Latest updating of the website was completed at 18:35GMT on Friday 12th March.
Hello and welcome.
Whether you are a resident, a local business person, someone employed in the neighbourhood or a visitor from elsewhere, we hope you will find the website informative and interesting. The aims of the website are to increase the effectiveness of communication between the Selly Park South Neighbourhood Forum organisation and the residents of the area and to provide up to date information and news about the district of Selly Park South.
The pages will be regularly updated, some of them such as the Home Page on a daily basis, so please do mark us as one of your favourites and look in regularly. If you have local news, information, details of forthcoming events, or if you would like to contribute an item for publication then please do contact The Editor. To do this please use the Contact Us page.
Best wishes,
John Clayton.
Editor.
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Information
Recycling collection Tuesday 16th March: Green bags for recyclable garden waste. Please note that soil or rubble will NOT be collected.
USEFUL LINKS from this HOME PAGE - You can link into other websites giving useful and important local information by going to theses sections found further down this Home Page:
Link to our Neighbourhood Police Team: For latest information and advice from the Selly Park Neighbourhood Police Team and details of how to contact them.
Latest local weather reports and forecasts: For daily reports on the local weather and photographs from Birmingham Selly Oak Weather Station which is located here in Selly Park, and for local BBC Birmingham weather forecasts.
Latest information and advice on local flood risk: For link straight to the Environment Agency's flood pages including latest local flood warnings and also for link to information about our local Flood Action Plan.
Appeal for Flood Volunteers
An appeal to residents from Selly Park South Flood Action Group - your Flood Action Group needs more volunteers:
We have a Flood Action Plan
We have Flood defence equipment
We have support from a number of organisations
We have a number of willing volunteers But we need MORE VOLUNTEERS to make it all work successfully
All we ask is that Volunteers attend occasional training meetings and in a flood emergency help, if available to do so.
To offer your help or to find out more please either phone the Forum business line 0121-415-5088 or email us by using the website CONTACT US page.
Emergencies! Are you prepared?
Major emergencies happen more often than you might think. Severe weather including flooding, flu pandemics, civil unrest, industrial and transport accidents and the danger of terrorism have all affected Birmingham in recent times. Birmingham City Council has launched a new initiative to help citizens be prepared for emergencies including a free hi-tech messaging service that can quickly alert you to emergencies affecting your area. Information about the initiative and the messaging service can be found by following each of the three links below.
Please note that these are from a feature published in the Council's newspaper for residents, ’Forward” and the refernce at the bottom of the first link to a special two-page feature on page 18 and 19 refers to Link 2 and Link 3, so just click them each in turn to read the whole feature.
For Link 1 please click here.
For Link 2 please click here.
For Link 3 please click here.
Food purchasing cooperative set up by residents
The South Birmingham Food Cooperative has been up and running since January 2010 with the aim of providing affordable, quality and healthy food to our community.
To find out more about this please click here.
Articles on our Local News page
Report on the Neighbourhood Forum Open Meeting held on Tuesday 2nd March. A summary of the main items discussed and link to a report on the details.
Selly Park South was represented at the National Flood Forum Conference held at the University of Aston on Thursday 25th Febraury. Report and photograph.
Construction of A38 Selly Oak New Road: Extensive works are scheduled for the week Saturday 13th March to Friday 19th March. Links for full details of the programmed work and the latest illustrated newsletter.
Planting spring flower bulbs: With the help of the City Parks Department local residents have been preparing to brighten up the neighbourhood in the spring. Photo and report.
Flood Action Group Report: An important report from the Selly Park South Flood Action Group published on 11th December and updated in March 2010.
Heavy rain and potential flood threat on the River Rea: A report and photos relating to the most recent significant flood peak on the river in November 2009.
Latest news on the Dogpool Lane Bridge Replacement Scheme: The plans have been completed but the project is on hold at the present time. Th find out why, please check the LOCAL NEWS page.
Forthcoming Events
Christ Church Friday Coffee Mornings
Coffee Mornings open to all normally take place at Christ Church Selly Park every Friday during school term time. Open 10.30am to 12.00noon. Hot or cold drink and a teacake only £1. Other cakes and biscuits as available. Open to all - everyone welcome. Come and relax, chat with friends, make new friends.
Events in Cannon Hill Park
For news of events planned in Cannon Hill Park, please click here.
Neighbourhood Forum meetings
Forum Management Committee: The next meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd April at 7.30pm at Christ Church, Pershore Road.
Forum Open Public Meetings are held in October, February / March, May and July (AGM). The next one of these will be at 7.30pm on Tuesday 11th May 2010 at Christ Church, Pershore Road.
Events in Selly Oak in March.
