On Monday I joined staff and pupils of Perry Wood Primary School in unveiling a brand-new bug hotel in the walkway between The Hive and Crowngate Shopping Centre. A bug hotel is a human-made outdoor structure that attracts insects and smaller animals, to provide them with shelter and a safe place to live. Thanks go […]

Last weekend I visited the Repair Café who were celebrating their seventh year. Organised by Transition Worcester they meet at 11am on the second Saturday of the month at Unity House on Stanley Road. The Repair Café is supported by the Duckworth Trust. Repair Cafes are volunteer-run initiatives where people bring their broken items for repair […]

The Worcester Carnival stretches back at least a hundred years. The carnival was for many years the highlight of the city’s calendar until it came to an end in the 1990s. I know those carnivals are warmly remembered by many. Who can forget the Ronkswood Girl’s ‘Bouzouki’ Band? After several attempts to resurrect the carnival, the […]

The Mayor gets invited to all sorts of things. I get to go to so many interesting events and meet such fascinating people. Too many to list and I don’t want to give just a rundown of everything in my diary, so here’s just a couple of things from my week. I recently attended a […]

Being Mayor of Worcester has given me fantastic opportunities to go to many events that I wouldn’t normally attend – such as a Saturday morning rehearsal of WODYS Carousel with 54 children and a production team. WODYS – Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society Youth Section – is putting on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at Worcester’s […]

I recently attended the Volunteer Expo at the Guildhall. It was a delight, as Mayor of Worcester, to speak to and thank some of the stall holders. I must confess I’ve been on something of a journey with my thinking about charities and volunteering. I used to think, why are we papering over the cracks […]

Last weekend it was the Elgar Festival. It is a celebration of Worcester’s most famous musical son, Edward Elgar. Held annually during the weekend closest to Elgar’s birthday (2 June 1857), the festival combines symphonic and string orchestra concerts by the festival’s orchestra-in-residence, the English Symphony Orchestra, with chamber concerts, choral concerts, recitals, outdoor concerts, […]

Feedback PACT (Partners and Community Together) meeting It was a very well attended meeting – around twenty five people. If you read and remember no further than this point please do report all crime however small to the police using the police website: Report a crime Please don’t just stick it on Facebook! Reported crime […]

Air source heat pumps are a way to heat your home with electricity instead of gas. With the current cost of electricity compared to gas you probably will not save much money but you will get off gas which of course is a fossil fuel. The magic of a heat pump is that for every […]

Pavements are really important for many people to get around. All the more so for people with pushchairs and mobility scooters etc. Sometimes pavements are blocked because of inconsiderate parking but it can also be because of overgrown bushes. It should make us all cross when we see people forced to walk in the road. […]