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FREE Indian and European Folk Workshop – 30th June, Moseley Hive

FREE Indian and European Folk Workshop (and drop in session!) – 30th June

Councillors’ Advice Surgeries – Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East Ward

Contact details and advice surgeries for the two Councillors for Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East ward.

You may have heard that, with Clifton Road Mosque, Balsall Heath Church Centre, Kamran Shezad and other Balsall Heath residents, Zero Carbon House on Tindal Street have been campaigning for local homes to be retrofitted.

Our ambition is for ALL the homes in Balsall Heath to be properly insulated and installed with with solar panels etc.

We’d love this to be a genuine community-led project, which will be much more successful than a “top down” approach.

Two pieces of exciting news:

1. There may now be funding to start our journey with first measures for up to 700 homes.

2. 13-16 July we’re holding a “Retrofit Reimagined” festival in Balsall Heath and Ladywood to explore

“What if the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets were designed, owned and governed by the people who live there?”

Find out more about ‘Retrofit Reimagined and book your place

We are so lucky in here to have a long established “green” culture and very strong support in the local community for ambitious action now.

*Retrofitting means proper insulation to walls, floors, roofs; new windows and doors; ventilation with heat recovery, heat pumps, solar panels etc. The different measures will vary as every house is different.

Our old leaky homes may be the forgotten Cinderella, haemorrhaging massive amounts of heat. It’s really important these homes and the people who live in them are not left behind. People’s physical health is badly affected by poor housing with mould, damp, condensation; and their mental health, by worry about massive bills, etc.

Retrofitting old homes properly, carefully and to really high standards, we can make dramatic savings with huge benefits to people’s lives.

Our homes generate a massive chunk of Balsall Heath’s CO₂, and at the same time push people into fuel poverty. We’re using so much energy now that, as David Attenborough and others have shown, we’re destroying a liveable planet. But cutting home energy use (by 80%+) will help those most in need, cut bills, improve people’s health and well-being, create high skilled local jobs, and help the planet at the same time.

Our ambitious vision is for ALL homes in Balsall Heath to have their energy use drastically reduced.

Bahu Trust exciting recent resources: https://bahutrust.org/environment/resources

Moseley Community Hub

Are you looking for a hot desk or Co-working facilities?

Look no further!

Co-working spaces available with plenty of natural lighting, high speed Wi-Fi, at competitive and affordable rate.

Also room/hall hire facilities available for weddings, parties, meetings and much more…

For more details, or to book a viewing, please tel: 0121 312 2163 or just pop in, Monday to Friday anytime between 9.30am – 4.30pm

Email: mhsmch496@gmail.com

http://www.moseleycommunityhub.org.uk

Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East ward meeting

Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East ward meeting on 22nd June at 7pm at Sparkbrook Health and Community Centre.

Arts, Culture and Heritage Strategy

Birmingham is a city of thousands of creative trades from jewellery making to grime music and yet its biggest asset is ‘the people’. Birmingham is in the process of developing a new Arts and Culture Strategy for the next decade. A range of meetings have been planned to give the people of Birmingham a chance to have their say.