United Response Nottinghamshire

01/06/2026

As we welcome June, we'd like to wish everyone a very happy Pride Month! 🌈

22/05/2026

During Mental Health Awareness Week, Richard, Linda, Alison, Kelly and Leah filmed their top five tips for looking after your mental health 💚

Take a look at their video for some positivity right before we head into the weekend.

Have a lovely bank holiday everyone!

14/05/2026

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, today is Wear It Green Day - a time to come together and remember the importance of looking after our mental health every day.

To mark the occasion, our drama group went green with their clothes and green ribbons to help raise awareness and show their support 💚

Check out this fun photo of them!

05/05/2026

Join us next week for Wear It Green Day in support of Mental Health Awareness Week.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone getting involved and going green! 💚

07/04/2026

Join us tomorrow for a fun-filled Easter Egg hunt in Mansfield! See you there 🐣

27/03/2026

Are you a budding actor? Come and join our Drama Group - sessions start next Thursday! 🎭

12/02/2026

Our Life Stories Exhibition is now open at Nottingham Contemporary

Come down and see it from today until Saturday 14 February, and immerse yourself in the lives and stories of over 80 adults with learning disabilities, and autistic people.

The exhibition includes audio interviews, video, photography and art to tell important individual stories and lived experience of people from across the country.

And as a teaser, listen to some excerpts from Paul's life story interview which took place in Mansfield last April.

https://www.unitedresponse.org.uk/interview/paul-daft-interview/

We hope to see you there!

PaulDate: April 2025Location: MansfieldInterviewed by: Lewis The full recording will be stored in the records of the The British Library when the Our Life Stories project closes. Short excerpts from the interviews are shared below, which give an insight in Paul’s full and detailed accounts. Favour...

11/02/2026

Our Life Stories exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary

From Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th February you can visit a first-of-its-kind exhibition telling the life stories of people with a learning disability, and autistic people, in their own words.

The exhibition, being held at Nottingham Contemporary, is free to visit and includes over 200 objects, including audio interviews, video, photography and artwork documenting the history of 80 adults from across the UK.

Kelly from Mansfield is one such person, and you can listen to some highlights of her interview by clicking the following link: https://www.unitedresponse.org.uk/interview/kellys-life-story-interview/

Projects like Our Life Stories are an important platform for sharing not only the personal achievements but also the structural barriers faced by people with learning disabilities. It highlights that there is still much work to do in not only advocating for and providing better health care, education and employment opportunities but also bridging the gap and shifting attitudes away from a disablist society but one with a shared determination to live life equally and fully for all.

Our Life Stories is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to co-produce and document real, disabled and autistic experiences from the last fifty years, preserving the accounts for future generations.
To find out more about Our Life Stories, email [email protected]

KellyDate: April 2025Location: MansfieldInterviewed by: Sam The full recording will be stored in the records of the The British Library when the Our Life Stories project closes. Short excerpts from the interviews are shared below, which give an insight in Kelly’s full and detailed accounts. Growin...

03/12/2025

Join us for Christmas Jumper Day next week! We can't wait to see your festive wear at the Old Eight Bells🎄

03/11/2025

We had a spooktacular Halloween Party on Friday - so many amazing costumes and everyone came together to decorate the space, which looked fang-tastic!

Hope everyone had a brilliant Halloween 🎃