Category: Stirchley community

Stirchley Heroes at Stirchley Baths

Congratulations to Ron Coley and Linda Bailey who were both  recipients of the recent Stirchley Heroes awards. held in June 2024

Ron is our super volunteer at Stirchley Baths – here since the opening in 2016. You may have seen Ron at Reception or doing odd jobs around the centre.

Linda has been the  volunteer leader of  the centre’s successful  Community Table Tennis sessions since they started on Friday afternoons in 2016/17.

We are very grateful for their time, effort and commitment to the centre over the years. If you see them on your visit to the centre say hello and give them a “well done” or a “thank you”

The day the Vikings came to Stirchley…

Over 430 Fun Palaces took place around the world as local communities organised events that bring arts, science and culture to the heart of the community. Last Saturday the rain didn’t stop over 600 people visiting Stirchley Baths Community Hub  and Stirchley Library for the annual Stirchley Baths Fun Palace event. A fantastic team of community volunteers all rallied round in preparation (including putting over 50 chairs in the cinema room!) and on the day. Having previously sent the community to outer space and back again last year, this time it had been decided very enthusiastically that this year we would be exploring the history of the Vikings.

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Kopfkino returns to Stirchley Baths’ Cinema Room this Friday!

Stirchley Baths has a great space, the “ Cinema Room” which has played host to a number of film screenings  since opening in 2016 and will be hosting more and more film events thanks to a new community led  Stirchley Community Cinema Project , seed funded by the city’s Local Innovation Fund – this will be starting in the next couple of months so watch this space!

In the meantime we have caught up with our good friends Kopfkino who are returning to Stirchley Baths this Friday 16 March with a new screening of Afshar Films’ ‘The Case Against Assad: Syria’s Disappeared’. The event will be in support of King’s Heath Action for Refugees, and please see below about other ways in which you can help those affected by the Syrian conflict….

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A Visit To The Memory Cafe

On Tuesday 19th February I was invited to visit the Memory Café, a monthly event, initially set up as part of Stirchley Baths’ heritage programme in collaboration with Rachel Duggan and Carla Smith from Leaf Creative Arts. The event is held in the Cinema Room at Stirchley Baths. The Café provides a space for people with dementia, Alzheimer’s and other memory problems to engage with multi-sensory arts activities, to create and reminisce, with a steady supply of hot drinks and cakes.

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