21/05/2026
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Pride in Place Announcement!
You may have heard of Pride in Place, a new community led, government funded program for the east side of Chelmsley Wood.
Neil Roberts has been appointed to chair the program. Neil has lived in Chelmsley over 30 years, works in the area and brought his family up here. He is the minister at Chelmsley Wood Baptist Church and also the chair of Three Trees Community Centre.
His first task is to get everyone together talking and planning. There will be a number of large meetings and working groups set up to discuss what is good about our area and can be developed further, and what can be improved. The emphasis is on making our great community even greater!
The first big meeting will be on 8th June, 7:30 at Three Trees Community Centre, followed by a number of other meetings and events at different times and venues around the eastern side of Chelmsley, to make sure everyone gets a chance to have a say. Whether you drink in a local bar, go to a local school or are involved in a local organisation, there should be something near you. Alongside this you will be able to get in touch via email, social media and online.
If you have any questions or comments, please do email us at [email protected] (we’ll get our own email soon!)
You can also see basic information on our informal page https://www.facebook.com/prideinplacechelmsley (we’ll get our own website soon!)
We’ll be looking for local people to be on the working groups for the different areas of our community life such as environment, young people, education, caring for isolated people, ASB, local jobs and more. If you have an interest, experience, a skill or an idea, make sure you come along!
Details for this will be out in June.
This funding is about our community getting together and making a difference.
It has no political affiliation and no organisation’s agenda. It’s us working together for a better now and better future. It’s government money and we are getting some help from Solihull MBC and the MP Saqib Bhatti to get the program started, but the program is community led. It’s not a council or political party project, it’s ours. So it is important that we work together and ensure as many people as possible are involved in these conversations.
Look out for details on events soon, and find out more from the government website
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pride-in-place-programme-faq/pride-in-place-programme-faq
