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Run the Great Birmingham Run 2024

Date: Sunday 5th May 2024

Half-Marathon Registration Fee= £43 (refundable with receipt and raised min. £200)

10K Registration Fee = £33 (refundable with receipt and raised min. £200)

To help raise vital funds to our youth work project, Youth Project Acocks Green, we’re looking for volunteers to run the Great Birmingham Run, either 10K or Half-marathon distances this May.

Over the past few years the Great Birmingham Run has been a staple in our fundraising efforts with staff, volunteers and parents all taking part to raise money for our work. This year is no different and we’re looking at having our biggest turn-out ever of runners.

Simply sign-up to the Great Birmingham Run through the Great Run website (link here: https://www.greatrun.org/) and register for your required distance. Keep the confirmation email for future reference. We’ll be supporting all those who undertake the challenge with regular social runs, fundraising support and on the day support through.

Once you’ve registered, drop us an email to let us know so we can add you to our support network. Don’t forget to tag us in anything online or on social media also.

We’ll also be organising an introduction session via Zoom for everyone signed up to help kick start training and fundraising.

Once the run is completed and you’ve raised over the minimum amounts listed above, we’ll refund you your entry fee.

For more information or support, please email youth@foxholliesforum.com

Community Garden – GOLD with Acocks Green Village in Bloom

Fran Lee collecting the Gold award at the Britain in Bloom Awards for Acocks Green’s Village in Bloom submission.

Our Community Garden at Fox Hollies Forum strikes Gold in the Britain in Bloom Awards, supporting the work of Acocks Green Village in Bloom. Jane our resident Gardener has worked with Fran Lee, Village in Bloom Co-ordinator, to support Acocks Green’s submission to the award, coming up trumps again.

Fran had to say: “You will be pleased to know that we have once again secured a gold award at the Britain in Bloom Award Ceremony. It is a struggle mounting this in an urban area of a large city but with your support, encouragement and help, we are up there with the best of them!

A collection of community groups contribute to the submission including St. Mary’s church, Victoria Road Surgery gardens, Scouts, Acocks Green Primary and Acocks Green Library, including local businesses and other agencies.

Fran added, “A good deal of thanks must also go to the council and Les’s team who really did us proud as Roger, President of Heart of England in Bloom and one of our judges said that Acocks Green must be the cleanest suburb in Birmingham.  All the stops were pulled out.

Well done to Jane and her team, as well as everyone else involved in the Village in Bloom submission.

To get involved in our gardening group and volunteer your time, contact us on info@foxholliesforum.com.

Christmas Hampers for the Elderly

This week staff and volunteers put the finishing touches to Christmas hampers, ready for delivery to vulnerable older people living in and around Acocks Green.

Over 40 Christmas hampers will be delivered by volunteers in the run up to Christmas, with the aim to support the most vulnerable in the local area. The hampers are the result of a community effort with donations of food, time and resources from local people to make the project happen.

A huge thank you to our friends at the Swan Tesco, Acocks Green Morrisons, the Acocks Green Together project and Kingstanding Regeneration Trust for their generous contributions towards the hampers.

Support was also given by Oaklands Primary School, making generous donations and handmade cards and decorations to go in the hampers.

The Association’s very own Youth Project also contributed by making personalised Christmas cards for those receiving hampers, and Fox Hollies Pre-school designed the Association’s Christmas card for 2020.

Thank you to everyone who contributed.