Happy New Year from Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum!
Our next Public Meeting is Tues 30th January, 7.30pm Baptist Church Hall, Yardley Rd.
Here are some lovely photos taken by Veronica Treadwell, Fran Lee and Pauline Priest
of our Winter Wonderland.
This month at the Queen’s Birthday Honours – our chair David Treadwell was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive an MBE for his tireless community work. We are very proud of him. He does so much for Acocks Green as well as his work with the Scouts, the Rugby Club and much more. Acocks Green would be a much poorer place without his hard work and dedication. Thank you Dave!
Exciting News! Following the sell-out success of last year’s Acocks Green Calendar, Village in Bloom have produced a new calendar for 2018. It is a wall calendar and each page features a contemporary colour photos of some of the scenic views around Acocks Green. It lists all the public holidays and other significant dates (including full moons) and has space to write your important appointments.
The calendars are available now at Beads and Bobbins, Station Road, S & H Jewellers, Swan Trio, Hughes Fruits on Warwick Road and everyone’s favourite hardware store – Jeffries – just £6.50 each. Get them while stocks last.
All proceeds of the sale of the calendars goes to Village in Bloom and the work that they do to enhance our area, so what an ideal way to support the project and do a bit of Christmas shopping at the same time.
This year the team also put a call out to local people to submit their favourite photos of the area for inclusion in the calendar :
“A great big thank you goes out to all those people who sent in photos! It is so good to see that people are proud of our village and want to capture it. We received over 100 photos and have selected 4 for inclusion in this year’s calendar. It was a really hard decision to choose the most appropriate pictures but we are sure you will like the final result”. The Village in Bloom Team
Acocks Green’s attractive open space is in line for some improvements. There is an online consultation that takes just a few minutes to complete. What are the priorities for improvement. Let the council know what you think. Closing date 10th November so hurry.
Click for link: HERE
Fox Hollies Park Pool – photo: David Murphy
Vote for Acocks Green
Village in Bloom have applied for funding from Aviva. The more votes they get the more funding they will receive so take a couple of minutes to register to get your 10 votes and play your part in improving Acocks Green : –
Aviva Community Funding
Saturday is the Autumn Fair at St Mary’s –
always full of delights!
Sunday 5th November 10am.
Autumn clean up at Westley Vale Millennium Green. Meet at the gates on The Avenue. Come along for an hour or so to get some fresh air, exercise and meet some other locals and help tidy our precious green space. Equipment provided.
This week coming there are two nice events happening. An inaugural Tea Dance at the Arthur Moore Hall (Alexander Road) for the local community to enjoy and on Sunday a mass planting of daffodil bulbs to brighten up the village in the Springtime:
If you haven’t already heard – Acocks Green Village received a Gold Award again this year in the entry The RHS Heart of England Britain in Bloom Awards. That is 3 years in a row! Also the team were given a special Community Award for the first time. Here are the comments from the judges about this award:
The community led Bloom initiative in Acocks Green Village goes from strength to strength. This year the judges saw and heard about more horticultural projects, schools engagement, the new Heritage Trail, new village sculpture, bigger and better events (including the launch event) and a new 2017 calendar.
Newcomers and first-entries are highly recommended to spend a day with Fran Lee and the team to gain first hand knowledge of how to bring together community resources.
Well done everyone
The support of the business and local community is so important to the team and their success. A perfect example is the support that Jeffries Hardware offers Village in Bloom, in so many ways, and here is a very visual example – they offered the team the shop window to display their successes:
Window display in Jeffries Hardware
Thank you Jeffries Hardware – recommended by ViB team for great gardening equipment and plants.
In the shops now – (S & H Jewellers, Bodylines and Jeffries), a new postcard to send to your friends and relatives around the world. The postcard features the new Village in Bloom Sculpture created by local artist Veronica Treadwell. Just 20p and all profits go to Village in Bloom.
Tickets available now. This sounds like a super event on our doorstep and on a lovely setting:
See you there!
*****Just one more week to submit your photos for next year’s calendar****
Some of you lucky people out there may be owners of this year’s calendar featuring contemporary photos of the area. Acocks Green Village in Bloom produced a sell-out calendar for 2017 to raise funds and showcase some of the picturesque views of the area through the seasons. This year they have decided to ask local people to look through their digital cameras and phones and submit photos to possibly feature in the 2018 calendar. Each photo used will be credited to the photographer and they will also receive a free calendar. **Landscape photographs generally work best**.
Would you like to support Village in Bloom and get one of your photos in print? Then email us at the address below. Mike and Ross have already captured a couple of nice views of the Acocks Green. They are strong contenders to be included. Why not have a look through photos you have taken over the last few years. We are especially interested in seasonal views. Let us know where and when they were taken.
Email your photos to: AGNForum@hotmail.co.uk
By sending us your photographs you are giving us the right to print them in a calendar sold to raise funds for Acocks Green Village in Bloom. Only send photos that are your own work and that you are happy to be shared in this way. They may also be used on this website and social media, where possible they will be credited.
** Closing Date 31st October **
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