Our Mission and Values
Following extensive consultation St. Paul’s Trust has amended its mission and values to reflect the environment we are currently operating in and the challenging financial climate. Trustees are mindful of the move away from community activities and will endeavour to work with other organisations to deliver community events. If you wish to discuss the changes […]
BBC WM Visits the Farm
Copy of the feature on Radio WM today – Save our Farm We are also scheduled to be on BBC Midlands Today at 13:30 this afternoon and 6pm this evening (Friday 4th Jan)
Opening and Closure over the 2018 Christmas Period
Opening and Closure over the 2018 Christmas Period
Central News Visits The Farm!
Following Friday’s very sad announcement about our Urban Farm facing closure, Central News have paid a visit to the Farm. The following video is from the Broadcast on the Saturday evening news. (You might need to turn the volume up a bit)
Unique Urban Farm To Close
Balsall Heath City Farm is set to close by the end of March, unless new money can be raised to support it. Set up by a group of residents in 1980, with just a few chickens, the farm now includes sheep, goats, rabbits, ducks, geese and turkeys. The Farm costs some £55,000 a year to […]
Christmas at the Farm
Tesco Bags of Help
St. Paul’s is pleased to announce that we have successfully been accepted onto the Tesco Bags of Help Programme. During November and December we will be featured in a number of central Tesco stores seeking support for our final renovation works for the Ellen Gee. This is a competitive process alongside two other organisations seeking […]
Lapworth Museum Trip and Launch Party
Deutsche Bank Team Challenge
Thank you to the wonderful team of 10 volunteers from Deutsche Bank who completed a Team Challenge last week. They have helped to make our outside areas much easier to use in all weathers, safer and the new planting is beautiful for our children to enjoy. Thank you also to Birmingham Voluntary Service Council who […]
St Paul’s Next Generation Awards
Last night pupils and staff attended finals for The Next Generation Awards at Highbury Hall Moseley. It was a much anticipated evening with many schools around Birmingham participating in the event. The pupils at St Paul’s school took part in thinking of an innovative idea to spend £1,500 to improve an aspect of Birmingham. Our […]
The Next Generation Awards: St Paul’s Pupils reach the final!
We are so proud to announce that two of our pupils have managed to reach the finals of the Next Generation Awards (NGA). NGAs have been designed to engage young people in Birmingham to become active citizens who contribute positively to Birmingham’s future! The competition is for schools within Birmingham to think of an idea […]
Coffee Morning for the Over 50’s
We will be holding a Coffee Morning on Wednesdays between 10am and 11:30am for people aged over 50 to come along and have some refreshments and take part in activities in and around our City Farm. Please see the flyer below for more information or you can call 0121 464 1888 and ask for Anita […]
St Paul’s Trust Annual General Meeting
Monday 8th October 2018 was the St Paul’s Annual General Meeting. Attendees were treated to a presentation on Family Learning by Hafsha Shaikh from Smartlyte , which recently won the Working with Families award at Nursery World.
It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards
For several years, our Farm was an integral part of Balsall Heath in Bloom, the areas’ entry in the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. This year we entered the smaller “It’s Your Neighbourhood” awards just for the Farm itself.
Nursery World Awards 2018 – Winners!!
We are absolutely delighted to share that our joint project with Smartlyte: ‘#Get Balsall Heath Reading’ scooped first prize in the Nursery World Awards, 2018 in the ‘Working with Parents’ category. Our entry was one of five shortlisted finalists. Despite the stiff competition our joint entry came out as a clear winner! It was great […]