JQNF

Some news from the Blue Orange Theatre, which can be found on Great Hampton Street. Theatre of the Disenfranchised  Blue Orange Arts, the registered charity at the Blue Orange Theatre, are celebrating after receiving a Comic Relief Grant through Birmingham and Black Country Community Foundation, one of the many funds administered by the Foundation which [...]

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The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate.  Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever.  It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter.  Now we have a few being built behind [...]

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The Golden Square will be a new public square located in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, next to the Chamberlain Clock Tower and the Big Peg office building. Land in front of the Big Peg on the corner of Waterstone Lane and Vyse Street will become home to a new square, which the council [...]

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A Litter-Strewn Welcome to the JQ     This is a view at a key entry point to the Quarter.  Not exactly glamorous in itself but worsened by the rubbish drifting down the street. Litter is a problem that isn’t restricted to the Jewellery Quarter but we seem to have some hotspots.  The approaches to [...]

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Exhibition of final designs – Jewellery Quarter Family Housing Project Mon 18th March 2013, 17.30 – 19.30 The Jewellery Quarter family housing project is an attempt to introduce appropriate new build housing in the Jewellery Quarter. A design studio of MADEGrads has been looking at how this may work. (MADE is an organisation dedicated to [...]

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Fifty miles of gruelling cycling in the wind and the rain was rewarded yesterday when Michael Allchin, Chief Executive of The Birmingham Assay Office, received the inaugural ‘Fundraiser of the Year Award’ from Cyclists Fighting Cancer. Louise Johnson, one of the founder members of the Charity presented Michael with the Award on Sunday 3rdFebruary at [...]

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This is a call to arms (a little dramatic, but bear with…).  You, we, the JQ residents have a chance here and now to spend a small amount of time commenting on how you would like to see a little corner of the JQ turned into family housing.  Or maybe you think it shouldn’t be [...]

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As some of you may be aware we have been doing some preliminary work around a family housing and self-build design project in the Jewellery Quarter as part of a Design Your Neighbourhood programme after JQNF won funding from Design Council / CABE. Our design partner MADE have teamed up a group of MADEGrads with support from the [...]

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Towards the end of 2012, the JQNF secured a grant from urban design watchdog CABE to help develop proposals for family housing in the quarter.  That grant is being spent here in the JQ at MADE on Newhall Square, our local urban design organisation. It ties in neatly with the results from last year’s open [...]

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Giving a brilliant boost to the UK jewellery industry on Christmas Day, the Queen wore the winning Eternal Dove brooch, designed by Ivonna Poplanska for the British Jewellers’ Association Diamond Jubilee brooch competition, as she visited Sandringham – the first official outing of the brooch since it was gifted to the Queen earlier in December. The Eternal [...]

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