Kidderminster BID Community Round Up from January to March

The Kidderminster BID Community Team have been as busy as ever during January, February and March. Once again, together with our fantastic local partners, we’ve continued to deliver activities that provide opportunities for connecting with others and improving community spirit.

Since the start of January, we’ve proudly supported 77 free community activities – and it’s been amazing to see them visited a total of 795 times by all sorts of local people.

Here’s just a snapshot of what we’ve been up to:

☕️Connect & Brew – 61 friendly drop-in sessions across five venues, that between them had a total of 560 visits. These sessions gave people the chance to sit down, share a cuppa, and enjoy good conversation.

🏓Fitness & Activity Sessions – 16 sessions at two venues, bringing in a total of 199 visits. Whether it was ‘Fun Fitness’ with Lisa or trying something new at the ‘Balls, Rackets, Nets and More’ group, more people got moving while having fun.

📢We’ve enjoyed chatting at the Rose Theatre, Kidderminster Library, the Tulip Tree Centre, Corner Café and the Garage Café and we’ve got physical at Youth House and Wyre Forest Leisure Centre, all while continuing to create welcoming spaces in familiar community places.

🎉But the numbers only tell part of the story. The real success has been the connections made, the friendships formed, and the sense of belonging that has continued to grow within our town. Local people, coming together in local places, building stronger community ties – that’s what it’s all about.

💬 Headline News 💬

Our ‘Connect & Brew’ session held as part of the H.E.L.P Supporting People in Need Community Café which takes place at the Tulip Tree Centre every Wednesday started in January 2025 with just 8 people popping in for a chat and a cuppa.

Sixty sessions later and 57 different people have joined the table at least once and we’ve already had an astonishing total of over 700 visits!!!

💙 Want to be part of it?

If you’d like to get more involved in your community, meet new people, or try something new, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch with the BID Community Team and join us in making Kidderminster an even stronger, friendlier place to live.