As a key response to the pandemic, since 2022 the As One campaign, featuring Street Associations as the key ‘thing to do’, has spread from Dudley,…
The first Street Association to be launched, Yew Croft Avenue in Harborne, Birmingham, celebrated its 10th anniversary on 1st August 2021. A garden party was held,…
Emerging as a key initiative to ‘lock-in’ the surge in community spirit seen during the pandemic, Street Association are at the heart of the As One…
St Laurence Road Street Association in Northfields, Birmingham has come up with a novel way of getting the whole street into the Christmas spirit. Nearly all…
Aston University is currently undertaking research on what Street Associations did during the Lock-down in the Spring of 2020. Because there was an infrastructure of relationships…
Southgate Family Church pioneered the first ‘Permission to Smile’ Tea Party, which was all about stimulating community-building in the locality of the Three Estates, King’s Norton,…
Led by Buckinghamshire County Council, and supported by Thames Valley Police, town and district councils, churches and others, a big Street Associations initiative, started three years…
Here are some extracts from letters received from grateful residents: “[Sue and Sarah] are doing a great job for the community. I am very proud of…
Blog by Paul Hockley Poole, Dorset now has its first STREET ASSOCIATION! Martin & Gina Graham came this way in February 2016 to speak to a few…
A new Street Association in Islington, London, is going great guns, after receiving backing from Islington Council. It’s being taken forward by Nicky Legate, a local…
Commissioned by Islington Council, and taken forward by local community worker Nicky Ludgate, the first street association in London was launched at the beginning of June,…
Launched in Birmingham in May 2018, the Permission to Smile campaign is being spearheaded by Uturn UK C.I.C., alongside it’s work in pioneering and developing Street…
A spate of candle-lit curry evenings has recently been reported around Kingstanding, Birmingham and parts of Solihull. These involve a delicious and inexpensive meal, a quiz,…
Coach trips to the seaside at Weston-Super-Mare have been a huge success over the summer of 2017. 220 residents have gone from Kingstanding in two ‘waves’,…
The first of many Christmas parties have taken place, with some breaking all records for attendance. Virtually 100 residents packed into the Danbury Crescent party (featured…
A major project, supported by the Birmingham Better Care Fund, has recently started in Kingstanding, Birmingham. In addition to working closely with the residents of 10…
Street parties were held across the West Midlands by Street Associations wanting to be patriotic – or enjoying an excuse to get together! Thanks to everyone…
The new season of street association launches has started with a series of barbecues, each dodging typical April showers successfully – although one, in Alspath Road,…
Easter Saturday 2016 saw a clutch of Solihull Street Associations going crazy – for eggs! Ely Close and Ipswich Walk in Chelmsley Wood got in first,…
Elvish antics made the running at the Vauxhall Crescent street association Christmas party in Smith’s Wood, Solihull. The party attracted about 45 children and 30…
Middle Park Road street association, in Weoley, Birmingham, has for the second year running held a carol service at the Brain Injury Unit, which adjoins their…
The Ely Close and Ipswich Walk street association Christmas party was given a huge lift when Santa himself chose to drop in – arriving in his…
The Green Hill Way Christmas party, in Shirley, Solihull, was supposedly all about the kids. But that’s only part of the story. Bringing together people of…
The ‘Your Solihull’ magazine, which is delivered to every door in the council area, has showcased what is happening with the Vauxhall Crescent Street Association as…
Kingsley Street Association in The Pleck, Walsall, just had its second Christmas party. A visit from a children’s entertainer, and another from Santa himself, made it…
The first Street Association in Solihull, with the strap-line ‘love my street’, has been launched in Solihull. Vauxhall Crescent, in the Cars Estate, Smiths Wood –…
A thriving Street Association in a challenging neighbourhood has made a new alliance with the local police to help transform the street. The meeting, on Scarborough…
East Cheshire Council has backed Street Associations with a £25,000 grant to promote it locally, funding a local co-ordinator to work with strong backing from the national…
Street Association Christmas parties showed communities, not least in poorer areas, being incredibly generous, with residents donating food galore, expensive raffle prizes, decorations – and creating…
Two streets in Pleck, Walsall have each thrown a family Christmas party just for their street, bringing the community together with something really positive. In both…
A big firework party to bring a whole street together has ‘sparked’ a revival in community spirit, following the establishment of a Street Association, part of…
Neighbourhood Watch is teaming up with Street Associations in an unprecedented alliance, helping both models of local community activity to ‘reach the parts’ they would otherwise…
A free barbecue, held to bring together residents of a troubled Pleck street, was attended by 50 residents from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and…
A free barbecue was recently held by Street Association founders, Martin and Gina Graham, in Kingsley St, Pleck. Pleck is a deprived area of Walsall, one…
