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On Remembrance Sunday we meet two people who’ve put 18 months of effort into building a community group around their local cemetery in Birmingham. The Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery have found an unlikely way to build a community in their neighbourhood and Anne Courbet and Barrie Simpson tell us about the link between history, heritage and our sense of togetherness. We also hear about a film which is taking one of Birmingham’s active citizens to Holland and you can see in December at a b:cen event called Activists & Authorities – Collision or Cohesion.
Birmingham Community Empowerment Network
Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery
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January 13th, 2010 at 12:43 am (#)
[...] January 12, 2010 Posted by Jaki under Unsung heroines, Women in History | Tags: Birmingham UK, Branwood End Cemetery, heritage, history | Leave a Comment Anne Courbet set up the Friends of Brandwood End Cemetry with Barrie Simpson, in 2005 because it was a crucial part of their heritage. It was important to them to protect this Victorian Cemetery and they knew that they could just try and do it. Creating a friends scheme has proved to be an effective way of nurturing the community that is already active there. The cemetery closed to burials a year earlier, but wait, now I’m telling their story, which they tell far better themselves on this interview on the Grassroots Channel. [...]