The Nottingham Evening Post’s Beehive Community Network is celebrating its first anniversary.

And to mark the occasion a party has been held at the Post’s offices at Castle Wharf, Nottingham.

The guest list included members from many of the Beehive groups that have joined the network in the past year.

Special guests included representatives of groups who had created the network’s first, 100th and 200th sites along with Post assistant editor Neil White and members of the Beehive team.

The online service provides free websites to voluntary and non-profit organisations in Nottinghamshire.

Launched on June 1 last year, the Post’s Beehive Community Network is now home to more than 250 sites produced and updated by a wide range of local groups including charities, societies, residents associations and religious groups.

It is an integral part of the Post’s website www.thisisnottingham.co.uk, and the community network receives an average of 3,000 visitors a week.

Sarah Lay, community publishing co-ordinator for Beehive Nottingham, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, said: “The Beehive is great community resource and has enjoyed a successful first year in Nottingham.

“Groups are benefiting from learning about the Internet, building and managing their own websites and also receiving free publicity within the newspaper.

“The more groups join the Beehive, the more useful it will become to the local community – and I am sure it will continue to go from strength to strength to the benefit of the community members.”

The Nottingham network was the last Beehive network in the UK to be launched by Northcliffe Electronic Publishing and Northcliffe Newpapers.

Around the UK there are 21 networks offering free websites, training and publicity to non-profit-making organisations in the local community.

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