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Happy New Year TreePeople, Halfway through the long month of January, but we have some wonderful updates for our urban forest volunteers to come back to, that we've been working hard on in the background! The final community planting days alongside Benjamin Zephaniah's family from the Legacy Group have been arranged, here are the dates: Thursday 23rd January 2025 Thursday 6th February 2025 Thursday 13th February 2025 All of these planting sessions will start from 10:30am until 13:30pm, so we would love to see some of our volunteers to help commemorate Benjamin Zephaniah in the run up to Benjamin Zephaniah Day in April. The poems are being judged this month and winners will be announced, as well as a poetree celebration in The Zephaniah Forest to tie the poems to their allocated trees!
Revolutionary poet, writer and musician Benjamin Zephaniah is to be posthumously awarded the City of Birmingham Medal;
A report to go to city council on January 28 recommending the posthumous award of the City of Birmingham Medal to Benjamin Zephaniah, recognising his ‘unique and distinguished contribution to the field of literature and for his charitable and community work’.
Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Handsworth and became a trail-blazing poet whose work was featured in the national curriculum.