diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0012_auto_20210729_1912.py b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0012_auto_20210729_1912.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4739cd08ec6b4d476e69af8a1d319aeef5974b5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0012_auto_20210729_1912.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.2.23 on 2021-07-29 17:12
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('djangoldp_notification', '0011_auto_20210218_1145'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='notification',
+            name='summary',
+            field=models.TextField(blank=True, default=''),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/models.py b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
index dc1829f8ebc6679fb17761f76c57cad6c74e57b3..7650b999f35c4229378bee7c1edb5897f34c96af 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/models.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Notification(Model):
     author = LDPUrlField()
     object = LDPUrlField()
     type = models.CharField(max_length=255)
-    summary = models.TextField()
+    summary = models.TextField(blank=True, default='')
     date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
     unread = models.BooleanField(default=True)