News Archives
2008
Birmingham’s eco home with the most environmentally friendly features in the UK is shortlisted for a national award
A Birmingham housing association which has led the industry in sustainable social house building for over a hundred years has been shortlisted for a national housing award for its eco home. Bournville Village Trust (BVT) refurbished a 1929 two storey mid terraced house with over fifty environmentally friendly features. The eco home which was opened last year by David Bellamy is one of six projects which will be considered for a sustainable housing award, organised by the Chartered Institute of Housing. click here
£25 Million Housing Development Starts On Site
A £25 million housing development in South Birmingham started on site today, despite the current economic climate. The number of homes being built in Britain has slipped to its lowest level since 1945 and plummeting construction activity is expected to lose the industry as much as 100,000 jobs. click here
Award Winning Architect Joins Bournville Architects
An award winning architect has been appointed to head up Bournville Architects. 38 years old Ian Tipton who has won a number of design competitions throughout the UK, is the new Executive Director of Bournville Architects, part of Bournville Village Trust, the charity founded by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage his housing estate. click here
Hope for the Financially Excluded
With the risk of an impending recession and more and more people in the UK getting CCJ’s as well as an increase in home repossessions, Bournville Village Trust Housing Association is tackling the growing problem of financial exclusion by linking up with a community credit union to offer financial services for its tenants. click here
Richard Burden MP opens desperately needed games area in Shenley, South Birmingham
Young people in Shenley, South Birmingham had their very own July 4 celebrations when desperately needed leisure facilities were opened on Friday July 4 by Richard Burden MP. Bournville Village Trust (BVT) has developed a floodlit Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) in Green Meadow Road which will provide an outdoor sports facility that will be used by the adjacent youth centre, Green Meadow Primary School and the local community. click here
Cadbury Family Member Unveils £250,000 Restoration of Almshouses in Bournville
Residents of Bournville’s Almshouse Trust applauded their new surroundings as Roger Cadbury, Chair of Bournville Village Trust and Almshouse Trust unveiled new railings and rang the new bells in the Quadrangle Tower, all part of a £250,000 restoration project. The new railings and gates which were removed in the 1940s as part of the war effort to recycle iron, was the final stage in a ten year plan to restore the Grade II listed building in Mary Vale Road. click here
Resident Surfers Help To Improve Housing Association Web Site
Surfing got a whole lot easier when a local housing association called on its tenants to help redesign its web site. The Bournville Village Trust web site is now much more user friendly. Enter the tenant section and acess over thirty pages of easy to read information. click here
Restoring Birmingham’s Long Lost Heritage
Second world war railings are restored in Bournville using traditional blacksmith skills. A grant from two local trusts will help to restore a piece of Birmingham’s long lost heritage in Bournville. click here
Former Residents Make Way for £25 Million Housing Development in South Birmingham
Eighty five years old Bob Hill (pictured) with four other former residents of Black Haynes Road in Shenley, South Birmingham helped to demolish the maisonette where he used to live. Brian Field, Bob and Christine Hill, Kathleen Clements and her grandson Robert watched as the giant excavator ate its way through the 1950’s and 1960’s flats and maisonettes which were built by Bournville Village Trust, a Birmingham housing association and developer, established by George Cadbury in 1900. click here
Giving Time Instead of Money Proves Rewarding
Time is money, as one volunteering group in South Birmingham has discovered. Donate an hour of your time and you will receive an hour of someone else’s time free of charge and with no money exchanging hands. click here