Green Minds: A New Project Supporting Wellbeing Through Nature

by Lizzie Forrester | Sep 9, 2024 | Ladywood

Nature connection and therapeutic horticulture activities to boost health and wellbeing delivered by Birmingham Settlement in partnership with Living Well Consortium. Green Minds is a new project funded by the WMCA Community Environment Fund aiming to improve health...

Sports and Community Centre Manager

by Lizzie Forrester | Sep 6, 2024 | Vacancies

Salary: £36k to £42k per annum (depending on experience) 35 hours per week average (flexible) 25 days A/L + contributory pension scheme Birmingham Settlement is recruiting a new Sports & Community Centre Manager to lead and develop our Centre in Kingstanding. This...

Volunteering with Birmingham Settlement

by Lizzie Forrester | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized

Join Birmingham Settlement and make a lasting impact in the community through volunteering! Birmingham Settlement can offer a wide range of volunteering opportunities, so whether you want to get your foot through the door into the world of work or just have a few...

Training with Birmingham Settlement

by Beth Sykes | Aug 22, 2024 | 610 Kingstanding, Ladywood

Birmingham Settlement is delivering a programme of training suitable for those working in social care or those who simply have an interest in the training topics. All training sessions are half a day (3.5 hours – including break) and cost £50/person. Sessions will be...

Let’s Get Potting – Free Training for Birmingham’s VCFSE Sector

by Lizzie Forrester | Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized

Are you interested in how indoor and outdoor nature-connection activities boost health and wellbeing?  Would you like to learn how to deliver a simple nature-based activity to the individuals your organisation supports?  FREE Train-the-Trainer sessions for...

Birmingham Settlement Summer Update

by Lizzie Forrester | Aug 7, 2024 | Uncategorized

We’re pleased to share our Summer 2024 Community Update with you! Download using the links below for the latest happenings at our Centres. If you would like to sign-up to receive our electronic newsletter click here  Kingstanding – Sports & Community...

Summer Holidays at Birmingham Settlement

by Beth Sykes | Jul 23, 2024 | 610 Kingstanding, Ladywood, Young People

Looking for things to do with the children over the summer holidays? Check out all the activities that Birmingham Settlement have to offer. We are delivering a range of sports-based sessions from our Sports & Community Centre in Kingstanding, and some more...

Community Gym Opening Soon!

by Beth Sykes | Jul 19, 2024 | 610 Kingstanding

We have some very exciting news to announce… we are opening our Community Gym at Birmingham Settlement Sports & Community Centre in Kingstanding!  How it works  Our gym is for everyone, whether you have been to a gym before or not, we welcome you to our...

Neighbourhood Futures Festival Round-Up

by Lizzie Forrester | Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized

Thank you to all our festival collaborators, partners, supporters and particpants for helping us make the 2024 Neighbourhood Futures Festival such a brilliant four days. The event brought together over 35 community partners and welcomed over 1,500 visitors to the...

Neighbourhood Futures Festival 2024 is Coming!

by Lizzie Forrester | Jun 15, 2024 | Uncategorized

Join Birmingham Settlement, University of Birmingham Centre for Urban Wellbeing and over 30 community partners to explore and celebrate all things green in the city! This will be Birmingham Settlement’s second Neighbourhood Futures Festival at the Nature and Wellbeing...