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Tea Room Stitchery Workshops

If you love working with textiles AND you love Moseley Road Baths then this will be perfect for you!

Moseley Road Baths CIO are partnering with Daily Thread at the Old Print Works to create unique soft furnishings for the ‘Tea Room’ at the Baths. All materials are provided – this is a wonderful opportunity to link up with others to create something beautiful and valuable to pool users.

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Litterpicking in Balsall Heath

This Sunday a group of volunteers from Moseley Litterbusters tackled flytipped and dropped waste on Haden Way. That section of the road is the entrance to Balsall Heath for drivers coming off the Middleway. The fact that it was strewn with litter should be an embarrassment for those of us who consider this as our neighbourhood.

A group of #moseleylitterbusters went on to make a start on clearing the grassed area of Haden Way in Balsall Heath. It is a BIG job. I don’t think @BhamCityCouncil have tackled it for years! 1/3 pic.twitter.com/lu6vVV9ksT— Izzy Knowles? (@gardensinboots) March 3, 2019

However much we may feel that the Council can do more to support us in making our streets cleaner, those of us who live and work here need to deal with the reality of flytipped and dropped litter lining our neighbourhood.

Moseley Litterbusters are now looking for people who would like to get involved in further litterpicking sessions in Balsall Heath. Many hands make light work and every little bit you can do helps to tackle unsightly, unhygienic piles of rubbish.

If you do want to get involved you can e-mail co*********@***il.com and your details will be forwarded on to organisers.

You can also report flytipped rubbish to Birmingham City Council athttps://www.birmingham.gov.uk/…/envir…/89/report_fly-tipping

Sparkbrook Ageing Better – callout for partners

Connect Sparkbrook: Addressing Older People’s Social Isolation is a two-year, ward-wide project, capable of reaching all parts of the Sparkbrook Ward and all its communities. They are seeking partners to assist in the delivery of the Sparkbrook Ageing Better Local Action Plan.

The project will have two work streams: 

  1. Connecting Communities with a focus on place, to:

      a. Improve local community infrastructure;
      b. Increase reach and improve accessibility of community-based provision;
      c. Address transport and access to transport issues, and 
      d. Other place-based improvements to address social isolation amongst older residents.

  2. Promoting Active Citizenship, with a focus on people to:

      a. Support, encourage and enable active citizenship;
      b. Raise levels of engagement, involvement and neighbourliness, and
      c. Other people-based solutions to address social isolation amongst older residents.

The Muath Trust will be delivering this project as the lead organisation, in partnership with Ashiana Community Project, Narthex Sparkhill and the Springfield project and will be delivered over a 2-year period.

For a full brief, potential applicants should go to The Muath Trust website where there is a downloadable Expression of Interest Form and more detailed information on the project’s aims. Applications are invited for ‘Activity 5 – Hub Group Development and Supporting Small Organisations’ or ‘Activity 6 – Creating activity in open and green spaces in Sparkbrook’.

The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 5pm on Friday 1st March 2019 and successful applicants will be invited to give a 20 minute presentation.

Contact details for all queries:

Mumtaz Shah
Connect Sparkbrook Ageing Better Coordinator
Email: ag**********@********st.org
Tel: 0121 753 0297