The 2018 Bournville Village Festival

This year’s Bournville Village Festival will take place on Saturday 30th June 2018 at the Cadbury Recreation Ground, Linden Road, Bournville.
The Festival has many attractions including the Craft Market (selling jewellery, paintings, crafts and cakes), Arena Events (Marching Bands and Dance Troupes), side stalls, a traditional maypole dance with a Grand Firework display.
Click here to learn more about the Festival.

Attention
all Maypole Moms

Since the idea was first proposed, there has been a huge amount of interest in our plans to put on a Moms Maypole on Festival Day. If we get enough participants we will be putting on a reduced programme of string dances. It could be a lot of fun for moms and children.

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Could you be this year's
Festival Queen?

Attention all Girls aged 12 and over.
Each year the Bournville Village Council pick a new Bournville Festival Queen to be crowned at the Bournville Festival in June this year

Click here for audition details

We need children
who would like to dance.

We need children who would like to dance at the Bournville Village Festival on Saturday 30 th June 2018.

We are looking for children from the age of 4 yrs to 12 yrs to fill a variety of roles.

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Carols on the Green bucket collection raises £4,996 for charity

Details: Category: Latest news; Published: Monday, 16 January 2017 20:22; Written by Nigel Dawkins

Christmas Eve, once again, saw a huge crowd, gathering on the Bournville Green to welcome the imminent arrival of Christmas.

Carols on the Green is, of course, a magical Bournville tradition stretching back over 60 years.

Organised by the local group of Christian churches, the service is always wonderfully led by Canon Peter Babington, the vicar of the Bournville Parish Church.

The bucket collection taken after the service is organised and manned by members of the Bournville Village Council. This year, Bournville folk were particularly generous with the collection raising the grand sum of £4,996..

This fabulously generous collection will be distributed amongst local charities over the next few weeks.

William Alexander Harvey's book, The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville.

The gifted architect William Alexander Harvey, responsible for so many of Bournville's most iconic building designs wrote a famous book in 1906 entitled, The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville.
It contains photos and drawings of many of those early houses as well as his unique insight into the development of Bournville.
Click here to view this historic book.

BOURNVILLE THROUGH TIME by The Bournville Society.

Members of the Bournville Society Committee have spent eighteen months preparing a new publication devoted to the Bournville Estate and published by Amberley Publishing Ltd. An exhaustive trawl through many major picture archives and the entire collection of Bournville Works Magazine from 1902 revealed fascinating information.
The committee has sought to use pictures which have not been widely published and many will be viewed for the first time. Each historic picture is replicated in colour by a contemporary photograph taken from the same position where possible.