The start of today’s gardening session with Deutsche Bank was wet and windy but as they worked the rain stopped. So much was achieved in a morning and many more graves emerged from the shrubbery. Well done the Deutsche Dozen! Follow our link to an album if today’s activities https://photos.app.goo.gl/6fdkDUEpLAhvwP7R9 We hope we can welcome …
Do you follow our posts or support our events? Could we entice you to help us make decisions about what we tackle and when? If so, why not join our committee? We meet locally once a month to review existing projects and plan new ones but we need new committee members to move forward. E …
Volunteer Gardening Session to clear shrubbery on February 10th, 11am till 2pm. Drop in for an hour if you can spare time. We have the tools, just need the manpower. All abilities welcome.
Many of our followers will be familiar with the Civilian Garden of Remembrance in Brandwood End but not so many of you will realise that this is the final resting place of close to sixty civilians who lost their lives during local bombing raids in 1940/41. The names of those buried here are listed in …
The Marker that was moved to a safe distance following a several trees falling in a recent storm has been reinstated.
Birmingham Open Spaces Forum, who collate the hours and tasks undertaken by Birmingham’s volunteers, have published their annual summary of work undertaken. When you consider the financial position that Birmingham Council find themselves in, it really shows how much effort and time volunteers are putting in to shore up parks, cemeteries and other sites around …
The Friends would like to thank all our supporters and especially our many volunteers who make our projects possible. Can we wish you all A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2024 Hopefully Spring will be here soon!
The Friends have had half a dozen work parties in the cemetery but todays was the final one of 2023. As usual our aim was to remove as many self set Holly saplings from graves as possible. Many of the ‘saplings’ had now grown to cover several graves and hampered families in their genealogy searches or …
