Neighbourhood Supper Club: June 2026
Schedule
Tue Jun 16 2026 at 04:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Signing Tree Venue | Birmingham, EN
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Space to share a meal, celebrate neighbourhood care and repair, and open up work on Neighbourhood Public Square and Retrofit House together.About this Event
We warmly look forward to welcoming you all back for our next Neighbourhood Supper Club on Tuesday 16th June 2026. Together we'll share a tasty meal, celebrate the creative, joyful practices of care and repair that our neighbourhood(s) are known for with a range of incredible makers, builders, artists and more, and open up progress and opportunities within the journeys ahead for and .
Whether you join us from near or far, Neighbourhood Supper Clubs will continue to be a key space to reconnect as we begin a new chapter of organising, learning, graft, craft, safety, care, deep reimagination and endless possibility together ahead, as we make preparations to begin construction on site(s).
This month that includes finding out updates on the planning process and material enquiries for our sites, sharing what matters to you around how they can respond to the challenges and opportunities our neighbourhoods face now and in the future, as well as a special screening of the People's Emergency Briefing.
Whatever your interests and involvement so far — and whether you'd like to drop in or spend the whole evening with us — please know there is room for you, and we'd love to see you there.
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Activities
In the Welcome Foyer, you can find out about our work with children and young people in the neighbourhood with our Design & Construction Club and how we have begun to undertake a Pre-Deconstruction Audit of the Neighbourhood Public Square site as part of Site As A Classroom approach to discover what existing materials can be reused.
Duffield Room — The Studio
Ashton Room — Retrofit House
Spaces with the CIVIC SQUARE team and partners where you can find out more about the plans and progress for Neighbourhood Public Square and Retrofit House sites, learning together and sharing your ideas, hopes, dreams and fears as we develop the many layers of regenerative redesign required to demonstrate the different ways that are possible in our; from land stewardship, finance and governance, to building design, construction and retrofit.
Courtyard — The Garden
- Forij
- With Nature In Mind
Canteen Space — Front Room
The canteen is the space for soul coffee and sustenance. We will be joined by our barista Pong who will be offering pourover coffee. Minus Mob will also be in the space to keep us cool with their Soft Serve ice creams and dinner will also be served from the canteen.
Simister Hall — The Market
Learn how to diagnose and repair electronic items with Khushmeet and team from Birmingham City University (BCU) Repair Lab. Bring along any small electrical household appliances that need repair, e.g. toasters, irons, games consoles, controllers, lamps or headphones. The BCU team will also offer the opportunity to explore 3D printing, PAT testing and wiring a plug.- Customise your own beads session with YA Creates
Paint and decorate your own beads with the colours, symbols and designs that represent you and your creativity.
This calming yet rewarding activity will provide you with the opportunity to create the building blocks for making a unique set of beaded jewellery. You can also bring your own beads to repaint and decorate.
- Wear It Out: Block Printing with
Learn how to block print onto fabric to upcycle your wardrobe. Bring along your old clothes and re-work them into something new with hand printed designs - Sewing our Social Fabric with
With our All Flourishing is Mutual banner (as quoted by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass) now complete, artist Jane Thakoordin invites you to help contribute to another banner that we will co-create throughout 2026 at our Neighbourhood Supper Clubs. - Small Furniture Repair + Kintsugi with Phil Russell
Join Phil as we tackle co-repairing some of our broken or bruised household items. These could be anything from stools, chairs , small tables, a shoe rack or even household decorative items made of wood or other small wooden household items such as ornaments or lampshades. - Textile Repair with Kam Kaur + Niranjana Patel
Armed with their sewing machines and needles in tow, Kam and Niranjana will be hosting a drop in textile repair where you can bring those items that have been in the back of your wardrobe or drawer that need mending. The can include shirts, t-shirts, trousers, buttons, tote bags etc — we do ask that these items are clean please.
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ACCESS & FACILITIES
Neighbourhood Supper Club takes place across the ground floor at Signing Tree, 100 Ladywood Road, Birmingham, B16 8SZ.
—Signing Tree is fully wheelchair accessible, has accessible toilet facilities and there are some accessible parking spots available. Please note there is no additional parking available on site as the carpark/courtyard will also be in use.
—All food served will be vegetarian, with delicious vegan and gluten free options.
—Quiet or prayer spaces can be made available upon request.
—You can also let us know about any specific access requirements you may have during the sign up process, and where possible we will of course seek to meet these to make your visit as comfortable and supported as possible.
If further information would support your visit, please contact Sarah on .
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ABOUT SIGNING TREE
The Signing Tree venue is a social enterprise business of BID Services, a charity supporting people with a sensory loss since 1872.
Opened in 2007, the Signing Tree venue is located within the award-winning Deaf Cultural Centre building which houses the charity’s offices, as well as supporting community and leisure projects, arts exhibitions and social events. When you book an event with them, you are helping to deliver vital services to some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our society.
www.bid.org.uk
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THE JOURNEY SO FAR
Supper Clubs first began on a snowy day in March 2023 as a place for Link Road neighbours to convene and organise together around reimagining the retrofit of our homes, streets and neighbourhoods alongside the CIVIC SQUARE team at Midland Sailing Club.
Over the next year, the space flourished into a monthly gathering for neighbours from B16 and beyond to come together to share food, ideas, and to organise, and this space to connect and support each other has been growing ever since.
We know the value of spaces to eat together, celebrate, heal, reason, and mobilise particularly outside of typical working hours for many people, with the spirit of celebratory dinners, weekly potluck lunches, Food For Throught, and Open Project Night from Impact Hub Birmingham over 10+ years alive and well in regular Supper Clubs, in ways we know will continue to matter to face the challenges and opportunities in our neighbourhood(s) together.
This includes Supper Clubs continuing to act as a consistent space to come together safely and openly throughout 2026 as we enter into the construction phases of Neighbourhood Public Square and Retrofit House, during which our ability to come together on these sites is likely to be changeable as work begins, helping to provide a grounding, regular space to share progress, opportunities and come together around what matters most in our neighbourhood(s) as we take the next steps of co-building long term infrastructure together.
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