Birmingham Sparkbrook NPRG and Den Haag

Clear up 23 patches of waste ground in Sparkbrook with 23 days of communal effort: that was the deal the Sparkbrook Neighbourhood Forum struck with Birmingham City Council in summer 2007. They are one of four community groups experimenting with new ways to control public money. They are taking part in a pilot called the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant or NPRG. In 2007 the Forum received £10,000 from Birmingham City Council to help make the neighbourhood cleaner and safer. In the end the money and volunteers combined tackled 40 sites, among them plots which took weeks of work. This short introductory film was made for a conference in The Hague in January 2008: http://www.wijkveiligheiddenhaag.nl
for an audio podcast explaining this in more detail please visit:
http://www.podnosh.com/programmes/nprgsparkbrookbcspdigbethtrust080129.mp3

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• birminghamuk
• residents
• crime+grime
• hague
• community
• upyerbrum
• wijkveiligheiddenhaag
• Sparkbrook

[steveygee1]

good man!

[podnosh]

Good point. He is!

[NinpoFrog]

nice video =] the girl I love lives in sparkbrook =] if you read this Roxy, I love you!

[podnosh]

Thanks for the comment - I hope she gets the message.

[junkiejay1]

I admire people like this, making an effort for the community. However, I think this amount of effort going into an area like sparkbrook is a fruitless effort in the long-term.

[podnosh]

Why?

[TheBlockOneOne]

@hiyaan786 u shd b happy da enz r shitt

[TheBlockOneOne]

@podnosh how cum u hid da tru culurz of sparkbrook e.g. graffiti fightz drug dealing y u tryna make out sparkbrookz all good

[MixingLaboratory]

Farm Park Sparkbrook. Memories of another era. Mixed population. Everyone got on just fine. None of this extremism. PCRL 103.5, Enterprise FM, Skyline 94.2 FM. Things were good back then. Its all gone a bit pear shaped since then. Too much PC rubbish.

[hiyaan786]

miss sparkbrook so bad living in denmark now ill be back 1 day

[b11pacman]

ive been dare

[WALZ97]

@rehansgal wichroad

[WALZ97]

i live here

[chachamanz]

Nev your a top geezer!!!!!