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April Newsletter

The Chamberlain Highbury Trust invite you to a free, interactive, accessible community festival on the Highbury Estate in Moseley’s Highbury Park On Sunday 13th June 2021.

We are hosting this festival to share our pledge to making Highbury sustainable, our commitment to protecting its wildlife and plant species and our promise to our community to keep providing quality accessible events and opportunities.

Our Sustainability Festival will be a creative and interactive festival where you can spend time outside experiencing the changes made to the estate. Along the way you will encounter activities, displays, art works and performances. Sustainability is really important to us and not just for the mansion and park. We want to support our community to find inspiration to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly. We know there are already amazing things happening locally and we want to give people opportunity to celebrate those. 

We all know that getting hands on and seeing change and sharing ideas has a much bigger impact that being told what to do. We hope that you too can come along and make up another piece to the jigsaw and the local effort to tackling climate change and being more sustainable.
Book a Ticket and Gardens Tour here



 
CONGRATULATIONS DAVID KIDNEY, OUR NEXT CHAIR OF THE TRUSTEES

Chamberlain Highbury Trust is delighted to announce that it has appointed David Kidney to succeed Les Sparks as the next Chair of our Board of Trustees. The Trustees made their decision on 21st April. David will take up a position as trustee on the Board of Trustees immediately and co-chair with Les until the Board’s AGM in the autumn.

David joins the Trust after having been Chief Executive of the UK’s Public Health Register (the regulator of public health professionals) for over seven years. He was previously a Member of Parliament, a Government Minister and a solicitor.

David brings to the role his advocacy, leadership and community engagement skills. His networking extends across local government, parliament and public health. He is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and will promote the widest possible access to Highbury and its gardens. He strongly supports the Trust’s existing work on youth leadership education and training and will work to expand this aspect of its programme.

Welcoming David to the top post, current Chair Les Sparks says:

“I am delighted to welcome David as my eventual successor in the Trust’s leadership role. This is a key moment in the Trust’s development. As a Board of Trustees, we have very ambitious plans for the revival and renovation of Highbury and its gardens with the aim of establishing a sustainable future for the Estate with greater community access. David brings very welcome experience and great enthusiasm for pressing ahead with the Trust’s plans. I look forward to working with him as he immerses himself in the Chamberlain and Highbury heritage, learns about the Trust’s achievements and takes over the reins.”

In welcoming David, the Trust will also in due course arrange to thank current Chair Les Sparks for his six-year leadership of the Trust from its inception late in 2015, and his total commitment to transforming the fortunes of the great heritage assets in the care of The Chamberlain Highbury Trust.

David is appreciative of the skills, commitment and dedication shown by all the trustees:

“In the brief time during which I have known Les, I have seen how well served the Trust is by its knowledgeable and proactive Chair of the Trustees. I have also met other trustees and I can tell that there is a shared focus and ambition that really excites me. Over the last year, we have all been restricted in our access to heritage and cultural gems like Highbury and its gardens. I am looking forward to working conscientiously with my fellow trustees to throw open our doors to visitors once again. We have plans to attract more visitors, provide more quality experiences and extend our youth leadership education and training. I cannot wait to get started!”
        
  Les Sparkes OBE                                           David Kidney

Reopening Highbury to The Public
If we continue to follow the Central and Local Government pathway out of Covid Restrictions we aim to open up Highbury for monthly open days from September 2021! You will be able to book for revamped Garden and House Tours, or come along to our guest talks and exhibitions.
We will also once again be inviting Education groups to Highbury to learn more about local history, Chamberlain and his legacy, and Highbury's connection to Birmingham's industrial past. Our leadership and governance programmes will restart onsite and we will be having more sessions on environmental issues and gardens.
More information and booking details in future news letters and on our website.

 

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Thank you to Volunteers
 There has been some brilliant work by local residents and Highbury Gardens Volunteers over the last two weeks. We cleared over 20 bin bags from the drive way alone! Also fantastic work by our pond crew who have made huge strides in clearing wood and debris from the  pond and Garden Volunteers who are clearing and  shaping the Rhododendron Garden.  here
We are sticking to working in small groups and with social distancing and clean tools.  If you want to join us as a volunteer please sign up
Youth Board
 The Youth Board are really getting stuck in to new project much of their work will be on display at the Sustainability Festival, can be seen around Highbury, on our website or via Social media
Keep up to date with their plans here https://chamberlainhighburytrust.co.uk/youth-board/

 
Thank you for your continued support, we hope you are enjoying spending time at Highbury, stay safe and look after each other.
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