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In this issue Fresh veg to your doorstep

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Kings Heath Farmers Market

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Adopt a Bear

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Jubilee celebrations

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Three Local Charities

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Hazelwell Church summer fair

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Hazy summer days at Martineau Gardens

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How to choose your organic vegbox

Bigger and better than ever

And help support a local charity

Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in Kings Heath Village Square

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What's on Comedy

Kill for a Seat Comedy Club This comedy club is in full swing on the first Friday of every month On: 1 June & 6 July At: mac For info and tickets: 446 3232

Laughing Cows Sell-out comedy night with fabulous all-female line up.

On: 13 June At: Kitchen Garden Café For tickets: www.wegottickets.com

Laffacino A warm, fun and friendly comedy night with games, quizzes and a bevy of talent.

On: 27 June At: Kitchen Garden Café For tickets: www.wegottickets.com

A snapshot of what’s on around Kings Heath in June and July

Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul Festival

Fantastic open air festival with live music from some of the biggest names in jazz, funk and soul On: 29, 30 June & 1 July At: Moseley Park For info: www.

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Dead Belgian Liverpool-based band playing the music of Jacques Brel.

On: 11 June At: Kitchen Garden Café For tickets: www.wegottickets.com

Steve Ajao

An evening with just Steve on guitar, vocals Fresh locally produced and harmonica. farm produce and crafts. On: 24 June On: 23 June & 28 July At: Kitchen Garden Café At: Village Green For tickets: For info: 449 3156 www.wegottickets.com

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Moseley in Bloom Open Gardens Weekend Visit some of Moseley’s loveliest gardens for inspiration or simply curiosity.

On: 16 & 17 June At: Around Moseley For info: http:// moseleyinbloom.org.uk

Storytelling Festival

A family-friendly event with a programme of storytelling, music and crafts that combine ‘knowledge of the earth’ with storytelling wisdom.

On: 22-23 June Moseley Festival At: Martineau Gardens, Ten days of celebrations Priory Road in venues & outdoor For info: 440 7430 locations around Moseley.

Includes live music, craft fair, comedy, vegan fair, Diamond Jubilee dance workshops, poetry, Afternoon Tea Join in for the week of and a rum festival. celebrations to mark On: 6 July to 15 July the Queen’s Diamond At: Moseley venues Jubilee. You will enjoy For info: www. a traditional afternoon moseleyfestival.org.uk

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tea with delicious sandwiches and cakes.

On: 10 June, 2 sittings; 1.00pm and 3.30pm At: Highbury Hall, Yew Tree Lane For info: 303 2050

Kings Heath Farmers’ Market Fresh local produce.

On: 2 June & 7 July At: Vicarage Road (behind All Saints Medical Centre) For info: www. kingsheathfarmers market.org

Music

The Destroyers A collection of rogues and misfits from the Birmingham Conservatoire, conceived in 2006 at the legendary Balkan Basement jam sessions in Moseley.

On: 7 July At: mac For info and tickets: 446 3232

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A multi-voiced theatrical extravaganza celebrating the best bits of Brum through the eyes of its young people.

On: 14 & 15 June At: mac For info & tickets: 446 3232

Icarus Icarus brings a theatrical experience for the whole family. It retells the fate of Icarus through storytelling, song, music, dance, physical theatre and visuals. Age 4+ On: 15-17 June At: mac For info/tickets: 446 3232

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Indian 18 St Mary’s Row Moseley Birmingham, B13 8JG

Bombay Rickshaw Co Kitchen Garden Indian Takeaway 2 Heathfield Road Kings Heath Birmingham, B14 7DB

Small plates (Tapas/mezze with British influences) 17 York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA

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French Patisserie 148 Alcester Road Moseley Birmingham, B13 8HS

Thai 25 Woodbridge Road Moseley Birmingham, B13 8EH

Kashmiri 36 Poplar Road Kings Heath Birmingham, B14 7AD

Jade Restaurant Manic Organic Cantonese BYO & takeaway 88 St Mary’s Row Moseley Birmingham, B13 9EF

Organic vegetarian café 46 Poplar Road Kings Heath Birmingham, B14 7AG

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A guide to the best places to eat in and around Kings Heath

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Fresh veg to your doorstep There’s no beating local, organic, seasonal produce. It’s healthier, more affordable, and tastier too! A veg box scheme offers all this, and even better it’s delivered straight to your door.

