🗓️ Saturday 24th January 2026
🕐 10:00 – 12:00
📍 “The Old Tool Shed”, Winterbourne Gardens, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT
🎤 A CAKE FOR LIFE AND A POET!
You are most welcome to join us for an extraordinary morning on Saturday the 24th January from 10 am to 12 pm, when we are having the fundraiser entitled “A Cake for life and a poet”. This will be a coffee ‘n cake-alicious event with all of the proceeds going to Cancer research. Many of you were disappointed that it was cancelled in 2025, but now it’s back!
As a very special treat, we will be joined by the published and esteemed poet Mr. Glyn Phillips, who will be reading a selection of poems he has prepared especially to aid us in digesting the cake that we will be eating!
Glyn grew up in Stourbridge and he now lives in Handsworth (he has lived there long enough to gain honorary Brummie status!). In his younger days, he travelled around South America, where his passion for “Cumbia” entered his soul. He is an accomplished percussionist and when he is not performing at “spoken word” events across the city, he will often be found behind a set of congas at Jazz or Latin nights.
Come along to Winterbourne Gardens Old Tool shed (down the path by the greenhouses) and have some cake and a cuppa with friends, and be prepared to be enthralled by Glyn’s poetry.
🗓️ Saturday 31st January 2026
🕐 11:00 – 13:00
📍 Dame Elizabeth Hall, Firbank Close, Bournville, Birmingham B30 1UA
🎤 Jack Silberrad (BSc Hons Ind. Dip. Bee Farming)
Following an incredibly busy 2025, Jack Silberrad, our Western regional bee inspector, is once again returning to Birmingham to delight us with a very special Saturday morning lecture at Dame Elizabeth Hall. The lecture will be a tour of various exotic pests that effect bees, a quick tour of hive diseases, the recommended way to inspect a hive, the current YLAH situation and a brief look at the work that underpins the “Healthy Bees Plan 2030”.
