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Northfield Arts Forum Community Garden
The Northfield Arts Forum Community Garden aim to create a safe space to learn, and a wildlife friendly garden for and with all the people of Northfield. The garden also provides home grown food their monthly pay-as-you-feel cafe. NAF website Contact: [email protected] (BOSF Affiliate)
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Northfield Constituency Environmental Forum (NCEF)
The Northfield constituency is situated in the south of Birmingham (UK) and is made up of a number of city wards that roughly cover the Weoley, King’s Norton, Northfield and Longbridge areas. The constituency has many open spaces, formal parks, woodlands, reservoirs, allotments and is home to the River Rea. The local open spaces are…
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Patchwork Meadow
The Patchwork Meadow was set up in 2020. Their aim is to brighten up our urban neighbourhoods and help to bring back the pollinators. They believe that if we all plant pocket meadows in window-boxes, pots and hanging baskets and in our gardens and streets, together we can create a huge green space, a ‘Patchwork…
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Pereira Road & Westfield Road Allotment Association
The allotments are located between Pereira and Westfield roads in Harborne and are situated alongside the Harborne Nature Reserve which is managed by the West Midlands Bird Club. It is a sloping garden with steps through a rockery area, leading down to level gravel paths through areas with a wide range of mixed planting, grasses and pond,…
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Perry Common Meadows (Friends of)
Perry Common Meadows (formerly known as Perry Common Recreation ground) is the home to a Tiny Forest, grassland and a stream known as Hawthorn Brook. The Meadows provides a wonderful wild open green space for local residents and includes many beautiful mature trees and a Tiny Forest (Earthwatch Citizen Science site). The meadows are enjoyed…
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Perry Hall Park (Friends of)
Perry Hall Park is Green Flag Park, the Friends help to maintain the park and have raised funds to have the shed painted, a Sensory Garden, a pet memorial bed as well as maintaining the planting and Welcome Gardens. They organise a Wassail every January and an Open Day in July as well as having…
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Perry Park (Friends of)
Perry Park is home to Alexandra stadium and The Perry reservoir/lake which was originally installed for the Tame Valley Canal which runs through the top part of the park. At one time the park had tennis courts, a crown green bowling area, a boat house and rowing boats for hire, plus rugby and football goal…
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Pitts Wood (Friends of)
Pitts Wood (known locally as ‘The Spinney’) is a hidden ancient woodland in Overdale Road, Quinton adjoining Woodhouse Primary Academy. The site, which is owned by Birmingham City Council, is a relatively small remnant of a much larger woodland and is designated as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation because of its flora, and…
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Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve (Friends of)
The Friends of Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve host regular conservation volunteering sessions. Tools are provided, but please wear appropriate clothing. The volunteering sessions begin by meeting at the Plantsbrook Local Nature Reserve car park, B24 ONY. Contact: [email protected]
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Queens Park (Friends of)
Queen’s Park was officially opened in 1898 to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign (the previous year). Elegantly laid out, it occupies a 10-acre site in Harborne, a focal site in a residential area. The Park has seen many local changes over its lifetime, as farm land was gradually taken over by new…
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Queslett Nature Reserve (Friends of)
The Friends of Queslett Nature Reserve has a growing membership and is designed for those who care in a practical way for wildlife and the environment, The Queslett Nature Reserve is a beautiful wildlife sanctuary on the site of a former land and gravel workings.The reserve is an ideal location for nature conservation and environmental…
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Quinton Meadows Consultative Committee
QMCC (Quinton Meadows Consultative Committee) was created by Birmingham City Council in 2000 following a long campaign by local communities in Quinton and Halesowen to save as much as possible of Quinton Meadows (formerly known as Woodgate Valley ‘Site A’) from built development, and for the Meadows to be used for the benefit of local…