To find out all of the events and activities that will be taking place this month in Birmingham City Council Selly Oak Constituency, which includes Selly Oak and Bournville Wards
please click here.
BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time from Selly Park.
The edition of BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time recorded recently here in Selly Park was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 0n Friday 5th March. The recording is available to listen to on BBC i Player. Please click here to listen.
Selly Oak Ward and Constituency Committee Meetings.
Members of the public are invited to attend the Birmingham City Council local Ward Committee meeting at 7pm on Wednesday 17th March at the 1st Ariel Scout Hut, Gibbins Road, Selly Oak.
Members of the public are invited to attend the Birmingham City Council Selly Oak Constituency Committee meeting at 7pm on Tuesday 23rd March at The Hub, 318 Vicarage Road, Hazelwell.
For information or special access arrangements please phone 0121 303 4772 or 0121 303 9726.
Global Action Plan Fee Eco-team event and lunch
Global Action Plan is a not-for-profit environmental charity and we run a number of free training events. Our next free training event is taking place on the 20th March in Birmingham at the Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, B3 3BS 9.30am to 2.30pm
and is supported by Birmingham City Council, the Midlands Co-Operative Society and Birmingham Environmental Partnership. The EcoTeams event is free and open to all. Its purpose: to train individuals to then go on and help instruct and guide community groups and others to reduce their environmental impact in a fun, educational and celebratory way.
To find out more please click here.
Taking Charge
Taking charge is a relaxed, empowering group for women who have experienced domestic violence. For more information please click here.
Link to our Neighbourhood Police Team
Selly Park South lies within the Selly Park Neighbourhood Policing area with our officers based at Woodbridge Road Police Station in Moseley, which in turn is within the E3 Operational Command Unit (OCU), the headquarters of which are at Belgrave Road Police Station.
For the latest local police information, crime statistics, community policing priorities, team member details and contact information. Click here to be taken to the Selly Park Neighbourhood Police pages on the West Midlands Police website.
Neighbourhood Police Tasking: This is a process which allows local residents to tell officers from our local police team the priorities they wish to see in local policing. It also allows the police team to report back information to residents. The tasking process for Selly Park South takes place at our Open Forum meetings, which the police officers attend. The next meeting is on Tuesday 2nd March 2010.
The Neighbourhood Police Team have given the Forum a quantity of "Doorstoppers - We do not buy from doorstep sellers" stickers to place inside your front windows by the front door. These can help to reduce distraction crimes by deterring criminals from calling at people's doors on the pretence of selling while an accomplice gets into the house to commit theft.
If you would like one of these stickers, which also on the inside have advice and phone numbers to call for help for householders, please let us have your address by phone or email (see Contact Us page) and we will deliver one through your letter box.
NEWS: SAMM - Support After Murder and Manslaughter. This charitable support organisation now has offices at West Midlands Police Learning & Development Resource Centre (L&DRC), Tally Ho, Pershore Road. To find out more please click here.
Latest local weather reports from Birmingham Selly Oak Weather & BBC Birmingham weather forecast
Birmingham Selly Oak Weather is a local weather station operating in Selly Park and collects local weather data daily.
To see the latest local weather reports and photos for Selly Park click here to visit Birmingham Selly Oak Weather.
Use the slider on the photostream above to view a random collection of photos from Birmingham Selly Oak Weather on Flickr.
Click here for the latest local weather forecast from the BBC Weather Centre.
Some residents know that unfortunately they live in locations at risk of flooding. We strongly advise all residents that you check if your house is in a flood risk location and if it is to register with the Environment Agency’s Floodline Warnings Direct (FWD) service. Click here to access the flooding pages of the Environment Agency’s website where you can check if your home is in a flood risk location, register for the FWD service if it is, check flood warnings in force at any time, learn about how to prepare against flooding and obtain advice on what to do in the event of a flood.
By telephone the Environment Agency Floodline number is 0845 988 1188. When you are asked if you know the quick dial number for your area to hear flood warning information enter 0521 2421.
To read important information about the Selly Park South Neighbourhood Flood Resilience Plan, please click here. To read the latest update (published December 2009) on the progress that is being made in mitigating the threat of flooding in our neighbourhood, please go to our Features page.
To access the National Flood Forum Directory of Flood Defence Products ('The Blue Pages') Click here
Thanks
We wish to thank Homegrown Design for designing and building this website and Grassroots Grants (managed by the Community Development Foundation and funded by the Government’s Office of the Third Sector) for providing the funding to create the website. We also wish to thank those people who have contributed content and advertising.
Our further thanks go to Christ Church, Selly Park, the Anglican Parish Church of our Neighbourhood, and to Selly Park Technology College for Girls, both of which so kindly provide venues for our various meetings.
