{"id":35300,"date":"2023-01-10T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35300"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:25:05","slug":"council-pledges-to-reopen-nottingham-castle-following-liquidation-as-trust-winds-up-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35300","title":{"rendered":"Council pledges to reopen Nottingham Castle following liquidation as trust winds up affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=12244343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35301\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nottingham_Castle_Gate_2009_Cosmicutencil_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Nottingham City Council says it will reopen Nottingham Castle \u2018as soon as possible\u2019 after the independent trust appointed to run it went into liquidation.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Nottingham Castle &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=12244343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cosmicutencil<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Museums Association writes:<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Castle Trust, the charity that operated Nottingham Castle on behalf of Nottingham City Council, has announced it has begun the process of appointing liquidators.<\/p>\n<p>The Castle had recently reopened in April 2021 after a \u00a330m refit. In a statement, the trust said the decision was a \u201cheartbreaking day for trustees, our staff, visitors, and the city. Despite the immense dedication of staff and volunteers, the Castle is now closed to visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visitors numbers had been improving, it said, but were still \u201csignificantly below forecasts\u201d, with a \u201cparticularly tough summer\u201d adding to its challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33;\" href=\"https:\/\/advisor.museumsandheritage.com\/news\/nottingham-castle-closes-trust-goes-liquidation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The castle\u2019s website has been replaced by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumsassociation.org\/museums-journal\/news\/2022\/11\/council-pledges-to-reopen-nottingham-castle-following-liquidation-of-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holding page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham City Council says it will reopen Nottingham Castle \u2018as soon as possible\u2019 after the independent trust appointed to run it went into liquidation. image: Nottingham Castle &#8211; by Cosmicutencil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35302,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions\/35302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}