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Birmingham City Council (BCC) are inviting Expressions of Interest (EoI) for community organisations interested in Sheldon Community Centre. The…

Birmingham City Council has recently published a number of reports setting out properties it is proposing to dispose of across the city…

A couple of weeks ago Save Birmingham had the pleasure of taking part in the…

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The Save Birmingham campaign continues to be covered in the media, as nearly 1,000 residents sign up to protect community places. Birmingham residents have nominated dozens of community places that matter to them.In recent days we've been covered on ITV Central (Save Birmingham's campaigns lead,…

Categories: campaign update, press

After just one week, residents of Birmingham nominate 50 community places that matter to them on the savebirmingham.org website.This is the first step in the process to protect community places. Community groups or residents can then apply to officially protect community places from 'fire sales'.…

Categories: community assets, campaign update

This week we were delighted to get coverage about the Save Birmingham campaign on a range of local media.As well as appearing on BBC Midlands Today, our campaigns lead Jeevan Jones was interviewed by Trish Adudu on BBC Radio WM – listen to the full interview here (from 2:19:00).We also received…

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Over 100 parks, woodlands and open spaces groups supported the Save Birmingham campaign at their conference today. Invited by Birmingham Open Spaces Forum (BOSF) to speak about our campaign, we heard about how much community places matter to volunteer groups and received overwhelming support…

Categories: community assets, campaign update

More than 25 partners from across Birmingham and beyond gathered to plan the next steps for the Save Birmingham campaign.The launch meeting focused on:raising awareness among residents, community groups and wider networks;identifying and protecting community places; anddeveloping and providing…

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Save Birmingham is a new campaign to protect our community places.The people of Birmingham weren’t responsible for the problems facing Birmingham City Council. But they should be at the heart of solving them.This is beyond party politics and blame games – it’s about working together to provide…

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