Hello!

 

We are Community Reps - a team of students from the University of Nottingham.

We started this group because we are concerned with the relationship between us - students moving into an area - and the residents who were living there before our arrival.

 

Even though we both live together in the same areas, a lot of us don’t know who our neighbours are. We know that we're different people, from different walks of life, so it's not surprising that the age gap and “culture clash” can sometimes cause tensions between us.

 

It’s this tension and lack of communication that we want to tackle as Community Reps. Our work involves carrying out surveys to find out problems which everyone - both students and non-students - are most worried about in their areas. We then work out how we can solve them together.

 

We collect research from certain areas of Nottingham where a mix of students and non-students live. In some cases the results come from knocking on people’s doors for a quick chat, in other cases we run coffee mornings inviting people to talk about the place they live and how they’d like to see it improve.

 

From these results, we figure out what issues people are most concerned about around the city. These could be noise levels, roads in need of repair, litter, or maybe people feeling unsafe in their own street.

 

We then try to solve these problems, by working together with students and non-students to launch campaigns or by approaching local decision-makers to make the changes.

 

We hope that by working together on solving shared issues, we can improve relationships between students and our neighbours.

We're Community Reps.

 

 

We are a team of students creating positive change in Nottingham.

 

 

 

We find out local problems and help YOU to do something about them.