Have you bought yours yet? There are only a limited number and they are selling quickly!
All photos are taken by local people who have captured Acocks Green through the seasons for this lovely and useful calendar to hang on your wall. All money raised goes back to the community.
Many people will be aware of the disruption when travelling through Acocks Green on the Number 11 bus. All Number 11s, travelling in both directions, now terminate in the village. Passengers have to get off and then wait for another bus to come down from the bus garage. This can sometimes be quite a long wait. Now the weather is getting cold, it makes the journey even more frustrating and miserable.
The service was ‘temporarily’ changed in 2021 to make the service ‘more efficient’ due to building work going on around Perry Barr and the Alexander Stadium in preparation for the Commonwealth Games. Before this you could, for example, catch a bus at the Swan Island all the way through to Kings Heath. Now such a journey is impossible without having to get off in Acocks Green village and wait for another bus to continue the journey. People have reported they have waited 40 minutes or more for the next bus to arrive.
As the Neighbourhood Forum we set up a petition to put pressure on the bus company, National Express, to reconsider the changes they made in 2021 and look at making the service more joined up once more to improve the service for passengers travelling through Acocks Green. Ged Hughes from the Neighbourhood Forum was invited onto Radio WM to highlight this problem and spoke about the issues on two occasions in the last couple of months. However, there has been no word yet from National Express about any plans to improve the service.
If you haven’t already signed the petition please do so. As of 3rd November we have 440 signatures, can we get it to 500? So many people need a reliable bus service to get around our city. This disruption is proving frustrating to so many passengers.
Please sign the petition HERE
Next Tuesday!
Calling all those people who enjoy getting out in the local area, and have captured some good landscape format photos, or perhaps might be inspired to do so! Find an interesting scene/subject and make sure it is distinctively in or around our local area, for a chance to get your photo in next year’s calendar. You’ve got until 15th October to get photos to us. We will then get in touch with all those photographers whose pictures have been chosen.
All funds raised go back to the community. So look through your photos, or get out there and get snapping!
If you’ve never tried Tai Chi then now is the time. It is gentle exercise that concentrates on stretching, breathing and balance. In this free, easy-going, friendly class you will find the hour goes quickly and you will feel better for it!
Every Monday 3.15-4.15pm and Thursdays 10am to 11am at Westley Vale Millennium Green (off the Avenue). You can just turn up and will be made to feel welcome. And it is open to all ages and levels of fitness.
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 of GOLD Awards since our first gold in 2015? Read more about the great achievements of Village in Bloom HERE
There are over 30 stalls booked in to our event, as well as live music, Meet the bee-keeper, face-painting and seed-sowing. So make a date and support Acocks Green Village in Bloom too!
Link below to watch online – but make it to the venue if you can!
It won’t be long until we will see the many daffodils and tulips filling the planters and beds of Acocks Green. Just one reflection of the work by the Acocks Green Village in Bloom volunteers. As a way to raise funds for their continued work they have organised an evening of celebration that everyone is invited to. All the details are below. Come along and support their work and have an enjoyable evening in the heart of Acocks Green:
Newly-appointed Debbie White came along to our recent Neighbourhood Forum Public Meeting and introduced herself. She is keen to work to improve our area and is available for appointments at Acocks Green Library on most Tuesdays. We look forward to seeing the benefits of her post.
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