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Today its the offical launch of the new Handsworth Heritage Trail leaflet at Soho House. Cllr Paulette Hamilton, Cllr Hussain and Adnan Saif from Urban Living our kindly attending to help launch the trail. We are delighted that a number of people involved in the project are attending as well as some of the people from some …
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In 2009 the buildings that were part of the old Black Cat Cafe were demolished as they had been empty and derelict for sometime. The site is situtaed on Villa Rd, Lozells. Birmingham City Council & Urban LIving have been working together to come up with a set of options that have a potential to bring …
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Urban Living our holding a funding fair at Aston Villa Football Ground on Wednesday 2nd February 2011 9.30-4.00. This is a free event deatils on how to book our inculded on the flyer. See flyer for more details below Funding Flyer event 2nd Feb
500 People attend Newtown Retirement Village Information Day This Week 500 older people and their families from Birmingham’s Newtown viewed plans and shared views at a major community information event featuring the £22m Pannel Croft Retirement Village which began initial construction works this month. The event was hosted by The ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Birmingham …
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Last night I attended the Homes & Communties Awards 2010 in London. Earlier this year Urban Living’s Sense of Place Project was shortlist as a finalist for Leadership of Place category. This project was a partnership between a consortium of partners, local community researchers and Birmingham City Council. The area of focus for the project was Dudley …
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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 …
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 …
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Great graudate oppportunity as part of the Sense of Place 2 Project. Funded by Urban Living, Digital Native Academy, in partnership with Nabeel Hamdi and the Centre for Urban Design Outreach and Skills at Birmingham City University, is delivering a training programme to explore opportunities for the co-production of urban services and programmes for the …
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Urban Living Funding is available to fund project-based community cohesion activity in 2010/11. The programme is mainly aimed at the third sector (community and voluntary organisations) but proposals are welcomed from the two local authorities and other statutory agencies and public bodies where they meet the objectives of the programme. Examples of the partners we …
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