Would you like to run Ort Café?
Space has become available in the space housing Ort Cafe. The Old Print Works are looking for a new tenant. If you think that it may be up your street then read on…
News
Into The Water
Women and Theatre in partnership with Moseley Road Baths are producing an ambitious, site-specific community production that examines women’s relationship with swimming and water; presenting diverse stories of women in Balsall Health and celebrating the area’s historic swimming baths.
Learn to Prune Fruit Trees
Here’s some more free, lovely workshops from Balsall Heath is Our Planet
Learn to Prune Fruit Trees. You can learn this practical craft in a morning; pruning to help fruit trees to ensure crops of large, disease-free fruit next summer. Date; Tuesday 11th December Ladies only. 9.30 start at Balsall Heath City Farm, Clifton Road, B12 8NN . With an experienced tutor.
Festival Launch at Library
Heathland Festival Storybook Launch
Saturday 8th December / 2 – 3.30pm / Balsall Heath Library
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Heathland Festival Storybook.
Seeking a Portrait of BH
A Portrait of Balsall Heath in Images or Words
We are looking for pictures and stories of Balsall Heath and Sparkbrook to be included in our upcoming print newsletter which will be delivered to residents.
Send submissions to editor.nno@gmail.com
New Local Train Stations coming
At long last…. Local people are being asked for their input into the designs for new rail stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell (all closed in 1941). There is now funding to build them.
Urgent call for voting today!
We are an open access community pottery studio, in Balsall Heath, at The Old Printworks. We run courses in the community and offer membership for artists working with clay. We are raising funds to bring a state of the art ceramics studio to the heart of Birmingham.
Deadline is today so please vote here.
New Opportunities!
the _Gap are looking for people to apply to participate in their new project, Suspect Communities.
Live Art
Today!
Saranjit Birdi is drawing live in the gallery using his mouth, feet and belows 11am to 4.30pm
Free Entry
Ort Gallery
500 – 504 Moseley Road
Balsall Heath
Birmingham
B12 9AH
New Gardening Club and Coffee anyone?
New gardening club and coffee morning at St Pauls Trust.
Let Your Voice be Heard
We’ve had a request to hear your voices. Have a look at this questionnaire which will only take a couple of minutes to fill out.
Balsall Heath Is Our Planet
Neighbourhood News Online had a great meeting with John from Balsall Heath Is Our Planet (BHIOP) last week about how we could work together sharing news and working with communities in Balsall Heath.
Stuff and the Makers of Balsall Heath
We all love stuff. Most of us have plenty of it. When it breaks we can buy more of it –as even my three year old is quick to point out, “We can just get another one from the -unicorn/doll shoe/banana – shop”. Recent shifts and media coverage (such as BBC’s Blue Planet) have made more of us aware of what happens to the stuff we throw away but what can we do when we want to update things?
Editorial
A lot has changed since our last editorial; three (unusually mild) seasons, a spiralling political climate, plenty of new arrivals and the loss of some very important people.
Dr. Anita Halliday MBE, one the founders of St Paul’s Community Development Trust who devoted her life to improving lives, especially in Balsall Heath, was an inspiration and will be missed dreadfully. Her legacy lives on in so many places and this blog is just one of the many good things she started. We will endeavour to follow on from her good work. Please do send your news, suggestions and pictures of Balsall Heath to share so we can keep it thriving. You can use the contact form on the right. We’d love to share your input.
EDITORIAL
The Forum’s wonderfully successful Dynamic Youth Awards evening makes everyone proud to be part of the Balsall Heath community. Youth may sometimes get a bad press but there were plenty there on Wednesday to prove they don’t deserve it. Balsall Heath may sometimes get a bad press – but it has to be said that among the array of special guests present there was not one who would believe it. Their consistent theme was – ‘If only there was a Forum like this everywhere. If only there were communities like this everywhere. If only there were achievements like this everywhere.’
The Church Centre looked as bright and welcoming as anywhere could be, and was packed, as is always the way for Forum events, with people of all ages, all ethnicities and all faiths. Well done to the organisations who sponsored the youth awards, and especially well done to the Forum for putting it all together for the seventh time in a row, to recognise the young people and encourage them on their way.
We all need encouragement – so let’s not forget the amazing achievements of the Forum, and its loyal people (largely unpaid): cheers Hamid, Sanjay, Mohammed, volunteers not forgetting Maurice, Abdullah, and all the Forum’s committee led by Subah, who are beavering away largely behind the scenes. We can’t thank you enough but we can try!