Back in the day job, me and the talk about local team went to Stanhope Hall in Highgate for the second time on Monday 9th November.  This means Digbeth and Highgate has a couple more local websites, which is nice.

Stanhope Women’s Group

We worked with the Stanhope Women’s Group on developing the site they created during the fist session.  The Stanhope Women’s Group plan to use their WordPress blog to cover the hive of activity that is the Stanhope Hall centre on Ketley Croft, Highgate, talking about things such as their garden, which grows some of the food that’s eaten in their community lunches and the herbs for the womens’ group’s holistic medicine course.

Highgate Neighbourhood Forum

We also helped a member of the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum create a WordPress blog to keep track of reporting issues to the council and making sure these are resolved.  I’ll leave it some room to grow a little before linking to it.

Abacus Flats

This was a pleasant surprise – there’s been a blog for Abacus Flats (Bradford Street, Digbeth) since June 2009!  We spoke to the lady behind it about how she can use it to help create a sense of community amongst the residents.

Digbeth, Highgate and St Andrews

Andy Sheppard, Birmingham City Council Neighbourhood Manager for Digbeth, Highgate and St Andrews has created a WordPress site for his activity in the area.  He came along to the session and we chatted to him about how he can use the site to engage with residents and link to the other local sites that are emerging.

It was a great second session, followed by a delicious mutton curry on honour of Eddie’s birthday, which was topped off with a big banana birthday cake.

Unsurprisingly, I intend on popping by Stanhope Hall as often as I can!  In the meantime, I’d better get on with updating my blogroll…