Riverford is one of the UK’s largest veg box schemes, offering a wide range of organic produce, and maintaining a very local offering through a network of regional farms and local growers.

Riverford’s founder, Guy Watson, started delivering vegetables locally to 30 friends in Devon. The company now delivers around 40,000 boxes a week to homes around the UK. Riverford customers value the freshness of their seasonal produce and the fantastic flavour of food grown without chemical fertilizers and preservatives.

Riverford’s recipe of the month: Penne with broad beans, bacon, mint and cream [Serves 4] Ingredients: 500g shelled broad beans |

350g penne | 100g pancetta or smoked streaky bacon, cut into fine batons | 1 tbsp butter or olive oil | 1 garlic clove, crushed | 200ml double cream | a small bunch of mint, roughly chopped | 2 tbsp freshly grated Parmesan | sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Cook the broad beans in boiling salted water for a few minutes, until tender. Drain and set aside.

The range of food you can get in your box includes fresh veg and fruit, dairy, preserves and free range meat.

Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water until al dente. Meanwhile, fry the bacon in the butter or oil until just beginning to brown, then add the garlic and stir for a minute without letting it colour. Stir in the cream, mint and broad beans and simmer for a few minutes.

Then add the Parmesan and season to taste.

Visit www.riverford.co.uk/sacrewell or call 01780 789700 to find out more.

When the pasta is done, drain well, toss with the sauce and serve immediately.

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Putting the pleasure back into food shopping Kings Heath Farmers’ Market moved to the stunning new village square late last year and what a difference it has made.

There is now room for more stalls – and since the move the stall numbers have been steadily increasing - there are now 25. And there is lots of open space which makes it an altogether more enjoyable place to be, especially on a pleasant summer’s day.

After a number of years struggling to keep the market going, particularly during the seven months when it was in 12

the temporary location of the car park behind the new All Saints Centre, the loyal core of 12-15 stallholders have been boosted by a further 10 stalls making it a lively vibrant market where you can buy everything you need for your weekly shop.

Local people flock to the market every first Saturday of the month to stock up on everything from bread to beer.

If your shopping list looks something like this then you will be able to tick everything off at Kings Heath Farmers Market. * Meat – something nice for Sunday lunch * Poultry – a good weekday dinner * Fish – whatever looks good * Cheese – cheddar and something special * Goats cheese – for a bit of a change * Eggs – need enough for a cake and breakfasts * Bread and pastries – a nice large granary * Fruit and vegetables – good fruit bowl, salad, roasting and soup veg * Plants – put some colour into the front garden * Honey and beeswax – need a present for my sister * Garlic and olives – nibbles for friends * Game – for that dinner party coming up * Beer and wine – something for tonight * Handmade chocolates – a treat for the kids * Ground coffee and loose teas – some nice coffee

And while you go around buying locally grown and sourced produce you can get a spot of lunch on the go – unless you are able to ignore the tempting smells and sights of delightful home made food including samosas and pakoras, home made Italian food and South East Asian food.

Not only is it good to buy food with a low carbon footprint and support local farmers – it is a leisurely, enjoyable day out where you may even bump into friends and have the time to catch up with their news. A far cry from the usual stressful supermarket dash.

Steve Bairstow, one of the market organisers said: “Kings Heath is a perfect location for a farmers’ market, being on the number 50 bus route, the busiest route in Europe, and also the number 11 bus route. And with the new village square location we have room for at least 40 stalls which is a target we are now working towards.

“Moving to the new location has put us at the very heart of the local community providing a valuable meeting place and bringing people together. We look forward to a bright future of growth and success.”

