Home in Highgate Partners
Home in Highgate is a partnership with local residents, Birmingham City Council and local organisations meeting monthly. Our Partners include:
Aero-Kick Gym is Birmingham’s premier kickboxing and boxing classes destination! Whether you want to unleash your inner warrior, build strength and confidence, or have a great time while staying fit, we’ve got you covered.
Beyond just a place to work out, Aero-Kick Gym is a community of individuals striving for excellence. Our friendly members and supportive staff will make you feel right at home from day one. Whether you’re training for competitions or looking for a new hobby, you’ll find a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere here.
BOSF is a volunteer network organisation, set up at the end of 2004, that brings together all the community groups in Birmingham with an interest in green open spaces.
Our main focus is supporting the volunteers who add value to the city’s open spaces.
Black Heritage Walks Network CIC, was formed in 2018 to highlight the achievements of the African Caribbean community in the UK. The co- founders Garry Stewart, Dawn Carr and Marcia Dunkley researched the initial Madiba Walk, in order to capture the stories and history of the Windrush mark the 70th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush. The organisation has developed a plethora of walks, exhibitions, film festivals and educational workshops.
Friction have created socially engaged projects and programmes, from our base in Highgate. We take pride in our approach of making work that creates a difference to people at our home at The Edge, in our city, our region and across the world.
We believe that the arts and creative projects provide a safe space for people, young and old, to explore the world, and their place in it. Through art we can find ways to express ourselves that ma be otherwise difficult and we also believe that its a place for people to find ways to improve their wellbeing.
Glue Collective use a creative approach to the way we use our urban landscape so that we are better able to look after the environment, ourselves and each other.
We are a group of artists and community workers seeking to address current and emerging, social, health and economic challenges in our local communities. This primarily involves the development of unused plots of land for a range of initiatives under the umbrella of visual arts and providing access to nature as a fundamental need for human growth and development.
Highgate Community Support promotes health, good nourishment, and healthy recreational services to people in Highgate, Birmingham who (i) are hungry and/or in need of nourishment and exercise (ii) children and young people (iii) those in the community who are lonely or not able to fully look after themselves. All events and services are open to anyone and are free of charge.
Highgate StreetWatch is a community led initiative that work together to make a difference in Highgate. The StreetWatch group is made up of volunteers from local communities. They carry out street patrols and are linked to WM police, but have no police powers. StreetWatch is about local residents promoting good citizenship and supporting a better neighbourhood by patrolling their own streets. They provide visible reassurance and appropriately engage in local issues that matter most to your community.
https://www.westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/careers/volunteer/streetwatch/
Legacy West Midlands is a charity based in Birmingham, founded in 2010 to celebrate our local heritage and diverse communities. We deliver sports, arts, heritage and youth programmes for the benefit of the whole community, including marginalised and underrepresented groups.
As winners of a 2023 Kings Award for Voluntary Service and 2021 Weston Charity Award, we take pride in achieving excellence in service delivery and maximising positive impact across our programmes.
People’s Heritage Co-operative promote and raise awareness of peoples heritage. We support our members to work with people to share our diverse culture and heritage, promote collaborative work, increasing participation in exploring our heritage. Our members include archivists, digitisation specialists, oral historians, creative practitioners, archive outreach experts, academic staff and researchers interested in archives. We are members of Schools Archives and Records Association. We manage Paganel School Archives, the first and only ARCHON registered repository Archive located within a State Primary School.
St Alban’s Church is well integrated with our neighbourhood and we engage in common initiatives with local private and public organizations and faith communities. As a part of the Highgate Inter FaithGroup, we run an independent food bank with Central Mosque, Central Synagogue, Stanhope Centre and the Academy, with weekly (and anonymous) distribution of food bags
Stanhope Wellbeing Hub, also known as Stanhope Hall, is an amazing Community Centre at Ketley Croft in Highgate, not far from St Alban’s Church. Activities at Stanhope Hall are led by the innovative Community Worker Monica Lee.
If you think you’re down in the dumps or stuck in a rut, come in and have a laugh or just a cuppa — everyone is welcome. Don’t be a stranger or lonely.
St.Martin’s Youth & Community Centre provides activities for young people aged 10-19. The programme includes media & music, arts, crafts & dance workshops, sports activities, holiday programmes, residentials and open access sessions. For those involved in/likely to be involved in, antisocial/criminal behaviour the Centre provides alternative challenges. The Centre is a community resource which can be hired for events.
The Patchwork Meadow is a small voluntary organisation that started in North Edgbaston, Birmingham during the first lockdown in 2020. Our aim is to brighten up our city’s neighbourhoods and help to bring back the pollinators.
The Patchwork Meadow believe that if we all plant pocket meadows in window-boxes, pots and planters and in our gardens and streets, together we can create a huge green space, a ‘Patchwork Meadow’ across Birmingham and Sandwell.
The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) works collaboratively with communities to bring about sustainable change on a social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.
