Perry Barr District

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District Services - Who we are and what we do

Perry Barr District is made up of four wards: Lozells and East Handsworth, Handsworth Wood, Oscott and Perry Barr.

Welcome from the Local Executive Member (Councillor Mahmood Hussain) and Service Head (Steve Salt).

Perry Barr is an incredibly diverse District in terms of people, cultures, religions, housing, industry and commerce, leisure opportunities and recreational spaces.

This is an exciting time for people living and working in Perry Barr. From April 2012 many more council services became directly accountable to the local councillors and people of Perry Barr. The District Committee will play a pivotal role in assessing the management and delivery of the services to ensure that local people receive the level of service that they deserve.

Councillors and officers will work together with the local community to identify local priorities and develop a District Delivery Plan. It will be the responsibility of the District Committee to ensure that the Delivery Plan is turned into actions that result in improvements to the lives of the people in Perry Barr.

Cllr. Mahmood Hussain and Steve Salt, Service Head

Cllr Mahmood Hussain and Service Head, Steve Salt

Contact the District Team:

Perry Barr District Office
PO Box 16409
Birmingham
B2 2BX
Tel: 0121 464 9809

Email: perrybarr@birmingham.gov.uk

Contact your District Councillors and MP

Vote for your local hero...

Birmingham City Council's 'Local Hero' Award recognises the work of council staff who provide excellent customer care. If you have benefitted from such a service, please let us know.

The nominate member of staff could work in any department of the council. They may be a helpful neighbourhood advisor, a friendly librarian, a conscientious park keeper, a favourite carer, a hospitable housing officer or star teacher.

The nominee may have 'saved the day' by helping you out of a difficult situation, given a consistently high standard of service over a long period of time or just put a smile on your face and made your day.

We would love to hear your stories! Visit: www.chamberlainawards.co.uk/localhero for further details.

Perry Barr District Priorities 2012-13

Community Safety	Health and Wellbeing	Children and Young People	Enterprise and Economic Development
Reduce serious crime	Improve the physical and emotional wellbeing of residents	Increase levels of educational attainment	Improve access to local jobs for local people
Improve community cohesion	Increase healthy life expectancy at age 65	Reduce proportion of young people not in employment or training	Provide locally delivered adult education, life skills and vocational training to meet the known needs of the job market
Tackle anti-social behaviour	Increase the range of recreational and leisure opportunities available	Increase holiday and after school activities	Create an environment in which Perry Barr is seen as a great place to locate and do business
Address drugs and alcohol problems	Create a cleaner greener environment

How to get involved and have your say:

If you live or work in Perry Barr, we want you to be involved in running local services. You can raise issues which concern you and contribute to decision making in a number of ways:

You can attend District Committee.
Reports that have been to and agreed by District Committee can be found on the Democracy Pages
Ward Committees provide a mechanism for members of the public to become involved in the decisions that affect their neighbourhood.
Send your comments to perrybarr@birmingham.gov.uk.
Call us on 0121 464 9809.

View our Governance and Partnership Framework Strategy

District Governance and Partnership Framework (Size: 95.7 Kb Type: Word Document )

Funding Opportunties:

Community Chest

For 2013/14 all wards in the City receive a Community Chest allocation of £50,000. This allocation enables the wards to fund schemes which support ward and neighbourhood working or contribute to extending community engagement, cohesion and empowerment.

Projects supported through this fund must also demonstrate that they support one or more of the outcomes in Birmingham's Council Plan 2008-2013 and Birmingham's Community Strategy 2026.

Generally, any properly constituted organisation may submit a project proposal. You should first talk with the District Ward Support Officer to find out about what outcomes and locally identified priorities the Ward or District Committee is likely to support and the money that it has available.

For further information please contact Ken Brown, District Ward Support Officer on 0121 675 2349.

Community First

The Community First Programme is a national programme which runs over four years until 2015. 27 Wards in Birmingham have funding through Community First. The programme is independent of Birmingham City Council and is managed by a national organisation, appointed by the Government, called Community Development Foundation. Community First funding is distributed by a Community First Panel established in the Ward. A list of Community First Panels along with other information about this programme and how to access funding is available on the CDF website.

There may be a number of other funding opportunities available, such as Big Lottery Funding for example. For more information please contact Ken Brown, District Ward Support Officer on 0121 675 2349.

Activites and Events Calendar

This calendar gives details of all the activities and events taking place within the district each month that are organised by the district team and our partners. If you would like to receive an electronic version of the monthly calendar please email us at perrybarr@birmingham.gov.uk.

Find out more about events in Birmingham, and register your own events, on our new and improved 'Whats On' pages.

Activities and Events Calendar April 2013 (Size: 479 Kb Type: Word Document )

District Facilities

Your Views

We would like you to tell us what you think of our services. It’s always great for us to hear when things go right but crucially, it’s important for us to know if we get things wrong. Please visit the our Your Views page.

Internal

Perry Barr District Ward Support Officers
Lozells & East Handsworth Ward - Statistics
Handsworth Wood Ward - Statistics
Oscott Ward - Statistics
Perry Barr Ward - Statistics
Parks and Open Spaces by District and Ward
Housing Services
Waste and Recycling