A creative city of Pioneers and Rebels and home to the legend of Robin Hood. A city where you’ll find the legend of its outlaw and a thousand years of history at Nottingham Castle a stone’s throw from state-of-the-art developments emerging in Southside, Waterside and the Island Quarter.

Nottingham is on a mission to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city by 2028, with unprecedented levels of investment in an award-winning, clean and green public transport system. It’s a place that’s always moving forward while celebrating its past.

Culture and Leisure in Nottingham

Listed in the Sunday Times’ 50 Best Urban Places to Live, Nottingham hosts two annual music festivals (Dot to Dot and Splendour) and regularly attracts major acts to its venues.

The centre of the city is where most of the action can be found. The Capital FM Arena in the famous Lace District is the city’s main host of large concerts with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Elton John and The Killers all appearing there in the past. The smaller Rock City venue is the place to visit to see up-and-coming singers and bands.

Nottingham is one of the UK’s best-established cities for shopping, with the Victoria and Broadmarch Centres. The Bridlesmith Gate area is where most of the upmarket boutiques can be found, including the original Paul Smith store.

The main two sports teams in the city are Nottingham Forest and Notts County, whose stadiums are close to each other and only separated by the Trent River. Nottingham also has an international test cricket stadium (Trent Bridge) and the Nottingham Panthers are one of the most successful ice hockey teams in the English Elite League.

Other leading attractions in the city include the Castle, the City of Caves, the Nottingham Natural History Museum and the Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery.

Transportation in Nottingham

Nottingham’s transport system is well respected and has won a raft of awards in recent years. Nottingham is located just half an hour from East Midlands Airport connecting us to over 80 destinations and less than an hour away from Birmingham Airport. A direct rail service to London St Pancras which takes less than 2 hours, provides us with connections via the Eurostar.

Bus services operate across the city and are run by Nottingham City Transport (NCT), while Trent Barton run wider services to towns and cities such as Derby and Mansfield.

Education in Nottingham

Nottingham has a diverse education system which includes inner city comprehensives, fee-paying independent schools, a number of specialist colleges and two universities.

Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham collectively have more than 60,000 undergraduate students and in excess of 15,000 postgrads.