Posts Tagged ‘resident’
Show us your assets!
What would you save in the Jewellery Quarter for the community? The Post Office? The Lord Clifden? The cemeteries? Under new Localism laws the local community can apply to designate a building or piece of land as an ‘Asset of Community Value’. This is where you come in – to help us register them with…
Read MorePack your bucket & spade – it’s the JQ Coach Trip!
We love where we live. But some of us fancy an ‘away day’… Some of the good folk in your JQNF have organised a day trip for JQ-ers on Saturday 27th July 2013 to… Weston-Super-Mare! Bring your buckets and spades, an appetite for ice creams and fish n’ chips, a bag of Murray Mints for…
Read MoreJewellery Quarter behind the scenes: 10th – 17th June
Businesses across the Jewellery Quarter will hold a series of ‘open door’ events as part of a fringe event for this year’s Birmingham Made Me (BMM), which has been developed to promote innovation and the great products designed and made in the city and across the Midlands. The Jewellery Quarter BID has arranged a series of ‘open door’…
Read MoreWho Lives in a House Like This? It’s over to you…
The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate. Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever. It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter. Now we have a few being built behind…
Read MoreOrdinary people in an extraordinary place
I’ve been meaning to update you all about recent happenings with a the JQ Neighbourhood Forum committee; in particular I’d like to break with tradition this year and tell you a bit about the people who have (sometimes tentatively) put themselves forward to help run the JQNF. These people are not super-heroes, they are not…
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