Get in SHAPE this SUMMER with Fit4Fun

Fit4Fun  in the coming weeks will be hosting some great, affordable and accessible summer sports camps here in Handsworth; to help you get in shape or keep active! There will be a range of sports, such as: Football, basketball, rugby, dodge ball and many more fun activities including urban street dancing and fitness drills so find …

Healthy Villages meeeting in Handsworth – July 22nd 2014

This from Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinicla Commissioning Group via BVSC… Sandwell Clinical Commissioning Group (SWB CCG) (buys and monitors) healthcare services on behalf of everyone living in the area.  Every GP in Sandwell and West Birmingham is a member of the CCG.  Your thoughts and experience of local healthcare services are important as they …

Handsworth Community Choir

The CBSO has launched a new community choir in Handsworth. As well as encouraging residents to enjoy singing, a choir can bring members of the local community together and provides a chance to get to know each other in a relaxed environment. Would you like to join the CBSO Handsworth Community Choir? For more infomation …

Lozells, Birchfield and Handsworth Community Fund

The Lozells, Birchfield and Handsworth Community First Matched Fund has been allocated £67,820 to award in small grants between 2011 and 2015. Community First introduces a new approach to funding projects – leveraging time, money and other resources – helping neighbourhoods play a leading role in regenerating their area. The outcomes that Community First will acieve …

October Fun in Handsworth

One thing that I love about the holidays, apart from the fact that it is one of the only times I can just relax, is the fact that there is so much going on and so many activities that your young ones can be part of. Here is  just some of those activities: 1. Black …

Insight Day on Drugs & Alcohol

 Last Friday the 19th December we held our first ever Insight Day on Drugs & Alcohol this event focused on issues within the Perry Barr Constituency, this includes four wards Oscott, Perry Barr, Handsworth Wood & Lozells and East Handsworth. This event was hosted by the Perry Barr Drug & Alcohol Sub Group and was …

Health researchers wanted for #Handsworth healthy & heritage project

There is still room in the health & heritage project for local residents to get involved and join the group who are researching health in Handsworth in the past and present. People can commit as much or as little. No experience required as the group is well supported with some new and fun ways for …

Healthy Histories

Last month the Healthy Histories Project started in Handsworth. The project is linked to the neighbourhood management plan for the priority neighbourhood and forms part of the Be Healthy theme. Within the priority neighbourhood there are real issues in relation to health and particularly health inequalities. Through the Healthy Histories project we hope to map …