Kings Heath Farmers Market is on the first Saturday of the month from 9am until 3.30pm. It is run by Kings Heath Business Association a group of local businesses who aim to make a difference to the local community and to Kings Heath.

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Adopt a bear You are invited to adopt a bear in support of Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice.

Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice was officially opened in July 1979 making it the oldest independent hospice in the West Midlands.

Since then the Hospice has helped over 30,000 patients, their families and carers, through what can be very difficult times. It is open all day, every day of the year and covers the whole of the city as well as the borough of Sandwell, which includes some of the most deprived areas in the country.

The Hospice comprises of a twentyfive bed In-Patient Unit, a family flat, the newly refurbished Day Hospice 14

and a Community Palliative Care Team, visiting patients in their own homes.

Tyndallwoods Solicitors are pleased to continue their support of Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice by asking colleagues and friends of Tyndallwoods to ‘Adopt a Hospice Bear’.

To Adopt a Bear please contact Judy Dyke: jdyke@tyndallwoods.co.uk 0121 243 3025 If you would like to find out more about the work of Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice visit the website at www.bsmh.org.uk

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Jubilee on the Square Don’t miss the Jubilee weekend celebrations on Kings Heath Village Square Sunday June 3 - The Big Lunch 12.00p.m. – 3.00p.m.

Monday June 4 - Light the Beacon 11.00 a.m.

Come to the village square for a summer gathering of families and neighbours. Come as an individual, as a small group or a whole street!

Kings Heath will join in the national chain of Beacons which will be lit at 11a.m. You are invited to come along and bring any Royal souvenirs from the past 60 years which have a story to tell.

These will be photographed and mounted in an exhibition in All Saints Centre.

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Moseley Village Band will play from 10.30 and the event will finish around 12.30.

Please bring along your own picnic food and drink, chairs and tables or rugs. Musical instruments are more than welcome. There will be face-painting and other fun activities for children.

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Instead, over the last 10 years it has raised over £1million for each of its Three Local Charities – Acorns Children’s Hospice, Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and Focus Birmingham. The charities jointly own TLC and the proceeds are split equally three ways.

Regularly spotted at local Supermarkets and Garden Centres, the small team at TLC have seen lottery membership grow steadily despite the current economic gloom.

It’s only £1 per weekly entry and you can win £1,000 every week or one of the other 162 cash prizes ranging from £5 to £100. You are also entered into the Rollover Jackpot which, if not won, increases by £250 per week up to a maximum prize of £10,000.

Win or lose, the Three Local Charities are always winners, receiving funds from TLC each month so the money can be put to good use without delay.

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TLC made total charitable distributions of over £456,000 in 2011, so every £1 weekly entry really does count and make a difference to local people.

This covered all the catering costs across the three Acorns Children’s Hospices, paid for 4,500 hours of nursing care at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice and funded the purchase & running costs of minibuses at Focus Birmingham.

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Summer is blooming in Martineau Gardens Summer has come to Martineau Gardens, a beautiful community garden in Edgbaston and the growing season is well underway.

There’s plenty of watering, planting and weeding for the team of volunteers who look after the organically maintained gardens, under the tutelage of Stewart Holmes, the Gardens’ therapeutic horticulturalist. Some volunteers have learning disabilities, others are stroke survivors and some are simply going through a ‘rough patch’ and find their time in the gardens a real tonic.

bring the family for an outing, do some bird spotting or simply while away a lazy afternoon, there is much to discover.

Volunteering is an important part of how the Gardens are run, but you don’t have to be a volunteer to enjoy a visit. The Gardens exist for all to share in – whether it’s to meet up with friends for a picnic,

The Gardens aim to act as a source of inspiration for the sustainable use of resources and other environmental issues. If you’re interested in leading a

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The 2.5 acre site includes woodland, an orchard, ponds, bee hives, glass houses and a formal garden. They’re open daily (except Sunday), 10am until 4pm and are free entry.

