The annual Night Walk is part of our Woodland Play series, and this year there's a competition to go with it. We have extended the deadline for entries to Sunday 24th February at 9 PM (later than in the instructions). Here are the instructions PlanetAcrostic_Competition. We have a winner for the Night Walk competition! It's Millie, ...
Our next and (so far) final date for this project is 25th January 11:00-12:00 at the Orchard and 1:00 - 4:00 at the Art Rooms Kings Heath: Creating a Management Plan. We start at the Orchard, with a review of all its habitats (11-12). After ...
Calling all families who visit Holders Wood and Highbury Orchard! Highbury Orchard Community is thinking of applying for Grow Wild grant of £2-4K, to run a project from March to October 2018. Activities and workshops must help people grow or learn about native wild plants, wildflowers or fungi. We at HOCCIC are particularly interested in ...
We're very pleased to receive a grant from Gregg's Environmental Fund to run our first Fruit Tree Care course, starting 25th November 2017. This will be the first of six sessions - maybe more. Rob Tilling, recently of The Orchard Project, will be the course leader and will take participants through the different tasks of ...
For 2017 - 2018, we have decided to make Stick Around a focus of our community fundraising. If you want to find out how your donation will be put to good use, you have come to the right page! Stick Around is our Forest Education programme for grown-ups. (Well, why should the children have all ...
Autumn brings us round to a new academic year and new thoughts about our outdoor learning sessions for home-educators. Please read on to discover our aims for the group. There are many wonderful ways that children learn outdoors and we would like to help your children engage with each of them. First there is the ...
Our handbook is free to download as a PDF via this link: Highbury Outdoor Learning handbook If you want your children to be fit and healthy, enjoy and engage in fun and free activities (and learn a little about themselves and our planet along the way), you will find something interesting here! The handbook identifies ...
Fit and Healthy in Birmingham Parks Birmingham City Council Public Health department is concerned about the low levels of fitness and high incidence of obesity and diabetes amongst its residents. There are abnormally high numbers of children with these issues in our city. “24.4% of Birmingham children are overweight or obese when they start school ...
Highbury Park is a popular location for dog-walking as the open spaces offer full-on exercise for even the most lively of dogs. We at Highbury Orchard Community are working with Highbury Park Friends to provide fun taster-training sessions for dogs and their owners or dog-walkers. Flyball training or an assault course are on offer. If ...
Forest Education isn't just for kids. It's for everyone! The great outdoors is a wonderful place to feel calm, make friends and learn all kinds of new skills - whatever your age. Our Forest Education activities include our sessions with families, workparties for adults, and walks for well-being. We hold regular dates for most of ...
