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Jul 14

A New Green Urban Park for Nottingham - a New Central Park - a Forest of the Imagination

Rick Hall has been thinking about the creative possibilities for the future of the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham A time to rethink The pa...

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Jun 11

A statement from Ignite!

A statement from Ignite! in solidarity and support of people opposing and protesting racist oppression and violence. We at Ignite! have b...

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May 20

Ignite! awarded Arts Council England Emergency Response Funding

We are so pleased to announce that we have been awarded Arts Council England Emergency Response Funding. This funding will allow our smal...

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May 6

Nottingham records thousands of wildlife observations in international nature competition

Between Friday 24th and Monday 27th April, nature enthusiasts from across Nottingham took part in the City Nature Challenge, an annual ev...

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Jul 11, 2019

Work Experience Visit to Colwick Woods

As a part of my work experience week with Ignite! I had the chance to visit Colwick Woods along with a guide from the community of that a...

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Jul 11, 2019

ChemSparks Day Out at Insitute of Making

Hello there! My name is Dalia Ahmed and I am one of the ‘ChemSparks’. My project investigates the relevance of wooden rollercoasters over...

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Jul 1, 2019

Falling Walls and Silbersalz Festival in Halle

I’ve just returned from a fascinating weekend in Germany, at the Falling Walls Community Meeting and the Silbersalz Science and Media Fes...

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Jun 5, 2019

Launching Lab_13 BioCity

We're thrilled to announce a new partnership with BioCity, the UK's largest bioscience innovation and incubation centre, based right here...

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Jun 3, 2019

Mushroom Madness!

At the beginning of the year, we worked with a group of young people from the Transition Youth Group at the Ridge Centre in Bestwood, Not...

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Apr 12, 2019

And the 2019 Festival Stats are in!

The Festival of Science and Curiosity 2019 definitely felt bigger and better than ever - we had more events, more partners, a more divers...

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Mar 12, 2019

International Women's Day 2019

For International Women's Day 2019, we introduced Dalia and Dayana, two of the girls from our ChemSparks programme, to Dr Suze Kundu, nan...

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Dec 20, 2018

Ignite! Review of 2018

One last task for the 2018 diary, before it is packed into the archive, and is to extract the highlights for the Ignite! Review of the Ye...

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Oct 12, 2018

Celebrating Ada Lovelace with Nottingham Girls

On Tuesday 9th October, it was Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology and mat...

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Sep 7, 2018

Ignite! Summer Review

It's been an incredibly busy summer here at Ignite!, and how we’ve all had a bit off time of to relax and unwind, it’s time for an update...

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Jul 16, 2018

Nurturing Nottingham's Curiosity

This year we’ve teamed up with The Renewal Trust to bring a nationwide science programme called ‘Curiosity’ to Nottingham, giving childre...

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May 24, 2018

Sneinton Micro-Photography Exhibition

Over the past few months we have been working with a group of young people from the SEND (Sneinton Energy Needs Direction) group at the G...

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Apr 23, 2018

Launch of Curiosity project with The Renewal Trust

Ignite! has teamed up with The Renewal Trust to bring a nationwide science programme called Curiosity to Nottingham, giving children acr...

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Apr 3, 2018

Education and Citizen Science

Our Founder and Associate Rick Hall has been on his travels again, this time to Switzerland to take part in the Education Working Group o...

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Mar 26, 2018

Hempshill Hall Sleep Team

Thanks to a grant from the Physiological Society, we ran a project about sleep at the beginning of the year with Hempshill Hall Primary S...

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Feb 27, 2018

2018 Festival of Science and Curiosity Review

The Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is over for another year and it's time to reflect on all the great work that happened du...

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