Sally Taylor

Welcome to Bearwood Community Hub’s world where we can come together to learn from each other and solve local issues with creativity and positive action. The first “cafe” will be 19th May at Thimblemill Library. The Curiosity Cafe adds to what we already do to help people connect, and it is very explicitly responding to what visitors to our Urban Room at Smethwick Library kept telling us: that we need more space and power to work together to develop solutions to local issues. So whether you...

Bard’s Book Brings Community Together On Saturday 3rd June, around 400 people came to the Dorothy Parkes Centre to see the 400-year-old, publicly-owned copy of William Shakespeare’s works and to take part in a spectacular array of Shakespearean activities! Back in October last year talks began with the Everything to Everybody project about bringing Shakespeare’s First Folio out to Smethwick, and so after months of planning and coordination, the first Saturday in June finally arrived… The...

Bearwood Community Bakery is Trialling Home Delivery for a Month! We are excited to share that from the 8th - 22nd February, Bearwood Community Bakery will be trialling a home delivery option for Wednesday bread orders to addresses between the high street, Adkins Lane, Barclay Road, Rathbone Road and parts of Thimblemill Road. A full list of postcodes included within our delivery area is listed below. This pilot will enable us to work out the initial logistics and sustainability of running a...