Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery

Even more of Section B12 cleared.

Jane Edwards — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:23:31 +0000

Another day and another group of volunteers. Why not view our album.?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/73LuEKjuwGizDZPw6

This time we welcomed 7 staff from NIQ who have visited us before so were raring to go. The mood was helped by glorious sunshine so plenty of progress was made. Every group of volunteers that come to help us really do work hard in an effort to clear long lost graves and todays group were no different. Its amazing what can be done in a day, as you will see below.

The photo below is what it looked like at 10am today..

….and this is the result after 4 hours work. A great improvement !

Deutsche Bank Volunteers at work again.

Jane Edwards — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:15 +0000

Lovely weather welcomed 10 enthusiastic staff from Deutsche Bank to the cemetery to carry on with our ‘Grave shrubbery’ project.

In our 20th year we aimed to clear all the shrubbery from Section 16 and photograph all the headstones for our data base. This year we continue to extend that project to another section, B12.

Ten members of staff spent all day clearing ground level Brambles and Holly and managed to uncover several rows of previously obscured graves that hadn’t been accessible for many years. if you want to see some before and after shots then follow this link to our album.

Tree Guardians.

Jane Edwards — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:26:31 +0000

Most of our followers will know that we have been planting trees this year to replace those lost in storms and through age. Our initial planting was with Fruit and nut Village and we were able to plant a small fruit sapling tree area . We followed this in February with 15 larger standard trees, all of which were special in their own way and complimented the existing planting designed by Louden in the late 1800’s.

As warmer weather approaches we sent out a message on our facebook site to ask for Tree Guardians who would take on the watering of all of the trees for the remainder of this year and as long as they need it. Once again our supporters didnt let us down and very soon we formed a team of 8 who willingly adopted a couple of trees each to car for. Our thanks to them for offering their time to give these trees the best start in life.

FBEC Annual AGM

Jane Edwards — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:53 +0000

Its April and time again for our annual AGM. The details are:

10.30am Thursday 16th April,

St Dunstans Church Conference room

Kingsfield Rd. Kings Heath

If arriving by car you need to use the car park in Institute Rd B14 7EG that leads up to the church (On the right as you travel from the High Street) Do not pay as you can enter your car reg in the conference centre for free parking.

Do come along and hear what we have been doing in 2025/26 and what we hope to have in our events programme for 2026/27. Everyone with an interest is welcome.

Its March, and its Deutsche Bank working in the cemetery.

Jane Edwards — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:02:47 +0000

Nine Deutsche Bank staff joined us for the day to do some shrubbery clearance on Section 18. The weather didn’t look too bright but everyone agreed that the temperature was just right for the hard work they were undertaking. Thanks again for Steve D, Steve E and Kay for supporting the visit. A special thank you to a Deutsche Bank staff member who treated us all to pizza for lunch.

Lots of areas cleared today and lots of photographs via this link.

First Litter Pick of 2026

Jane Edwards — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:07:13 +0000

Amazing collection of 20 bags today from our Litter Pickers. Well done everyone. Mainly flower paper and windblown old artificial flowers but last chance to get bits from under shrubbery.

See you all again in June.

Clean up at the Cross.

Jane Edwards — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

The Cross of Sacrifice has had a spruce up. Looking so much better.

Brightening Brandwood

Jane Edwards — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:17:48 +0000

Our thanks to the Volunteers from Brandwood Buzz – ‘Brightening Brandwood’ project. The volunteers not only constructed four planters for the cemetery but came to plant them up with The Friends. We managed to get two planters in place today and the remaining two should be completed tomorrow.

First LITTER PICK of 2026.

Jane Edwards — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:54:04 +0000

Join the Friends at the first Litter Pick of 2026.suitable clothing and footwear advisable. Everyone welcome but under 16’s need to have an adult with them.

These is a ‘No dogs’ policy in the cemetery.

Great gardening effort today.

Jane Edwards — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:17:12 +0000

Thanks to our five gardening volunteers who concentrated on freeing the Rhododendrons on the main drive from brambles and exposing some Holly trees, Lots of shrubbery removed and now some more light available for the plants that should be there.