An inspiring place

sustainable lifestyle but don’t know where to start, why not try out a one day course as a taster? There’s an unusual range of courses on offer over the summer months including two Bee Keeping courses (Saturday 16 June & Saturday 18 August) a food smoking course (Saturday 7 July) and a course on Permaculture gardening (Saturday 21 July). All the courses take place in the beautiful surroundings of the Gardens, and are led by experts in their field. The one-day courses run from 10am until 5pm and cost £60.

Advance booking is essential with the course organisers, LILI (the Low Impact Living Initiative), via www.lowimpact. org or telephone 01296 714 184.

Storytelling Festival A highlight of the year is the Storytelling Festival – a first for the Gardens. Joining forces with the Traditional Arts Team, the Storytelling Festival takes place at Martineau Gardens on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June 2012. The festival will be a family-friendly event with a programme of storytelling, music and crafts that combine ‘knowledge of the earth’ with storytelling wisdom.

Tickets are available in advance from the Martineau Gardens Box Office, by post or on the gate (subject to availability).

Full details of ticketing arrangements are on the Martineau Gardens website at www.martineau-gardens.org.uk or by calling 0121 440 7430.

The line-up includes performances celebrating Grimm and Shakespeare in a story yurt, swashbuckling stories for young and old around the pirate ship, a feast of food and stories around the earth oven, a teddy bear’s picnic for the very young and stories around the fire under the night sky.

Tickets cost £7 for a single or £14 for a family (Friday and Saturday evening 6pm – 10pm) or £10 single and £20 family for Saturday day (10am – 6pm).

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Whats on around Kings Heath for you and your little ones Baby Daze

Informal weekly drop in for parents and babies Thurs 12.30-2.30 At: All Saints Church Hall, Kings Heath

Water Babies Swimming sessions for babies

Toni's Tots Drama and storytelling for pre-schoolers from 18 months up

Every Monday, 10am At: The Hub, 318 Vicarage Road For details call: 07976 242 835

Mon & Sat At: St Thomas CofE School, Edgbaston For details call:

Mini Movers

Laura 01283 814 766

Tuesdays 10-12pm At: Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Kings Heath For details call:

Happy Yoga

Yoga classes for children aged 5-7 yrs Thurs & Sat At: Kitchen Garden Café, York Road For details call: 07813 1434 887

Stay & Play

Play and craft activities for pre-school children Wednesdays 10-12 At: St Agnes Church Hall, Billesley Lane

Soft play for babies and toddlers

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Music Within Antenatal music sessions to relax mum and stimulate baby Flexible timing At: Dacer Close, Stirchley For details call: Lindsay 459 1426

Music with Baby Massage Mummy Relax and Improve your

Baby Sensory

Music, instruments, fibre optic light shows, glowing bouncy balls, bubbles and much more At: The Scout Hut, Colmore Road, Kings Heath For details call: Karen 747 4720

Rhythm Time Music and movement for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.

At: Kings Heath Community Centre, Heathfield Road, Kings Heath For info: Vicky 447 7632

Get Crafty Craft sessions for 5-11 year olds

Last Sat of month At: Kings Heath Library For details call: 464 1515

Storytelling

bond & confidence.

Small friendly groups for parents and babies

At: Bishop Challoner Sports Centre For details call:

Most week days At: Dacer Close, Stirchley For details call:

Mondays at 2pm At: Kings Heath Library For details call:

Lindsay 459 1426

464 1515

Mondays – 11:10 – 12:10

441 6103

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Story time for preschool children

Garden Club

Outdoor nature activities for pre-school children Wednesdays at 1pm At: Kings Heath Community Centre, Heathfield Road For details call: 464 6717

Stay & Play

Play and craft activities for pre-school children Wednesdays and Thursdays 9.30-11.30 At: Kings Heath Community Centre, Heathfield Road For detaisl call: 464 6717

Stay & Play

Play and craft activities for pre-school children Tuesdays 9.30-11.30 At: Kings Heath Baptist Church, High St, Kings Heath For details call: 444 1230

Music Shakers

Enjoy music and dance with your baby or toddler Mon, Tues, Wed, or Thurs At: Institute Road, Kings Heath For details call: Marcella 449 5120

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