Some highlights from the past few years

Since April 2018 Completely Bromsgrove has been reporting on local and national events and to celebrate our milestone 50th issue we thought we would share some of the memories with you.

In issues 1 and 49 we featured the 30th and 35th anniversary of the Bromsgrove branch of Blood Cancer UK for campaigning and fundraising.

During this period, the group, which was formerly called Leukaemia Research and Bloodwise, has raised an amazing £1,142,701 for research into blood cancers.

In issue 5 we helped celebrate 50 years of Worcestershire Wildlife Trust honouring a local hero and one of their founding fathers, Fred Fincher MBE. He lived in Dodford for almost 60 years and not only helped to establish Worcestershire Wildlife Trust in 1968, he also donated what became our very first nature reserve. Earlier this year I was lucky enough to join the committees of our Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest local supporter groups at Randan Wood as they unveiled a plaque to Fred’s memory.

Issue 9 contained a fascinating article on the popular television programe Back In Time For School presented by Sarah Cox and Polly Russell that was shown on BBC2 earlier in 2019. Fifteen pupils and their teachers embarked on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure as they fast-forwarded through more than 100 years of school life. One of the pupils in the show was local boy Kaden, who lives in Aston Fields.

In issue 14 we were able to run the news that after 38 years working at Bromsgrove Library, and Mobile Library Pat Tansell had placed her last book on the shelf and taken early retirement to concentrate on other interests.

In our special Covid-19 issue we shared the news that Fairfield, Wildmoor & Stoneybridge residents had been supporting each other during the current Coronavirus crisis, with contact telephone calls, shopping for the vulnerable and feel good activities.