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    Do you want to be part of National Meadows Day 2017

    National Meadows Day is a growing event which celebrates wildflower grasslands, providing an opportunity for you to showcase the amazing wildflowers and species you have on your sites and in… Read More

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    BBC Children in Need Main Grant Programme

    The next closing date for applications to the BBC Children in Need Main Grants programme is the 13th January 2017. Grants of over £10,000 per project are available to not… Read More

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    GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund

    Food manufacturer, Mars has announced that its GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund will re-open for applications on the 7th November 2016. Every week, until 26th February 2017, the Fund will be… Read More

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    Greggs Foundation Environmental Grant Scheme

    The Gregg Foundation has announced that the next closing date for its Environmental Grants scheme is the 3rd March 2017. The scheme which is funded by the 5p levy on… Read More

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    New Changemaker Fund Launched

    The Santander Bank has teamed up with Crowdfunder to launch new £200,000 fund to support social enterprises and community projects across the UK. For the first time, one of the… Read More

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    'Parkland' and housing – some more context on yesterdays #brumpark Birmingham Parks Summit

    Yesterday Cllr Lisa Trickett published a blog post which talked about how 8 acres of ‘parkland’ might be released for housing each year in Birmingham to help fund the parks… Read More

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    Couch to 5K Run at Kings Norton Park Starts 12th November

    Taking up running can seem like a daunting project especially if you have never run before, feel out of shape or unfit. Our beginner programme is designed to get just… Read More

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    #brumparks Afternoon session – turning the visions into practical possibilites…

    These won’t be complete notes – we’ve been trying to capture quite wide ranging conversations on a number of tables…  their was a specific process to connect actions to the… Read More

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    #brumparks summit – part two, how to make the visions work?

    This afternoon a new group of people are here to work through the visions expressed this morning, what will it take to work. Two people from this morning feed back… Read More

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    What would you like to create, amplify or destroy in the spaces around brum? #brumparks

    We weren’t able to listen in detail to every conversation on each table, but these are the notes were were able to capture.  A key part of the execise was… Read More

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