Continue reading »]]> Celebrate National Volunteers Week by joining the award winning team on 4th & 5th of June from 11.00am at Moseley Village Car Park.

The team will be focusing on Phase 1 of the Moseley Village Car Park project lead by Moseley in Bloom along with other community gardening activities around Moseley Village Centre.

Help us stop the rot, clear the grot – clean up and plant up a dazzling display of flowers!

Also help us to raise funds for the many projects Moseley in bloom participates in by volunteering to help us on the Moseley in Bloom Open Gardens Weekend which takes place on 18th & 19th of June!

Apply here if you can spare a couple of hours of your time to be part of a community movement!

Continue reading »]]> This year, the Moseley in Bloom Awards evening was held at the Cross Café bar on 9th November. The night was hosted by non other than Craig Donovan.

The awards give public recognition to some of the people and businesses that are a credit to the community. The original concept was to encourage everybody to take part in improving the local environment and to make the village look as attractive as possible.

This year the judges were Tim Oakes of Birmingham Parks & Nurseries, Tony Thapar of the Moseley Community Development Trust and James Llewellyn of Chamberlains Estate Agency who toured Moseley in August to mark various properties on their horticultural display and tidiness of their premises.

This year sees an extra category called Most Evergreen Elders—an award to recognise those in residential homes. Once again our thanks go out to Samantha McEwan who kindly created the new trophy for this award.

The night was enjoyable and fun and we must say a huge thank you to Earlswood Nursuries who donated raffle prizes of £100 in Landscaping vouchers and two prizes of £50 bedding plant vouchers.

We are happy to announce that the winners for 2010 are:

Continue reading »]]> Well what a year it’s been! If you haven’t already heard, the volunteers of Moseley in Bloom won two awards this year for their work and endeavors to enhance the local community.

Firstly, the regional Heart of England judges awarded the Gold and Category winners award to Moseley in Bloom on September 16th. Then on 29th October, Moseley in Bloom  was awarded a Silver Gilt award at the prestigious awards ceremony held at the Centenary Centre for the national Britain in Bloom campaign.

These are excellent awards to receive and shows just how much hard work and dedication volunteers and businesses have put in for the community in which we work, live and socialise in. The Urban Communities category was the most difficult category to be entered into and had the highest number of entries.

The impression we received when visiting the judges  their open surgery of 30th September on was that we were not far away from the Gold so it gives us something to strive for in the near future!

Whilst we are thoroughly proud with the results, there is plenty more for us to do to enhance our community!

Continue reading »]]> It’s certainly now the busiest part of the season and again Moseley in Bloom is calling you to arms!


The sun is shining and hopefully today marks the start of our (dare I say it!) barbeque summer! You will probably have noticed that the floral displays are now up around the village and it wont be long before your visual senses are stimulated for the season…


Please see the summary below of upcoming activities in June and where we need your help and also find out how you can get your hands on a free pair of Open Gardens 2010 tickets!

The Important bit…

Please do come prepared on the days. Whilst we hope that the summer is upon us, do make sure you bring some warm clothes with you and a waterproof coat. Also bring some suitable footwear (boots are ideal) if you are gardening.

If you have gardening gloves and your own equipment such as trowels, forks and other weeding instruments, please do bring them (labelled with your name). If you don’t have any in your possession then don’t worry – we have spare gloves and some spare tools that you can use.

We hope you can join us on these days. If you know of friends, family or even colleagues that may be interested, please feel free to invite them along.

Look out for next month’s activities which include the pre-judging preparations!

Looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Continue reading »]]> Local residents are joining with Birmingham City Council’s Planning Department to work out a new plan for Moseley. The last plan was drawn up 1992 and so needs to be updated. This is the first time residents have been allowed to lead on such a plan. The purpose of this new document is to help achieve the following:

• Make Moseley a better place to live, work and play in
• Ensure local resident’s ambitions are included
• Let Developers, businesses and others understand local priorities
• Tackle climate change

This is your chance to tell us about your ideas and views. We need your help in producing Moseley’s Big Plan.

Can you answer one (or as many as you like) of the 7 questions we have listed below. All of the responses we get will help shape the new plan for Moseley.

BIG 7 QUESTIONS

1. How can we the village centre better?
2. How could do we attract more local jobs?
3. How could we make it easier to get to work, school and the shops?
4. What should we do to protect improve our historic buildings and parks?
5. How we can provide more things to do for young and older people?
6. In the future, what types of homes will be needed?
7. How can we make Moseley a greener place to live?

Do you have any other suggestions that will help make Moseley a better place?

Send us your answers and to find our more go to www.MoseleyCDT.com/bigplan

Also, you can pick information and leave comments about Moseley’s Big Plan in some local shops, the Moseley Exchange (behind Moseley Post Office) and Kings Heath Library. Look out for the BIG PLAN mailboxes and postcards.

• Come and meet us on Market days on Saturday, 27^th and February, 27^th March.
• Come along to a workshop to learn more about Moseley’s BIG plan and issues facing Moseley in the future.

Public events with WM Planning Aid:

• 22^nd March 2010, 7pm at the Moseley Exchange (149 Alcester Road, B13 8JP)

• 30^th March 2010, 7pm at the Moseley Exchange

Moseley’s Big Plan is an initiative from the Moseley Regeneration Group. This group is made up representatives from local community groups such as Moseley Forum, Moseley Society, Moseley in Bloom and Moseley Business Association