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Play the Newark & Sherwood Community Lottery – and support your favourite local radio station!

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Have you seen the news across our social media feeds?

The NEWARK & SHERWOOD COMMUNITY LOTTERY is up and running and weekly draws are now taking place!!

Tickets are just £1 each –  get yours now to be in with a chance of winning prizes up to £25,000 – and support your favourite local radio station too…

Here at Radio Newark – the home of Girls Around Town, of course! – we provide a much loved and valued service for our community.

Entirely staffed and run by volunteers, we give a voice to people, organisations and events across the Newark and Sherwood district.

We need your help so we can stay on air and continue to offer and even expand our service – choose to support Radio Newark and 50 per cent of the cost of all tickets sold from our page goes to helping us do just that!

And you don’t even need to live locally to support us – wherever you are, if you’re a fan of our 24/7 on air shows you can buy your tickets online here…

Just pick Radio Newark as the local cause you want to support and who knows – you could be the lucky winner scooping that TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUND JACKPOT one weekend!

Newark and Sherwood Community Lottery is fully registered with the Gambling Commission and Lotteries Council – PLEASE GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY

United against violence against women

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On last weekend’s show, you’ll no doubt have heard June talking about the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which took place on  Wednesday 25 November.

Since that date, 16 days of action have been taking place, one of which will be held right here in Newark next week.

Commemorating the 108 women killed by men in the UK since 25 November 2019, 108 pairs of women’s shoes will go on display in the Market Place at 8am on Wednesday 9 December. The names of those women, who can no longer see the sunrise or be there for their families and friends, will be read out and the event will of course be captured in photographs.

If you’d like to help mark this, it’s not too late to donate a pair of women’s shoes which, after the event, will either be given to a local charity or returned to the donor.

All you need to do is drop off the shoes at Carriages Café between 9am and 6pm on Friday 4 December – if you want your shoes returned, just make sure they are clearly marked with your name on stickers on the soles.

Watch this space for some of the photographs from the Newark event – in the meantime, if you want to find out more about this annual International Day, just follow this link…

Meet the artists online

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For some years now, the months of May and June have been widely known as the time when artists from across Nottinghamshire join forces to bring a very special event to the county.

Open Studios Notts in its usual form obviously wasn’t an option for 2020 but that didn’t stop all those artists coming together – virtually of course! – to bring the event to the audience it would normally attract.

Instead of inviting people to join them in their studios, they’ve been inviting them to join them online. And in the last couple of months, they’ve made no fewer than 47 videos to make this possible.

Here’s just one of them, featuring former Girls Around Town presenter Tina Bettison. in which she talks to six of the artists taking part. this year…

Find out what they had to say to Tina about their work – and if you want to see and hear more, just follow this link to watch some of the other 46 videos uploaded to YouTube!