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Updated 13th November 2012: this website is now being run by Yvonne Wager and Catherine Munyarari. If you would like to contribute to the website, please contact Yvonne or Catherine. Please note that this website is not currently being updated. The website started in December 2009 and was run Tracey Thorne, then Neighbourhood Manager for …

Blogging in Handsworth

Eevry month I meet up with local residents through a resident network that we started about a year ago. The Hands on Handsworth Resident Network gives local resident led groups a chance to get together to talk about the neighbourhood and how we can all work together. To help raise the profile of these great …

Be Part of the Big Handsworth Conversation

This week as part of local democracy week we are inviting as many people as possible to get involved in a Big Handsworth Conversation through blogging and an option to attend two events this week! I will be blogging all week about Handsworth and the work going on within the neighbourhood and hope that people …

Local Heart Awards

Birmingham City Council launched last week this years Local Hearts Awards, nominations are now open deadline 20th Spetmeber. The Local Hearts Awards are part of a wide range of activties an events that will take place as part of local democracy week between the 11th & 22nd October. I am busy planning a couple of …

Hands on Handsworth Resident Network 10th June@7pm

The next Hands on Handsworth Resident Network will be held tomorrow night at 7pm at the community centre, Golden Croft off Grove Lane Agenda Welcome Election of chair & term of reference Social Media residents bogging – Nick Booth (Podnosh) Community Journalist Beyond Bricks Project – Frilly Hands on Handsworth Urban Gardening Project update of …