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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
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
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
'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
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
#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
#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
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
What are the worst things that can happen to Birmingham's Parks and Green Spaces
One of the first thing the group of park lovers and users were asked was what are the worst things that could happen in the future. They discussed this not… Read More
What is the #brumparks summit – the Birmingham Parks Summit
We are blogging from the Birmingham Parks summit at Highbury Hall – 2nd Nov 2016. You can follow on the twitter hashtag. The people behind the post are Nick Booth… Read More
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