During Mental Health Awareness Week this year, the theme is ‘nature’. The Mental Health Foundation has found that our relationship with nature – the ways we notice, think about, and appreciate our natural surroundings – is a critical factor in supporting good mental health. After a year in which most of us
Written by Birmingham City Council Birmingham City Council received its first batch of e-cargo bikes – just in time for Christmas. Manufactured by Raleigh, the bikes will be used by the Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) to support community food deliveries in the lead-up to Christmas. In May this year Birmingham
I am the lead for The Active Wellbeing Society’s Big Feed Community Cafés. With the help of volunteers, we run 6 cafés across the city, as well as a mobile catering van that is used to provide hot meals around Birmingham. This week, the van was at George Road Baptist
Balsall Heath Share Shack A SPACE TO SHARE, LEARN, CREATE AND GROW Discover More Balsall Heath Share Shack is the second of a series of community spaces for residents to connect with each other by borrowing, repairing, re-using and being creative. The Share Shack in Balsall Heath is a portable
It’s so easy to walk around our local communities and become frustrated by the amount of rubbish scattered around. It’s everywhere and we all wish littering didn’t happen. The good news is that choosing to be part of tidying up our streets and green spaces is brilliant for improving your
Our Active Streets project is about working collectively with citizens to reclaim public spaces and build stronger, more resilient communities. This is done in various ways, including street closures where local community members can connect with one other, socialise and participate in community activities on the streets of Birmingham. These
Wear and Share is a new project, created in partnership with the Aston Villa Foundation, which collects donations of clothes that have been previously used and loved, and passes them on to new owners. Over the last 10 weeks, Wear and Share have received approximately 700 bags of donated clothing
Birmingham is slowly rising again after a national lockdown in March that pretty much paralysed my gorgeous, canal laden city. According to the United Nations, this global coronavirus pandemic has emerged as the most challenging crisis since the Second World War. Schools, offices, factories, construction sites, universities and even taxi
During Covid-19, we have seen lots of examples of sharing within communities. People have been willing to donate food, share tools and volunteer their time. Local community WhatsApp groups, posters offering support, and mutual aid groups have sprung up to check in with neighbours and arrange donations and deliveries of
The Oasis Academy in Short Heath has been working with the Erdington Covid-19 volunteer group to provide vulnerable residents with hot food and food parcels throughout the lockdown. The deliveries are being made by a team of volunteers, which includes Erdington resident, Surjit, who has autism. With the help of
For the last 13 weeks, The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) have paused our normal activities and refocused our work to provide relief and support to Birmingham residents in need. TAWS have been coordinating the community food response to Covid-19 in Birmingham, which has seen a network of over 70 organisations
Spotlight on…Saheli Hub This ‘Spotlight on…’ blog series is aimed at shining a light on some of the 70+ partner organisations that are making the #BrumTogether campaign possible. Next up on the spotlight list, is Saheli Hub: Q. What do you do? A. We’re a registered charity that was formerly
Manor House, Hay Hall Business Park, Redfern Road, Tyseley, Birmingham,
West Midlands, B11 2BE.
The Active Wellbeing Society Limited (registered no.7595) is a charitable community benefit society