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Acocks Green Carnival 2nd July – All the Info!
Acocks Green’s Community Event of the Year is busy being planned. Every year the Carnival offers a wide variety of local groups the opportunity to come together in one place to stage a great family...
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‘ReCOM celebrates Volunteers’ Week at the Bowling Alley
Some of ReCOM’s volunteers were ‘bowled over’ with a fun evening at Acocks Green Bowl held to celebrate Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June 2011. Recom Volunteers enjoying evening at Acocks Green Bowl ReCOM is...
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A Credit Union in Acocks Green – *****update*****now Monday is new collection...
Looking for a great way to save or an easy way to borrow? Want to start saving up for Christmas or for a big holiday? Or do you need a low interest loan from 1% a month? – then Communisave – a...
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Volunteer Walk Leaders with Health Exchange
Health Exchange are looking for volunteers to lead Health Walks in our local community. If you are able and willing to volunteer a couple of hours of your time each week, then they would like to hear...
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Westley Vale Action Day – 31st March 2012
Join the trustees of Acocks Green’s Westley Vale Millennium Green on Saturday 31st March. There will be tree-planting, tidying and litter-picking. All help is much appreciated. Meet at the main gates...
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Acocks Green – Village in Bloom – Update – Digging For Victory
*******UPDATE**********The Village in Bloom judges are in Acocks Green this Thursday 26th July. The tireless, enthusiastic and green-fingered Fran Lee and other volunteers have been working hard to...
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Mallard Close – Community Orchard
Acocks Green Village in Bloom team have big plans to transform an untidy piece of wasteland in the village to a beautiful Community Orchard for locals to enjoy. Work has already started with tidying...
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Progress on Mallard Community Orchard
Progress is going well on the Mallard Close Orchard. Sunday morning saw 10 enthusiastic volunteers helping prepare the land for the tree-planting which takes place on Saturday 16th March. This will be...
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Community Supporters
A Big Thanks goes to West Midlands Police this week for their donation to Acocks Green’s Village in Bloom Campaign. On Wednesday Sgt. Mark Fellows from Acocks Green Neighbourhood Police Team presented...
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Big Dig Day – Mallard Community Orchard
Thanks to all the locals who came along to Mallard Community Orchard on Saturday 16th March to take part in the first ever Big Dig, a national campaign to encourage community gardening and growing food...
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Acocks Green Village in Bloom Launched
There was a great turn-out of volunteers on Saturday 13th April to launch the Village in Bloom 2013 entry, and for once it was warm and sunny. Box hedging was planted as well as holly and hawthorn...
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Village in Bloom – Silver Award!
It was announced at the Heart of England Village in Bloom on Thursday 12th September that Acocks Green Village had won a Silver Award for its many improvements. The hard work of our Village in Bloom...
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Standing Up to Litter
At the Acocks Green Ward Committee Meeting last week the Environmental Health Officer for our area – Kate Careford suggested a litter pick on the Yardley Road, following the on-going concerns about the...
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This Sunday, 6th April, at Westley Vale Millennium Green
Come down and enjoy some springtime weather, fresh air and exercise and join other volunteers to tidy up our lovely Millennium Green from 10am to 1pm. Meet at The Avenue gates. Tools are provided....
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Community Clean Up along the Canal
Thanks to the eleven people who turned up for the litter pick along the Grand Union Canal on Monday 9th June. Although litter is an on going problem, it was good to stop moaning about it and actually...
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Acocks Green Carnival **** Update Next meeting Thursday 15th January. If you...
Acocks Green Carnival has been the biggest annual community get together for 41 years. Many local organisations take the opportunity to promote their causes and raise funds at this important family-...
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Community First Fund – The Benefits
Managed by the Community Development Foundation Supported by HM Government’s Office for Civil Society, Community First is an England-wide programme which has run for nearly 4 years. Two funds of money,...
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Springtime beside the Grand Union Canal, Acocks Green
What a wonderful turn out of enthusiastic locals we had on Saturday for the first ‘Adopt a Stretch of Canal’ project we had. The sun shone and we met Steve Lambert the friendly and helpful Volunteer...
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Grand Union Canal – Uniting the Community in Acocks Green
Following the very successful first meeting as a working group for the ‘Adopt a Stretch of Canal’ project, where around 15 volunteers worked hard litter-picking and tidying; our ancient waterway...
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A Good Morning’s Work beside the Canal.
Thanks to the 9 volunteers who turned up on a sunny Sunday morning to improve the Canal around Vineries Bridge. Lots of litter was collected, railings rubbed down and painted and weeding done. Steve,...
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