Yesterday we had the pleasure of attending the West Midlands Funders Network…
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As many of you who have followed the campaign since its inception will know, we’ve utilised powers under the Localism Act 2011 to put protections…
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Tell the council to protect our community places in its budget consultation. Last week, we heard that Birmingham City Council is considering asset sales of £500 million over the next 12 months.And as the local authority plans its finances for next year, it's launched a consultation asking…
Following rare cross-party support for Save Birmingham, we met with John Cotton, the Leader of Birmingham City Council. We discussed how our campaign could work with the council to protect and improve community places.This builds on the support of over 1,000 residents backing the Save Birmingham…
Save Birmingham campaign unites all political parties to protect community places in a key vote at Birmingham City Council on 7 November. This comes after fears that 'bankrupt' Birmingham City Council would launch a 'fire sale' of much-loved buildings and assets.The 'unprecedented' cross-party…
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,…
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'.…
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…
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…
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…