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Check out the upcoming events that are happening this winter at the Lonny! Find out more details on our events page or Facebook.

We have started a new project at the Lonny Wilsoncroft Community Centre called Pantry Support. Pantry Support is there to help local families to access ambient and fresh food products each week, to aid them through the difficult winter months when energy bills are set to rise. We are working with the Food 4 Thought Alliance, the central food hub in Derby. This project has been funded by a grant from the Tom Carey Fund through Foundation Derbyshire. Every Tuesday between 4.30 and 6.30pm and Wednesday 12 till 4pm members can come and pick up food to help them through the week. If you woul...

In the current situation the NZCA is still helping local residents in need. We are working very hard to provide meals and food parcels for our more vulnerable residents. I am asking for your help at this time, to come up with some fundraising ideas to help us keep our coffers topped up. So if you have an idea for a fundraiser which we can do at this difficult time please get in touch. If you would like to run a fundraiser for us, get in touch. If you would like to do a sponsored walk, dance or silence, or anything else you can think of doing, either on your own or with your family - get i...

We are looking forward to joining the rest of the city on World Friendship Day by having a socially distancing street party. (Abit like people did for VE day). The NZCA are hoping to do a bit of fundraising at the same time by offering Afternoon Tea for a very reasonable price of just £5.00 per adult; £3.50 for children. If you would like to support us in this fundraiser please download the order form here, and then either print it off and post it through the letterbox at the community centre or email us your choices. Please include your name, address and phone number and make sure you a...

What have you been up to during this unusual time when we have been in lockdown? I want to put together a photographic and written history of what the residents of the New Zealand area have been doing during this unprecedented time. If we get enough photographs, stories, poems works of art etc. We could put on an exhibition at the community centre, once it is open again. At the very least we can showcase some photographs or writing in the magazine. So if you have something you would like to share, be it the lockdown haircut, a poem or short story you have written, a picture of your garden...