Celebrate the Games YOUR way!
Residents and community groups now have a second chance to bid for a slice of a £2million council fund created to help people celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The Celebrating Communities Small Grants Funding Scheme has been assembled by Birmingham City Council to maximise the benefit and legacy of being the Proud Host City for the Games.
Ideas are being welcomed from all 69 of the city’s wards to ensure everyone feels involved with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games – regardless of whether they have a competition or cultural event in their neighbourhood or not.
Wards with one councillor will receive between £11,100 and £17,500. Wards with two councillors will receive between £22,200 and £35,000.
The deadline for Round Two applications is 30 November. Ward Forums and community voting will then take place to select the successful bids between February and March of next year, with projects then commencing in April 2022.
Stunning Queen's Baton revealed
Birmingham 2022 unveiled the design of The Queen’s Baton and details of the international route for the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay on 29 September.
The Queen’s Baton Relay is a Games tradition that celebrates, connects and excites communities from across the Commonwealth during the build up to the Games.
The Relay begins on 7 October 2021 at Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will place Her message to the Commonwealth into the Baton. The Baton then takes on an incredible 294-day journey through all nations and territories of the Commonwealth, arriving back in England in July 2022.
The Baton was conceived in an innovative Birmingham and West Midlands collaboration that fuses art, technology, and science.
The Baton will travel an epic international route, spanning an impressive 269 days, spending between two and four days in each nation or territory, covering approximately 90,000 miles having over 7,500 Batonbearers trusted with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carry the Baton.
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Don't miss out!
There's only a few hours left to apply for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games tickets.
More than one million tickets priced £22 or less are available for the biggest multi-sport event to be held in the UK since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The main ticket ballot closes on Thursday 30 September at 8pm (BST).
The Games, which will be held in 14 venues across Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond, will feature 19 sports and eight Para sports - the biggest sports programme in Commonwealth Games history - and will be staged from 28 July until 8 August 2022.
Tickets for the Games start at £8 for children and £15 for adults and applicants will find out in October if they have been successful in securing tickets.
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