaigns are delivered by the Community Engagement team, but we also work with the Students’ Union and student societies.

 Undergraduate students in Nottingham City Centre

 

 

Helping beat burglary

Working closely with Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), Nottingham Community Engagement Ambassadors are offering advice on how to beat burglary in highly student-populated areas through the Love Your Stuff campaign. Together, they offer simple advice on how to prevent robberies in the student community. 

Through door-knocking exercises in the community, ambassadors hand out information cards and goodies and engage with student residents, advising them to check windows and doors are locked when they go to bed or go out. 

Residents are also encouraged to ‘Protect It and Register It’ using www.immobilise.com which is the free national property register. The most recent campaign in October 2022 saw teams of Community Engagement Ambassadors, Police and PCSOs target the Lenton Drives and the Radford Triangle areas of Nottingham. Five hundred and fourty one residences were visited and 64% of those were positively engaged with.

LYS 2022 CEA Photo

For further information on how to protect your valuables at home, take a look at the advice from Nottinghamshire Police below:

Protecting your valuables at home

 

 

 

 

 

Stay Safe Together

Nottingham is a friendly city and our campuses are safe places, but you should remain aware of your surroundings and have a good attitude towards personal safety on nights out.

Here are some useful tips for staying safe and enjoying your night out in Nottingham and surrounding areas:

  • Out for the night? Talk to your friends about where you're going and who with
  • Carrying cash and valuables? Use inside pockets and zipped bags
  • Need a lift home? Only get licensed taxis. Secure fixed prices through unicab on 0115 950 0500
  • Walking home? Stay in your group and stick to well-lit main streets
Undergraduate students enjoying Goose Fair, Forest Recreation Ground, Nottingham

To find out more about the Stay Safe Together campaign, look out for postcards and publicity on the screens in halls and around campus. You can also follow us on Twitter at @UoN_Community

Find more information about staying safe on a night out below:

Staying safe while drinking

 

 

 

 

Pack for Good

This campaign gives you the opportunity to donate unwanted items such as clothes, electricals, books and furniture to British Heart Foundation (BHF) collection banks on campus and in the local community.

As students vacate their Nottingham homes at a similar time each year, waste management needs to be taken into consideration. Since 2012 the University of Nottingham has joined forces with Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City Council to support the Pack for Good campaign.

The donated items — which would otherwise likely have ended up in landfill — are taken to BHF charity shops, where they are sold on to make money. The money raised supports the lifesaving research and work of the BHF.

BH

2022 saw a remarkable effort from our students, both those living on campus and out in the community.

Two thousand, two hundred and fifty one bags were collected in 2022 with a combined total of more than 18 tonnes of waste prevented from being sent to landfill – the equivalent of 106,286 kg's of CO2 emissions. This contribution is in addition to the 13,237 bags collected by Nottingham City Council, representing 105.9 tonnes of waste – the equivalent of 625,013 kg's of CO2 emissions – which has raised £129,920.

Since first becoming involved in the initiative, goods donated by Nottingham students have raised a staggering £1,608,273 for the charity and have saved the equivalent weight of 131 African elephants in waste being sent to landfill.

Read the report