So here's a thought for the creative types in the city to mull over.
I was talking at work to a colleague about the Welcome Wagon service that's available across the USA & Canada.
Welcome Wagon is a nationwide business who contacts new homeowners after relocation, providing them with coupons and advertisements from local businesses.
I was wondering if there'd be a slightly more British/Brum expression of this sort of idea.
Companies across the city could contribute "things" rather than just coupons and it'd be a great way to meet your new neighbours.
Usually when you move you've done a bit of research to find out more about where you're moving to but getting a personal reccomendation would be much better.
People often complain about a lack of community spirit or of feeling isolated from their neighbours.
Does Birmingham need a welcome wagon? Could the community/council support this kind of project?
Interesting - how does it work in the states? I'm confused as to how people who'd moved would be found?
It would actually be very useful on a tighter basis — some central info point about groups, anything in the 'burb you'd moved in to. Perhaps the sort of thing that the council website could provide (and maybe does, but it's not an easy search).