What We Do

ENHANCING LIVES, ENHANCING COMMUNITIES:  Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership  aims to bring people together in purposeful, mutually beneficial activities which promote greater understanding and respect between generations. Working with community members we undertake projects which enhance individuals and the environment utilising the positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other […]

Why It Matters

Both young people and older people experience ageism. By participating in  intergenerational projects, young and old gain a better understanding of and respect for each other reducing generational tensions and the fear of crime in the elderly. Many of the projects undertaken regenerate the environment and provide opportunities for socialising and learning. Overall the projects […]

What You Can Do

GET INVOLVED: There are many ways for you to get involved including volunteering, recycling your mobile phones and ink cartridges via our recycling scheme, making your online purchases via our webshop and participating in our events.

Retail Therapy

Shop Till You Drop For CBYCP

Spend And Raise - Castle Bromwich Community Project

Shop and raise money for CBYCP – what could be easier? Hosting many of the UK’s best known brands and retailers, such as ASDA, Amazon, HMV, ebay, M&S and Sky “Spend and ” enables you to generate a commission for us, when you buy online. Please go to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/castle-bromwich-youth–community-partnership and follow the link to your chosen retailer and start spending! Please send the link to your family, friends and work colleagues so that they can also shop for CBYCP – it’s such an easy way of giving a charity donation and incorporating it into your everyday life. Booking a holiday, buying a new tv – it all adds up and doesn’t cost you a penny extra and in some cases even saves you money.Thank you.

Stories Behind the Headstones

  • 100 Years of Anti-Social Behaviour

    We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.” Inscription, 6000 year-old Egyptian tomb. It seems like hardly a day passes when the media doesn’t show images of anti-social behaviour coupled with rising demands for action to […]

  • From This Day Forward

    When we talk about the heritage of Castle Bromwich talk almost inevitably drifts to Castle Bromwich Hall and stories about Lady Ida. We’re currently researching into the history of the Hall as part of our Heritage Project and today we came across a news paper article describing the marriage of Lady Ida Lumley to Viscount […]

  • Castle Bromwich Felons Beware

    We have an interesting newspaper advertisement from 1834 to share with you today which we came across whilst researching into the life of the Rev. Edwin Kempson. BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE – Monday January 6th 1834 Notice is hereby given, that the several persons whose names are hereunder mentioned, having formed themselves into an Association called the […]