The Hub on the Green

A multi-purpose centre where lots of different people come together for a range of

activities and services used by all kinds of people, regardless of who they are or where they come from.

We're bringing the community together by hosting events, offering support, providing lifelong learning, and empowering the creative in us all.

We provide resources for the community

  • Heres what we aim to provide:

    - Signposting services
    - Advice and support sessions
    - Referral services

We’re building a centre of lifelong learning

  • Heres what we aim to provide:

    - Digital literacy
    - Creative and craft skills
    - Languages and music

We’re unlocking the creative in the community

  • Heres what we aim to provide:

    - Wellbeing activities
    - Arts and crafts groups
    - Music, photography and poetry

The history of the Hub…

Lets remember how we got here

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hub catered for over 50 different activity groups, all using the space for different purposes.

In its early days, it began as a new form of the Busy Parents Network, set up by Sarah Mullen - the driving force behind the Hub - to bring together busy parents – all parents! Activities ranged from baby yoga to book groups, to language and computer classes.

The Hub also housed a separate charity, Bournville Bookfest, which grew massively drawing in many children, families and schools in Bournville, Birmingham and beyond, to a celebration of books and reading.

This all changed in March 2020. As with so many community gatherings, lockdown put a stop to community activity.

Bournville Hub was repurposed to become a centre of support, co-ordinating food box deliveries and neighbourhood street champions – during difficult times for many in the Bournville area.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the Hub and its Trustees recognised that it must resume its role with the community, to meet its charitable objectives to offer lifelong learning, information and creative and arts activities for local people.


It was at this time that the idea of a bookshop was conceived and the Bookshop on the Green was subsequently opened in 2020. The bookshop has been hugely popular with both locals and people from across the city.