What we’re up to
Festival
Balsall Heath Community
July 3rd to 12th, Check it out!
Highgate
Community Support
Home in Highgate – together we can build our community
Space
Breath deep
From Community Gardens to family fun, life’s a riot.
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Reasons to stop idling
Our car breakdown cover provided us with a nice new car for a few days which had an ‘automatic start-stop‘ after our old car died (thank you LV=).…
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Four Years of Playing Out in Birmingham
When a new street becomes an ActiveStreet, Playing Out for the first time like Main Street in Sparkbrook, it’s hard not to get excited.
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No room for a bed in the garden? How about a hug in the attic?
Today I read about the Greenhouse of Abundance, a course teaching the principles of building a passive (i.e. heated only by sunlight) greenhouse attached to your home to…
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Making changes on Main Street
You could guess what problems there are on Main Street in Sparkbrook, but the only way to understand them is to meet the people who live there. And…
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Making Space For Living!
This is Just a quick post to let you know that we are reactivating Space Explorers! Our first job has been to rebuild the website and we’ve taken…
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Taking litter picking to the next level
It all started on Swan Corner when Oz, the Neighbourhood watch man thought we could do something about it. He provided the pickers and the bags in 2015,…
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