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Description:My name is Sue Rowledge and I am the Community Regeneration Worker in Newtown, I have worked in this area for 7 years. My job is based in the Church Centre, it is a really exciting job and I get to meet lots of people from the local area. I also run projects for the local community, these are really important as we have a very diverse population in Newtown and we try to get everyone to integrate and work towards building a positive Newtown, especially as we also have a lot of negative media. I love Newtown but feel that it has had a ‘raw deal’. Before I did this I studied to degree level which enabled me to work on a child minder link project. I actually went to Sharman’s Cross High School for girls, which has since been demolished. That is quite a distant from Newtown and culturally different to this area. Even so, I still have a passion for this area that my work has brought me to. In the future I would like all the children to be occupied and would like the community to feel safer. I also feel that Newtown should be considered in future planning for the Birmingham area. In my role as a Community Regeneration Worker it can be tough as a lot of people have given up on the area; I think we can give Newtown a positive image as it has a lot of good things going on! We are currently establishing a Newtown neighborhood forum, to enable Newtown to have a voice and take us into the future.
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The original St George’s Church was built by Thomas Rickman, around 1821. The Birmingham Diocese was ...
This illustration shows a view of the church on one side and St George’s school on the other side. ...
Since the church opened in the mid 1800s, there have been many rectors who have held sermons at the ...
J.A. Carr was the final rector at the original St George’s Church, his successor was G.H. Brown who ...
The church has a register of those individuals who lost their lives during the first and second world ...
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