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Mid-day Mantra at The Symphony Hall with Dr Jyotsna Srikanth and Creative Leap bring some colour to Handsworth Park

My interest in ‘Indian’ music goes back to the sixties when the pop groups such as The Beatles and Rolling Stones introduced me to the ...

Inhabit: Community tea room and art space Map_icon

Harambee Organisation has allowed  Hybrid to convert the old Harriet Tubman Bookshop into a community tea room and arts space on Grove Lane in Han...

Street Audit on Soho Road Map_icon

When the Soho Foundation team  did the street audit along the Soho Road on 3rd November with local residents, council officers, living street and ...

Soho Oscars for Local Heroes

Do you know an unsung hero who takes pride in their local community? Someone who tirelessly works to improve and benefit their area? The annual Soh...

Soho Road Photographic Exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery Map_icon

It was through my daily browse of the UK’s online newspapers that I chanced upon an article regarding Liz Hingley’s photographic exhibi...

Free Training to Become a Place-Shaping Champion

Following up on the Sense of Place project’s recent success at the Homes & Communities Awards 2010 an invitation is being extended for you to...

Birmingham Successes at Homes and Communities Awards 2010

Birmingham based projects put on a great showing at the Homes and Communities Awards 2010 event at London’s Roundhouse on 27th September. Of ...

Nabeel Hamdi Workshops Stimulate the Coproduction Debate

As interest in the Big Society and in coproduction starts to gather pace delegates at a recent workshop series had the opportunity to hear how thes...

Coproduction report sets the scene for neighbourhood services in Birmingham

Looking Sideways is a new study from the Chamberlain Forum looking at the way neighbourhoods and neighbourhood services are coproduced in Birmingha...

Winning Sculpture Design for the Waver Hill Park Map_icon

At the Waver Hill Party in the Park event on the 17th July everyone had the opportunity to vote for their favourite sculpture design shown at the T...

Win Business From the New Super Hospital Map_icon

If you didn’t already know about it there’s a new hospital being built near Smethwick. Not just any hospital but a super hospital at a ...

Soho in Bloom Map_icon

The judges from the Heart of England in Bloom visited the Soho area on the 30th July to judge the entries made by Soho Finger and Mathew Boulton N...

Waverhill Park Dances to the Beat Map_icon

Music and dance were some of the great successes at the recent Party in the Park event at Waverhill Park on 17th July.  Despite the early showers ...

Handsworth Blog Open for Business

Check out Hands On Handsworth the great new blog for local residents where they can find out about what’s going on in their neighbourhood and...

Whose Bench? Map_icon

Here’s the meat of the story I mentioned in my recent article called ‘Geting Something for Nothing on the Soho Road’. As part of ...

Handsworth Stories Map_icon

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