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Category Archives: youth activities
Can We Achieve Gold Again?
Only a few weeks until Acocks Green Village is judged again by the Royal Horticultural Society’s Judges. Village in Bloom need volunteers to help get the village looking its very best before Judgment Day. Can we keep up the run … Continue reading
Village in Bloom Need Your Help
On Sunday a team of volunteers planted up the majority of the 22 planters in Acocks Green village with a colourful array of bedding plants. Working individually (and keeping our social distance) a team of 7 worked tirelessly to put … Continue reading
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Tagged Acocks Green, bedding plants, community gardening, gardening, planters, watering
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Get Active for 2020
It is a new year, and a new decade so it’s a great time to think about how you can get out there and make a difference, both for yourself and for the community. Here in Acocks Green and in … Continue reading
Christmas in Acocks Green
So it’s the darkest, coldest time of the year and it’s no coincidence that this is the season of coloured lights, singing and social gatherings in order to help us get through the bleak midwinter. There’s lots to enjoy now … Continue reading
Daffodils and Tulips for Acocks Green
The Village in Bloom Team have been busy choosing and buying hundreds of spring bulbs to plant, so that in the Springtime the village will be a mass of beautiful and contrasting colours. Meet at the Inn on the Green … Continue reading
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Tagged Acocks Green, bulbs, community spirit, daffodils, gardening, spring, spring bulbs, tulips
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Canal Clean Up – 15th September
Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum set up a collaboration with Canals and Rivers Trust to adopt a stretch of canal back in 2016. A group of volunteers meet up a few times of year to clean and tidy the canal, picking … Continue reading
Keep the Green Clean Update
Birmingham City Council have recently been equipping community groups with litter-picking tools, and so volunteers from Acocks Green Village in Bloom took advantage of the offer. Ashley Atterbury the Assistant Service Manager from the Fleet & Waste at Montgomery Street … Continue reading
Holiday Events at your local Library
Encourage the kids to read books during the schools holidays with the Summer Reading Challenge: – to read ANY 6 books before they go back to school in September. There’s little rewards along to the way to motivate them and … Continue reading
Greening up Acocks Green
Another weekend of community spirit. On Saturday Acocks Green Village in Bloom were at Stockfield Funday encouraging children and adults to try a little gardening, with pick and mix planters, a plant swap and seed-sowing with children. Anyone who sowed seeds … Continue reading
Princes Trust Opportunities in AG
To find out more about Prince’s Trust Team Programme and how to qualify, watch the film and read the information below. The next course starts in August. A great opportunity for young people in the area.
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